John Zorn - The Big Gundown

John Zorn - The Big Gundown [1986]
John Zorn plays the music of Ennio Morricone
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Jazz / Free Jazz / Avant-Garde / Film Music

Zorn, a cagey veteran of the catch-as-catch-can guerrilla aesthetics of Downtown art, had been set loose in a high-tech recording studio for the first time a few years prior, and the experience had a profound effect on his working methods. The Big Gundown marked the first album-length appearance of his "file card" composing method. Zorn compiled his various thoughts regarding his subject on index cards, and then arranged those into a working roadmap for his band of improvisers, which here included Bill Frisell, Anthony Coleman, Wayne Horvitz, Bobby Previte, Christian Marclay, and many others.

The result is an explosive set of reinterpretations in which Zorn seizes upon elements of the original pieces, fragments them, rearranges them, and intensifies them exponentially. From the dramatic orchestral chimes, thunderous timpani, and startling transitions of the title track to the sexy, breathy "Erotico (The Burglars)" to the bracing martial tattoo of "The Battle of Algiers" and the scorched-earth electric guitar drama of Jody Harris and Robert Quine on "Once Upon a Time in the West," Zorn's extraordinary range pays homage to a seminal influence in a way far more appropriate than mere imitation could be. (Jazziz review)

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