If you're feeling Zornish.
NPR [hearts] Zorn. A few weeks ago on Weekend Edition, Lian Hansen
interviewed Zorn and John Madof, guitarist for Rashanim, a "Jewish
power trio" who's latest album features ten "unknown" tunes from
Zorn's Masada songbook, and whose album Masada Rock was put out by
Tzadik. Worth it for Lian's attempts to pronounce tzadik and rashamin.
Also for Zorn's big up for Dick Dale.
This past Saturday night, Zorn checked in with David Garland, whose
Evening Music program acts as a soporific weekend evenings on the NYC
NPR affiliate. Garland has lately been hosting a "must have" festival,
where guests run down musical must-haves. JZ basically presented a
concise history of experimental classical music, from the tenth
century to Harry Partch. Annoyingly, Zorn's roster of artists is
unavailable online, and show is similarly offline (for now --- might
be archived soon enough). It was a treat to hear Brian Lehrer, who by
day hosts pound for pound the most thoughtful daytime radio talk show
in the tri-state, open the night's show with a celebration of the many
phases of Miles Davis.
And: if you're interested in supporting Zorn's performance space in
NYC, The Stone, head on over to the Downtown Music Gallery and pick up
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