>I don't own it, but I'm trying to find it - Zorn
supposedly has a tribute
>to Mickey called "Spillane." I guess it follows some
book, musically, or
>something.
Coincidentally, I was in my local Borders and looked at the
"Spillane"
album, but ran out of time before I could give it a
test-listen. The
difference seems to be that "Naked City," like his earlier
Morricone
tribute, "The Big Gundown," features takes on recognizable
music from the
genre. So there's a take on the Batman theme, the James Bond
theme, etc.
"Spillane," however, seems to have fewer titles, and longer
pieces which
seem original. Now I wish I had paid more attention to
it.
On a related note, isn't it interesting that while most of us
associate bop
or cool jazz with the fiction we love, the classic film noirs
tended to
feature swing or big band jazz. Because it was more
commercial? (And
studio musicians could play it?)
Bill Hagen
<billha@ionet.net>
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