"Like a car radio stuck on scan mode, John Zorn's 'Naked City' skips unstoppably from style to style. Country twang, noise, arena rock, New Orleans R & B, reggae, polka, hard-core rock, bossa nova and Mr. Zorn's sentimental favorite, greasy organ-combo themes of detective shows and films noirs with throbbing saxophone solos - they all turn up in segments that might last 30 seconds (if they're lucky) before the next jolting genre hop. Mr. Zorn doesn't bother with transitions. While he and his musicians create every sudden textural shift themselves, without technological assistance, his guides are the splice, the jump cut, the video edit - not to mention the jack-in-the-box and its more sinister relatives in funhouses and horror movies. In his music, coherence is barely more than propinquity; one sound or style simply doesn't predict the next. ..."
NY Times: THERE ARE 8 MILLION STORIES IN JOHN ZORN'S NAKED CITY By JON PARELES (April 8, 1990)
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YouTube: Naked City (Live), You Will Be Shot (Live), A Shot In The Dark (Amsterdam 1989), James Bond Theme (Amsterdam 1989) John Zorn - sax, composer, Joey Baron - drums, Fred Frith - bass, Wayne Horvitz - kbds, Bill Frisell - gtr.
YouTube: Naked City [Full Album]
2009 March: John Zorn, 2010 August: Spillane 2011 October: Filmworks Anthology : 20 Years of Soundtrack Music, 2012 September: Marc Ribot, 2013 January: Bar Kokhba and Masada, 2013 September: Masada String Trio Sala, 2014 January: Full Concert Jazz in Marciac (2010), 2014 March: "Extraits de Book Of Angels" @ Jazz in Marciac 2008, 2015 June: The Big Gundown - John Zorn plays Ennio Morricone (1985), 2015 July: News for Lulu (1988), 2016 March: Film Works 1986-1990, 2017 March: John Zorn Is Rolling The Stone From Avenue C To The New School.
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