{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = First Live 1993 | type = Live album | artist = Masada | cover = First Live 1993.jpg | alt = | released = April 23, 2002 | recorded = September 12, 1993 | venue = | studio = | genre = Downtown music<br />Avant-garde jazz | length = 47:09 | label = Tzadik <small>TZ 7337</small> | producer = John Zorn | chronology = Masada | prev_title = Live at Tonic 2001 | prev_year = 2001 | next_title = 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 7 | next_year = 2004 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = John Zorn | type = Live | prev_title = Hockey | prev_year = 2002 | title = First Live 1993 | year = 2002 | next_title = Naked City Live, Vol. 1: The Knitting Factory 1989 | next_year = 2002 }} }}
'''''First Live 1993''''' is a live album by John Zorn's Masada documenting their premier live appearance at the Knitting Factory in September, 1993.<ref>[http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=7337 Tzadik catalogue]</ref><ref name="masadaworld">[https://masada.world/releases/first-live Masada World: First Live 1993], accessed September 21, 2023</ref>
==Reception== The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 3 stars, stating, "For the fanatics who have everything Masada, this is no exception in its necessity. For the curious and cautious, this is a wonderfully accessible place to begin an odyssey".<ref name="Allmusic">Jurek, T. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/masada-first-live-1993-r583360/review Allmusic Review] accessed July 26, 2011</ref> {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''Allmusic'' | rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> }}
== Track listing == :''All compositions by John Zorn'' # "Piram" – 5:55 # "Sansanah" – 7:10 # "Ziphim" – 7:16 # "Zebdi" – 5:00 # "Hadasha" – 7:38 # "Rachab/Lebaoth" – 7:04 # "Hazor" – 7:02 *Recorded live at the Knitting Factory on September 12, 1993
== Personnel == ;Masada * John Zorn – saxophone * Dave Douglas – trumpet * Greg Cohen – bass * Joey Baron – drums
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