Hockey (album)

Hockey is an album by John Zorn featuring his early "game piece" composition of the same name which first appeared on the Parachute Records edition of Pool in 1980.^[1] The full recordings of the piece were first released on CD on Tzadik Records as part of The Parachute Years Box Set in 1997 and as a single CD in 2002.^[2]

Hockey
Studio album by John Zorn
Released	1980, 1997 & 2002
Recorded	March 1, 1980
Studio	Sorcerer Sound Studio, New York City
Genre	Avant-garde
Length	50:03
Label	Tzadik TZ 7316
Producer	John Zorn
John Zorn chronology
Cobra: John Zorn's Game Pieces Volume 2 (2002) Hockey (1980) First Live 1993 (2002)

Reception

The Allmusic review by François Couture awarded the album 2½ stars stating "Hockey belongs to John Zorn's early works. The piece dates from 1978 and is shorter (in principle) than Lacrosse or Pool, also from the same period... The inner workings of the piece are left to the listener's imagination, but the composer suggests a likeness to entertainer Jack Benny (and to a lesser extent Buster Keaton)."^[3]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]

Track listing

1. "Hockey (Electric Version): Take 1" – 1.13
2. "Hockey (Electric Version): Take 2" – 3.13
3. "Hockey (Electric Version): Take 3" – 11.32
4. "Hockey (Electric Version): Take 4" – 11.23 originally released on Pool
5. "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 2" – 3.43 originally released on Pool
6. "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 4" – 2.14 originally released on Pool
7. "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 11" – 0.55 originally released on Pool
8. "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 13" – 1.02 originally released on Pool
9. "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 1" – 3.10 originally released on Pool
10. "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 3" – 3.16
11. "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 5" – 1.08
12. "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 6" –1.00
13. "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 7" – 1.07
14. "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 8" – 0.45
15. "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 9" – 1.02
16. "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 10" – 1.07
17. "Hockey (Acoustic Version): Take 12" – 1.17

All compositions by John Zorn

• Recorded at Sorcerer Sound, New York on March 1, 1980

Personnel

• Polly Bradfield – violin
• Mark E. Miller – percussion, contact microphones, vibraphone
• Eugene Chadbourne – electric guitar, personal effects
• Wayne Horvitz – amplified piano
• Bob Ostertag – electronics
• John Zorn – duck, goose and crow calls, clarinet, mouthpiece

References

1. Discogs album entry: John Zorn - Pool, accessed November 25, 2013
2. Tzadik catalogue
3. Couture, F. Allmusic Review accessed July 21, 2011