Copinya de Volta Verda 602 (09-04-19) John Zorn

The one word virtually everyone can agree on in any discussion of the work of composer John Zorn is "prolific" in the strictest sense of the definition. Though he didn't begin making records until 1978 (School, with guitarist Eugene Chadbourne), the recordings under his own name number well over 100, and the sheer number of works he has performed on, composed, or produced easily doubles that number. Zorn's compositional diversity is staggering. He has written elaborate "game pieces" (Cobra), fused hardcore punk and avant jazz on Spy vs. Spy: The Music of Ornette Coleman -- the first of six recordings with his Naked City band, penned two books of compositions (under the Masada umbrella) in a plethora of styles influenced by the music of his Jewish heritage, penned dozens of soundtracks to independent films performed by groups of virtually every size, solo organ works, chamber pieces, rock, jazz exotica recordings (Dreamers), and even songs