John Zorn: Classic or Dud?

WHAT

way to bury the lede man

xxxp but still not on Bandcamp, smdh

holy shit

I AM LISTENING TO CLASSIC GUIDE TO STRATEGY V.4 ON TIDAL RIGHT NOW

They must be slowly rolling out all 300 or whatever releases, no Naked City or Masada on Spotify yet, or formative stuff like Big Gundown or Spy v. Spy, afaict.

Some of the Great Jewish Music comps are there but not Serge Gainsbourg or Burt Bacharach. Still, this is momentous.

My family is going to hate me. On the other hand, dinner time just got more interesting.

Holy fuck

Holy cow

I'm generally above feelings of fomo, but some of these 70th celebrations make me jealous. I wish my fall weren't as full of commitments, otherwise I'd be looking at flights to, like, Mexico City.

I've been in a 'listening project' mode lately (Art Blakey, Wu-Tang), but this is overwhelming to contemplate.

My unemployment is doing corrosive damage to my Zorn fandom

So far it's really hard to search on Spotify, which makes it hard to tell what's there or not. Still not sure Naked City or OG Masada is up, but lots of Masada related stuff is. Live albums, New Masada stuff, other collections. I believe all of Film Works is up, obviously tons of other stuff, including countless records I've never heard because, yeah, there's a limit (practical, financial) to keeping up.

Just did a search on John Zorn and I see a lot more albums on his page today vs yesterday. Another option is to put this in the search box:

Label: "Tzadik"

Huh, that got me worse results. That is, none.

I do see "Big Gundown" now, so things are moving.

Obviously there are tons of albums and artists in this drop, maybe it's clogging up the works a bit. But another example, I get nothing if I search for "Painted Desert," and that's whether or not I search for Ikue Mori, Marc Ribot or Robert Quine. I assume it's all trickling in.

Some of the stuff that's not up on streamers yet has been put up on Youtube in the past day or so, with notes saying "Provided to Youtube by Redeye Worldwide," which is Tzadik's distributor. Seems like a good sign.

One bad thing is some artist misattribution, like some of the Book of Angels volumes only have JZ as the artist, and don't include the actual players. Like vol 1, Astaroth, only artist listed is JZ, but no Jamie Saft Trio.

I'm putting as much as I can in this playlist. It's a work in progress, so please don't send messages pointing out what I missed yet.

https://spotify.link/KV97uSnNsDb

We might need a separate thread for spelunking through the catalog

I think it's impossible lol. Whiney dedicated like a year of his life to it, and where did that get him? Behind!

xp definitely!

There is this — Tzadik: Search & Destroy — but a new thread seems like a good idea.

I'm happy to discuss here or elsewhere. I really need to devise a way to keep track of things I want to dig into more. Right now I'm just shuffling through masses of stuff, trying to remember the things that catch my attention, but there's just too much goodness.

Oh, I'm not trying to be a completist by any means, but there's certainly a lot in there that I've been intrigued by for years. I'm more than content dipping in and out.

I wonder what made him finally do it, and why they went straight to streaming without trying Bandcamp (or maybe that's still to come).

I really really hope they do Bandcamp as well, that's all I use

Ha, I like the "A Tzadik Classic!" label applied to some of these - https://www.tzadik.com/catalog.php?view=date

I also love that Julian Lage has been spending so much time in the Zorn-verse

Is Joey Baron no longer working regularly with Zorn?

I guess not? I listened to a nearly three hour podcast interview with him and it was insane to me that Zorn/Masada never came up.

Ok let's go https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=41

Oops - At the Mountains of Madness: Tzadik Records catalog now streaming

Speaking of the original Masada quartet, I see that Tzadik is coming out with a limited run box set of the 10 original quartet CDs, previously only available on DIW Japan. Pricey but tempting.

Oops, missed the fact that this was posted above. I was distracted by the streaming news.

Just watched this clip from 10 years ago, it rules:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4eO2o9u1j0