Main Title from Blow Up
Context
Hancock wrote the arrangement and led the music for the soundtrack of Antonioni's film, whose theme opens the record. According to the liner notes, a first version cut in London was not used; the music was re-recorded in New York, with Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Jim Hall, Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette, among others. MGM released the album in 1967.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Jazz in film and on screen, Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Jazz in film and on screen: Cool (Birth of the Cool), Third stream, Modern big bands.