From: malcolm@wrs.com (Malcolm Humes)
Subject: Re: John Zorn
Organization: Wind River Systems, Inc.
Distribution: world,local
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:08:44 GMT


There's a lot of different John Zorns. One is an avant composer whose pieces 
are usually structured on some sort of game format where the players improvise
around given rules. There's the producer Zorn who did the Mr. Bungle lp
recently. There's the session man who's worked with Bill Laswell, and then 
there's a couple other incarnations that record lps and form various bands. 
The guy must be schizophrenic with all these personalities inside one skull.

Here's what I pulled together the last time the Zorn questions came up.  
Feel free to get back to me with any additions, corrections, questions, etc.

Someone_else@somesite once said:
>But what I'd _really_ like to see is a Zorn discography...  does
>anyone have one?  

This is a Zorn list yanked from a database I have. The ones marked as 
COMPACT DISC may also be on vinyl and those not marked as such may be released
on cd also. I haven't heard all of these and only own a few of them. 
 
I have the Big Gundown on cd, but the label info listed below is the lp. The
cd I have is on Elektra, and I think the label number is 79139, but that may
be missing a prefix. The list below is certainly not complete, I know there
are other Zorn releases (Naked City's Torture Garden)and one called Painkiller.
 
                                                 
 ZORN, JOHN
 POOL (2)
 1980       US        PARACHUTE                 POO 11/12

 ZORN, JOHN
 CLASSIC GUIDE TO STRATEGY, VOL. I
 1983       US        LUMINA                    L 004

 ZORN, JOHN
 LOCUS SOLUS (2)
 1983       US        RIFT                      007

 ZORN, JOHN
 THE BIG GUNDOWN
 1986       US        ICON/NONESUCH             79139-1

 ZORN, JOHN
 THE CLASSIC GUIDE TO STRATEGY, VOLUME 2
 1986       US        LUMINA                    L010

 ZORN, JOHN
 COBRA (2) (BOX SET)
 1987       SWITZ     HAT HUT                   HAT ART 2034

 ZORN, JOHN
 SPILLANE
 1987       US        ELEKTRA/NONESUCH          79172-1
 
 ZORN, JOHN
 COBRA (2) (BOX SET)
 1987       SWITZ     HAT HUT                   HAT ART 2034

 ZORN, JOHN
 SPILLANE
 1987       US        ELEKTRA/NONESUCH          79172-1

 ZORN, JOHN / LEWIS, GEORGE / FRISELL, BILL
 (COMPACT DISC) NEWS FOR LULU
 1988       SWITZ     HAT HUT                   HAT ART CD 6005
 
 ZORN, JOHN
 (COMPACT DISC) SPY VS. SPY: THE MUSIC OF ORNETTE COLEMAN
 1989       US        ELEKTRA/MUSICIAN          9 60844-2

 ZORN, JOHN
 NAKED CITY
 1990       GER       ELEKTRA/NONESUCH          7559-79238-1

 ZORN, JOHN / SATO, MICHIHIRO
 GANRYU ISLAND
 1985       US        YUKON                     YUKON 2101

 STALEY, JIM / ZORN, JOHN
 OTB
 1984       US        LUMINA                    L 008

 STALEY, JIM
 MUMBO JUMBO (2) (WITH WAYNE HORVITZ, ELLIOTT SHARP, BILL FRISELL, JOHN ZORN,)
 1986       US        RIFT                      12

 GODARD FANS
 GODARD CA VOUS CHANTE? (COMPILATION WITH JOHN ZORN, ARTO LINDSAY, ETC.)
 1985       FR        NATO                      NATO 634

 JOYEUX NOEL
 (COMPILATION WITH MELODY FOUR, JOHN ZORN, MIKE COOPER & CYRIL LEFEBVRE, ETC.)
 1987       FR        NATO                      NATO 1382

 LA NUIT DES SOLOS
 (COMPILATION WITH D. MOSS, E. SHARP, C. MARCLAY, T. CORA, G. CHENEVIER,
 J. ROSE, ETC.)
 1988       FR        VAN D'OEUVRE              8802
 
 TELLUS: THE AUDIO CASSETTE MAGAZINE
 (CASSETTE-ONLY) #15 (COMPILATION WITH CORA, FRISELL, PREVITE, STALEY, 
 HORVITZ, KLUCEVSEK, MARCLAY, ZORN, ETC.) (LIVE 85)
 1986       US        TELLUS                    15

And someone_else@somewhere posted this list:
>A year or two ago I looked through a catalog from the "New Music Distribution
>Service" and found the following items by Zorn or with Zorn appearing on 
>them:
 
A Classic Guide To Strategy     Lumina 010
Tresspass                       Lumina 011
Godard Ca Vous Chant?           Nato 634
Deadly Weapons                  Nato 950
Point Blank                     No Mans Land 8506
The Golden Palominos            OAO/Celluloid 5002
Yankees                         OAO/Celluloid 5006
Control Songs                   Recommended (German) "Review 95"
Locus Solus                     Rift 7
Simple Facts                    Theater For Your Mother 04
Gangro Island                   Yukon 2101
The World And The Raw People    Zoar 12

  - malcolm@wrs.com  
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