Masada

Masada is the quartet saxophonist and composer John Zorn formed in 1993 with Dave Douglas, Greg Cohen and Joey Baron, after first working with them on film music. The quartet played Zorn's Masada songbook, compositions with Hebrew titles inspired by Radical Jewish Culture and by klezmer themes. The songbook later grew into three books of compositions. Masada recorded ten studio albums for the Japanese label DIW, starting with Alef in 1994. Later live recordings and archive sets, such as Live in Jerusalem 1994 (1999) and Sanhedrin 1994-1997 (2005), appeared on Zorn's Tzadik label.