The Big Gundown (album)

Infobox Album
Name = The Big Gundown
Type = Album
Artist = John Zorn


Released = 1986 (2000 - 15th Anniversary Edition)
Recorded = 1984-1985
Genre = Avant-garde jazz
Length = 49:27 (74:54 - 15th Anniversary Edition)
Label = Nonesuch/Icon, Tzadik
Producer = Yale Evelev
Reviews = *amg|id=10:wcfqxq9gldde|rating|4.5|5
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = "15th Anniversary Special Edition"
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"The Big Gundown" is an album by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist John Zorn. It comprises radically reworked covers of tracks by the Italian film composer Ennio Morricone. It was originally to be called "Once Upon a Time in the Lower East Side".

The album is named after a 1966 spaghetti western of the same name, directed by Sergio Sollima, starring Lee Van Cleef, and scored by Morricone. It was first released in 1986 on the Nonesuch/Icon label. In 2000 a remastered 15th Anniversary Edition with additional tracks was released on CD on Zorn's Tzadik Records label. [ [http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=7319 Tzadik catalogue] ]

Track listing

# "The Big Gundown" - 7:26
# "Peur Sur La Ville" - 4:16
# "Poverty" (Once Upon A Time In America)- 3:49
# "Milano Odea" - 3:02
# "Erotico (The Burglars)" - 4:27
# "Battle Of Algiers" - 3:50
# "Giu La Testa" (Duck You Sucker!) - 6:06
# "Metamorfosi" (La Classe Operaia Va In Paradiso) - 4:37
# "Tre Nel 5000" - 4:37
# "Once Upon a Time in the West" - 8:44
*The album was re-released and remastered with six additional tracks in 2000::11. "The Sicilian Clan" - 3:20:12. "Macchie Solari" 3:29:13. "The Ballad Of Hank McCain" - 5:27:14. "Svegliati & Uccidi" 3:03:15. "Chi Mai" - 3:06:16. "The Ballad Of Hank McCain (instrumental) - 5:28"

:All compositions by Ennio Morricone except "Tre Nel 5000" by John Zorn

Personnel

* Orvin Aquart – harmonica
* Cyro Baptista – cuica
* Joey Baron - drums
* Tim Berne – alto saxophone
* Laura Biscotto – sexy Italian vocals
* Vicki Bodner – oboe, English horn
* Polly Bradfield – violin
* Anthony Coleman – piano, harpsichord, organ, vocals
* Trevor Dunn - bass guitar
* Carol Emanuel – harp
* Reinaldo Fernandes – repinique
* Anton Fier – drums
* Duduca Fonseca – caixa
* Bill Frisell – electric guitar
* Fred Frith – electric guitar, bass guitar
* Diamanda Galás – vocals
* Melvin Gibbs – electric bass guitar
* Jody Harris – electric guitar
* Shelley Hirsch – vocals
* Wayne Horvitz – piano, celeste, electronic keyboards
* Bob James – tapes
* Guy Klucevsek – accordion
* Arto Lindsay – batucada contractor, electric guitar, vocals
* Christian Marclay – turntables
* Mark Miller – drums, timpani
* Big John Patton – organ
* Mike Patton - vocals
* Bobby Previte – drums, percussion, timpani, vocals
* Robert Quine – electric guitar
* Vernon Reid – electric guitar
* Ned Rothenberg – shakuhachi, ocarina, Jew's harp
* Michihiro Sato – tsugaru shamisen
* Luli Shioi – vocals
* Claudio Silva – pandeiro
* Jorge Silva – surdo
* Jim Staley – trombone, bass trombone
* Toots Thielemans – whistling, harmonica
* David Weinstein – Mirage, microcomputer
* John Zorn – alto saxophone, saw, vocals, harpsichord, game calls, piano

References