Naked City
by John Zorn
- Type: Album
- Released: February 1990
- Label: Nonesuch
- Country: United States
- Length: 22:48
- Community rating: 4.42/5 from 13 ratings
Artists on this release: Wayne Horvitz, Joey Baron, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A groundbreaking and influential album that radically deconstructed the boundaries between genres. 'Naked City' is famous for its short, intensely focused tracks that violently switch between jazz, surf rock, hardcore punk, country, and film noir scores, often in the space of a few seconds. The music is a high-speed, postmodern collage of sound, executed with incredible virtuosity by an all-star band of downtown New York improvisers. It remains a landmark of the musical avant-garde.
Genres
Descriptors: avant-garde, diverse, extreme, short, loud
Tracklist
- Batman (1:58)
- The Sicilian Clan (3:27)
- You Will Be Shot (1:29)
- Latin Quarter (4:05)
- A Shot in the Dark (3:09)
- Reanimator (1:34)
- Snagglepuss (2:20)
- I Want to Live (2:08)
- Lonely Woman (2:38)
Credits
- John Zorn - primary artist, alto saxophone [alto sax], composed by [compositions by], producer, arranged by [all arrangements by]
- Fred Frith - bass
- Tomoyo T.L. - design
- Joey Baron - drums
- Robert Hurwitz - executive-producer
- Yamatsuka Eye - guest [special guest], vocals
- Bill Frisell - guitar
- Suehiro Maruo - illustration [illustrations]
- Wayne Horvitz - keyboards
- Yukihiro Takahashi - layout [photo-type setting]
- Bob Ludwig - mastered by [mastering by]
- Weegee - photography by [front cover photograph "corpse with revolver"]
- Naked City - producer, arranged by [all arrangements by]
- Roger Moutenot - recorded by, mixed by
- Ennio Morricone - written-by
- Henry Mancini - written-by
- Johnny Mandel - written-by
- Ornette Coleman - written-by
- Jerry Goldsmith - written-by
- John Barry - written-by