Jazz in film

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre

Jazz in film · For a long time jazz in Hollywood sounded only as source music, for instance from a band in a nightclub. Alex North changed that with A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). He used jazz in the score itself, to convey the sensuality and tension of New Orleans. For The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), about an addicted drummer, Elmer Bernstein wrote a hard-driving big band score. Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn made the music for Anatomy of a Murder (1959), and Ellington plays a small role in the film himself. In France, Miles Davis improvised the music for Ascenseur pour l'échafaud. In this way jazz became the sound of the city, the night and modern man.

Listening

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  A Streetcar Named Desire: Streetcar · Alex North, 1951
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  The Man with the Golden Arm · Elmer Bernstein, 1955
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  Main Title and Anatomy of a Murder · Duke Ellington, 1959

In School of Rock

The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.

• Film Music Map^NL Map
• The Dream Factory: Film Reel 4^NL Reader

See also

• Krzysztof Komeda
• Quincy Jones
• Klaus Doldinger
• Film noir
• New Hollywood
• Nouvelle vague
• Eastern European New Waves
• Pop jazz, lounge and crime TV (Mancini school)
• Bond and spy sound
• Blaxploitation: soul and funk