Playlist of the Official Discography of John Zorn With Understanding Comes Appreciation The one word virtually everyone can agree on in any discussion of the work of composer John Zorn is "prolific" in the strictest sense of the definition. Titles under his own name number well over 150, and the sheer number of works he has composed, produced, or played on easily doubles that. Other than my Gods in Music , very few artists (if any) are on par or even close to the number of c

With Understanding Comes Appreciation Some of the words that arguably describe better this gem might be elegant, sophisticated, intimate, melancholic, spiritual, playful, desert, warm, and mysterious, which also sports majestically chamber jazz, avant-garde classical music, klezmer and modern composition. For a man who's arguably got 90% of his reputation (at this point, in 1996) through making noisy, abrasive, inaccessible, and chaotic music, this masterpiece is quite the op