John Zorn

John Zorn

John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". Zorn's avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, contemporary, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and world music. In 2013, Down Beat described Zorn as "one of our most important composers" and in 2020 Rolling Stone noted that "[alt]hough Zorn has operated almost entirely outside the mainstream, he's gradually asserted himself as one of the most influential musicians of our time".Zorn entered New York City's downtown music scene in the mid-1970s, collaborating with improvising artists while developing new methods of composing experimental music. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Zorn has received more than 951,502 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. John Zorn is the 258th most popular musician (up from 281st in 2019), the 1,524th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,532nd in 2019) and the 72nd most popular American Musician.