Stunning

John Zorn’s drawings, sketches, notebooks, scores, pieces, esoteric wisdom and insight.

#JohnZorn
#HermeticCartography
#thedrawingcenter
#Alchemist

Friday morning breath…

#TBT The #SpikeOrchestra at the Purcell Rooms as part of the #PRSFoundation #newmusicbiennial back in 2019 playing my piece The Pink Shagpile Carpet Story AKA The King of Spank love these cats, love this music. I wrote a bunch of music that year that became our 2020 #Tzadik album #SplinteredStories

Early start. Off to do a workshop outside of London. There isn’t enough coffee and the white in my beard seems greater than it did yesterday.

#jazz
#jazzeducation
#improvisation
#composer
#trumpetplayer

Chart Maps for 4 recent new works for big band.
All inspired by birds, I meet along the way.

#bigband
#composition
#newbigbandmusic
#bigbandarranging
#contemporarybigband
#newmusic

Trasfrontera núm. 14 - Sam Eastmond’s Gulgoleth YouTube video by Música UNAM

youtu.be/ZX4ruSlePnE?...

#TBT #GULGOLETH rehearsing for our Abbey Road session in 2020, with this Baritone Guitar feature about a ceramic drag penguin.
Huge love for these awesome cats.

#composer
#composition
#AbbeyRoadSession
#MossFreed
#ElliotGalvin
#OttoWillberg
#JayDavis

I remember I used to have a tape of a live broadcast in which the DJ introduced Count Basie as ‘The man who gets more music from less* notes than anyone else’

I just saw a video of a pianist who gets less music from more notes than anyone else.

*sic

Relentless groove + blowing + transition
sight-reading new music
Embrace the process.

#composersworkshopbigband
#bigband
#composition
#newmusic
#process
#InTheShed
#Burt&Velma
#PijinStrut

Stretching out, feeling our way through a new one…
#composersworkshopbigband
#bigband
#composition
#newmusic
#thegreenbergparade

Fun day playing some new music with some lovely people…

Went out and did an awesome rehearsal with some hip young punks and the ever groove full Myra Brownbridge then came home and made this bangin’ lentil and bean stew. (Vegan, low fat, low carb etc)

Loading up my iPod for the morning commute
Thanks to OLJF for the discs

#MasahikoTogashi
#SteveLacy

Three new pieces for Monday’s composers workshop big band.

#composition
#bigband
#contemporarybigband
#newbigbandmusic
#bigbandwriting
#composersworkshop
#jazzorchestra
#composition
#newmusic
#composer
#arranger

Shed…

We all deal with things differently, my wife copes with the pigeons crapulously fluttering around our balcony, & smugly strutting around by running out shouting obscenities at them enraged, railing Canute-like against their feigned innocence.
I on the other hand have turned to a different catharsis

We all deal with things differently, my wife copes with the pigeons crapulously fluttering around our balcony, & smugly strutting around by running out shouting obscenities at them enraged, railing Canute-like against their feigned innocence.
I on the other hand have turned to a different catharsis

Here’s a fun one; half a minute of Adam Merrell blowing on my arrangement of John Zorn’s GEVURAH in rehearsal with NYJO back in 2021

#JohnZorn
#Masada
#RJC
#BigBand
#BigBandMasada
#NYJO
#JazzEducation
#YouthBigBand
#MusicEducation

Preparing for workshops, thinking, playing, printing, organising.

#MusicEducation
#YouthMusic
#YouthBigBand
#Improvisation
#JazzEducation

Preparing for workshops, thinking, playing, printing, organising.

#MusicEducation
#YouthMusic
#YouthBigBand
#Improvisation
#JazzEducation

Very kind of you 🙇🏻‍♂️

Discography as a leader

Current state of my desk. Some deep work to do today after some time in the shed.
Of note are the 15 discs an old dear friend sent me because they wanted me to hear them. Some rare tracks and deep cuts.

John Zorn’s Bagatelles

Vol 16

No. 256

#JohnZorn
#JohnZornsBagatelles
#TheBagatellesOfJohnZorn
#Bagatelles
#Zorn
#Tzadik

Gave my horn a rub.
It arrived with a deep red patina and I fell in love with the whole package instantly so didn’t change a thing.
Got curious.

Monday Lagoon from the Bagatelles Band

#Lagoon
#BoneLagoon
#JohnZorn
#JohnZornsBagatelles
#Bigbandbagatelles

Rocking the pocket, Phil Minton in the London Improvisers Orchestra tonight.

I really enjoyed a couple of duo situations we shared, constant innovation and inspiration.

Playing with London Improvisers Orchestra

Debut of a new horn!

Little bit of James Arben in rehearsal on John Zorn’s Masada Book Two with The Spike Orchestra back in 2016 (!)

#TheSpikeOrchestra
#JohnZorn
#JohnZornsMasada
#Masada
#MasadaBookTwo
#TheBookOfAngels
#BigBand
#RJC

Chris & George
❤️🔥🎷