Pete Rugolo music from Fugitive.

Noir jazz ~ sound familiar? ~ handy name but somewhat defunct ~ darkly edgy jazz of a certain vintage a certain time of day later the better but most jazz has something of the crepuscular night . Do you like this serpentine solo? .A minority report ~I do ~ not a minority of one. TV1950s Peter Gunn a late night affair ~ adds ever the pedant Google editor ~ yes but studio bound monochrome with cardboard backdrops .Like 1960s Avengers Mother ~ Peter Gunn's was a touch strange Unlikely mother ? more grandmother? ~ tut tut ageist? ~indubitably .but incisive. Buoyed by excellent composers Noir jazz more atmospheric than rhythmic for detective yarns deluging 1950s cinema and burgeoning television . Horn magnificence ~ daddy of the genre ? Dig bass trombone ~Mancini's Fallout 1958 Origins of Noir jazz go back decades ~ with Hollywood leanings excoriated by self respecting jazzers ~ music rubbing up against garish melodramatic hybrids swamped by glutinous strings Miklos Rozsa style~ as screen goddesses Barbara Stanwyck Joan Crawford brushed a lonely teardrop from unsullied handkerchiefs An unhappy relationship persists ~strings and jazz . The read goes ~ strings plus jazz plain pansy
We're ever grateful to" What a Guy" Steve Martin for Dead Men Dont Wear Plaid ingenious , delightful hommage to the era Noir Jazz like blood thirsty Dracula was never nailed down at crossroads with definition tastes ~ offering token celebration of the genre mainly brass sometimes noisy ~Google editor~ Ifcopod dont mention that" noisy" word again .. Does the genre include frothy Walter Wonderley organ jazz? No but a yes for Mancinis undervalued Experiment in Terror early 1960s theme creepy , jazzy , gloriously bypassed by jazz snobs instead Ifcopod favourite~ Radio Hysteria from epic~ not creaky movie the music was epic Sudden Fear 1952 on Ifcopod channel too broad for the Noir tag but as with much music one can play fast and loose with categories Speaking of sleazy settings few more lubricious than this present alto sax . I cant offer name of alto sax perpetrator nor confirm the music was recorded in Hollywood but the slippery sliding style was rage in seedy 1950s movie jazz Seedy music ~inter alia~ how jazz earned its stripes The person who casually dropped the Jazz Noir term years ago wasnt a jazz lover notwithstanding notions of such~ How dare he? a jazz neophyte same person wanted musical gen on hero Stan Kenton a tall order for a tall man ~ Ifcopod staunchly declined then acquiesced remembering transgressions in a former incarnation With one bound our hero was free so to speak or perhaps ~ With lachrymose what the hell "grin" ~ Hardly ~. ifcopod sidled up capsizing in capitulation~ White hard rock its mirror jazz image Stan Kenton separated at birth an enduring Ifcopod love and great to see hard rocks part reemergence in a welter of booming characterless stuff. .Has it got to be white ~ unlike black brass white brass is neither lopey nor slouchy more rectilinear hard hitting.. where leaves that Dizzy Gillespie band of Things to Come? and trumpeter Cat Anderson ~up the creek minus a paddle or just anomaly? No we love it. but Excitement super omnia Stan Kentons big band stuff. Composer of Fugitive music late Pete Rugolo was main man in Kenton organisation at time of Rugolos 1940s vaunted Peanut Vendor arrangement just pipped by Lalo Schifrins 1960s take but who's counting?
. . Noir jazz scattered among endless curios a bit of this a lot that ~ quirky Nino Rota organ tacked on worth a listen. Ever the pedant~you know Murder She Wrote Angela Lansbury by composer Richard Markowitz how many know Markowitz music for 1950s Young Captives with Luana Patten some Bartok and embryonic noir jazz on board . when the Kenton band was pencilled in for recording but had to settle for a Johnny Richards arrangement of the score ~ Richards West Side Story was deliberate if not tame but very big bands rarely twirl on a thimble. nevertheless a magnificent reworking of Bernsteins masterpiece ~1960s Fugitive weekly watch more famous~ Nelson Riddles Route 66 knocking about as lesser known Paul Dunlap turned in score for a Constance Towers noir movie Naked Kiss in 1964 similar to this slower version of Fugitive theme. Elmer Bernsteins name is key in noir jazz so also Leonard Rosenman who for a number Hollywood scores inc Cobweb is indelibly marked in the genre. , Someone taken for granted gets more impressive with years Hector Morrissey passes the test at most levels Sings of the mundane good voice words intelligible well shaped melodies what more do you want? Hector is leader of the Gang.