American composer, saxophonist and producer known for prolific, genre-crossing work (avant-garde, jazz, film music, klezmer) and founder of the Tzadik record label.

Leader of projects such as Naked City and Masada; founder of the Tzadik label; prolific composer of film scores and contemporary chamber works.

DeBaser reviews present John Zorn as a prolific, genre-blurring composer and saxophonist whose work spans avant-garde, jazz, film scores, klezmer and noise. Reviewers praise his daring experiments and highlight standout albums (Naked City, Masada, Kristallnacht, Moonchild), while noting some records are challenging or polarizing. Overall the coverage is enthusiastic, often playful and frequently reverential.

For:Listeners of avant-garde, experimental jazz, contemporary classical and film music; adventurous listeners open to challenging records.

 One of Zorn's best albums of recent times and of all time, no doubt about it.

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 Naked City is one of those albums capable of changing the vital course of every individual's musical tastes, an unsettling album at times, soothing, almost magical at others, then from intensity it gives way to the playfulness of music only to suddenly leave it behind and embrace fiery emotions drawn from a thousand kisses deep.

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 a "smooth and delicate", dazzling/fizzy, summery little disc to take (perhaps) with us under the shading parasols to integrate the light and caressing mistral breezes coming from the facing waters

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 The album's title indeed refers to the notorious "Night of Broken Glass", between November 9 and 10, 1938, when the anti-Semitic fury struck Germany.

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