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Originally Posted by Frownland
I got you into this mess so I'll give you a few suggestions  . Spy Vs. Spy is my favourite Zorn album not counting Naked City's material. Also check out Book of Heads, The Big Gundown, Moonchild, and his group Masada's album Alef.
And by Naked City did you mean the album or the group? Because Zorn made a few other albums with the people on the Naked City, and they're all fantastic. Especially Torture Garden, which also happens to be one of my overall favourite albums. |
Naked City the album. I had a mess of a time figuring out if I should tag the album Naked City as a Naked City album or a John Zorn album, but I eventually settled on tagging it as a John Zorn album because that seemed to be true way the album is credited...I think? It's these sort of tagging issues that keep me up at night.
I was putting off Spy vs Spy because I've never actually listened to the original works of Ornette Coleman and I want to do that before touching Zorn's versions. I mean, I'm sure it's pretty much entirely different but I'd feel weird jumping into it like that. I've been on a jazz binge lately, though, so I'm sure I'll get to some Coleman soon enough, and then I can go for Spy vs Spy. As for the other suggestions, I'll look into them.
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