John Zorn first jutted out of modern jazz’s bubbling infrastructure by mashing disparate styles and musicians togetherespecially in his Masada project, which played Friday night in Durham. Jewish ...

When saxophonist/composer John Zorn first introduced Masada in 1994, it's unlikely that he could have anticipated it would become so successful. The first songbook was originally developed for his ...

Astaroth. The word itself can only be spoken with a gleam in the speaker's eye, a twitch of the eyebrow. It's as if within those eight letters, those three syllables, lies the power of enchantment.

Just over a decade ago, renegade composer and saxophonist John Zorn set out to redefine Jewish music with an ambitious set of pieces he called the "Masada Songbook." There are now over 200 pieces in ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Boston will get a chance to sample a small sliver of his musical universe this fall, courtesy of three concerts at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. How to assess the achievement of John Zorn, the ...

The Book of Angels is an illuminated manuscript of jazz: a tome of 316 full compositions, written in 2004 in a flurry of inspiration by downtown jazz icon John Zorn (curator of experimental enclave ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...