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Submitted by unfretted on Sat, 02/11/2012 - 13:35.
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Could have been a ninjam with a conductor. That's the way this is done. John Zorn is loosely conducting/improvising with musicians he can trust to do the expected/unexpected. Watch the guy in glasses and black t-shirt conducting.

If you cant stand it, forward to 9 min or if you long to see John play 33 min...

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kool vid. Made me wanna

Submitted by jon on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 01:51.

kool vid. Made me wanna listen to zappa again :)

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He's playing near where I

Submitted by mutant on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 02:28.

He's playing near where I live in April -
http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2012/spring/zorn/

I remember first hearing Spillane, with all the radical, Zappa-like stylistic changes.
But I always especially LOVED the B side of it even more, with the late great ALbert Collins and also Ronald Shannon Jackson just killin' it on drums.

Two Lane Highway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoRW-hHn2xM
SUCH a badass groove!

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Lucky you ! If he played in

Submitted by unfretted on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 07:24.

Lucky you ! If he played in Sweden I would try to go.

So strange to hear Albert Collins distinctive playing there.

I came across Zorn when I bought The Big Gundown, John Zorn plays the music of Ennio Morricone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennio_Morricone

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That was a Ninjam right

Submitted by anonymouse on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 17:32.

That was a Ninjam right there... I hadn't watched any of John Zorn's live performances before and I see that in his Masada projects he also takes the role of "conductor". Is that typical of most of his live work?

Edit: Upon further research, this clip seems to be the Electric Masada line-up of players:
Masada is as much a "songbook" as a group, comprising more than 500 relatively brief compositions. Each song is written in accordance with a number of rules, including the maximum number of staves, the modes or scales that are used, and the fact that the songs must be playable by any small group of instruments.

"The idea with Masada is to produce a sort of radical Jewish music, a new Jewish music which is not the traditional one in a different arrangement, but music for the Jews of today. The idea is to put Ornette Coleman and the Jewish scales together."

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