Título: John Zorn
Seção: Early life and career
Background: John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, arranger, producer, saxophonist, and multi-instrumentalist with hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, and producer across a variety of genres, including jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and improvised music. He incorporates diverse styles in his compositions which he identifies as avant-garde or experimental. Zorn was described by Down Beat as "one of our most important composers". Zorn established himself within the New York City downtown music movement in the mid-1970s performing with musicians across the sonic spectrum and developing experimental methods of composing new music.

Conteúdo: John Zorn was born in New York City and learned piano, guitar and flute as a child. His family had diverse musical tastes: his mother, Vera (nee Studenski; 1918-1999), listened to classical and world music, his father, Henry Zorn (1913-1992), was interested in jazz, French chansons, and country music, and his older brother collected doo-wop, and 1950s rock and roll records. Zorn attended the United Nations International School from kindergarten to high school associating with school friends from many different cultures. He spent his teenage years exploring classical music, film music, and, "listening to The Doors and playing bass in a surf band." He also acquired an interest in experimental and avant-garde music after buying a record by Mauricio Kagel in 1968 at the age of fifteen. He taught himself orchestration and counterpoint by transcribing scores and studied composition under Leonardo Balada. Zorn started playing the saxophone after discovering Anthony Braxton's album For Alto (1969) when he was studying composition at Webster College (now Webster University) in St. Louis, Missouri, where he attended classes taught by Oliver Lake. While still at Webster, he incorporated elements of free jazz, avant-garde and experimental music, film scores, performance art and the cartoon scores of Carl Stalling into his first recordings which were later released as First Recordings 1973 (1995). Zorn dropped out of college and, following a stint on the West Coast, moved to Manhattan whe

user: When was Zorn born

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user: What year was he born

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user: where did he grow up

assistant: born in New York City

user: where did he go to school

assistant: Zorn attended the United Nations International School from kindergarten to high school

user: What did he spent his days doing doing his childhood

assistant: He spent his teenage years exploring classical music, film music, and, "listening to The Doors and playing bass in a surf band.

user: did he go to college

assistant: when he was studying composition at Webster College

user: what was his degree

assistant: Zorn dropped out of college

user: What was his first job

assistant: moved to Manhattan where he gave concerts in his apartment and other small NY venues,

user: What did he do after college

assistant: following a stint on the West Coast, moved to Manhattan where he gave concerts in his apartment and other small NY venues,

user: Did he have a band

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user: who was Jack Smith

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user: What else can you tell me about the art scene

assistant: He founded a performance art project called the Theatre of Musical Optics in 1975