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50th Birthday Celebration Vol.7 [Live] [Import]

~ John Zorn, Masada
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  • Audio CD (12 Jan 2009)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Live, Import
  • Label: Tzadik
  • ASIN: B0002PUHIS
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 205,965 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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With its patented blend of swirling Klezmer themes and frantic free-jazz improvising, one might think that Masada's music would grow predictable or tiresome over time. On the contrary, the burbling, always-busy rhythm section of bassist Greg Cohen and octopus-armed drummer Joey Baron expands the tunes anew with each performance, and the sinuous twin horn lines of trumpeter Dave Douglas and saxophonist John Zorn search and push in ever-changing directions. In addition to uncanny chemistry and dynamic interplay, Masada never fails to keep its music fresh and forward-moving.
This is certainlytrue of the live performance staged to commemorate Zorn's 50th birthday, represented here on this 2004 Tzadik release. The program consists of Zorn's scores, which rival the quartet's musicianship in complexity, sophistication, and beauty.Part Ornette Coleman-inspired madness ("Sippur"), part melancholic Middle Eastern mysticism ("Karaim"), and part gypsy/swing expressionism ("Ravayah"), the music here surprises, enchants, and enthralls. It is hard to go wrong with Masada recordings, and VOL. 7 further confirms the ensemble's statusas one of the 21st century's most exciting jazz groups.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Takes its place with the greatest recordings in Jazz, 15 Jan 2008
By Sordel (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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John Zorn made his name with avant garde material, so the decision in 1993 to start up a conventional acoustic quartet playing his new series of themes on Jewish scales was oddly conservative. Since then, many bands (including several of Zorn's own manufacture) have performed the Masada themes, but there's always something especially magical about the original line-up of trumpet (Dave Douglas), alto sax (Zorn), bass (Greg Cohen) and drums (Joey Baron). Ten years in, this is the band that recorded a live album which has as good a claim to immortality as those of any jazz quartet you care to name.

This band can play hot, and it was rarely hotter than at Zorn's favourite base of operations, the (now defunct) Tonic club in New York. As time has progressed, the tempo of many of these numbers seems to have increased noticeably, with "Acharei Mot", for example, performed here at a headlong pace that transforms it into an even greater showpiece for the energy and commitment of the musicians. Zorn himself runs riot on his long solo here, giving the sort of ragged, overblown, on-the-edge performance for which he is well known. Elsewhere (for example, on "Karaim"), Zorn balances this out with an instrumental restraint and technical range that positions this disc as a sax masterclass. Most importantly, as Zorn or Douglas push into fiercer areas, the rhythm section always goes with them, creating music that while often high-spirited never sounds out of control.

One highlight is an intense reading of "Piram": eleven minutes of full-tilt modern jazz with scarcely a wasted bar. Again, it is the rhythm section here whose work is so essential, driving every solo or duet along like dogs snapping at the heels of Douglas and Zorn. Cohen's impatient walking bass seems to build momentum to an unsustainable pace until the front line seems almost to fall over itself as it reaches the (literally?) breathless end.

Gracenote labels this album "world" and people keep lazily waving the word "Klezmer" over Masada, but for certain this is Jazz, and of a very high order. Exuberant and elating, it avoids the chaos and astringency of much contemporary jazz yet exhibits the majority of its virtues. If your interest in jazz goes beyond sleepy standards sets this should definitely be on your wishlist.
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