View basket “Something Else!!! (Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series)” has been added to your basket. Naked City John Zorn SKU: IF34 Barcode: 852545003349 28.00 £28.00 Genre: Jazz Label: 1972 Released Date: 9th June 2018 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Naked City is an album by John Zorn, originally released on Nonesuch Records in 1990. The band which would become known under the same name included Zorn on alto saxophone with Bill Frisell on guitar, Wayne Horvitz on keyboards, Fred Frith on bass and Joey Baron on drums, and was established in 1988 as a “compositional workshop” to test the limitations of a rock band format. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 5 stars stating “The stimulating music rewards repeated listenings by more open-minded listeners.” Jon Pareles observed in The New York Times that “Mr. Zorn doesn’t bother with transitions. While he and his musicians create every sudden textural shift themselves, without technological assistance, his guides are the splice, the jump cut, the video edit – not to mention the jack-in-the-box and its more sinister relatives in funhouses and horror movies. In his music, coherence is barely more than propinquity; one sound or style simply doesn’t predict the next.” Guy Peters stated “John Zorn’s Naked City-project was about the most far out you could get, and Zorn’s exploration of what he “could come up with given the limitations of the simple sax, guitar, keyboard, bass, drums-format” became the pinnacle of avant coolness… The result was a post-modern hybrid that cut up sequences as he saw fit and treated all genres equally: jazz, grindcore and country & western, were allowed to coexist, even in the same song.” Christopher Thelen noted “While Naked City is certainly groundbreaking, it hardly is for everybody. The faint-hearted will be running for the exits before Zorn and crew can really get warmed up; purists of jazz, rock, and possibly even grindcore might consider the marriage of several styles of music sacrilegious. Possibly. But for the rest of us, Naked City represents unbridled energy, passion and possibly even anger channeled into music. The resulting noise is sheer joy to those who get it, and sheer madness to those who don’t.” Pitchfork Media ranked this album at 47 on their Top 100 Albums of the 1980s list. Their review of The Complete Studio Recordings stated “On Naked City, Zorn introduced an amped-up surf/lounge/punk band featuring downtown New York’s biggest talents, who blast and din through the ‘James Bond’ theme song, the theme to Chinatown, and a sound portrait of New Orleans’ Latin Quarter – and then right when they slip into a groove, out of nowhere, the band launches punishing blasts of noise and catastrophe, flaming wreckage that blows up and collapses on a dime.” Artist John Zorn Genre Jazz , Leftfield / Experimental Label 1972 Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings "Batman" – 1:58 "The Sicilian Clan" (Ennio Morricone) – 3:27 "You Will Be Shot" – 1:29 "Latin Quarter" – 4:05 "A Shot in the Dark" (Henry Mancini) – 3:09 "Reanimator" – 1:34 "Snagglepuss" – 2:20 "I Want to Live" (Johnny Mandel) – 2:08 "Lonely Woman" (Ornette Coleman) – 2:38 "Igneous Ejaculation" – 0:20 "Blood Duster" – 0:13 "Hammerhead" – 0:08 "Demon Sanctuary" – 0:38 "Obeah Man" – 0:17 "Ujaku" – 0:27 "Fuck the Facts" – 0:11 "Speedball" – 0:37 "Chinatown" (Jerry Goldsmith) – 4:23 "Punk China Doll" – 3:01 "N.Y. Flat Top Box" – 0:43 "Saigon Pickup" – 4:46 "The James Bond Theme" (John Barry) – 3:02 "Den of Sins" – 1:08 "Contempt" (Georges Delerue) – 2:49 "Graveyard Shift" – 3:25 "Inside Straight" – 4:10 Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from John Zorn and more from Jazz View Product Quick View John Zorn New Masada Quartet Benefit LP Jazz | TZADIK | 1LP Released 5th April 2024 £65.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders John Zorn New Masada Quartet Benefit LP £65.00 Genre: Jazz Label: TZADIK SKU: LPTZA6013 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th April 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nat King Cole After Midnight Jazz | Pure Pleasure | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 2nd May 2006 £47.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nat King Cole After Midnight £47.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Pure Pleasure SKU: PPANW782 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 2nd May 2006 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Anne Bisson Be My Lover Jazz | Camilio Records | 180g, 2LP, 45rpm Release Date TBC £101.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Anne Bisson Be My Lover £101.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Camilio Records SKU: CAMLP5287-45 Formats: 180g, 2LP, 45rpm Released Date: Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Curtis Fuller Jazztet with Benny Golson Jazz | Doxy | 180g, 1LP Released 21st February 2013 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Curtis Fuller Jazztet with Benny Golson £17.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Doxy SKU: DOX885LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 21st February 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Keith Jarrett Solo Concerts: Bremen / Lausanne Jazz | ECM | 3LP, Box Set Released 27th October 2023 £84.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Keith Jarrett Solo Concerts: Bremen / Lausanne £84.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ECM SKU: 4505325 Formats: 3LP, Box Set Released Date: 27th October 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Larry Young Larry Young in Paris – The ORTF Recordings Jazz | Resonance Records | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 19th February 2016 £48.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Larry Young Larry Young in Paris – The ORTF Recordings £48.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Resonance Records SKU: HLP9022 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 19th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tubby Hayes Quartet Seven Steps To Heaven: Live At The Hopbine 1972 Jazz | Gearbox | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 18th November 2013 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tubby Hayes Quartet Seven Steps To Heaven: Live At The Hopbine 1972 £21.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Gearbox SKU: GB1523 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 18th November 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tina Brooks The Waiting Game Jazz | Blue Note Tone Poet | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 29th January 2021 £33.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tina Brooks The Waiting Game £33.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note Tone Poet SKU: 893419 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 29th January 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Stan Getz Quartet Getz At The Gate Jazz | Verve | 3LP Released 14th June 2019 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Stan Getz Quartet Getz At The Gate £36.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Verve SKU: 7742857 Formats: 3LP Released Date: 14th June 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bill Laurance & Michel League Where You Wish You Were Jazz | ACT | 1LP Released 27th January 2023 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bill Laurance & Michel League Where You Wish You Were £23.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ACT SKU: ACTLP9961-1 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 27th January 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Pharoah Sanders Live At Fabrik, Hamburg 1980 Jazz | Jazzline | 1LP Released 24th March 2023 £32.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Pharoah Sanders Live At Fabrik, Hamburg 1980 £32.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Jazzline SKU: D78123 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 24th March 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Jazz Start again
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