There can really be no question at this point: John Zorn is the intellectual renaissance man of our age, the East Village Thomas Jefferson. One can easily venture that by simply researching the panoply of allusions that dot Zorn's liner notes, ...read the complete review at Pitch Fork Media
If necessity is the mother of invention, systematic constraint is its stern, insufficiently-respected daddy. Proust said that poets often fashion their best work under the tyranny of rhyme, and most good composers would say something similar. French ...read the complete review at Dusted Magazine