Theme from The Cool World

Dizzy Gillespie (Mal Waldron) · 1964 · The Cool World (film de Shirley Clarke), musique de Mal Waldron

Context

Mal Waldron composed and arranged the music for The Cool World, recorded on April 23 and 24, 1964, by Dizzy Gillespie with James Moody and Kenny Barron. The record, released by Philips, opens with the film's theme.

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.

By the same artist

• No More Blues (1962)
• Long, Long Summer (1962)
• Here It Is (1962)
• Pau de Arara (1962)
• For the Gypsies (1962)
• On the Sunny Side of the Street (1957)

Sources

• EN: The Cool World (soundtrack)

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