Naked City

Naked City (1990) is a high-contrast, genre-bending album led by composer and saxophonist John Zorn under the band name Naked City. It juxtaposes tightly arranged, cinematic compositions and improvisatory free-jazz passages with brief, violent blasts of grindcore and noise, often switching styles and tempos within single tracks. The sound mixes avant-garde jazz, experimental rock, punk energy and film-music pastiche, emphasizing abrupt edits, virtuosic playing and extreme contrasts that illustrate Zorn's collage-like approach to composition and performance.