John Zorn & Masada Vol. 8: Het (1997) {diw Records Japan Diw 925}

John Zorn & Masada - Masada 30th Anniversary Edition: The Complete Studio Master Takes (2023)

John Zorn & Masada - Masada 30th Anniversary Edition: The Complete Studio Master Takes (2023)
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Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Tzadik Records

The premier ensemble of Radical Jewish Culture, Masada is one of Zorn’s most popular, personal, long-lasting, and powerful projects. Here you find the mother lode—the long-awaited Tzadik release of the original quartet’s first studio recordings.
Big John Patton - This One's For Ja (1996) {DIW Records Japan DIW-919 rec 1995}

Big John Patton - This One's For Ja (1996) {DIW Records Japan DIW-919 rec 1995}
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Jazz / Soul Jazz / Hard Bop / Organ Hammond B-3

On the third album of his '90s comeback, Big John Patton chooses to create a relaxed vibe, smoothly grooving through a surprising choice of material. Most of the record consists of challenging songs like Coltrane's "Syeeda's Song Flute" and Grachan Moncur III's "Sonny's Back," which gives Patton – as well as his supporting band, featuring guitarist Ed Cherry and tenor saxophonist Dave Hubbard – the chance to create intricate yet accessible music. This is music that can be heard as simply a good groove yet it rewards careful listening. This One's for J.A. again confirms that Patton has made one of the rare comebacks in jazz, one that does justice to his earlier work.
Trio Transition - Trio Transition with special guest Oliver Lake (1988) {DIW Records Japan DIW-829}

Trio Transition - Trio Transition with special guest Oliver Lake (1988) {DIW Records Japan DIW-829}
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© 1988 DIW Records Japan | DIW-829
Jazz / Contemporary Jazz / Modern Creative / Saxophone

This session with guest saxophonist Oliver Lake joining the collective Trio Transition – bassist Reggie Workman, pianist Mulgrew Miller, and drummer Frederick Waits – represents a free bop supergroup. Those names promise much, and the recording delivers that and more. This conjoining of talents results in an adventurous, free-swinging session informed by a keen sense of structure. The group's ability to match expansive free blowing with intriguing song forms is most pronounced on the ensemble's version of Stanley Cowell's joyful waltz, "Effie."
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire (1973) {1997, Japanese Reissue, Remastered}

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire (1973) {1997, Japanese Reissue, Remastered}
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Fusion, Jazz Rock | Sony Records #SRCS 9177

Emboldened by the popularity of Inner Mounting Flame among rock audiences, the first Mahavishnu Orchestra set out to further define and refine its blistering jazz-rock direction in its second – and, no thanks to internal feuding, last – studio album. Although it has much of the screaming rock energy and sometimes exaggerated competitive frenzy of its predecessor, Birds of Fire is audibly more varied in texture, even more tightly organized, and thankfully more musical in content. A remarkable example of precisely choreographed, high-speed solo trading – with John McLaughlin, Jerry Goodman, and Jan Hammer all of one mind, supported by Billy Cobham's machine-gun drumming and Rick Laird's dancing bass – can be heard on the aptly named "One Word," and the title track is a defining moment of the group's nearly atonal fury.
Fritz Hauser - John Cage: AboutCAGE, Vol. 8 (ONE 4 | Solos for Percussion) (2023)

Fritz Hauser - John Cage: AboutCAGE, Vol. 8 (ONE 4 | Solos for Percussion) (2023)
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Style: Classical | Label: Da Vinci Classics

It is rather common for music lovers to turn the radio on as soon as they start the engine of their cars. And it is equally common, for those steeped in the Classical music tradition, to amuse themselves trying to guess which work (or at least which composer) is being played when they find themselves in the midst of a piece. What is at work, in such a game one plays with oneself, is musical memory (in the attempt to connect a known tune or passage with something one remembers, and to give it a label), knowledge of a composer’s style, knowledge of the musical style of a particular historical period. When a given theme matches the listener’s inner archive of known music, then the game is won.
John Zorn & Masada - Dalet (1994) {DIW Records Japan DIW-923 rel 1997} (Volume 4of10)

John Zorn & Masada - Dalet (1994) {DIW Records Japan DIW-923 rel 1997} (Volume 4of10)
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© 1994, 1997 DIW Records Japan | DIW-923
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Klezmer / Post Bop / World Fusion / Ethnic Jazz

This is the fourth in the series of John Zorn's 10 Masada quartet albums (plus, as far as I know, one live recording released by Jazz DCOR and few more released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik). The four musicians of Masada quartet (John Zorn - alto sax, Dave Douglas - trumpet, Joey Baron - drums, Greg Cohen - bass) are all masters of their instruments. They have recorded the ten albums in only a few studio sessions, all of which feature very, very passionate and inspired playing. All of the albums are beautifully played, with exquisite sense for measure and taste, the musicians bringing their instruments to the edge of possible (and beyond, as it often seems, it's awesome!) but their virtuosity never being self-serving. Many compositions sound like folk themes, there are a lot of emotions, a lot of melancholy or sense of longing, but also some 'smoking', joyous faster tracks.
John Zorn & Masada - Hei (1995) {DIW Records Japan DIW-899} (Volume 5of10)

John Zorn & Masada - Hei (1995) {DIW Records Japan DIW-899} (Volume 5of10)
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© 1995 DIW Records Japan | DIW-899
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Klezmer / Post Bop / World Fusion / Ethnic Jazz

Hei, the fifth release from John Zorn's Masada Quartet, shows the band at their tightest and most agile. In sound and design, it is much like the other nine releases from the Quartet, but it is rivaled only by Masada, Vol 3: Gimmel and Masada, Vol. 6: Vav for the musical acumen and togetherness of the players. A Jewish version of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, Zorn here continues to explore issues of Jewish heritage and identity in the assimilated and diaspora Jewish world.
John Zorn & Masada - Vav (1995) {DIW Records Japan DIW-900} (Volume 6of10)

John Zorn & Masada - Vav (1995) {DIW Records Japan DIW-900} (Volume 6of10)
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Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Klezmer / Post Bop / World Fusion / Ethnic Jazz

Recorded at the Power Station in New York in 1995, Masada, Vol. 6 Vav continues Masada's convincing union of Eastern European and Middle Eastern modalities with the freer, post-bop aspects of jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman. John Zorn's writing is particularly focused and well-informed, full of serpentine lines, mixed meters, and sudden shifts in tempo, while leaving plenty of room for collective and individual improvisation. The ensemble and the individual playing are uniformly superb throughout. Like much of Zorn's work, Vav exists in several simultaneous dimensions.
John Zorn & Masada - Alef (1994) {DIW Records Japan DIW-888} (Volume 1of10)

John Zorn & Masada - Alef (1994) {DIW Records Japan DIW-888} (Volume 1of10)
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© 1994 DIW Records Japan | DIW-888
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Klezmer / Post Bop / Ethnic Jazz

Apparently his early Spy Vs. Spy homage with Tim Berne wasn't enough to satiate John Zorn's Ornette Coleman jones. Masada, Vol. 1: Alef is the jumping-off point for his prolific quartet, clearly modeled on Coleman's groundbreaking acoustic unit, and it's the first sighting of trumpeter Dave Douglas, too. The rhythm section is equally crucial, with Greg Cohen ably tackling the thankless task of bass anchor and Joey Baron the unsung hero for maintaining the fierce, high-energy pulse dictated by Zorn's punk sensibilities. The frenetic "Jair" sets a very Coleman-ish tone before the more measured "Bith Aneth" finds Douglas showing his range with muted squawks, growls, and broad lower-register tones that almost sound like a trombone.
John Zorn & Masada - Beit (1994) {DIW Records Japan DIW-889} (Volume 2of10)

John Zorn & Masada - Beit (1994) {DIW Records Japan DIW-889} (Volume 2of10)
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© 1994 DIW Records Japan | DIW-889
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Klezmer / Post Bop / World Fusion / Ethnic Jazz

John Zorn's absorption of klezmer motifs into avant-garde jazz is remarkable in itself, but even more extraordinary is Masada's utter command of the two genres' fiercely visceral energies. Fueled by Joey Baron's ferocious drumming and Zorn's savage, apocalyptic squeal, Beit is an archetype of focused intensity. (Anyone dying for truth in jazz needs only to hear "Peliyot" to be instantly transfixed and astounded.) Baron and Greg Cohen are among the most powerful and perceptive rhythm sections in any genre, and Dave Douglas, one of the most brilliant trumpeters of his generation, continues to lend immaculate support. Simply stated, this is one of jazz's greatest groups.