Raksin, David
Too Late Blues
Too Late Blues (1962) is certainly one of the greatest films ever made about the jazz world; It was a perfect match
between subject matter and filmmaker. In 1959, Cassavetes had starred in a TV series called Johnny Staccato, playing a
jazzman who moonlights as a detective. The films brilliant music score is courtesy of David Raksin and performed by such
jazz legends as Benny Carter, Red Mitchell and Shelly Manne. Raksins theme tune, mimed by Ghosts group during the
opening credits, immediately establishes the films cool, sardonic tone, and neatly mimics the attitude with which the
actors deliver their lines. The easy way out would have been to do standards, but Raksin wrote all original music for
the film, even for the source cues. And what music it is - Raksin at his best, and Raksin at his best is as good as it
gets.
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Format
LP - 1 disk
Release
16-11-2016
Label
Item-nr
496884
EAN
0889397381356
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Tracks
Title
Artist
1
SEAL ONE PART 1 - SAX RAISES ITS UGLY HEAD
2
THEME FROM TOO LATE BLUES (A SONG AFTER SUNDOWN)
3
THE RIM SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD
4
MOTHER TIME (JUKE BOX)
5
SOMETHING LIKE NOODLES/SOMETHING LIKE BULIO/SOMETHING
6
LIKE THAT
7
HEEL AND TOE - GET WILDROOT HAIR OIL, CHARLIE
8
LOOK INWARD, ANGEL
9
DANZON
10
A SONG AFTER SUNDOWN
11
SAMBALERO
12
RECORDING STUDIO PART 2 - A SONG AFTER SUNDOWN
13
BLUES FOR TOMORROW
14
ULYSSES IN SWANKTOWN
15
LIKE LASAGNA
16
GHOST BLOWS TEST
17
BENNY SPLITS WHILE JIMMY ROWLES
18
CIUDAD DE MEXICO
19
WIFES OTHER JOHN
20
FINALE - THE RIM SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD
