John Zorn

If you enjoy the music on Tzadik we strongly urge you to further support the artist by purchasing our CDS. All packaging, artwork, notes, credits, and imagery are essential details to the artist's vision on Tzadik. The CD medium will sound better, look better, and will give you a more complete artistic experience. With Many Thanks, John Zorn Born and raised in New York City, John Zorn is a composer, performer, artist, universalist, and aesthetic philosopher who has forged an independent path through stylistic domains that range from the classical avant-garde to many popular idioms. His work is remarkably diverse and draws inspiration from Art, Literature, Film, Theatre, Philosophy, Alchemy, Mysticism, as well as Music. In addition to his composing, recording and performing Zorn is a firm believer in community and a tireless champion of experimental music, film, art, poetry, and theatre. He founded the Tzadik label in 1995, runs the performance space The Stone at the New School, and has edited and published ten volumes of musician’s writings under the title ARCANA. Honors include a MacArthur Fellowship, the Cultural Achievement Award from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the William Schuman Prize for composition from Columbia University. He was inducted into the Long Island Hall of Fame by Lou Reed in 2010 and has received honorary doctorates from the University of Ghent, SUNY Purchase, and New England Conservatory.