The Classic Guide to Strategy (album)

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The Classic Guide to Strategy
The Classic Guide to Strategy cover
Studio album by John Zorn
Released 1983 (Vol. 1) & 1985 (Vol. 2), 1996 (Compilation)
Genre Avant-garde
Length 77:57
Label Lumina, Tzadik
Producer John Zorn
Professional reviews
Original Volume 2 Cover
Original Volume 2 Cover

The Classic Guide to Strategy is a compilation album by John Zorn featuring his two early solo records The Classic Guide to Strategy Volume One (1983), (tracks 1-2) and the Classic Guide to Strategy Volume Two (1985), (tracks 3-8). The albums were first released on vinyl on Lumina Records in and later re-released on Tzadik Records in 1996 as a single CD. The second track is inspired by the work of Carl Stalling and tracks 3-8 are named after avant-garde Japanese artists.

[edit] Track listing

  1. Part 1 - 19:36
  2. Part 2 (Cartoon Music) - 19:32
  3. Aoyanian Michi - 11:15
  4. Enoken - 3:21
  5. Katsumi Shigeru - 6:34
  6. Kondo Toshinori - 6:04
  7. Togowa Jun - 8:54
  8. Mori Ikue - 2:38

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[edit] Notes

  • The Classic Guide to Strategy Volume Two also contained the track 'Yano Akiko' (5:20) which does not appear on the CD re-release.
  • The cover art from Volumes One and Two are the kanji characters for "earth" and "water" repectively which relate to the first volumes of The Book of Five Rings written by Miyamoto Musashi
  • Zorn released a third volume of The Classic Guide to Strategy as part of his 50th Birthday Anniversary Series subtitled The Fire Book.