One of Nelson Riddle's finest moments of the 60s – the wonderful original soundtrack for the campy full length Batman film! The tunes have a totally excellent blend of the dramatic and the jazzy – often using full orchestrations, but in a tight way that goes for rhythmic passages and ... read moreCD
One of the more obscure 60s albums from legendary arranger Nelson Riddle – one of a handful done for Frank Sinatra's Reprise Records label – after famously backing the singer on sessions for Capitol in the 50s! Riddle's even more creative and dynamic here than in those previous years ... (Now Sound, Soundtracks)read moreCD
A wonderful lost Nelson Riddle soundtrack – scored for the "gentlemen criminal" show The Rogues, which ran briefly on NBC during the mid 60s – starring Charles Boyer, Gig Young, and David Niven! The work is some of our favorite by Riddle during the period – lightly ... read moreCD
A rare 50s soundtrack from Renzo Rossellini (brother of director Roberto) – penned for an all-star Italian cast that included Alberto Sordi, Sophia Loren, and Vittorio De Sica! The music here has that mix of unusual string and woodwind flourishes that marked the great shifts in Italian ... read moreCD
A rare French soundtrack by Nino Rota, done for this 1960 film by Rene Clement – but filled with all the bold themes and whimsical moments of Rota's best work for Fellini! Clement's film has some beautifully spare moments that Rota scores perfectly here – letting the music drift along ... read moreCD
Pete Rugolo —
Thriller ... CD Time/Solid (Japan), 1961. New Copy ...
$16.99
An excellent crime soundtrack! Pete Rugolo's best known as the arranger who made Stan Kenton, The Four Freshmen, and June Christy sound so great in the 50s – but in later work, he did some incredible jazz soundtracks, as you'll hear on this batch of work for the TV show thriller. Tunes are ... read moreCD
A wonderfully groovy score from Carlo Rustichelli – best known to the world for his famous score for Divorce Italian Style, and working here in a style that mixes tight jazzy numbers with sparer themes in kind of a Nino Rota mode! There's some nice organ in the background on some of the best ... read moreCD
(Limited edition of 300!)
Philippe Sarde/Stan Getz —
Mort D'un Pourri ... CD Universal (Japan), 1977. New Copy ...
$13.99
A lost jazzy gem – featuring solo work by the great Stan Getz! The soundtrack is one of Philippe Sarde's greatest of the 70s – warm and mellow, with a dark edge that's fitting for the moody Georges Lautner film that accompanied it. But the real treat here is Getz – who solos ... read moreCD
There's a big ol' fuse about to set off the dynamite on the cover – and the music itself often has a similarly suspenseful mode – slow-building tunes that have a slightly different take on the usual style of western tension in 60s cinema, superbly scored by Carlo Savina! Carlo begins ... read moreCD
An amazing package of music – not just the original two albums of Lalo Schifrin music that were issued from the Mission Impossible TV show – but a massive 6CD collection that brings together work from all seven seasons of the program – a huge amount of material that's never been ... read moreCD
A beautiful score from British jazzman John Scott – an artist who's worked in so many different styles over the years, and is definitely in the moodiest side of his spectrum for this obscure satanic film from the 70s! The instrumentation is conventional, but used in really weird ways – ... read moreCD
A great collection of jazz-based soundtrack work from French modernist Martial Solal – served up here in a nicely expanded CD set! First up is Solal's score for A Bout De Souffle – a film best known as Breathless around the world, and an early movie by Jean Luc Godard that perhaps gave ... (Jazz, Soundtracks)read moreCD
A surprisingly wonderful soundtrack from Stephen Sondheim – all instrumental, which is quite a change from his more famous work for stage – but filled with loads of beautiful sounds that remind us what a fantastic composer he is! There's lots of the complex elements that we love in ... read moreCD
Very cool sounds from this Richard Conte exorcist film from the mid 70s – a movie that was also known as Naked Exorcism in some corners of the world – and which gets a soundtrack that's every bit as creepy as its title! The music is heavy on organ at times – used in a moody way ... read moreCD
Mod mod grooves from this ultra-hip Japanese combo of the 60s – a garagey group who burn with real intensity in this selection of obscure soundtrack material! The Spiders may not have reached big fame on this side of the Pacific, but back in the late 60s they were clearly the stuff of ... read moreCD
Herman Stein might not be one of the heavyweights of Hollywood scoring, but he really knocks it out of the park for his music to The Intruder – a lively dramatic soundtrack with some nice currents of jazz in the mix! The Intruder score is somewhere in territory explored by folks like Elmer ... read moreCD
Beautifully sweet sounds from a Polish TV show in the 70s – music that's got a light and dreamy vibe, and reminds us a lot of the best German easy listening of the time! Most tunes mix in sweet strings and a playful melody – often on keyboards, and with an almost Stelvio Cipriani vibe ... read moreCD
A zombie with a violin – could there be anything spookier? Maybe not, especially when set to great 80s period music by Vince Tempera – who you may know from more famous 70s Italian work teamed up with the two Bixia brothers! The music here has lots of electronic elements – beats ... read moreCD
A great soundtrack for a pretty darn obscure film – the third appearance of Inspector Clouseau, filmed after A Shot In The Dark and The Pink Panther, but featuring Alan Arkin in the title role, instead of Peter Sellers! The score is by Ken Thorne, and is quite different from more familiar ... read moreCD
(Limited edition of 1000 copies.)
Ken Thorne —
Sinful Davy ... CD Quartet (Spain), 1969. New Copy ...
$12.99
A lively little soundtrack from Ken Thorne – very much in the same mode as his better-known late 60s comedic film work! The music's got a charm that matches the image on the cover – a bright sort of 60s approach – playful at some times, bold at others – with fuller ... read moreCD
Tsushima Toshiaki —
Saru No Gundan ... CD Ultra Vybe (Japan), 1974. New Copy ...
$19.99
Really crazy soundtrack work – recorded for what looks to be a Japanese version of The Planet Of The Apes! The music is an insane blend of modes – bits of percussion, sound effects, odd electronics, and other unusual sounds – often used in tight, rhythmic ways over a series of ... read moreCD
Armando Trovajoli in the late 70s – heard here on two different soundtracks that provide a nice update to his sexy 60s groove! First up is the score for La Terrazza – which features both some uptempo funky club groovers, and some slower slinky sex-drenched tunes – at a level that ... read moreCD
A jazzy gem from Piero Piccioni – the composer who turned out some of the best spy soundtracks on the 60s Italian scene! The album's got all the best early touches of the maestro – a style that's rooted in jazz, but steps out in other mod directions too – all with the kind of ... read moreCD
Piero Umiliani —
Fischiando In Beat ... CD Omicron/Schema (Italy), 1968. New Copy Gatefold ...
$16.99
We're not entirely sure what "fischiando" means, but we can definitely testify that the album lives up to the "beat" in its title – those kind of groovy, mod tunes we love so much in Italian 60s soundtracks from the great Piero Umiliani! This set's even more obscure than ... (Sound Library, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Wonderful work from one of the grooviest soundtrack composers ever! At the end of the 60s, Piero Umiliani wrote some of the best film scores to come out of the Italian scene – and this little gem, long out of print, is certainly one of them! The album's got some beautifully jazzy numbers ... read moreCD
The music of Ennio Morricone – completely recast into a jazz setting by drummer Arthur Vint and his associates! The project's maybe a bit like the famous John Zorn reworking of Ennio Morricone music from decades ago – but the approach here is more unified, and has as much ear for the ... (Jazz, Soundtracks)read moreCD
A stunner of a soundtrack from the maestro Barry White – his only entry into the blacksploitation film genre of the 70s, and a complete doozy throughout! For the album, Barry's stripped down the bigger space of his own records, and his Love Unlimited productions – into some shorter ... (Soul, Soundtracks)read moreCD
It's no secret that some of the greatest jazz soundtracks ever were recorded in Paris – and this CD contains 2 of them! First up is the landmark Un Temoin Dans La Ville – recorded under the leadership of tenor sax player Barney Wilen, who had made such a huge contribution to Miles ... (Jazz, Soundtracks)read moreCD
A 70s soundtrack that hardly needs an introduction – given that its music and image were virtually ubiquitous at the time! The record's best known for John Williams' famous "da-da da-da" theme for the film – used in the titles, and whenever the big guy wanted to attack – ... read moreCD
A soundtrack for a very silly movie – and one of the oddest albums ever recorded by the great Paul Williams – who both sings and stars in the movie as the phantom in the title! The tunes have a surprisingly heartfelt quality that really comes out when you hear them away from the movie ... (Vocalists, Soundtracks)read moreCD
A fantastic noir soundtrack from Japan – one that's got a feel that's much deeper than some of the more familiar crime jazz modes you might expect! There's a hell of a pianist on the record – a player we can't name, because the notes are all in Japanese – but who really gets a ... read moreCD
A richly playful soundtrack from Bruno Zambrini – scored for the fourth film in the very popular Fantozzi series – and maybe even more offbeat than all the previous three soundtracks put together! There's no returning current of music at any one time – and instead, the whole ... read moreCD
A a nice mid 80s Italian comedy soundtrack Bruno Zambini – his work from 1986's Scuola Di Ladri – with 80s style keys and period European dancefloor soul influences in the mix – not as much on the goofy side as we remembered, and lots of fun! There's some definite traces of ... read moreCD
A soundtrack that's very much what you'd expect from the cover image – a later Italian comedy, and one that's scored with lots of groovy, goofy sorts of themes! There's also a nice undercurrent of sentiment, one that's maybe more French than some of the Italian material from the time – ... read moreCD
Various —
Ciao! Manhattan ... CD Cinewax/Light In The Attic, 1973. New Copy ...
$13.9915.98
The lovely and late Edie Sedgwick is the cover draw on the record and movie – but the music within is maybe an even more interesting blend of sounds, and very different than what you might expect to come from the famous star of Andy Warhol's Factory scene! Some of the music here is by Gino ... read moreCD
Sweet bossa nova from the European scene – almost all of it from the kinds of late 60s Italian soundtracks that took the best elements of the style from Brazil, then expanded it into a whole new groovy style of its own! The music here certainly has lots of the snapping rhythms and breezy ... (Funky Compilations, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Great jazzy moments from the best years of European cinema – a collection that starts out with the French New Wave, then moves into a range of great sounds from the Italian and French scene of the 60s and early 70s! Most of the music here isn't straight jazz – and instead, the cuts mix ... (Funky Compilations, Soundtracks)read moreCD
A fantastic package that really gets at the genius of Lionel Bart – the songsmith who really transformed the sound of postwar England, and helped breath new life into both the pop charts and the world of the West End musical! Bart's probably best known on these shores for his musical Oliver ... (Vocalists, Soundtracks)read moreCD
The most amazing and groundbreaking American musical phenomenon in ages gets some love from the hip hop and neo soul community that helped inspire it – spearheaded by Hamilton driving force Lin-Manuel Miranda and the mighty Questlove of The Roots! Much like the musical itself, there's a ... read moreCD
A pair of soundtracks to a film project by director Louis Panassie – a movie that presents the story of jazz, but through a range of performances that also include gospel and a bit of blues – all with music performed exclusively for the film! Much of the work is in a trad and swing ... (Jazz, Soundtracks)read moreCD
One of the less-remembered records from the era of the giant rock festival – a set of tracks that were recorded during a wild cross-country hippie caravan! Although maybe not another Woodstock, the album does have some long live tracks that are really worth seeking out – in a ... read moreCD
A fantastic collection of songs originally penned by soundtrack genius Ennio Morricone – served up here in a host of vocal versions that really show how many different artists and styles he influenced over the years! Some of the cuts here are expected Italian pop singles – vocal ... read moreCD
Some of the coolest, most swinging film themes you'll ever hope to hear – not the usual band of over-hashed classics from the 50s and 60s – but instead a really fresh, obscure collection – and one that features lots of rare work from the British scene too! Vocals and ... read moreCD
Film noir to new wave, Italian film scores, cop movies, crime jazz, blacksploitation funk, spaghetti westerns, and more!
