the of mirror eye

* John Zorn: Intro, first part (0.5 mb) | British society would never produce a Zorn (3.0 mb) | I look at some of the scores that I bought (2.0 mb) | What’s weird- … you got to get ‘For Alto’ (3.0 mb) | I played on the streets and meet people that way (3.0 mb) | Having established this common ground with a pool of improvisers (1.0 mb) | Piano player Anthony Coleman (2.5 mb) | Hockey (2.0 mb) | The early game pieces were very simply done (1.5 mb)
From Documentary (Part 1) : BBC Radio 3 : London, England

Since the past year has been so weird for me, I decided to reward myself with a trip to the Big Apple. Yep, this midwestern rube is going to visit the New York City again. And even though the trip won’t be for another couple of months, I’m still uber excited about it. I’ve already started planning out places to eat and record stores to visit.

Of course, I always associate the New York City with free jazz, both the fire breathing of William Parker/Test/Susie Ibarra/et al, and the avant-genre hopping of John Zorn/et al. The last time I visited New York, I posted a bunch of songs by John Zorn (look here and here).

John Zorn is most definitely a hard musician to get to know. He does so much genre mixing and plays so much extreme music that most people don’t even bother to listen. And that’s too bad. Hopefully this excellent radio documentary will help to shed some light on him. This was originally aired in 2000 on BBC Radio 3 (by the way, why isn’t US radio this progressive?) in four parts. I’ll post the first part over the next two posts and maybe will get to the rest of it over the next couple of months. This is really well done, with great interviews, music and insight into this remarkable musician. Hopefully you find this as engrossing as I did.

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Because there are so many files, I’m including a rar file of all the above. So, if you don’t want to download each one individually, just download this file (here) and unrar it. But what you don’t need to do is download this file and all the files above.