>Fred Willard wrote:
>
>Wayne Wang used punk rock to great effect in his film
'Slam Dance"
>(A favorite of mine).
>. . .
>
>"Get Shorty" used a jazz with a lot of kinship to
Memphis blues.
>
And William Friedkin's "To Live and Die in L.A." used a
pop-music type
score by Wang Chung, influenced, perhaps, by Michael Mann's
use of pop
music in "Miami Vice." (I don't recall whether the movie or
the TV
series appeared first.)
On a side note (accidental pun there): Louis Armstrong didn't
like bebop
and thought it was just a passing fad. Likewise,
hardboiled/detective
fiction in this century has been castigated for a long time
by the
literary elite because of its roots in pulp fiction. Well,
bebop has had
a lasting influence on jazz and other music styles, and the
pulp masters
of detective fiction are now highly regarded for their works.
Funny how
time changes things.--Duane
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