John Zorn/Masada Chamber Ensembles - Bar Kokhba (CD)

Bar Kokhba
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Album Details: Bar Kokhba

Release Date:08/20/1996
Label:Tzadik
UPC:702397710820

User Reviews: Bar Kokhba

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    don't miss this one...

    By t_klaase  Sep 14, 1999

    Don't call yourself a Zorn fan if you don't have this one...These are Masada tunes re-worked, and the result is astonishingly beautiful

Pro Reviews: Bar Kokhba

  • All Music Guide

    Bar Kokhba encompasses the wealth of material John Zorn has composed with his eminent quartet Masada. The album is a collection of Masada songs that have been rearranged for chamber ensembles. For this effort, Zorn enlists some of New York's finest musicians: John Medeski, Marc Ribot, Anthony Coleman, and Erik Freedlander, among others. The compositions range from groups of four to solo performances by Ribot, Medeski, and Coleman. While some compositions retain their original structure and sound, some are expanded and probed by Zorn's arrangements, and resemble avant-garde classical music more than jazz. But this is the beauty of the album; the ensembles provide a forum for Zorn to expand his compositions. The album consistently impresses, and the highlights include "Gevurah," "Paran," and "Mochin." Zorn's genius as both songwriter and arranger are evidenced, and the recording sits well among the traditional Masada material.

    - Marc Gilman, All Music Guide

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Biography

John Zorn

It is possible to call John Zorn a "jazz" musician, but that would be much too limiting a description. While jazz feeling is present in a good deal of his work, and the idea of improvisation is vitally important to him, Zorn doesn't operate within any idiom's framework, drawing from just about any musical, cultural or noise source that a fellow who grew up in the TV and... Read more