John Zorn is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". Zorn's avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, contemporary, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and world music.

Personnel:
Carol Emanuel: Harps
Bill Frisell: Guitar
John Medeski: Organ
Kenny Wollesen: Vibes, Bells
Bridget Kibbey: Harps
Al Lipowski: Vibes, Bells
Drawing inspiration from various Gnostic philosophies of the Nag Hammadi library, Transmigration of the Magus is a musical evocation of the mystical journey of the soul through the bardo. Lyrical and tender, the music has a lush orchestral sweep and features Bill Frisell and John Medeski reveling within the magical sonorities of vibraphones, bells and harps. Created to help the passing of Zorn’s dear friend Lou Reed through the bardo realms and released on the one year anniversary of his passing, Transmigration of the Magus is a memorial tribute to one of Zorn’s musical mentors and is one of his most touching and emotional projects—truly music of the angels.

John Zorn is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". Zorn's avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, contemporary, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and world music.

John Zorn专辑介绍：
by Thom Jurek
This project, a soundtrack for the documentary film In the Mirror of Maya Deren by
Martina Kudlácek
, after the legendary avant-garde director, is perhaps Zorn's most accessible work for film. According to Zorn's liner notes, most of the film's music was comprised of pieces by
Deren
's companion,
Teiji Ito
, which were scored for her film and interspersed by field recordings of voodoo rituals. Zorn was persuaded to create an entire score for this picture. How much of it made the final cut is unclear, though it hardly matters since listeners have this aural document. As conductor and keyboardist, Zorn employs a score built on repetitious patterns, spare, softly accented figures, and lilting, skeletal melodies that take into consideration the revolutionary compositions of
Teiji Ito
,
Deren
's love of the percussion that accompanied voodoo ritual, and the ancestral music of her native Kiev. Zorn's collaborating musicians --
Jamie Saft
,
Cyro Baptista
, and
Erik Friedlander
-- have taken into account the particular dynamics of making music for a documentary about a director whose films were all soundtrack-less until after she died. Zorn covers material with the same attention to detail he gave the
Masada
chamber group's. Here, organs and cellos intertwine in hypnotic figures on "Dancing" and Zorn's solo piano evokes a Russian folk melody on "Kiev," while "Filming" has the same sense of time/space displacement as a silent reel of film on a screen. Piano and a plucked cello alter a small-chord progression continually, shifting the harmonics just enough to detect great movement while remaining still. The anticipation is quiet but pronounced. "Mirror Worlds" offers a glimpse of
Ito
's compositional notions, with
Baptista
's percussion instruments claiming the entire center of the piece while not playing in any kind of time. Everything is space, as strings, bells, and a cello punctuate the soundscape with their lone repeating figures. Ultimately, In the Mirror of Maya Deren is Zorn's most compelling work for film yet. As a conceptualist, Zorn is not to be outdone -- he sees things in total, and this score is one piece, full of segue, room, drift, and dream.
Deren
would have been at the very least pleased, and that is as high a compliment as can be paid to this wonderful work by one of the most prolific, poetic, and profound composers.

John Zorn is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". Zorn's avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, contemporary, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and world music.

Recorded At – East Side Sound
Composed By [All Music Composed By], Arranged By [All Music Arranged By], Conductor [All Music Conducted By] – John Zorn
Vibraphone [Vibes] – Kenny Wollesen
Organ – John Medeski
Guitar – Matt Hollenberg
Ensemble – Simulacrum
Congas – Ches Smith (tracks: 7)
Drums – Kenny Grohowski
Drums [Voudun Drums] – Ches Smith (tracks: 8)

John Zorn is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". Zorn's avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, contemporary, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and world music.

Recorded and mixed July and September 2008 at East Side Sound, NYC
"Procul. O Procul Este. Profani.
Dedicated to: Antonin Artaud ~ Edgard Varese ~ Aleister Crowley"
Alto Saxophone, Concept By, Composed By, Arranged By, Conductor, Producer – John Zorn
Bass – Trevor Dunn
Design – Heung-Heung Chin
Drums – Joey Baron
Executive-Producer [Associate Producer] – Kazunori Sugiyama
Mastered By – Scott Hull
Photography By [Original Photos] – Scott Irvine
Recorded By, Mixed By – Marc Urselli
Voice – Mike Patton

American saxophonist and composer, born 2 September 1953 in New York City, USA. He owns the Tzadik record label and has worked with a large number of experimental musicians, particularly in improvised music, modern classical music and jazz, though he has produced music in most styles. As a child, he played piano, guitar and flute. He went to college in St. Louis where he discovered free jazz, before dropping out and moving to Manhattan. There he gave concerts in his small apartment, playing a variety of reeds, duck calls, tapes, etc; almost anything. In the mid 1980s he signed to the Elektra Nonesuch label. Since then, he has released a very large number of records, usually putting out several each year. Zorn's recorded output includes records by two bands of his own, Masada (a klezmer band playing music that is often described as Jewish jazz) and Naked City (an often aggressive mix of jazz, rock and grindcore). He has also worked with musicians like Bill Frisell, Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, Keiji Haino, and Bill Laswell. He has written music for television and film, which has been collected in the ongoing Filmworks series of records on his Tzadik label. Some of these are jazz-based, others are classical. He has also written several "game pieces", in which performers are allowed to improvise while following certain structural rules. These works are in the main named after sports, and include Pool, Archery and Lacrosse, as well as Cobra.

Two dramatic new worlds in sound from our downtown Alchemist who continues to confound and defy expectations well into his fourth decade of recorded activity. Scored for two percussionists, The Satyr's Play is a dramatic work that mysteriously evokes the decadent excesses of Bacchanalia and Saturnalia. Presented in book form accompanied by a esoteric text beautifully illustrated with rare drawings by the great mystical artist Austin Osman Spare, this is a work of subtle nuance and sexuality. In contrast, Cerberus, is a flamboyant and dynamic trio for brass. A demonic piece featuring three undisputed Brass virtuosos, it jumps styles, moods and genres in classic Zorn fashion. Radical, moody and colorful chamber works for the 21st century.

Dave Douglas (born March 24, 1963) is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator. His career includes more than fifty recordings as a leader and more than 500 published compositions.