Curious how the great composer/improvisor John Zorn fares with audiogoners. My favorites of his are the avant/experimental pieces such as Duras, Elegy, IAO, Songs from the hermetic theatre, and Redbird.
Very much a fan. Faves are probably the 2cd Bar Kohkba/Masada sextet, The Big Gundown and Naked City's Radio. I don't think the other Naked City albums are out of print, most of it isn't on Tzadik though.
Masada Live in Seville is one of my favorite CDs. Zorn's technique of setting up a bleating drone with his mouthpiece and then overlaying it with key stops provides a great, percussive element to the quartet that is great counterpoint to Joey Baron's work on traps. Everybody else is great too, especially Baron, who may be my favorite drummer currently playing.
I caught on to him with Naked City and Spillane, and over the years have stayed mostly with the more accessible Filmworks series and almost anything with Marc Ribot. Filmworks Anthology 1986-2005 is a good introduction to these sounds. My favorite Masada album is Sanhedrin-- some of the best experimental jazz of the '90s.
Zorn is so broad and some albums can feel like wandering into the wrong wedding party. I'm safer if I avoid anything with Mike Patton's voice.
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