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Film Score Fanatic: January 2013
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Saturday, January 12, 2013. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982). Though there have been some great scores from composers late in their careers, one thinks of Dimitri Tiomkin’s Guns of Navarone. Or Bernard Herrmann’s Taxi Driver. Perhaps no composer had such a fruitful later career as Miklós Rózsa, who scored films like The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. And Eye of the Needle. At the end of his career. But the score of his that is perhaps most impressive is his last, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid. Is an incred...
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The Hard Bop Homepage Blog: The Jazz Project - Fangs
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Saturday, October 11, 2008. The Jazz Project - Fangs. S last album came out on Verve in 1999. Reissues? Well, now that the Blue Note and OJC catalogues have been pretty well exhausted, what remains might be interesting (Chess, Duke/Peacock, etc.) but I don't think there are any hidden Sidewinder. S or Soul Station. S left out there. (Unless you count Sonny Criss. S At The Crossroads. Which has been released in Japan.). And Stacie McGregor's Straight Up. As a fan for years of Grant Green. Is, pure and sim...
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The Hard Bop Homepage Blog: Isaac Hayes
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008. Is still one of my favorite albums . . . ever . . . in any genre. There have been numerous versions of Isaac Hayes' "Theme from Shaft" but I wanted to share with you one of my favorites. It's from the 1974 album by Maynard Ferguson MF Horn 2. In terms of fusion/big band sessions from the 70s, this has to be near the top of the list in terms of both song selection and solos. The opener, "Give It One," is probably the best Ferguson track from the entire decade. Have a Nice Decade.
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Have a Nice Decade: Go All The Way (1972)
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Have a Nice Decade. A Personal Journey Through the Music of the 1970s. Monday, July 27, 2015. Go All The Way (1972). Performer: The Raspberries Writer: Eric Carmen. Highest US Chart Position: #5 Label: Capitol Records. Musicians: Eric Carmen, Wally Bryson, Dave Smalley and Jim Bonfanti. The Raspberries’ biggest chart hit, “ Go All The Way. 8221; on the other hand, is a finely crafted- if somewhat schizophrenic- piece of power pop that not only seems ahead of its time, but has stood the test of time as a ...
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It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad Movie: March 2014
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It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad Movie. Films that Don't Quite Deliver. Sunday, March 16, 2014. The Buster Keaton Story (1957). Director: Sidney Sheldon Writers: Sidney Sheldon and Robert Smith. Film Score: Victor Young Cinematography: Loyal Griggs. Starring: Donald O’Connor, Ann Blyth, Rhonda Fleming and Peter Lorre. The Buster Keaton Story. As I said in my review of Chaplin. Did, however, was to pay for Keaton’s “ranch” in Woodland Hills where he spend the remainder of what he called, “...Children of the...
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The Delights of the Genre: The Delights of the Genre
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The Delights of the Genre. Observations and Analysis of Genre Fiction. Friday, November 28, 2014. The Delights of the Genre. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). EB Neslowe is an author and educator and currently lives in Olympia, WA. View my complete profile. The Sire de Malétroit’s Door (1878). The Delights of the Genre. The E List film reviews. A Profile of King James I. Children of the Corn (1977). Awesome Inc. template. Powered by Blogger.
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The Delights of the Genre: January 2015
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The Delights of the Genre. Observations and Analysis of Genre Fiction. Sunday, January 11, 2015. The Man Who Knew How (1932). By Dorothy L. Sayers. This isn’t usually the kind of mystery story that I like to read, but I recently acquired The Complete Stories of Dorothy Sayers. And thought I would delve into it. I decided to begin with some of her stand-alone stories rather than those featuring Lord Peter Wimsey or Montague Egg. “ The Man Who Knew How. 8221; was first published in Harper’s Bazaar. 8221; i...
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Film Score Fanatic: December 2014
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014. My first exposure to this classic Max Steiner score came via Charles Gerhardt’s incomparable RCA recordings, in this case the album called Captain Blood – Classic Film Scores for Errol Flynn. In addition to his swashbucklers penned by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, there were also suites from a couple of his Warner Brothers’ westerns written by the great Max Steiner, They Died With Their Boots On. And my favorite, Dodge City. Or Steiner’s The Fountainhead. View my complete profile.
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Words on Film: Screening History (1992)
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The best books about the movies. Monday, December 22, 2014. History as we get to see real life as it was when the film was made . . .”. The first essay is The Prince and the Pauper. Vidal’s second essay concerns the British film Fire Over England. Experience of reality.” During the Depression Vidal notes how all of Hollywood seemed to be under the thrall of Britain. There were films in the very early thirties about American icons, like W.D. Griffith’s Abraham Lincoln. In his essay on Lincoln. Screened, i...
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Have a Nice Decade: How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You (1975)
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Have a Nice Decade. A Personal Journey Through the Music of the 1970s. Thursday, July 23, 2015. How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You (1975). Performer: James Taylor Writer: Holland-Dozier-Holland. Highest US Chart Position: #5 Label: Warner Brothers. Musicians: James Taylor, Danny Kortchmar, Clarence McDonald, Jim Keltner and David Sanborn. 8221; Of course I had no idea that the song had been a hit eleven years earlier for Marvin Gaye. 8221; which would later be covered by Jimmy Buffett. 8221; was written ...
