The Man With The Golden Arm (Soundtrack)
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$37.99
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Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 4988067005892
Format: Soundtrack
Label: Polygram Int'l
Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Polygram Int'l
Release Date: 2000-04-25
Studio: Polygram Int'l
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Editorial Reviews:
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Reissue of the classic Bernstein soundtrack which is acknowledged as one of the most tense an intense motion pictures ever made. The score was groundbreaking in it's day, reflecting the tightness of the film with it's palpitating, sometimes sinister jazz and symphonic arrangements. The jazz sequences are arranged and played by Shorty Rogers and His Giants with Shelley Manne. 2001.
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Summary: Very, VERY Jazzy
Comment: The soundtrack from the 1955 Otto Preminger/Frank Sinatra film is VERY Jazzy, and that is no understatement. Bernstein's score with help from Shorty Rodgers hits the mid-50's with a rocket, and is an accurate representation of the music of that time (jazz that is). Some of the music even borrows from rock 'n roll in places (or is it the other way around!!).
The transfer to CD is o.k., could have been better in my opinion, but I must assume it was not recorded/mastered all that well in the beginning. I have the record from a mid-1980's reissue, and the quality is about the same, only louder. But I'd rather have it in this form than not at all.
It's a good reminder of the film and again, a good intro to the jazzy music of the era. And it is jazzy indeed!!
Thats My-2-Cents. Enjoy the music.
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Summary: Brilliant Use of the Jazz Idiom
Comment: The 1955 movie THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM is about a former heroin addict, Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra), who is released from jail and rehab with high hopes for a future as a jazz drummer but is quickly sucked back into his old, self-destructive lifestyle. It is only when his old associates - including his clinging, deceitful wife, "Zosh" (Eleanor Parker) - are destroyed that Frankie, with the help of his true love, Molly (Kim Novak), can finally kick the drug habit for good and start to become the person he was meant to be. For this movie, Elmer Bernstein composed perhaps the most brilliant jazz score of any during the 1950's (and there were many great ones then, including SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS by Bernstein and ANATOMY OF A MURDER by Duke Ellington). The drum - Frankie's own instrument - provides the rhythmic basis of the score. In the film's opening its beat is alternately steady and agitated, just like Frankie's life; meanwhile, the brass screams and whirls out of control, mirroring Frankie's desperation as he runs off in search of one "last" fix. Appropriately, this is for the most part a very hard-edged, even brutal jazz score, reminiscent at times of Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein (his score for the film ON THE WATERFRONT), and Richard Rodgers' ballet SLAUGHTER ON TENTH AVENUE. Yet the melodramatic "Zosh" music helps characterize Frankie's wife as a self-dramatizing emotional cripple; a serene, even bucolic, Copland-esque sound is present, too (in the tracks "Molly" and "Morning," for instance), communicating Frankie's desire for peace of mind and a brighter future, and foreshadowing the movie's hopeful ending.
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Summary: Classic Score on CD at Last
Comment: Finally! An affordable CD reissue of one of the great jazz film scores! The reviewer who criticized the sound quality apparently didn't have to live with Decca's fake stereo lp version for twenty years, or spend years trying to track down a mint copy of the original lp, or he would realize that THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG WITH THE REMASTERING on this disc. It accurately captures the studio sound as recorded in glorious mono in 1955. If your're a Bernstein fan, don't hesitate to add this to your collection.
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Summary: it's the original
Comment: I can understand one reviewer's opinion of this cd, if they are too young to have ever owned the original Lp. The quality IS top notch and it does NOT need remastering. If it sounds a little "stodgy" it's only because of the recording practices of the day, which happened in very dry studios. This is pre-Star Wars. It also helps to be familiar with the movie and the story. The dry sound actually enhances the reality of the plot.
I WOULD like to see Bernstein do a new recording, with a top notch symphony orchestra playing in a large hall, like he recently did with "To Kill a Mockingbird", but as far as this original sound track is concerned, this is the same as the original Lp, perhaps even cleaner. IT'S A WINNER!
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Summary: Blistering jazz soundtrack classic; dodgy recording
Comment: I looked everywhere for this CD.Would have given it five out of five if it wasn't for the terrible recording quality - badly in need of a remastering. And this is a 2001 reissue! Very bright sound and at the very beginning sounds like a mangled cassette tape. Bad pressing? Who knows. The content is amazing, though. Intense... and the Frankie Machine theme is unforgettable.
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