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Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I really wish Amazon would stop describing items as boxes - this is a double CD inside a jewel case.
A long time coming, but here it is, the first retrospective of jazz man Johnny Dankworth's contributions to both TV & film. Most of it is out of print and has been for many decades.
Disc 1 features Dankworth's contributions to the movies, some of them obscure and fairly forgettable. Unsurprisingly Cleo Laine weighs in with 4 vocals including 'All Gone' from 'The Servant' and the ultra cool 'Life Is A Wheel' from a documentary called 'Scruggs.' 2 tracks are taken from 'Darling', the wonderful wordless 'Pavane for Diane' and the equally awful 'Darling' sung, or rather intoned by Dirk Bogarde. The title theme for 'Sands Of Kalahari' has a fairly swinging groove for a movie about plane crash survivors in the desert. Manfred Mann's Mike Vickers performs the title theme to 'Morgan, A Suitable Case For Treatment.' 3 tracks are taken from the Johnny Leyton vehicle 'The Idol', I know nothing of the movie but the score is certainly groovy - plenty of hammond organ. The 4 tracks from the camp spy spoof 'Modesty Blaise' (these sound better than on the fairly recent harkit release) demonstrates Dankworth's ability to write a pop art score. 'Accident' by comparison is a hauntingly beautiful jazz composition that has a complexity perfectly in tone with a movie directed by Joseph Losey and scripted by Harold Pinter.
Disc 2 features Dankworth's other work, some originals and others covers. The highlight here is the opener - Dankworth's theme from The Avengers when Honour Blackman was it's star. The next 2 tracks are from a concept album titled 'What The Dickens' featuring tener saxophonist Tubby Hayes - imagining Dickens characters through jazz is odd to say the least but the playing is superlative. Though the following 2 tracks derive from another concept album 'Zodiac Variations', it could have come from the same album. Cleo Laine returns for a couple of Shakespeare inspired tracks - don't do much for me I'm afraid but Cleo Laine I find is an acquired taste. Tracks 8 & 9 'Beefeaters' and 'Down A Tone' (from the TV Show Search For A Star) will get even the most stubborn pair of feet out of the chair. There's some excellent compositional work included from another concept album 'The $1,000,000 Collection' in which Dankworth drew on his love of Art. 'Off Duty' & 'Holloway House' find Dankworth in a very late 60's vybe, almost funky and not unlike the kind of sounds you find on sound library records. 'Bitter Lemons' from 1973 is in a similar vein but most certainly funky and as for James Taylor's 'Night Owl', well I've never heard Cleo Laine get down and dirty - okay it's not Tina Turner but Cleo's heading in that direction.
I would have liked more selections from Dankworth's work in film, for instance 'Fathom', '10 Rillington Place' or 'Salt & Pepper' but there must have been issues with rights. Sleeve notes are good with colour reproductions of the album sleeves and aside from a discrepency between the sleeve notes and the tray sleeve concerning the amount of tracks (the back sleeve is correct), this is unquestionably an essential release for jazz and soundtrack fans
A long time coming, but here it is, the first retrospective of jazz man Johnny Dankworth's contributions to both TV & film. Most of it is out of print and has been for many decades.
Disc 1 features Dankworth's contributions to the movies, some of them obscure and fairly forgettable. Unsurprisingly Cleo Laine weighs in with 4 vocals including 'All Gone' from 'The Servant' and the ultra cool 'Life Is A Wheel' from a documentary called 'Scruggs.' 2 tracks are taken from 'Darling', the wonderful wordless 'Pavane for Diane' and the equally awful 'Darling' sung, or rather intoned by Dirk Bogarde. The title theme for 'Sands Of Kalahari' has a fairly swinging groove for a movie about plane crash survivors in the desert. Manfred Mann's Mike Vickers performs the title theme to 'Morgan, A Suitable Case For Treatment.' 3 tracks are taken from the Johnny Leyton vehicle 'The Idol', I know nothing of the movie but the score is certainly groovy - plenty of hammond organ. The 4 tracks from the camp spy spoof 'Modesty Blaise' (these sound better than on the fairly recent harkit release) demonstrates Dankworth's ability to write a pop art score. 'Accident' by comparison is a hauntingly beautiful jazz composition that has a complexity perfectly in tone with a movie directed by Joseph Losey and scripted by Harold Pinter.
Disc 2 features Dankworth's other work, some originals and others covers. The highlight here is the opener - Dankworth's theme from The Avengers when Honour Blackman was it's star. The next 2 tracks are from a concept album titled 'What The Dickens' featuring tener saxophonist Tubby Hayes - imagining Dickens characters through jazz is odd to say the least but the playing is superlative. Though the following 2 tracks derive from another concept album 'Zodiac Variations', it could have come from the same album. Cleo Laine returns for a couple of Shakespeare inspired tracks - don't do much for me I'm afraid but Cleo Laine I find is an acquired taste. Tracks 8 & 9 'Beefeaters' and 'Down A Tone' (from the TV Show Search For A Star) will get even the most stubborn pair of feet out of the chair. There's some excellent compositional work included from another concept album 'The $1,000,000 Collection' in which Dankworth drew on his love of Art. 'Off Duty' & 'Holloway House' find Dankworth in a very late 60's vybe, almost funky and not unlike the kind of sounds you find on sound library records. 'Bitter Lemons' from 1973 is in a similar vein but most certainly funky and as for James Taylor's 'Night Owl', well I've never heard Cleo Laine get down and dirty - okay it's not Tina Turner but Cleo's heading in that direction.
I would have liked more selections from Dankworth's work in film, for instance 'Fathom', '10 Rillington Place' or 'Salt & Pepper' but there must have been issues with rights. Sleeve notes are good with colour reproductions of the album sleeves and aside from a discrepency between the sleeve notes and the tray sleeve concerning the amount of tracks (the back sleeve is correct), this is unquestionably an essential release for jazz and soundtrack fans
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I purchased this Double Album for the title Song; 'Let's Slip Away' only. It always catches my attention in the movie 'A Taste Of Honey' - but it was first used a year earlier in the much acclaimed 'Saturday Night And Sunday Morning'.
This Double CD Collection consists of a massive thirty-nine Tracks; has one Disc that's 'movie' related - and another 'TV'. I have to say that the first Disc is by far the best of the two. Anyone who revels in 60s nostalgia will love this one! Full of 1960s movie-atmospheric numbers simply ooze from your stereo and will make you long to be right back there when it was all happening!
The second Disc is 'nice', and features Cleo on some Tracks with some 'familiars' like; 'Avengers' and the theme from the original 'Tomorrow's World'.
This Double CD Collection consists of a massive thirty-nine Tracks; has one Disc that's 'movie' related - and another 'TV'. I have to say that the first Disc is by far the best of the two. Anyone who revels in 60s nostalgia will love this one! Full of 1960s movie-atmospheric numbers simply ooze from your stereo and will make you long to be right back there when it was all happening!
The second Disc is 'nice', and features Cleo on some Tracks with some 'familiars' like; 'Avengers' and the theme from the original 'Tomorrow's World'.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Having been a fan of big band music for the past 10 years I'm embarassed to have to write that I had nothing of any importance in my collection by John Dankworth. I bought this CD collection after listening to some of his music on You Tube and I'm absolutely delighted with this compilation. You get a mix of toe tapping gems like Modesty Blaise to the slower relaxing armchair music of Little Nell. Again this is another price crashing CD from Amazon, well worth the money and is an entry into the wonderful world of Jazz. % stars for this.
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