Jazz for aficionados
Frogman, I'll find the links to all the movies you listed, and give them a listen, including "Chico Hamilton". Jafant, one of my favorites by Chico is "The Head Hunters", but unfortunately it's not on CD. Chico Hamilton - drums Steve Potts - alto saxophone Russ Andrews - tenor saxophone Robert Ashton - baritone saxophone Ray Nance - violin Eric Gale - guitar Jan Arnet - bass Ray Nance who is not as well known on violin as he is on trumpet, smokes the violin on this outing. Enjoy the music. |
Frogman, all great movies, have not seen Red Pony. Regarding music, interesting, but could not whistle(remeber) any but 'Bridge on river Kwai' and of course 'Godfather'. Since this is a jazz forum, here is another album with adaptations of music from a movie 'Some like it hot' by Barney Kessel, from 1959. Great line up, fine music, regardless of a film, few songs... https://youtu.be/5Cn0m2ItBns https://youtu.be/yK09EKQDlWo |
Although I've mentioned this before, I don't believe I communicated how extreme the relationship between movie and music was. I heard this music in 1960, but did not see the movie until say 2010; to make the math easy, it is a difference of 50 years. When I heard the music, I didn't think too much of it, but now I realize how devastating it is. Fortunately, I can provide a link of the movie with the music, and you can decide, and see how intrinsically they are wound together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc4tT-55ZzI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icJw9HXXoXA Enjoy the music. |
Good performances and great movie, Alex (the movie is about a saxophone player, after all 😎), but I don't think those two tunes qualify as adaptations of "music from a movie". Both tunes were written over thirty years before they appeared in the soundtrack to "Some Like It Hot". They were not written for the movie. While I can't think of examples, I would wager that the tunes also appeared in movies done before SLIH (1959). |
