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	Masada (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Masada is not so much a band as a musical project that John Zorn embarked upon in the early '90s.
		Given the historical associations of the project's name (see Masada), the Hebrew titles of the compositions, and the Jewish imagery on the covers of the associated albums, Zorn was clearly exploring his Jewish roots.
		Masada recorded the music on a series of ten CDs on the Japanese DIW label and a number of live recordings on Zorn's Tzadik label.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Masada_(band) (638 words)

	Masada
		The Masada songbook is Zorn's attempt at forging a new form of Jewish music, one consciously rooted in the past and with an eye to the future of Jewish culture.
		The original Masada quartet (John Zorn: alto sax, Dave Douglas: trumpet, Greg Cohen: bass and Joey Baron: drums) draws heavy influence from Ornette Coleman quartet from the 60's and the Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker piano-less quartets of the 50's.
		Masada is improvisation at its best, with the horns weaving complex lines around each other, and the rhythm section is one of the most fluid and flexible I have ever heard.
	members.tripod.com /~JFGraves/Masada/masada.html (953 words)

	Masada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The melodies are concise and striking, the band swing, and there's little of the squalled overblowing and free-jazz assault you might associate with the avant-garde.
		Masada's two performances at the Institute of Contemporary Art on November 13 (as part of the ICA's "New Histories" exhibit) were eagerly awaited and sold out.
		Masada have been called a combination of klezmer and jazz, but these are not the helter-skelter odd meters of Eastern European dance music.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/music/reviews/11-21-96/MASADA.html (775 words)

	Masada
		Masada was Herod's royal citadel and later the last outpost of Zealots during the Jewish Revolt.
		Masada is located at the top of an isolated rock on the edge of the Judean Desert and the Dead Sea valley, between Sdom and Ein Gedi.
		In the north-western corner of Masada a synagogue was discovered, at that time the earliest known one, and the only one from the time of the Second Temple.
	mosaic.lk.net /g-masada.html (2782 words)

	John Zorn: The Unknown Masada: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Masada was his mature statement in jazz, and his own spiritual signature-- rather than introduce complex, pre-determined compositional and improvisational structures, his new band simply played.
		Arguably, Masada was (and is) Zorn's crowning achievement as a musician.
		If Masada does indeed go down as his greatest moment, it will be in part because other musicians have run with his ideas and been able to make their own artistic marks with his music.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/z/zorn_john/unknown-masada.shtml (896 words)

	Masada
		In 66 c.e., a band of Jewish resistance fighters led by Eleazar ben Yair fled the war with the Romans in Jerusalem and took refuge at the fortress on Masada, elaborately built nearly a century earlier by King Herod, as a refuge from his Jewish subjects and from Queen Cleopatra.
		Masada was first identified in 1838 by the Americans E. Robinson and E. Smith, but it was not until the extensive archaeological digs between 1963 and 1965 by Professor Yigael Yadin and thousands of volunteers that a great cache of information was discovered.
		Today Masada is not only a tourist attraction -- with a cable-car to the top --- but a source of inspiration and a symbol of courage to all Israelis.
	www.jafi.org.il /education/100/places/masada.html (518 words)

	Masada
		In the year 73CE, the strong fortress of Masada finally fell to the tenth legion of the Roman army.
		A small band of desperate defenders, with their families, had held out their for three years and were only beaten when the Romans built a massive artificial mound against the cliffside in order to breach the defences.
		In the years 37-4 B.C.E, King Herod further fortified Masada and turned it into a luxurious mountain resort with steam baths, water cisterns, guard towers, weapons and food warehouses for possible refuge, were he to be overthrown, so that he could live his life of exile in luxury.
	re-xs.ucsm.ac.uk /re/pilgrimage/masada.htm (360 words)

	Amazon.com: Masada Live In Taipei 1995: Music: Masada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Masada is John Zorn's exploration of his Jewish heritage-- a songbook of melodies written using the "Jewish scales" to lend a klezmer-ish sound to the music and serving as a springboard for improvisation, kind of the downtown version of Thelonious Monk's songbook.
		Plus, with the band facing a wide but shallow audience space, their orientation was not fixed in any particular direction, compounding the poor acoustics of the venue.
		While the other live Masada discs are all good, none of them seem to capture the experience of seeing the band live: this is one of their finest performances, and you can hear the band stretching itself out, taking chances which occasionally goof but more often produce astounding results.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000IWO6?v=glance (1718 words)

	Masada
		Masada was the last Jewish stronghold after the destruction of Jerusalem.
		Masada was held by the ultra-patriots under Eleazer, a descendent of Judah the Galilean.
		When they entered in April of 73, they were confronted by the stillness of death: Eleazer and his noble band had killed off their dear ones and then laid hands on each other.
	latter-rain.com /ot/masada.htm (304 words)

	Adventures In Sound: Masada Live in Jerusalem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		of John Zorn's klezmer-meets-out-jazz group Masada may be biding their time for the long-rumored (and possibly only a rumor) 10-CD reissue box set the real excitement is this live album, first in a series of three (as of early 2000).
		The resulting albums tend to be fairly similar (an observation, not a negative comment) but the band isn't even close to exhausting their emotional and musical range.
		Masada has spirit and brains in abundance on Live in Jerusalem which means it's definitely not just more of the same.
	wlt4.home.mindspring.com /adventures/reviews/masada.htm (305 words)

	Masada
		The ancient fortress of Masada is located near the western shore of the Dead Sea about ten miles south of the town of En-gedi.
		According to the Jewish historian Josephus, near the beginning of the Jewish War, a large band of Sicarii (Jewish revolutionaries) somehow managed to take possession of Masada from the attending Roman garrison.
		Masada was first systematically excavated between 1963 and 1965 by a team under the direction of Yigael Yadin.
	www.pohick.org /sts/masada.html (581 words)

	John Zorn's Masada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Before Masada, he could have been accused of being a fringe player and a gimmicky composer — the guy who conducts chaotic "game pieces," or the guy who abuses his saxophone instead of actually playing it.
		By the late 1990s, Masada was regarded as one of the most important jazz bands of the decade.
		Masada is part of the Radical Jewish Culture project, a series of albums by dozens of artists exploring Jewish musical themes.
	www.omnology.com /zorn02.html (3418 words)

	Concert Band tripumphs after disappointing opening
		No sane concert band would even consider opening a performance with such a work and risk the lemming-like flight of the audience to the exits.
		Where Masada was gloomy and portentious (but effective in conveying its wrenching tale of the fall of Masada), and Jupiter Effect loud and violent bordering on the bombastic, Prelude and Happy Dance was a remarkably majestic, balanced work of great complexity.
		It is unfortunate that the concert band waited until the final selection to deliver its very best; those who only heard the first one and left were denied the pleasure.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V109/N7/band.07a.html (710 words)

	[masada] is coming...
		Franco believes the Lord formed "Masada" to pursue his world-wide vision using music to bless and refresh the hearts, minds and souls of people as did King David1st Samuel 16:23.
		The ultimate goal is to totally allow the Holy Spirit to minister through Masada, blessing both the Christians and non-believers for the winning of souls and to bring healing to the nations.
		Masada (Hebrew for fortress), is situated atop an isolated rock cliff at the western end of the Judean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea...
	www.masadaband.com /masada.html (345 words)

	John Zorn: Electric Masada
		Zorn faced his band in almost a pit conductor format for what seemed to be a thematic piece suited for the stage or a film score.
		Electric Masada swept into an immediate epic sounding rock overture where thrusts of dramatic pull and push among the horn and organ, ushered in an opera sensation to the composition.
		It is these two things because the band aggressively breaks format and cliché yet remains compelling because they don’t choose the easier and more obvious “anti-structuralist” routes that avant-garde music is sometimes victim to.
	www.gothamjazz.com /articles/emasada (1305 words)

	The Squid's Ear
		Masada Guitars was a beautiful set of solo guitar interpretations by Marc Ribot, Tim Sparks and Bill Frisell.
		Some are hot bands sticking more or less to the letter of the law, the others providing dramatic reworkings of the material.
		Pharaoh's Daughter are a stronger band than their original material often allows them to show, and their "Karaim" (performed on oud, bass, recorder, melodica, guitar, cello, viola and vocals) is a strong start to the set.
	www.squidco.com /cgi-bin/news/newsView.cgi?newsID=125 (559 words)

	John Zorn: Masada Guitars: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Zorn arranged it for a band that included himself on alto, Dave Douglas on trumpet, bassist Greg Cohen, and the inimitable Joey Baron on drums.
		Arguably his best ensemble, he also made it one of the most recorded groups in jazz, cutting almost 20 studio and live albums in under a decade-- so many records that unless you're one of their mothers, you're unlikely to have heard them all.
		Zorn is a solid composer, but in his best music, the compositions are no more critical than his choice of performers, his skill as a band leader, and the room he leaves for improvisation.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/z/zorn_john/masada-guitars.shtml (638 words)

	Browse by Artist: MASADA
		John Zorn's Masada music is an extraordinary blend of up-to-the-minute improvisation and an ongoing sense of Jewish history and artistic expression.
		Reaching full out intensity in the first thirty seconds of their very first piece, this is Masada at their wildest -- simultaneously out of control and yet intensely focused like a laser beam.
		This pioneering band, that spearheaded Radical Jewish Culture and helped bring Jewish music into the 21st Century, continues to inspire Jews and music lovers the world over with an original musical language of honesty, imagination and originality drawing on many pasts and looking toward a myriad of futures.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists.../masada.html (409 words)

	John Zorn, the godfather of joyful jazz. By Fred Kaplan
		anniversary of Masada, and it seems clear that—while he'll still squawk and squeal on occasion, as well as compose more elaborate music for solo piano, string quartet, and symphony orchestra—Masada is the life-soundtrack that most compels him.
		Before he conceived Masada, Zorn, though generally considered a jazz musician, had never written jazz compositions—pieces with a melody, chord changes, and a swing beat.
		In a fit of inspiration, he wrote 100 such compositions (over the following five years, he would write 105 more), all of them following this rule: They had to be written in one of the two "Jewish scales"—a major scale with the second note flat or a minor scale with the fourth note sharp.
	www.slate.com /id/2089105 (1118 words)

	Music CD: At the Mountains of Madness. John Zorn, Electric Masada Tracks: Lilin, Metal Tov, Karaim, Hath-Arob, Abidan, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		With Electric Masada, Zorn seems to have once again decided to let his id run loose and transform his heritage into music that sounds like nothing less (and even a lot more) than a 21st century update of Miles Davis' electric period.
		Zorn sits in the middle of the band, part performer, part conductor, indicating solos, moments, noises and so on, encourages solos he enjoys, shifting directions in those he does not, and so on.
		The members of this band have been in projects together for the better part of twenty years of association with Zorn's downtown scene, however, and they respond to each other in powerful ways-- blending together seamlessly and moving as one voice.
	www.musicolympus.com /cd-store/B000BJNTZ8/At_the_Mountain_of_Madness_Live_in_Europe_-_John_Zorn.html (1142 words)

	Browse by Artist: ZORN'S MASADA, JOHN
		The 'Masada Live' series documents these unforgettable concerts in venues around the world, bringing these rare special moments to you in beautiful 2CD packages.
		Everyone was on fire during those nights and the excitement generated by the audience seemed to feed the band to a magical level of creativity and inspiration.
		Masada's live shows have become legendary, but none more than these three extraordinary shows recorded at Crown Theater in Taiwan's capital city of Taipei.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/zorns.masada.john.html (161 words)

	JamBase \| SEPTEMBER ZORNGASM IN NEW YORK CITY
		Masada is a songbook of supposedly 200+ compositions, which are flushed to life by a string trio, a jazz quartet, solo guitars, and a balls-to-the-walls electric band.
		The band is purely acoustic save for his electric guitar and as thus, he has to transform his playing to match the tone...
		Here the Masada songbook is a starting point and all of Zorn's planets align as heavy composition overlaps with inconceivable band improvisation all harnessed under an unspoken set of rules.
	www.jambase.com /headsup.asp?storyID=4286 (3886 words)

	[masada] is coming...
		Masada will be performing at the Joshua Fest on the main stage at 12:45 pm on Sunday Sept 4th.
		Masada is honored and priviledged to perform and minister at this years "Spirit West Coast" in Monterey, CA.
		The band members are Christian, so they play the same songs but with lyrics changed to express their positive outlook.
	www.masadaband.com /index.php?z=news (778 words)

	Bagatellen: back into masada
		Masada live used to be cool, I don't know how they are since they've become a sporadically playing institution.
		Saw Chamber Masada at Victo in '01 and, as I wrote at the time, it was very professional and that was the problem.
		You could hear the band very clearly from the lobby and, to my utter lack of surprise, it sounded exactly like you would've thought: slightly funked up, electrified versions of the Masada songbook, played with a scarily fusoid precision.
	www.bagatellen.com /archives/frontpage/000363.html (1849 words)

	Amazon.com: 50th Birthday Celebration, Vol. 4: Music: Electric Masada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This merely sounds like the document of a band in transition, recorded on one good night, not the sort of finely tuned conceptual masterpiece Zorn normally releases with his studio recordings.
		If the band were to go into the studio to record these pieces and the compositions/arrangements were tightened up a bit and the sound fine tuned (ie., edited, compressed, etc.), they would have the makings of an absolute masterpiece.
		Electric Masada is a quintessence of John Zorn portfolio.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001XXBD4?v=glance (2275 words)

	AVguide.com: Film/Music Recommendations: Jazz Capsule Music Reviews
		The Mingus Big Band, a 17-piece ensemble that plays the music of the late bassist-composer Charles Mingus, settles the dilemma by simply trying to be the band that Mingus himself might have built in his dreams.
		The MBB was founded 11 years ago by Sue Mingus, his widow, with the idea of preserving his legacy not in a stuffy archive but in a living, working band, with topnotch musicians, polished arrangements, and, not least, the disciplining force of a regular gig (every Thursday night at the Fez nightclub in Manhattan).
		Tonight at Noon… is the band's most accomplished album to date, a collection of Mingus love songs—ravishing ballads, breezy strolls, howling laments.
	www.avguide.com /film_music/music/musicreviews/137_jazz.jsp (2284 words)

	MSAGA: MASADA (Built by Herod the Great 37-31 BC - Uprising 66-67 AD ) SOURCE: Masada - ...
		Masada is Hebrew for "fortress." It is the name of an
		Masada is also a possible transliteration of the name of a Druze village on the Golan Heights named Masade,of a jazz band fronted by avant-garde composer John Zorn named Masada (band), and of
		There was a casemate wall around the top of the plateau totalling 1400 meters long and 4 meters thick with many towers, and the fortress included storehouses, cisterns that were refilled by rainwater, barracks, palaces and an armory.
	www.hi.is /~joner/eaps/masada1.htm (279 words)

	Aug-Sept 05 Concert Reviews
		Thomas Stach, the main man of the band, on vocals and guitar, is a good-humoured and engaging frontman, although overall the band's stage presence is low key to the point of reticence - the keyboard player even chooses to remain hidden behind her keyboard when she switches to guitar.
		But the band wear their ordinariness like a badge of honour, hunching over their guitars, chugging away like diligent rock 'n' roll craftsmen, and once I've got my head around the incongruous indie/metal mash-up which seems to be their principal musical idea, there's not a lot to hold my attention.
		Between the bands a burlesque performer called Kitty Diggins took the stage and while I do so appreciate the promoter’s effort to add some culture to the night's festivities, I think she was the last thing the throng of hard-core rockers wanted to see.
	www.starvox.net /crypt/6aug2.htm (8138 words)

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