The Big Gundown
Context
Title track of John Zorn's third album, devoted to radical reworkings of Ennio Morricone's film music, including that of Sergio Sollima's western (1966). Zorn works for the first time at length with multitracking, overdubs and heavy orchestration, and describes this album as his creative breakthrough.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Downtown New York, No Wave. Among the origins and influences of Downtown New York, No Wave: Free jazz, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk, Free improvisation and European free.