The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco hosts a landmark five-night residency with legendary NYC saxophonist and composer John Zorn to celebrate his 70th birthday starting Wednesday evening.
The concerts scheduled for August 30 through September 3 marks the first time the music iconoclast has participated in an extended run of performances in San Francisco since he participated in a similar series of shows for his 65th birthday at the Chapel in 2018.
An important avant-garde composer and saxophonist who first broke out in the mid-1970s in New York, Zorn has been the object of both ecstatic praise and furious outrage, much like his forebears Igor Stravinsky and Ornette Coleman.
Influenced by maverick jazz composer Anthony Braxton, Zorn studied music under experimental saxophonist Oliver Lake in St. Louis before eventually returning to his hometown of New York City in the early '70s. Immersing himself in the underground downtown art scene, the saxophonist developed his howling, abrasive playing style while exploring structured improvisation with a series of what he called"game pieces" that required players to adhere to strict rules and cues.
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