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Born: September 02, 1953 in New York, NY
Years Active: 70 's, 80 's, 90 's, 00's
Genre: Avant-Garde

Biography
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 wh... Continue Bio >>

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Discography:
Godard
2008 Lucifer: The Book of Angels, Vol. 10
2008 Film Works, Vol. 19: The Rain Horse
2008 Dreamers
2007 Six Litanies for Heliogabalus
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Filmography:
2006 Jack Smith & The Destruction of Atlantis
2002 A Bookshelf on Top of the Sky: Twelve Stories About John Zorn
Claudia Heuermann: Sabbath in Paradise
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Member Of: Microscopic Septet The Golden Palominos Electric Masada Slan Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet More >> Similar Artists: Mark Dresser Mark Feldman Charles Brackeen Tim Berne Steven Bernstein More >>

Influenced By: Ornette Coleman Joe Maneri Ennio Morricone Charles Ives Misha Mengelberg More >> Followers: Joseph Celli Mr. Bungle Buckethead Thurston Moore Jim O'Rourke More >>

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