Jrr film music ...

[burning dog]

Bluesnik and Ian discuss French Cinema

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[clive heath]

Chico Hamilton contributed to Roman Polanski's "Repulsion" and to "Sweet Smell of Success" with Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster. You can hear some of this music here

http://www.harkitrecords.com/chico.html

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

aand no knockin Branford ... the use of soprano sax in a love anthem to Michelle Pfeiffer in The Russia House is imho a work of utter transcendental boooty and the music aint bad niver ..... ahem

and how about

now back to the westlin eh

[Ian Thumwood]

Bill Frisell's "Tales from the far side." I love the way that this tune evolves from an almost durge-like theme for the viola and the plangent' almost Ellingtonian trumpet before Frisell's distorted guitar enters the mix. For me, Frisell is one of the great innovators in jazz over the last thirty years and the whole album is an absolute gem. Few jazz musicians can crank up the tension as much as Bill Frisell when dealing with music played at a walking pace.

[Ian Thumwood]

Dave Douglas' "Keystone " project:-

[Ian Thumwood]

Given the praise heaped upon "au bout du souffle" I would have to put a call in for "Au bout du conte." In a picque of confidence I went to see this film when I was in Poitiers on March but understood about 10% witthout the sub-titles. Never mind:-

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

[QUOTE=Ian Thumwood;318039]Given the praise heaped upon "au bout du souffle" I would have to put a call in for "Au bout du conte." In a picque of confidence I went to see this film when I was in Poitiers on March but understood about 10% witthout the sub-titles. Never mind:-

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IAN, Apologies, I was way too shouty. Godard in the 60s can do no wrong for me...watch "Weekend" for that dream ending in vacuous absurdity. A bit like jazz.

BN.

[Tenor Freak]

I like this scene from Bande a Part:

[Serial_Apologist]

I like this scene from Bande a Part:

Interesting how one could almost always tell the year from the styles back then - that looks and sounds like '64, would I be wrong? Up to the hippies the new always managed to look cool. Today capitalism can only offer kids year after year of ugly galumphing trainers, baseball caps and standardized sportsware with labels outside, and for formal ware funeral suits and ugly shiny wide ties so the youngsters with job CVs look just like my Dad in the 50s - all that's been around longer than Mao suits in China and they persuade us it's all new and stands for everything what they call communism was destroyed to preserve. What doesn't move forward is condemned to go into reverse.

I had a girlfriend who had a pleated kilt-type skirt like that back then with a big safety pin through; head of the local girls school she was - Catholic!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I like this scene from Bande a Part:

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ANNA KARINA, Denmark's greatest export. And Godard's muse et wife at the time. Stunning and a very hip lady. Ckout Alphaville.

BN.

Btw, music by Michel Legrand. After being lent on by Godard.

[Ian Thumwood]

Bluesnik


No problem. Didn't realise than Anna Karina was Danish.

I wondered if anyone had seen the film "Chico & Rita" as this looks like a nailed on certainty for great jazz.
Music by the late Bebo Valdes.