Gritty, Smoky Jazz from Underrated Film Composer!
The Hustler was the first truly iconic film of Paul Newman's career. It was nominated for nine academy awards: best picture, actor, actress, director, screenplay, cinematography, art direction and two for best supporting actor. The beautiful Jazz score finally re-released on vinyl is by the composer Kenyon Hopkins (Baby Doll, 12 Angry Men, The Fugitive Kind).
A great and much underrated composer of jazz-inflected film scores and musical portraits, Hopkins worked in television beginning in the mid-1950s and branched out into film scoring soon after.
Hopkins was particularly adept at using jazz themes, rhythms, and orchestrations in his scores, often paralleling the down-and-out subjects and settings on screen with what Basic Hip has called, "smoky, gritty, rotten-to-the-core jazz."
Features:
Vinyl LP
Import
Selections:
Side A:
1. Main Title (Stop & Go)
2. Minnesota Fats
3. The Loser
4. Sarah's Theme
5. 4 Flights Up
6. Fast Buck
7. Small Time Charlie
Side B:
1. Bert's Theme
2. Contract with Depravity
3. All Thumbs
4. Dining Out
5. Derby Time
6. Lipstick on a Mirror
7. The Winner
8. End Title
The Hustler was the first truly iconic film of Paul Newman's career. It was nominated for nine academy awards: best picture, actor, actress, director, screenplay, cinematography, art direction and two for best supporting actor. The beautiful Jazz score finally re-released on vinyl is by the composer Kenyon Hopkins (Baby Doll, 12 Angry Men, The Fugitive Kind).
A great and much underrated composer of jazz-inflected film scores and musical portraits, Hopkins worked in television beginning in the mid-1950s and branched out into film scoring soon after.
Hopkins was particularly adept at using jazz themes, rhythms, and orchestrations in his scores, often paralleling the down-and-out subjects and settings on screen with what Basic Hip has called, "smoky, gritty, rotten-to-the-core jazz."
Features:
Vinyl LP
Import
Selections:
Side A:
1. Main Title (Stop & Go)
2. Minnesota Fats
3. The Loser
4. Sarah's Theme
5. 4 Flights Up
6. Fast Buck
7. Small Time Charlie
Side B:
1. Bert's Theme
2. Contract with Depravity
3. All Thumbs
4. Dining Out
5. Derby Time
6. Lipstick on a Mirror
7. The Winner
8. End Title
