A great album from French combo Air – ingenious working on dual fronts – as the moody original score to Sofia Coppola's film adaptation of The Virgin Suicides, but it also works incredibly well as a stand-alone listening experience! While some tracks channel Pink Floyd a bit, many of ... (Rock, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Joe Albany & Others —
Low Down ... CD Cinewax, 2015. New Copy ...
$3.9915.98
A beautiful document of the late, great pianist Joe Albany – music put together in support of the film Low Down, and packaged here in a really lovely format! The movie is a poetic look at Albany – an important west coast player from the bop years onward, but one who never reached his ... (Jazz, Soundtracks)read moreCD
A mid 70s Italian cartoon, but one that features some great soundtrack work from Ennio Morricone and Alessandro Alessandroni – each of whom bring a slightly different feel to the set! Morricone composed the film's main love theme – "Forse Basta" – a beautiful number ... read moreCD
Franco Ambrosetti on flugelhorn – with Greg Osby on alto and soprano saxophones, John Scofield on guitar, Geri Allen on piano, Michael Formanek on bass, and Daniel Humair on drums. Tracks include "Angel Eyes", "What's New Pussycat", "Theme From Superman", "Ci ... (Jazz, Soundtracks)read moreCD
An amazing companion to the soundtrack album from the film Solaris – an extended suite of tracks that works in a very similar way – with electronics layered in these beautiful, hypnotic modes – sometimes noisy, sometimes pleasant – always compelling throughout, thanks to the ... read moreCD
Features music from Flying Down To Rio, Gay Divorcee, Top Hat, Roberta, Follow The Fleet, Swing Time, Damsel In Distress, Shall We Dance, Carefree, and The Sky's The Limit. CD
(Barcode has a cutout hole.)
Billy Bang —
Lucky Man ... CD BBE (UK), 2021. New Copy ...
$19.9929.99
One of the most compelling albums in years from Billy Bang – and that's really saying a lot, given how much compelling music he's recorded! The set is put together in conjunction with a fascinating documentary on Bang's life, music, and time spent fighting in Vietnam – an experience ... (Jazz, Soundtracks)read moreCD
A totally cool collection of work from the legendary John Barry – a set that features four different albums in LP-styled sleeves, packaged together in a special box! Our favorite record in the set is the Plays 007 record – a brilliant album that not only features some instrumental ... read moreCD
Our favorite chapter in the long and storied career of film score legend John Barry – music from a moment when he'd moved past the fame of his earlier James Bond soundtracks, and started hitting territory that was even more mindblowing overall! Barry was already great with Bond, and as those ... read moreCD
A great collection that moves towards some of the hipper currents of the music of John Barry – after his initial work on the James Bond scores! There's still a bit of Bond – but there's also work from Midnight Cowboy, Ipcress File, The Chase, Quiller Memorandum, The Knack, The Wrong ... read moreCD
One of John Barry's first true moments of genius – recorded back when he was the leader of a fab little instrumental combo called the John Barry 7, and was tagged to do some soundtrack work that would forever change the rest of his career! The album's got some incredible instrumental tunes ... read moreCD
Elmer Bernstein —
Men In War ... CD Kritzerland, 1957. Used ...
$14.99
A war-themed soundtrack from Elmer Bernstein – but one that has many of the same flourishes as his best jazz scores of the 50s! The Bernstein sense of drama is in place right from the start – some great stop/start orchestrations that move forward beautifully – inflected by rich ... read moreCD
One of the greatest jazz soundtracks of all time! Elmer Bernstein wrote the score to Otto Preminger's chilling film version of Nelson Algren's book The Man With The Golden Arm – a sad tale of jazz, gambling, and heroin addiction on the streets of Chicago (not far from Dusty Groove, in fact!) ... read moreCD
(1992 Japanese pressing. Cover image differs slightly.)
Brilliant sounds from the very first note – and some of the grooviest music we've ever heard from German maestro Martin Boettcher! Martin's known for both soundtrack and sound library material – and here, he's turning out some wickedly great work for a 70s German TV show – in ... read moreCD
A killer little soundtrack – and one that's quite different than the usual blacksploitation set, but still pretty funky overall! The film Black Girl was a surprisingly sensitive movie directed by Ossie Davis in the early 70s – not as much about action as it was about the everyday life, ... (Soul, Soundtracks)read moreCD
A rare later soundtrack from Dutch composer Ruud Bos – best known for some very funky work at the start of the 70s, and still going strong here a decade later! The score's got a much more mid 70s vibe than you'd expect – like some of the best American cop show work of the early 70s, ... read moreCD
A fantastic soundtrack recorded in the immediate post-Tropicalia years – featuring some of the best early 70s work by Chico Buarque, Nara Leao, Maria Bethania, and others! The cover has a mad image with Buarque, Leao, and Bethania in top hats and shiny uniforms – and the music follows ... (Brazil, Soundtracks)read moreCD
(2001 Brazilian pressing – still sealed!)
Roy Budd —
Stone Killer ... CD Cinephile/Castle (UK), Mid 70s. Used ...
$19.99
One of the darkest Roy Budd scores ever – designed to accompany a brutal police film starring Charles Bronson! The main theme has a nice electronic sound that's kind of like the "Mystery Movie" theme from the 70s – then the score moves into some nicely moody regions that ... read moreCD
RD Burman —
Mukti ... CD Subah Zindagi (UK), Late 70s. New Copy ...
$5.9916.99
A classic soundtrack from Indian film composer Rahul Dev Burman – and one that reminds us just how important the voice was to the format over the years! Unlike some Bollywood soundtracks, which have long upbeat songs that are driving the dance numbers in the film – this score has a ... (Global Grooves, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Although the great Lenny Bruce never appeared in the Bob Fosse film based on his tragic story, Dustin Hoffman did a pretty great job of recreating his style, and of bringing together good performances of some of the most important monologues by Lenny, which are often missing from his other recorded ... read moreCD
One of the most ambitious-sounding records we've ever heard from Calibro 35 – but that's no surprise, given that they're taking on the music of maestro Morricone! If you know the group at all, you'll know that they do a tremendous job taking cinematic inspiration to really funky territory ... (New Grooves, Soundtracks)read moreCD
One of the grooviest albums we've ever heard from Erlon Chaves – a Brazilian arranger who got his start in the bossa generation, later did some more traditional music – but here explodes with this great fusion of European and Brazilian soundtrack styles! The record's credited to the ... (Brazil, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Sweet 70s work from the great Stelvio Cipriani – a soundtrack genius who may well have given the world some of the sweetest music of the decade! Cipriani's got a balance of lightness and dark here that's wonderful – plenty of the sorts of keyboard lines that always give his records a ... read moreCD
Stelvio Cipriani —
Peccato Senza Malizia ... CD Chris' Soundtrack Corner (Italy), 1975. New Copy ...
$22.9929.99
Exactly the kind of slinky, sexy, warmly melodic work we love so much from the great Stelvio Cipriani – one of the few cats who can take a simple theme and spin it out in so many different ways – a good number of which involved all sorts of wonderful keyboard work, in the best tradition ... read moreCD
(Limited to 300 copies.)
Stelvio Cipriani —
Second Spring ... CD CAM/Chris' Soundtrack Corner (Germany), 1975. New Copy ...
$22.9924.99
A great little soundtrack – one that's in a mode that might well be our favorite from the Italian scene of the early 70s – a style that's funky and breezy at once, dreamy and groovy, and delivered with instrumental inflections that still have us scratching our heads at the process! ... read moreCD
A lost treasure from the legendary John Coltrane Quartet – material recorded as the soundtrack for the Canadian film Le Chat Danse Le Sac – which features new recordings of material that Coltrane had done in previous years, but really updated by the fresh version of this group! ... (Jazz, Soundtracks)read moreCD
One of our favorite-ever Miles Davis albums – even if it is a soundtrack that he recorded in France! The CD issue of this material features a whopping 20 minutes of extra material, for a total of 26 moody jazz tracks that were originally recorded for the French film Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud ... (Jazz, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Miles Davis & Michel Legrand —
Dingo ... CD Warner, 1990. Used ...
$3.99
A beautiful later album from Miles Davis – and a tremendous collaboration with composer Michel Legrand, in a set that returns Miles to the French soundtrack tradition he first started back in the late 50s! Some of the tracks here are quite spare – the kind of moody, ethereal solo ... (Jazz, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Guido & Maurizio De Angelis —
Banana Joe ... CD Beat (Italy), 1982. New Copy ...
$19.9922.99
That's the great Bud Spencer on the cover here, starring in one of his wonderfully playful comedies from the early 80s – maybe not the highest level of cinematic brilliance, but always a very good time on the screen! Music is always a key part of these films – and as in others, this ... read moreCD
A groovy little soundtrack – put together by the DeAngelis brothers for one of the earlier pairings of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer – with a sound that's arguably better than most of their later soundtracks! There's plenty of playful elements in the mix – the kind of jaunty ... read moreCD
A really unusual soundtrack from the great Manuel De Sica – scored for an early 70s gangster film, and done in a mix of modes that links together some of the more familiar De Sica styles and some of the groovier elements of the time! At the core, the composer is able to reach back with that ... read moreCD
A very groovy score for this mid 70s Italian comedy – one that stars the great Bud Spencer as "flatfoot" detective Piedone – making his way to Hong Kong to solve a crime! Yet despite the style of the film, the soundtrack is nicely different than other Italian comedic work ... read moreCD
A really beautiful soundtrack from the great Georges Delerue – one that maybe has a bit more staying power than the unusual film for which it was scored! Delerue brings a richness to the music that's wonderful right from the start – sliding sentimental strings at some point, right as ... read moreCD
Includes suites, themes and pieces from such moves as Platoon, Rich And Famous, Beaches, Exposed, Biloxi Blues, A Little Romance, Crimes Of The Heart, Her Alibi, and Rich And Famous. CD
Georges Delerue/Melina Mercouri —
Promise At Dawn ... CD Polydor/Disques Cinemusique (Canada), 1971. Used ...
$4.99
Melina Mercouri and director Jules Dassin team up once again for this early 70s dramatic film. Music is by Georges Delerue, handled in the typical style of his more serious work at the time – with plenty of dreamy touches and more dramatic moments. The soundtrack also sports a strange vocal ... read moreCD
Nat Dove & The Devils —
Petey Wheatstraw ... CD Magic Disc/Traffic, 1977. New Copy ...
$6.9914.99
One of the funkiest blacksploitation soundtracks of the 70s – a rare indie gem from Nat Dove & The Devils! Dove's got a style that's a lot rougher and rootsier than other soundtrack artists of the 70s – an approach that's more based in the modes of the indie funk underground of the ... (Soul, Soundtracks)read moreCD
After the Dust Brothers parted ways with the Beasties, their output has been pretty scant. As you'd expect from the movie, this soundtrack gets a bit over the top at times, it still has it's sublime moments too, and of course the Dust Brothers trademark funk. 15 tracks, including "Homework&qu ... read moreCD
We've always loved Duke Ellington's soundtracks, and this is one of his best, lovingly repackaged by the folks at Ryko! The score is a moody introspective one, written for a 1961 film that starred Paul Newman as a frustrated jazz musician living in Paris. The "Paris Blues" theme is a ... (Jazz, Soundtracks)read moreCD
(Out of print. 1997 Deluxe edition – with incidental dialogue from the original film! In the green tinted Ryko case.)
A great little set – way more than you might think from the cover! Ostensibly, this one's a cash-in album for the mid 70s Star Wars soundtrack craze – but since it's handled by trumpet genius Don Ellis, it's got a surprisingly funky feel – with many tracks that recall his own ... (Jazz, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Albert Elms & Ron Grainer —
Prisoner Vol 2 ... CD Silva Screen (UK), 1967. Used ...
$9.99
Nico Fidenco —
Blue Jeans ... CD Digitmovies (Italy), 1975. New Copy ...
$16.9922.99
A sexy little soundtrack from Nico Fidenco – penned for this mid 70s film about a teenage prostitute who works under the nickname "Blue Jeans"! The music's got a wonderfully whimsical feel – not as electric or Euro-erotic as you might expect from the cover, and often put ... read moreCD
We can always trust Nico Fidenco to give us a sexy soundtrack – and this time around, he definitely does that, but also adds in a fair bit more too – nicely balancing some of the erotics of the film with some of the darker passages in the story! If you only know Fidenco from ... read moreCD
A masterpiece of soundtrack scoring from Jerry Fielding – done for Sam Peckinpah's classic Mexico-set thriller with Warren Oates in the lead! Those other two names are more than enough to get us to needle drop the record – but it's Fielding's music that really captivates us – ... read moreCD