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John Zorn is an American musician who began his professional work in 1973. He is associated with the genres of jazz, Avant-Garde, experimental, free jazz, and noise. Zorn has used the pseudonym "Dekoboko Hajime" and maintains an official website at tzadik.com.
His recorded output includes works such as *Shanghai*, *Thoughts on a capital levy*, *Insurrection*, *The Urmuz epigrams*, and *Midsummer moons*. Open Library lists 13 works under his name, while Crossref records five. On Last.fm, his music has accumulated 8,661,082 plays from 258,601 listeners. Additionally, his entry is referenced by 1,454 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1953
- Works
- 13
Top works
- Shanghai
- Thoughts on a capital levy
- Insurrection
- The Urmuz epigrams
- Midsummer moons
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 258,601
- Total plays
- 8,661,082
Tags
John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in New York City, United States) is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn's recorded output is prolific with hundreds of album credits as a performer, composer, or producer. His work has touched on a wide range of musical genres, often within a single composition, but he is best-known for his avant-garde, jazz, improvised and contemporary classical music. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Z
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,297x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,514x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,878x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,530x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,118x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1953-09-02 ) September 2, 1953 (age 72) , New York City, U.S.
- Genres
- Avant-garde experimental avant-rock jazz classical grindcore avant-garde metal klezmer
- Occupations
- Musician, composer, producer, arranger
- Instruments
- Saxophone clarinet piano organ
- Works
- John Zorn discography
- Years active
- 1973–present
- Labels
- Tzadik , Avant , DIW , Elektra Nonesuch , Earache , Hathut , Shimmy-Disc , Eva, Toy's Factory , Nato, Lumina, Black Saint , Subharmonic , Parachute, Yukon, Rift
- Member of
- Naked City , Painkiller , Masada , Moonchild, Simulacrum
- Website
- https://www.tzadik.com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conductor, producer, arranger and saxophonist who "deliberately resists category". Zorn's avant-garde compositions and experimental improvisations meld jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, contemporary, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, Jewish and world music performed by "often unexpected groups of players.. getting startling, unrepeatable results". Rolling Stone noted that "[alt]hough Zorn has operated almost entirely outside the mainstream, he's gradually asserted himself as one of the most influential musicians of our time".
Zorn re-arranged and radically orchestrated Ennio Morricone's spaghetti Western, gangster and war movie themes for The Big Gundown, released on Nonesuch Records in 1986 to critical acclaim. His following albums, Spillane (1987) and Naked City (1990) continued to merge styles and challenge formats. His alternative hardcore influenced bands, Naked City and Painkiller gained him wider exposure in the early 1990s. From 1994 until 2018, Zorn composed and recorded over three hundred Masada project compositions performed by many different ensembles.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Zorn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.