This reissue contains 6 newly recorded bonus tracks.

Personnel includes: John Zorn (spoken vocals, alto saxophone, piano, harpsichord, saw); Arto Lindsay (vocals, guitar); Bobby Previte (vocals, tympani, percussion); Luli Shioi, Diamanda Galas (vocals); Mike Patton (spoken vocals); Tim Berne (alto saxophone); Jim Stanley (trombone, bass trombone); Vicki Bodner (oboe, English horn); Toots Thielmans (harmonica, whistling); Orvin Aquart (harmonica); Mark Feldman (violin); Erik Friedlander (cello); Wayne Horvitz (piano, organ, celeste); John Patton (organ); Fred Frith (acoustic & electric guitars); Bill Frisell, Jody Harris, Vernon Reid, Richard Quine, Melvin Gibbs, Marc Ribot (guitar); Melvin Gibbs (bass); Mark Miller (drums, tympani); Anton Fier, Joey Baron (drums).

Principally recorded at Radio City Music Hall, New York, New York between September 1984 and September 1985. Includes liner notes by Robert Polito and David Bither.

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

Personnel include: John Zorn (vocals, saxophone, harpsichord, musical saw); Arto Lindsay (vocals, guitar); Anthony Coleman (vocals, piano, harpsichord, organ); Diamanda Galas (vocals); Bill Frisell (guitar); Vernon Reid (electric guitar); Toots Thielemans (harmonica); Melvin Gibbs (bass guitar); Anton Fier, Bobby Previte (drums).

THE BIG GUNDOWN documents the meeting of two brilliant compositional minds. Here, in something that resembles a multi-dimensional, kaleidoscopic dream, saxophonist and musical deconstructionist John Zorn interprets selections from Ennio Morricone's legendary film scores. Long enjoyed and admired by artists and the general public alike, Morricone's music for films like A Fistful of Dollars and Once Upon A Time In The West is fertile ground for Zorn's wildly inventive arrangements.

Joined by talented friends like Fred Frith, Arto Lindsay, Bill Frisell, Diamanda Galas and Vernon Reid, Zorn translates these familiar pieces into completely new idioms: employing batucadas, trombones, shakuhachi, tapes and turntables, saws, screaming electric guitars, surdos and duck calls. Treatments of "Tre Nel 5000," and "Milano Odea," for example, become explorations of a fragmented, vital, startling, whimsical and always compelling nature. Recommended for fans of either artist and lovers of unique, intelligent music.