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What are your favorite Jazz style scores?

I am not into Jazz that much (except live performance) but one that jumps to my mind and is one I listen to quite often is Jerry Fieldings THE GAUNTLET.

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There are so many that I love. Quincy Jones' score for The Split is one that I cannot get enough of with its pure free-flowing nature. The Lost Man is another standout jazz-funk score by Jones.

Dave Grusin's The Friends of Eddie Coyle, 3 Days of the Condor and Halls of Anger are all great.

Some other obvious picks would have to be Lalo Schifrin's Bullitt and Once a Thief scores.

There's also The French Connection by Don Ellis, Gold by Elmer Bernstein, Zigzag by Oliver Nelson, Petulia by John Barry, and so on.

I am not into Jazz that much (except live performance) but one that jumps to my mind and is one I listen to quite often is Jerry Fieldings THE GAUNTLET.




I never thought much of Jazz until I got into film score music. Even though I have several 70's scores that have that jazz with funk sound to them I think I prefer the old-school style jazz better. Such as:


Johnny Cool
The Man With the Golden Arm
The Hustler
Body Heat
I Want to Live
Walk on the Wild Side
The Cincinnati Kid
Chinatown
Farewell my Lovely
Baby Doll
Staccato
East Side/ West Side

Who Framed Roger Rabbit !

Satin In High Heels - Mundell Lowe
The Wild One - Leith Stevens
Bell, Book And Candle - George Duning
The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown - Billy May
Touch Of Evil - Henry Mancini
The Hot Rock - Quincy Jones
Synanon - Neal Hefti
Cops And Robbers - Michel Legrand
The Black Bird - Jerry Fielding
The Strange One - Kenyon Hopkins
The New Interns - Earle Hagen
3 Days Of The Condor - Dave Grusin
99 & 44/100% Dead - Henry Mancini
Anatomy Of A Murder - Duke Ellington
Sweet Smell Of Success - Elmer Bernstein

So many others...

As well as all of the TV Action Jazz LPs from the 1950's and early 60's, M-Squad, Mike Hammer, Richard Diamond, The Reporter, East Side/West Side...

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