Re: RARA-AVIS: JAZZ as soundtrack

From: Harvey ( harveyj3rd@yahoo.com)
Date: 25 Jul 2007


I forgot about ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW which is out and out gorgeous. The MJQ released a session album with the same music, also worth checking out. Rhino's 3 volume Crime Jazz is a very entertaining compilation of cuts from 50s-60s tv and film scores.
--- "E. Borgers" < webeurop@yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Jazz as soundtrack
> Besides Ellington and Mandell, already mentioned,
> there is another fully successful jazz soundtrack
> for a rather good noir film:
> ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (1959) by Robert Wise
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> The music is by the MJQ (very good), and as in
> Malle's ASCENSEUR…, it mixed really with the action
> (but this film and music is not at the level of
> Malle's)
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