Main Title from The Man with the Golden Arm
Context
Main theme composed by Elmer Bernstein for the film The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), whose jazz-tinged score draws on Shorty Rogers and Shelly Manne on the Decca soundtrack. Bandleader Billy May cut an orchestral version in 1956, number 9 in sales in the United Kingdom and number 49 in the United States, competing with those by Richard Maltby (number 14 in the United States) and Dick Jacobs. Jet Harris revived it in 1962.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Swing, big bands. Among the origins and influences of Swing, big bands: Chicago, Stride (Harlem piano), Harlem: Henderson, Redman, Ellington, Kansas City, Boogie-woogie, Symphonic jazz, dance orchestras.