Godard/Spillane

Godard/Spillane
Compilation album by John Zorn
Released	July 1999
Recorded	1985, 1986, 1987
Genre	Avant-garde
Length	50:07
Label	Tzadik TZ 7324
Producer	John Zorn
John Zorn chronology
Live in Jerusalem 1994 (1999) Godard/Spillane (1999) The String Quartets (1999)

Godard/Spillane is a compilation album by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist John Zorn consisting of music created through Zorn's file-card compositional process.^[1] The composition "Godard", a tribute to French film-maker Jean-Luc Godard whose jump-cut technique inspired Zorn's compositional approach, on the French tribute album Jean-Luc Godard|Godard ça vous chante? in 1986 issued by the French Nato label. "Spillane" was first released on Zorn's Nonesuch Records album Spillane in 1987, and "Blues Noël" was first released on the compilation album Joyeux Noël - Merry Christmas Everybody! on Nato in 1987.^[2]