Execution Ground (Painkiller)

John Zorn is arguably one of the few people who has done something with jazz that isn't redundant or insulting ever since Miles Davis hung up his machine.ExecutionGround is an exhibit A for why: he's fearless. Who other than Zorn would have the nerve to pair up not only with Bill Laswell — whose career has hopscotched between jazz, downtown New York avant-gardism, and psychedelic dreamtime world-music — but withNapalm Death drummerMick Harris? And not as a stunt, either, but because Zorn sees...