Art
Blakey's Jazz Messengers Avec Barney Wilen
– Les
Liaisons Dangereuses 1960
Vinyl LP, Stereo Japanese
Pressing
Fontana
One
of the last things Boris Vian did before his passing, was to appear
in Roger Vadim's Les
Dangereuses 1960.
A great album with a fantastic soundtrack by Art Blakey and his Jazz
Messengers... I think. For some reason the film credits mentions
Thelonous Monk doing the score, which as far as I know, is not the
case. And also someone else has claimed that they did the score as
well. So its a bit of a mystery to me, but on the other hand it sure
sounds like Art Blakey.
The album by all means, is a
classic. It really conveys to me the importance of Jazz in French
films during the 1950s as well as the early '60s. One wonders why it
stopped? Nevertheless this updated version of the Libertine classic
is the gateway to the morals of the 1960s or at the very least one
can hear the door opening to something forbidden. The music is very
sexy, and like champagne it can go to one's head, and by next morning
one knows you were hit by a small bomb behind the ear lobe.
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