i myself did see Zorn as mainly a free-jazz musician. in the same vein as Impulse!-era Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. i was aware of him becuz of that even before i got into him. when i finally did get into him, it was because i heard Naked City. that opened my eyes for another Zorn who do all sorts of "crazy" things. from Doom-metal (Leng T'che) to classical (Duras-Duchamp) & game-pieces like Cobra and Xu-Feng (which i discovered just recently, much thanks to you, Ed :)) one just can't ignore a person like that. he's also totally independent, too!! speaking of Zorn live-apperances, he played the Molde JazzFestival just recently and my local student-radio (of Bergen) did a piece on him. they played some free-jazz Zorn but also did some talking of his various projects and his almost laughable huge catalogue. apparantly, Zorn played some real noisy stuff at the festival which caught the student-reporter completely off-guard. it was quite breathtaking. i THINK he performed with the Masada line-up (i can't quite remember). do anyone here know exactly what they played on that festival? unfortunately, Ariel Sharron was visiting the very same day, so Zorn and the band had to run off way too early to get past all the security and catch the plain. a announcer did an apology on Zorn's behalf, saying they just HAD to leave... this meaning, i would probably have loved being there watching Masada (??) play noisy free-jazz but at the same time feeling kind of ripped off because the our priminister HAD to mix music with politics. (calm down, i won't go down that line again, Tal) take care, - k Ed Price <edp@panix.com> wrote: i know many zorn fans arent into "jazz" necessarily, of course thats not all zorn is about (nor all masada is about) and i've met people (including recently at tonic) who come to zorn's music from a different perspective, from contemporary classical or whatever, and find masada relatively uninteresting. well that's too bad :) tastes do differ etc. but i feel especially sorry for "jazz" fans who dont know about this. if i may attack a strawman with a experimental hypothethis for purely rhetorical purposes ... everyone thinks "jazz" is a certain thing, they think they know what it is, who's doing it, and zorn and masada is not on their mind, masada is off on some "branch" which is not really "jazz", maybe it's "jazz-influenced", well i think that's backwards, masada is IT, masada is where it's AT! you want something TODAY that's like CHARLIE PARKER back then? or JOHN COLTRANE? or ORNETTE? well, here it is! --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software