A few years ago, the news that John Zorn was ending his piano-less quartet called Masada came as little surprise. For its members had all, since the founding in the early 1990's, gone on to jazz ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Last night, the intergalactic Starship John Zorn descended from New York into San Francisco for a five- night residency at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall to celebrate Zorn's 70th birthday.

Nobody could have guessed 10 years ago that, through the decade and into the millennium, John Zorn would emerge as the Pied Piper of a new joyful jazz. In the ‘80s, his journalistic profilers couldn’t ...

John Zorn turned 70 in September. And, as if he's decided to celebrate by giving everyone else a gift, his label, Tzadik, has made its catalog available on streaming services. There was no PR ...

Maybe it was John Zorn’s post-punk take on the hipster role, his unmistakably deep knowledge of virtually all 20th-century music. Or maybe it was his refusal to submit to preconceived notions of a ...