Masada Live In Jerusalem 1994
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Live
CD Release Date: 1999-04-20
Music Label: Tzadik
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Piram
- Bith Aneth
- Lachish
- Peliyot
- Hadasha
- Ravayah
- Zebdi
- Tirzah
- Hekhal
- Kanah
- Shilhim
- Ziphim
- Abidan
- Netivot
- Zelah
- Idalah-Abal
- Jair
- Ashnah
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Free Music Review: a fine live performance-- 4 1/2 stars.
Hit: 4 Stars
In the early 1990s, John Zorn put together the Masada songbook-- what ended up being about 200 songs composed over a few years of jazz melodies written using the "Jewish scales", lending that familiar Eastern-European-meets-Middle-Eastern sound to the music. Zorn assembled a quartet that's pretty much without peer to record the music-- himself on alto sax, Dave Douglas on trumpet, Greg Cohen on bass, and Joey Baron on drums, a quartet modelled after Ornette Coleman's famed quartet. "Live in Jerusalem", recorded in 1994, finds this quartet in full flight. They'd been in the studio, recording the better part of three albums and an EP (the first four Masada releases, from whence all the material on this recording was drawn), but the band and project on the road was always something more than it was in the studio, and this release is a perfect example of that.
The key to the material on this is building tension. The second piece on the first disc, "Bith-Aneth", is a good example of it. It opens delicately, almost gently, with Baron muted and Cohen deep in a groove. Zorn and Douglas flutter and freely associate on top before settling into the theme, stated like an afterthought. The two horns solo, first indepedently then together, with Zorn encouraging and pushing Douglas higher and higher.
It sounds a bit like hyperbole, admittedly, but that's pretty much a good summary of just about any of the pieces on here-- superb interaction, fantastic performances, and one member pushing the others higher and higher. The only complaint is sonic, the bass is a bit quieter than I'd like, but the performance is top notch. For a first exposure to Masada, I'm hard pressed to recommend anything other than "50th Birthday Celebration Volume 7", but to hear the band in their early days in full flight, "Live in Jerusalem" is a fine pick. Recommended.
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The blueprint behind John Zorn's Masada is simple enough: take the instrumentation of Ornette Coleman's quartet at their prime (no, not Prime Time), add Zorn's soul-filled touches of klezmer, and allow each player to improvise as he sees fit. It's a fearsome recipe that has delivered a dozen or so great recordings, most of which were recorded over a few days in 1994. And it's the perfect vehicle for Masada's four virtuosos: saxophonist Zorn, trumpeter Dave Douglas, bass player Greg Cohen, and drummer Joey Baron. Live in Jerusalem catches the lineup at the Jerusalem Festival (also back in '94), and it's perhaps the best documentation of the group's magical, swinging, yet always wild chemistry. Tunes such as "Idalah-Abal" begin as funeral marches and launch into power blowing; others, such as "Ravayah," never slow down. Masada on disc can be a curse of overabundance (how do you pick between the numerous studio recordings and string ensemble discs Zorn has released?); Masada live can be a magical thing. Thankfully, this disc combines the best of both worlds, with great sonics and a strong setlist. --Jason VerlindeClassical Music CDs
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