John Zorn's 45th birthday! Did an hour-plus blowout of Zorn, with every other track coming off the Torture Garden album -- mostly less than 30 seconds long. I left Torture Garden in our CD player #2 and kept swapping out the disc in player #1 ... meaning I usually had 30 seconds to pop the CD in, let it load up, and select my track. For the record, the process (if the CD cooperates) can be done in less than 10 seconds.

Fun and exhausting.

Format (stolen from Cat):
ARTIST -- "SONG TITLE" -- ALBUM (LABEL, YEAR)

John Zorn/Naked City - "Inside Straight" - Naked City (Elektra, 1989)

* Nels Cline and Gregg Bendian - "Saturn" - Interstellar Space Revisited: The Music of John Coltrane (Atavistic, 1999)

* Northwoods Improvisers - "Two Worlds" - Lightning Darkness (Entropy Stereo, 1999)

* Vinny Golia - "Legends, Logic, Folklore, Fact" - Lineage (Nine Winds, 1998)

* John Butcher/Georg Graewe - "Second Curiosity" - Light's View (Nuscope, 1999)

John Zorn (Marc Ribot on guitar) - "Etude #5" - The Book of Heads (Tzadik, 1995)

* Eric Boeren - "The Elevation of Colin Evans" - Joy of a Toy (BVHaast, 1999)

* Myra Melford and The Same River Twice - "Yet Can Spring (for Don Pullen)" - Above Blue (Arabesque, 1999)

* Rob Brown & Lou Grassi Quartet - "The Arc" - COLL: CIMPosium Vol. 5 (CIMP, 1999)

John Zorn/Naked City - "The Prestidigitator" - Black Box (Torture Garden) (Tzadik, 1996; orig. rel. 1991)

John Zorn/Masada - "Mikreh" - Vev (DIW, 1995)

John Zorn/Naked City - "Obeah Man" - Torture Garden

John Zorn and Fred Frith - "The Tree" - The Art of Memory (Incus, 1994)

John Zorn/Naked City - "S&M Sniper" - Torture Garden

John Zorn - "Rockabilly" - Filmworks: 1986-1990 (Elektra, 1991)

John Zorn/Naked City - "Demon Sanctuary" - Torture Garden

John Zorn's Cobra - "Senbu" - Tokyo Operations '94 (Avant, 1995)

John Zorn/Naked City - "Ujaku" - Torture Garden

John Zorn - "Peur Sur la Ville" (excerpted, due to CD failure) - The Big Gundown (Icon/Elektra, 1986)

John Zorn/Naked City - "Osaka Bondage" - Torture Garden

John Zorn/Naked City - "Battle of Algiers" - The Big Gundown (Icon/Elektra, 1986)

John Zorn/Naked City - "Sex Fiend" - Radio (DIW, 1994)

John Zorn/Naked City - "Slan" - Torture Garden

John Zorn - "Spillane" - Spillane (Elektra, 1987)

John Zorn/Naked City - "Pigfucker" - Torture Garden

John Zorn - "Premiere Livre" (excerpt) - Duras: Duchamp (Tzadik, 1997)

Bobby Previte/John Zorn - "11" - Euclid's Nightmare (Depth of Field, 1998)

John Zorn/Naked City - "The Ways of Pain" - Torture Garden

John Zorn - "Redbird" - Redbird (Tzadik, 1995)

John Zorn/Naked City - "Blood Is Thin" - Torture Garden

John Zorn - "Pool" - Pool (Parachute, 1980)

Ground Zero - "Consume Red" - Consume Red (ReR, 1997)

* John Butcher/Phil Durrant - "Flex" - Secret Measures (Wobbly Rail, 1999)

* Jeb Bishop Trio - "Cryptic Remark" - Jeb Bishop Trio (Okka Disk, 1999)

* Archie Shepp Meets Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio - "Conversations 2: The Dialogue" - Conversations (Delmark, 1999)

* Asian American Jazz Orchestra - "Ikiru" - Big Bands Behind Barbed Wire (Asian Improv, 1999)

* = Item in KZSU rotation
! = Pop anomaly
? = Item not in KZSU library

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