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Never heard of the film, nor of the 'famous' music from it. However, when I played the samples provided at the Varese website, the Waxman jazz had me bop'n in my office chair. The energy, rythyms, and colors to this score is phenominal - particularly the first offering 'plot' and 'Celebration'. Wow, this isn't the usual Waxman I know, it's a different side of him and I really like it!
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Ordered it this morning, now cancelled - just having the Apes disc now. Gotta be more frugal.
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It's amazingly structured stuff. If you're one who sees jazz as impro only, then it isn't jazz I suppose. But it's layered formally, with theme, variations and fugato. An amazing experiment.
If Waxman isn't always as well known as some other Golden Age composers, it's because of this chameleon quality of reinventing himself for each picture. He still had his own trademarks though. He was a jazz player in Europe as a sideline before coming to the US.
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William, I do agree with you and I would have kept the order but I can't afford everything.
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It's "jazz" if your definition of that word is wide enough to include Big Band music, although my hunch is that the players were not given the room to improvise that, say, Duke Ellington gave his musicians. Think of it as a jazz-influenced composition, like some that Leonard Bernstein composed.
PS: I haven't read the Varese description yet. I wonder if the liner notes finally identify the anonymous movie(s) for which Waxman had originally written the selections on Side Two of the LP.
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I was very excited (and suprised) to see this one. Anything by Waxman is a must-have for me.
ORDERED!
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Have the old LP, but haven't listened to it in a long while (not having a turntable anymore will do that). Great score, and from the latest batch of Varese Club releases, it was the title I was most excited about! Kinda miss the old LP cover art, but I like the Peak painting.
Jose
Since this is just a straight-forward release of the old Decca LP, I wonder why they couldn't use the old cover art:
Dare we hope that other old Decca LPs may see the light of day:
Anne of the Thousand Days (Georges Delerue)
Back Street (Frank Skinner)
Big Broadcast of 1936, The [10-inch] (Ralph Rainger)
Blood and Sand (Alfred Newman)
Countess From Hong Kong, The (Charles Chaplin)
Cowboy (George Duning)
Eddy Duchin Story, The (source music)
Four Girls in Town (Alex North)
Goya (Vincente Gomez)
High Tor [TV] (Arthur Schwartz)
I’ll Never Forget What’s ‘Is Name (Francis Lai)
Imitation of Life (Frank Skinner)
Island in the Sky (Hugo Friedhofer, Emil Newman)
Jeanne Eagles (George Duning)
Knock On Wood (Sylvia Fine, Danny Kaye)
Lively Set, The (Bobby Darin, various pop)
Madame X (Frank Skinner)
Magnificent Obsession (Frank Skinner)
Man of a Thousand Faces (Frank Skinner)
Maracaibo (Laurindo Almeida)
Matter of Innocence, A (Michel Legrand)
Music for Loretta [TV] (Harry Lubin)
Omar Khayyam (Victor Young)
Out of Sight [1966] (various pop)
Red Sky at Morning (Billy Goldenberg)
Rock, Pretty Baby (Henry Mancini, various pop)
Run of the Arrow (Victor Young)
Salome (George Duning, Daniele Amfitheatrof)
She Loves the Movies (Victor Young, Alfred Newman)
Shenandoah (Frank Skinner)
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (Richard Rodgers)
Snow Queen, The (Frank Skinner)
Sometimes a Great Notion (Henry Mancini)
Taking Off (various pop)
Wild, Wild Winter (various pop)
Winning (Dave Grusin)
Written on the Wind (Victor Young, Frank Skinner)
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Curfew time @ Varese.
Crime in the Streets has been taken off the streets.
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Onya, I can't remember though I know you've talked about these sets before. Are they sourced from vinyl do you know?
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Jun 22, 2021 - 1:46 PM
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OnyaBirri
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Onya, I can't remember though I know you've talked about these sets before. Are they sourced from vinyl do you know?
I can't give you a track-by-track analysis, but I can say that the set titled "Beat, Square, and Cool" generally had better sound than the set called "Crime Jazz." The latter had a number of things sourced from vinyl. They generally sounded OK, but you could hear, for example, things like inner groove distortion on the last track of an album side.
"Beat, Square, and Cool" sounds much better. Part of this may stem from the fact that most or all of these albums had already been released digitally, so the set may consist of mostly if not entirely digital clones.
I bought both collections to fill some holes. At these prices, they were both worth it.
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