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Peter Erskine - Standards 2 (Movie Music)

Peter Erskine featuring Bob Mintzer, Darek Oles and Alan Pasqua -][- STANDARDS 2 (Movie Music) – [Fuzzy Music, 2010]

Music is often spoken of as forming the soundtrack of our lives. Movie score music compounds the effect, marrying melody with image, the exponential power of 24 frames per second combined with soaring tunes and magical counterpoint to provide all of us who love the movies a powerful emotional and cultural reference point, time and again. And who doesn’t love a good movie or song?

These songs are standards in both the jazz and cinematic sense.

Compiling any sort of list, however, risks sinning by omission. Nowhere does this seem more evident than in a collection of music from movies. Please forgive these sins. Each musician was invited to bring in a tune or two for the project. We played the music in concert the evening before the recording, and were encouraged by the audience’s delight in reliving these timeless melodies as told by the jazz quartet. We’re already looking forward to the next volume.

The KMF Audio Stereo Tube Microphone figures heavily in Standards 2, Movie Music, as it did in the making of the Grammy-nominated Standards CD. We hope you’ll enjoy listening to the sounds on this album as much as we enjoyed making them. The tunes and the films from whence they come deserve mention:

The 1939 film Gone With The Wind is widely considered to be one of the greatest movies ever made. Max Steiner’s score for this epic is a masterpiece unto itself. Over 2 ½ hours of music are heard throughout the film, and “no other film score has found such a warm and lasting place in the affections of so many people” according to film music historian Rudy Behlmer. Steiner’s theme for Tara is the most recognizable melody from the film. “I can grasp that feeling for Tara,” said Steiner in 1939, “which moved Scarlett’s father and which is one of the finest instincts in her, that love for the soil where she had been born, love of the life before her own which had been founded so strongly. That is why the Tara theme begins and ends the picture and permeates the entire score.” My arrangement here treats the first 3 notes of the melody as a pickup to the tune. This was the first track recorded for the album, and we got the performance in a single take. The blowing changes come from “I Fall in Love Too Easily” ~ how appropriate for Scarlett! ~ written by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn for the 1945 film Anchors Aweigh.

Go here, for more information about “STANDARDS 2” and Fuzzy Music.

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