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I refer to the old Elmer Bernstein album (from 1956) titled "Blues & Brass". A lovely jazz album on the Decca label.
Anyway, just recently Fresh Sounds Records has re-issued Bernstein's classic THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM on CD, nicely recorded and presented in digi-pak style.
As a bonus, the Fresh Sounds people have added ONE SIDE (six tracks) from the "Blues & Brass" album. I do wish they had released the whole album, separately! Still, one has to be grateful for small mercies I suppose.
The CD has been available for a few months now. I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned before...
- James.
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Where is it available? I checked at SAE and it is not listed there.
This is one of my favorite Elmers; it has some great stuff on it.
mgh, all I can suggest is that you check out the Fresh Sounds web-site -
www.freshsoundrecords.com
I have no idea why Craig at Screen Archives doesn't stock it; perhaps it "slipped through the net", so to speak.
- James.
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Amazon have three copies available !
Niall.
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The Man With The Golden Arm (digipack Edition)
Elmer Bernstein
Featuring: Shorty Rogers (flgh), Pete Candoli, Conte Candoli, Ray Linn, Buddy Childers, Bob Fleming, Cecil Read (tp), Milt Bernhart, Frank Rosolino, Harry Betts, Ray Sims (tb), Bud Shank, Jerome Kasper (as), Bob Cooper, Bill Holman, Jack Montrose (ts), Jimmy Giuffre
REFERENCE: FSRCD 420
BAR CODE: -
PRICE: 9.90 €
Here is a fabulous digipack edition of the music of the motion picture The Man with the Golden Arm:
Composed and Conducted by Elmer Bernstein
Orchestrations by Fred Steiner
Jazz arrangements by Shorty Rogers
Jazz Sequences played by Shorty Rogers and his Giants
The Man with the Golden Arm is one of the tensest and most intensified motion pictures ever filmed. The music, written by Elmer Bernstein, vividly reflects the tightness of the picture and expresses its tension in palpating and sometimes sinister jazz. Interpreted by an orchestra of the best jazz and symphonic instrumentalists of the Hollywood studios. This acclaimed Bernstein’s jazz-inclined score is a unique mixture of gentle woodwinds and screaming brass. Portions of it are in the nature of Symphonic extension of the music performed by Shorty Rogers and his Giants featuring Shelly Manne, which band is the nucleus of the 65-piece recording orchestra conducted by Elmer Bernstein, who pointed: “I want to give full credit to Shorty and Shelly for their contributions to this score. I not only used them as consultants, but gave them free rein in many places to inject their own ideas.”
Tracklisting:
1. Clark Street: The Hop - Homecoming - Antek's
2. Zosh
3. Frankie Machine
4. The Fix
5. Molly
6. Breakup: Fight - Louie's - Burlesque
7. Sunday Morning
8. Desperation
9. Audition
10. The Cure: Withdraw - Cold - Morning
11. Finale
Bonus tracks
12. Wild and Crazy
13. Exotica
14. Smooth
15. Just a Little Jazz
16. Nightcap
17. Return of the Man
Personnel & Dates:
#1-11: Ochestra conducted by Elmer Bernstein
Shorty Rogers (flgh), Pete Candoli, Conte Candoli, Ray Linn, Buddy Childers, Bob Fleming, Cecil Read (tp), Milt Bernhart, Frank Rosolino, Harry Betts, Ray Sims, Jimmy Henderson, Albert Anderson, George Roberts (tb), Dick Perissi, Arthur Frantz, Joe Eger (frh), Martin Ruderman, Sylvia Ruderman (fl), Nick Fera, Mitchell Lurie (cl), Bud Shank, Jerome Kasper (as), Bob Cooper, Bill Holman, Jack Montrose (ts), Jimmy Giuffre (bars), Jack Marsh, Fowler Friedlander (bss), Sam Rice (tuba), Arnold Koblenz (oboe), Chauncey Haines (novachord), Pete Jolly, Louis Levy, Ray Turner (p), Ralph Peña, Abe Luboff (b), Shelly Manne (d), Milt Holland, Lee Previn (perc), Anatol Kaminsky, Israel Baker (violins), Milton Thomas, Philip Goldberg (violas), Armand Kaproff (cello).
Recorded in Hollywood, September & December 1955.
#12-17: Ochestra arranged & conducted by Elmer Bernstein
Pete Candoli, Ray Linn (tp), Bud Shank (as), Bob Cooper (ts), Shelly Manne (d), Milt Bernhardt (tb), André Previn (p), Marty Ruderman & Silvia Ruderman (fl).
Recorded in Hollywood, January & February, 1957.
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For details on the music, see:
http://www.elmerbernstein.com/news/filmscore_jazz.html
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Re-gurgitating this old thread with the news that the Blues & Brass album is now wholly available on CD -
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/el-exd.asp?id=4793
c/w the original ava album of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Sounds good, and the original Saul Bass cover design for Blues & Brass is re-printed inside the booklet along with the liner notes from the old Decca album.
- JMM.
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Actually, having listened to the whole thing now (and just in case audiophiles are interested in the recording) : the ava TKAM turns out to be in mono.
However, since Blues & Brass may be the raison d'etre for getting this disc, it of course is in mono too; the difference being that it was only ever available that way.
- James.
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Ah! Well, there you have me... my old and much-loved LP is in storage and I have no access to it. I remember the record itself being a very hard vinyl, brittle in comparison to other discs of the time - but it played very nicely. But right now I'm unable to compare - sorry.
Can suggest though, that you look up the new CD on Amazon.co.uk where samples are provided - and for residents of the U.K. it's dirt cheap at £7.99 + postage.
- JMM.
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