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He also scored a film called SAVE THE LAST DANCE, but someone else can start that thread.
This is the Death Row drama starring Sharon Stone.
I saw the film, many years ago, but cannae remember it now.
The music has that typical Isham sound.
It's pretty low-key overall, but effective and generally thematic.
Piano, strings, female vocal for the tender or sad moments.
Brooding orchestra and electronics for the darker, more dramatic moments, not unlike his stuff in BILLY BATHGATE.
In fact, this score overall is similar to BILLY BATHGATE, minus that scores' lovely Americana moments.
The last track (Taj Mahal) is especially lovely.
Hollywood Records released a CD, running about 35 minutes (all score).
If you like Isham, you will dig this.
Anyone?
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I owned the CD once. Too low-key and anonymous for my taste, although it had its moments.
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Oh my, spook, Yes.
That Film Music LP was what got me into his music too.
That A side containing MRS SOFFEL and THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK was truly sublime.
I'd lay on my bed, LP sleeve held aloft, and dream away to those incredible moods Isham conjured.
I was never as keen on the B side (NEVER CRY WOLF) but I would still play it for completion purposes (it certainly evoked a cold, isolated and, at times, scary atmosphere though).
Those other early Isham/Windham Hill LPs were mesmerising.
I think we shared certain childhood elements/experiences, spook 
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Hey spook, dya remember when there was a big, pre-release hoo-hah about this GREAT NEW SCORE that was coming soon from Varese Sarabande, from a NEW, EXCITING COMPOSER.
The title was IN A SHALLOW GRAVE by Jonathan Scheffer.
Now, don't get me wrong. It's a nice score. A fine debut. And I enjoyed it when I bought the LP (and subsequent CD).
BUT!!!
ANYONE who had already heard MRS SOFFEL by Mark Isham could instantly hear some major cribbing from that score in it (IASG by Scheffer). That little penny whistle/flute theme was lifted almost verbatim.
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Mar 10, 2021 - 4:34 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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"How would you guys rate AFTERGLOW? That's from 1997..."
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I have never seen that film, Graham, nor heard a note of the score by Isham.
Yes, if it's a jazz score, I'm unlikely to fall too much for its charms.
Although, having said that, I do have some scores by Isham, in a somewhat jazz mode (THE MODERNS = deffo jazz, TROUBLE IN MIND = maybe more blues than jazz) that I absolutely adore, so who knows how much I've grown my brain in the intervening years.
Thanks for playing
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i owned AFTERGLOW too, even less interesting than LAST DANCE for me.
Acoustic "old-fashioned" jazz, really.
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