Jazz & Cinema Vol. 2

[Dave James]

I recently took a flyer on four volumes of Jazz & Cinema that were available from Dusty Groove. These are part of the Jazz in Paris series on Universal Gitanes. I haven't really had a chance to thoroughly digest all of them, but based on what I have heard, I can unabashedly recommend Volume 2. The first four tunes on this outing feature Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown and Gus Johnson. Cuts 5-22, the Benny Golson iteration of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and the last two, a French quintet featuring George Aranitas. I'm telling you kids, this is good stuff...da bomb.

As is usually the case with jazz soundtracks, many of the tracks are short, but there are a handful in the 3-4 minute range that allow for more stretching out than you might normally expect.

I don't think you'll be disappointed with this one.

Up over and out.

Edited November 17, 2003 by Dave James

[king ubu]

Second everything said before!

I only have them up to volume 3 so far. Must get the fourth before it goes OOP!

ubu

[couw]

Volume 4 is rather erratic, but there's some real good stuff on there. Notably the De Villers tracks are great.