The Big Gundown

by John Zorn

The Big Gundown cover art

John Zorn radically deconstructs and reimagines the iconic spaghetti western film scores of Ennio Morricone through a wildly eclectic, avant-garde jazz lens. The album features a massive ensemble of downtown New York musicians performing chaotic, noisy, and highly atmospheric improvisations atop Morricone's original melodic structures. It is a deeply quirky, suspenseful triumph of experimental music.

Genres

  • Avant-Garde Jazz

Tracklist

  1. The Big Gundown
  2. Peur Sur La Ville
  3. Poverty (Once Upon A Time In America)
  4. Milano Odea
  5. Erotico (The Burglars)
  6. Battle Of Algiers
  7. Giu La Testa (Duck, You Sucker!)
  8. Metamorfosi (La Classe Operaia Va In Paradiso)
  9. Tre Nel 5000
  10. Once Upon A Time In The West