Jazz in film and on screen

Practice · late 1950s → · Hollywood, Paris, London · Modern jazz (1940-1970)

In the late 1950s, composers and jazz musicians write scores for entire films and series in a jazz idiom: Mancini for "Peter Gunn" (the first Album of the Year Grammy), Ellington for "Anatomy of a Murder" (three Grammys in 1959). The genre continues with Hancock ("Blow-Up"), Quincy Jones, Lalo Schifrin and as far as Bernard Herrmann, whose score for "Taxi Driver" (1976) is the first to make extensive use of jazz.

Where it comes from

• Cool (Birth of the Cool)
• Third stream
• Modern big bands

Artists

• Henry Mancini (1924–1994, composition, piano, flute, conducting)
• Bernard Herrmann (1911–1975, composition, conductor)

Tracks to start with

• Main Title / Anatomy of a Murder — Duke Ellington (1959)
• Peter Gunn — Henry Mancini (1958)

Sources

• Source

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