John Zorn discography

John Zorn appears on over 400 recordings as a composer or performer. This is a selection of recordings released under his name, bands he was/is part of, collaborations with other musicians, and significant albums to which he has contributed. The year indicates when the album was first released and any subsequent years if the following release included additional material. For a comprehensive discography see the " [http://home.arcor.de/nyds-exp-discogs/zorn.htm Discography of John Zorn by Patrice Roussel] ".

John Zorn

*"" (1983)
*"Locus Solus" (1983, 1997)
*"Ganryu Island" (1984, 1998)
*"" (1985)
*"The Big Gundown" (1986)
*"Spillane" (1987)
*"Spy vs Spy" (1989)
*"Elegy" (1992)
*"Kristallnacht" (1993)
*"First Recordings 1973" (1995)
*"Redbird" (1995)
*"The Book of Heads" (1995)
*"The Classic Guide to Strategy" (1996, Collecting the out of print Volumes 1 and 2)
*"" (1997)
*"New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands" (1997)
*"Angelus Novus" (1998)
*"" (1998)
*"The Bribe" (1998)
*"Godard/Spillane" (1999)
*"The String Quartets" (1999)
*"The Big Gundown: 15th Anniversary Special Edition" (2000, Remastered, with bonus tracks)
*"Xu Feng" (2000)
*"Cartoon S/M" (2000) 2CD
*"Madness, Love and Mysticism" (2001)
*"Songs from the Hermetic Theatre" (2001)
*"I.A.O." (2002)
*"Chimeras" (2003)
*"Magick" (2004)
*"Mysterium" (2005)
*""- The Cracow Klezmer Band Plays John Zorn (2005)
*"Rituals" (2005)
*"From Silence to Sorcery" (2007)
*"The Dreamers" (2008)

"The Parachute Years" (1997)

:" Box Set featuring the following recordings (also released separately)"
*"Lacrosse" (1977, 2000) 2CD
*"Pool" (1980, 2000)
*"Hockey" (1980, 2002)
*"Archery" (1981, 2001) 3CD

=Cobra performances=

*"Cobra" (1987)
*"" (1992)
*"" (1994)
*"" (2002)

Music Romance series

*"Music for Children" (Volume One, 1998)
*"Taboo & Exile" (Volume Two, 1999)
*"The Gift" (Volume Three, 2001)

Filmworks series

*"Filmworks 1986-1990" (1997)
*"" (1996)
*"" (1997)
*"" (1997)
*"" (1996)
*"" (1996)
*"" (1997)
*"" (1998)
*" Trembling Before G-d" (2000)
*"" (2001)
*"" (2002)
*"" (2002)
*"" (2002)
*" Hiding and Seeking" (2003)
*" Protocols of Zion" (2005)
*"" (2005)
*"" (2006)
*"" (2006)
*"" (2008)
*"" (2008)
*"" (2008)
*"" (2008)

=with Naked City=

*"Naked City" (1989)
*"Torture Garden" (1990)
*"Grand Guignol" (1992)
*"Leng Tch'e" (1992)
*"Heretic" (1992)
*"Radio" (1993)
*"Absinthe" (1993)
*"Black Box (album)" (1996, collects "Torture Garden" & "Leng Tch'e" albums) 2xCD
*"" (2002)
*"" (2005)

=with Painkiller=

*"Guts of a Virgin" (1991) EP
*"Buried Secrets" (1992) EP
*"" (1993)
*"Execution Ground" (1994)
*"" (1997, Includes "Guts of a Virgin", "Buried Secrets", "Execution Ground", "Live in Osaka" and bonus material) 4CD
*"Guts of a Virgin/Buried Secrets" (1998, Collection of first two EP's)
*"" (2002)
*"50th Birthday Celebration Volume 12" (2005, guest vocals by Mike Patton)

=with Hemophiliac=

*"Hemophiliac" (2002)
*"50th Birthday Celebration Volume 6" (2004)

=with Masada=

*"" (1994)
*"" (1994)
*"" (1994)
*"" (1994) EP
*"" (1995)
*"" (1995)
*"" (1996)
*"" (1996)
*"" (1997)
*"" (1997)
*"Live in Taipei 1995" (1998)
*"Live in Jerusalem 1994" (1999) 2CD
*"Live in Middleheim 1999" (1999)
*"Live in Sevilla 2000" (2000)
*"Live at Tonic 2001" (2001)
*"First Live 1993" (2002)
*"50th Birthday Celebration Volume 7" (2004)
*"Sanhedrin 1994-1997" (2005) 2CD

=with Electric Masada=

*"50th Birthday Celebration Volume 4" (2004)
*"" (2005) 2CD
*"The Dreamers" (2008) (Note: Not an Electric Masada release, but recorded with the group members)

=Masada String Trio=

*"The Circle Maker" (1998, Disc 1 by Masada String Trio, Disc 2 by Bar Kokhba Sextet) 2CD
*"50th Birthday Celebration Volume 1" (2004)
*"" (2005)

=Bar Kokhba Sextet=

*"Bar Kokhba" (1996) 2CD
*"The Circle Maker" (1998, Disc 1 by Masada String Trio, Disc 2 by Bar Kokhba Sextet) 2CD
*"50th Birthday Celebration Volume 11" (2005)
*"" (2008)

Masada Anniversary series

*"" (2003)
*"" (2003)
*"" (2003)
*"" (2004)
*"" (2005)

50th Birthday Celebration series

*"50th Birthday Celebration Volume 1" (by Masada String Trio, 2004)
*"50th Birthday Celebration Volume 2" (by Milford Graves/John Zorn, 2004)
*"50th Birthday Celebration Volume 3" (by Locus Solus, 2004)
*"50th Birthday Celebration Volume 4" (by Electric Masada, 2004)
*"50th Birthday Celebration Volume 5" (by Fred Frith/John Zorn, 2004)
*"50th Birthday Celebration Volume 6" (by Hemophiliac, 2004)
*"50th Birthday Celebration Volume 7" (by Masada, 2004)
*"50th Birthday Celebration Volume 8" (by Wadada Leo Smith/Susie Ibarra/John Zorn, 2004)
*"50th Birthday Celebration Volume 9: The Classic Guide to Strategy Volume Three" (by John Zorn, 2004)
*"50th Birthday Celebration Volume 10" (by Yamataka Eye/John Zorn, 2005)
*"50th Birthday Celebration Volume 11" (by Bar Kokhba Sextet, 2005) 3CD
*"50th Birthday Celebration Volume 12" (by Painkiller, 2005)

Masada Book Two - The Book of Angels

*"" (by Jamie Saft Trio, 2005)
*"" (by Masada String Trio, 2005)
*"" (by Mark Feldman & Sylvie Courvoisier, 2006)
*"" (by Koby Israelite, 2006)
*"" (by The Cracow Klezmer Band, 2006)
*"" (by Uri Caine, 2006)
*"" (by Marc Ribot, 2007)
*"" (by Erik Friedlander, 2007)
*"" (by Secret Chiefs 3, 2008)
*"" (by Bar Kokhba Sextet, 2008)
*"" (by Medeski, Martin and Wood, 2008)

The Moonchild Trio

*"" (2006)
*"Astronome" (2006)
*"Six Litanies for Heliogabalus" (2007) with John Zorn & Ikue Mori
*"The Crucible" (2008) with John Zorn

Album collaborations

*"School" (by Eugene Chadbourne & John Zorn, 1978)
*"In Memory of Nikki Arane" (by Eugene Chadbourne & John Zorn, 1980)
*"Yankees" (by John Zorn, Derek Bailey, & George Lewis, 1983)
*"Deadly Weapons" (by Steve Beresford, John Zorn, Toni Marshall & David Toop, 1986)
*"Voodoo" (by the Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet - Zorn, Wayne Horvitz, Bobby Previte and Ray Drummond, 1986)
*"News for Lulu" (by John Zorn, Bill Frisell & George Lewis, 1988)
*"More News for Lulu" (by John Zorn, Bill Frisell & George Lewis, 1992)
*"The Art of Memory" (by John Zorn & Fred Frith, 1994 - reissued in 1999)
*"Zohar" (by The Mystic Fugu Orchestra (John Zorn & Yamataka Eye), 1995)
*"Nani Nani" (by John Zorn & Yamataka Eye, 1995)
*"Harras" (by Derek Bailey, John Zorn, & William Parker 1996)
*"Euclid's Nightmare" (by John Zorn & Bobby Previte 1997)
*"Weird Little Boy" (by Weird Little Boy - John Zorn, Trey Spruance, William Winant, Mike Patton and Chris Cochrane, 1998)
*"Downtown Lullaby" (by John Zorn, Wayne Horvitz, Elliott Sharp, & Bobby Previte, 1998)
*"Prelapse" (by Prelapse, 1999)
*"Buck Jam Tonic" (by Tatsuya Nakamura, Bill Laswell, & John Zorn, 2003)
*"Naninani II" (by John Zorn & Yamataka Eye, 2004)
*"" (by John Zorn, Dave Douglas, Mike Patton, Bill Laswell, Rob Burger, & Ben Perowsky, 2006)
*"" (by John Zorn, Lou Reed & Laurie Anderson, 2008)
*"The Art of Memory II" (by John Zorn & Fred Frith, 2008)

Albums featured

*"The Golden Palominos" (by The Golden Palominos - Anton Fier/Fred Frith/Bill Laswell/Arto Lindsay/John Zorn - 1983)
*"Hallowed Ground" (by The Violent Femmes, 1984)
*"Berlin Djungle" (by Peter Brötzmann Clarinet Project, 1984)
*"That's The Way I Feel Now: A Tribute to Thelonious Monk" (tribute album, 1984 - featuring John Zorn performing "Shuffle Boil" - excluded from CD reissue)
*"" (tribute album, 1985 - featuring John Zorn's performing "Der Kleine Leutnant Des Lieben Gottes" (The Little Lieutenant of the Loving God) from Happy End)
*"The Godard Fans: Godard Ca Vous Chante?" (tribute album featuring 'Godard', 1986)
*"The Technology of Tears" (by Fred Frith, 1988)
*"Replicant Walk" (by Friction, 1988)
*"Comme Des Garcons Vol. 1" (by (Seigen Ono, 1988)
*"Comme Des Garcons Vol. 2" (by (Seigen Ono, 1989)
*"Purged Specimen" (by Blind Idiot God, 1989)
*"Square Dance" (by The Intergalactic Maiden Ballet, 1990)
*"NekonoTopia NekonoMania" (by Seigen Ono, 1990) - Zorn plays sax on 6 tracks
*"Live at the Knitting Factory Volume 3" (Various Artists, 1990) - Zorn plays alto on 2 tracks with Slan
*"Lo Flux Tube" (by OLD, 1991)
*"Mr Bungle" (by Mr. Bungle, 1991) - produced by John Zorn & plays uncredited sax on 1 track
*"Possession" (by GOD, 1992)
*"How I Got Over" (by God Is My Co-Pilot, 1992)
*"We Insist?" (by Otomo Yoshihide, 1992)
*"Welcome to Forbidden Paradise" (by Hoppy Kamiyama, 1992)
*"Early Works" (by Ruins, 1992)
*"Blue Planet Man" (by Big John Patton, 1993)
*"Speed Yr Trip" (by God Is My Co-Pilot, 1993)
*"Ground Zero" (by Ground Zero, 1993)
*"Sacrifist" (by Praxis, 1994)
*" Bar Del Mattatoio" (by Seigen Ono 1994) - Zorn plays sax on 2 tracks
*"Mais" (by Marisa Monte, 1994)
*"Minor Swing" (by Big John Patton, 1995)
*"Signals for Tea" (by Steve Beresford, 1995)
*"Hex Kitchen" (by Ikue Mori, 1995) - John Zorn plays clarinet on this album
*"Hsi-Yu Chi" (by David Shea, 1996)
*"Vira Loucos" (by Cyro Baptista, 1996) - Zorn plays alto on 2 tracks
*"Pranzo Oltranzista" (by Mike Patton, 1997)
*"Cross Fire" (by Music Revelation Ensemble, 1998)
*"Paradiso" (by Seigen Ono, 2000)
*"Satlah" (by Daniel Zamir, 2000) - Zorn plays alto on 3 tracks
*"Maria & Maria" (by Seigen Ono, 2001)
*"Children of Israel" (by Daniel Zamir, 2002)
*"Beat the Donkey" (by Cyro Baptista, 2002) - Zorn plays alto on 1 track
*"Lake Biwa" (by Wadada Leo Smith Creative Orchestra, 2004)
*"Method of Defiance" (by Inamorata, 2007) - Zorn plays alto on 1 track with the Masada String Trio