RE : Re: RARA-AVIS: JAZZ as soundtrack

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


I've been meaning to watch it again, anyway...I believe Lewis had a small group other than the MJQ, but including Connie Kaye (the drummer) at least, for most of the track. PATTERNS, btw, is a hell of an album.

TM (who prefers the MJQ to Davis, anyway)

--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "E. Borgers" <webeurop@...> wrote:
>
> I do not have the film under hand, but I remember that besides MJQ,
Belafonte was singing a jazz tune in it also (When the sun goes down ? ?), but most of the music was by MJQ, composed by John Lewis.
>
> E.Borgers
>
> foxbrick <foxbrick@...> a 飲it :
> FWIW, the soundtrack music is not by any means all by the
MJQ, though
> they did release their ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW album (which in at
least
> one iteration from their label for that stretch of time is known as
> PATTERNS...perhaps to differentiate it from the soundtrack album
per
> se).
>
> Todd Mason, a big fan of ODDS the film and the music not least.
> Still meaning to read the McGivern.
>
> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Harvey <harveyj3rd@> wrote:
> >
> > 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@> 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
> > >
> > > 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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