Re: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: jazz & hard-boiled
SYNEFROG@aol.com
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 21:07:14 -0500 (EST)
in response to bernadac comment ( and as a frenchman myself
...although
living in the states and raised in france after the ww2
war....until 69) i
also share the very strong connection between jazz and film
noir/serie noire
on both sides of the atlantic....and i'm in fact reading now a
jean-claude
izzi book called 'chourmo' whose leading character ( an ex-cop
in
marseilles) makes numerous references to jazz tunes and
moods...
i should also mention to the whole gang an Lp i picked up in
1980 by Ran
Blake who used to be part of the New England Conservatory. The
Album was
called Film Noir and, as Ran says in the notes, "the music for
this album is
performed by members of the Third Stream Department of the
NE
Conservatorywith guests John Heiss and Ted Curson"
they took Spiral Staircase, Eve, Garden of Delight, Key Largo,
Pinky,
Streetcar Named Desire, Touch of Evil, Le Boucher, The
Pawnbroker, Doktor
Mabuse, & Blue Gardenia and weaved (or re-weaved) music for
these and the
effect is pretty stunning as Amdrew Sarris says in the notes
printed on the
back of the LP (Lp not Cd....they were not even invented
then....): "His (Ran
Blake) music is a fitting, worthy tribute to this very highly
developed
cinematic taste".
I have no idea if this stuff is still available but if you can
get hold of
it...it may even be a cd now...
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