Lucifer is the first studio recording in ten years from composer John Zorn's most popular Masada line-up—the chamber sextet, Bar Kokhba. Although Zorn's reputation as the enfant terrible of music has ...

When saxophonist/composer John Zorn first introduced Masada in 1994, it's unlikely that he could have anticipated it would become so successful. The first songbook was originally developed for his ...

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 ...