The band assembled by Zorn for this album later came to be known as Naked City, and released several more records.

The cover art is a 1940 photograph 'Corpse With Revolver' by press photographer Weegee, who's famous for his coverage of 1930s-40s crime and urban life in New York City. The album's name comes from Weegee's 1945 photo book.

Members:

John Zorn: alto saxophone
Bill Frisell: guitar
Fred Frith: bass
Joey Baron: drums
Wayne Horvitz: keyboards
Yamatsuka Eye: vocals

Fred Frith was also in various experimental-rock and jazz-fusion collaborations with Bill Laswell and Zorn, mostly as a guitarist — including Massacre, The Golden Palominos, and his ‘solo’ recordings.

Yamatsuka Eye (later known as Yamantaka Eye) is a founder of Japanese noise-rock band Boredoms that is active since 1986. Among his numerous collaborations, he was in Laswell's Painkiller and some releases of Praxis, and on several of Zorn's records outside of Naked City.