Zorn, Frisell, Ribot, Sparks - Masada Guitars

The Masada songbook may be aging chronologically, especially considering John Zorn's typically shotgun approach to musical styles, but this album shows, once again, that the music will never get old. I'm a huge Bill Frisell fan, love Marc Ribot's guest-work with MMW and others (oddly enough I'm not so enthusiastic about his own stuff) and knew basically nothing about Tim Sparks, other than that Bill Frisell loved him and he had an album of jewish guitar works out on Tzadik, John Zorn's label.

Each track is a Masada song arranged and performed by one of the three guitarists. The performances on this CD are stellar and the recording top-notch. I can see this album quickly becoming one of my all-time favorites.