Zorn at 70 Great American Music Hall San Francisco, CA August 30-September 3, 2023 Day One, August 30, 2023 "Breaking Ground" with John Medeski and Dave LombardoLast night, the intergalactic Starship John Zorn descended from New York into San Francisco for a five-night residency at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall to celebrate Zorn's 70th birthday.Zorn, a legendary avant-garde composer and saxophonist whose Promethean and prolific output of performances and recordings involves endless configurations that span every imaginable musical idiom--jazz and free jazz, classical, film music, minimalism, experimental, hardcore punk, surf music, heavy metal, Jewish musical traditions, including Klezmer--in short, "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once."He first came to my attention when he led his original Masada group at a live performance in Seattle in 2000... [ read more ]
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