Editing John Zorn (section)

==== Book Two ====
In 2004, Zorn began composing the second Masada Book, ''The Book of Angels'', resulting in an additional 316 compositions.<ref name=Ratliff2006>Ratliff, B. [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/12/arts/music/12zorn.html?ex=1176609600&en=4684794c17d50f19&ei=5070 A Most Prolific Composer Opens His Book of Angels], ''NY Times'', September 12, 2006.</ref><ref>Gilbert, A [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/29/PKGG5CS1SG1.DTL&type=music Music on the Edge] ''San Francisco Chronicle'', May 29, 2005.</ref> Zorn explained:

{{blockquote|After 10 years of performing the first book, I thought "Maybe it'd be nice to write some more tunes." And I wrote 300 more tunes. When I started writing those it was "Let's see if I can write a hundred songs in a month this time." I've been working on these scales and playing these tunes all this time. In the back of my head somewhere are lodged all kinds of new ideas. Let's see if I can come up with 100 tunes in a month instead of in a year. So in the first month, I popped out a hundred tunes; the second month, another hundred; in the third month, a third 100 tunes. I had no idea that was going to happen.<ref name=Pehling2009 />}}

Zorn released thirty-two volumes of Masada Book Two compositions performed by many varied artists.<ref name=AAJ>Phipps, D. [https://www.allaboutjazz.com/paimon-book-of-angels-volume-21-mary-halvorson-tzadik-review-by-don-phipps Album Review: Mary Halvorson: Paimon: Book Of Angels Volume 32], ''[[All About Jazz]]'', December 13, 2017</ref><ref name=MTVHive>Wolk, D. [http://www.mtvhive.com/2013/05/29/masada-metheny-zor "Pat Metheny Mingles in the Weird World of John Zorn"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150913092457/http://www.mtvhive.com/2013/05/29/masada-metheny-zor/ |date=2015-09-13 }}, MTVHive.com, May 29, 2013.</ref> The titles of many Masada Book Two compositions are derived from [[demonology]] and [[Judeo-Christian]] [[mythology]].

The Masada quartet performed at the [[Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts]] in March 2007 for what were billed as their final concerts.<ref>Ratliff, B. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806E3D71031F930A25750C0A9619C8B63&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FPeople%2FZ%2FZorn%2C%20John Barricades to Storm, Whether or Not Any Guards Were on Them], ''NY Times'', March 13, 2007.</ref> Zorn reformed the band as a sextet with [[Uri Caine]] and [[Cyro Baptista]] in 2009 saying:<ref name="Milkowski2009">Milkowski, B. ''[http://jazztimes.com/articles/24597-john-zorn-the-working-man John Zorn: The Working Man] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426054100/http://jazztimes.com/articles/24597-john-zorn-the-working-man |date=2009-04-26 }}'', ''[[Jazz Times]]'', May 2009.</ref>

{{blockquote|I felt like we kind of hit a plateau a little bit with it in 2007 and I said, "Well, maybe the quartet is really done. Maybe we've accomplished what we can accomplish. Maybe it's time to put this to bed." And then I was asked by the Marciac Jazz Festival to put together a slightly larger group. They asked me what if I added a couple of people to Masada and I said, "I can't add anybody to the quartet. The quartet is the quartet, that's what we do." But then I thought, "Well, if I was going to add someone I would probably ask Uri and Cyro." So we tried it at Marciac and it was unbelievable. We didn't even have any rehearsal time. I just passed the charts out and said, "OK, just watch me because I'll be conducting. Let's just do it." And it was one of those magical clicks on the bandstand that sometimes happens. So yeah, this band is taking off again. After 15 years of doing this music, we can still find new things.}}

Zorn's Masada compositions and associated ensembles have become a central focus of many concerts and festivals and he has established regular 'Masada Marathons' that feature various bands and musicians performing music from the Masada Books.<ref name=Ratliff2006/><ref>Chinen, N. [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/20/arts/music/20zorn.html "Exploring the Topography of John Zorn's Continent"], nytimes.com, February 19, 2010.</ref>