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Nov 20, 2017 - 4:51 AM
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Graham Watt
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Ah! I knew this was coming up, but I imagined that it would be a compilation from the original soundtrack scores. So it's Dick Brossé with the Brussels Sprouts. Is it recorded as a studio album, or is from a live concert? That may sound like an incredibly dumb question, but I can be incredibly dumb.
I really like Blanchard's scores. He's got the chops to pull off some powerful orchestral growlings, and a real understanding of what each instrument - and combination of them - can do. Sometimes I think that those jazz guys have more imagination, talent and daring in them than those with a more traditional schooling. Sometimes.
I know most of his work from watching the Spike Lee films, but I have very few soundtracks. Let's check... Goodness gracious me! I only have one! INSIDE MAN. But that's a particularly fine score for a movie which could have been burdened by the wall-of-sound thunderous percussion approach.
I also have his non-film album (which Peter mentions), "A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina") and it's splendid and haunting and powerfully moving.
Might add this to my Christmas list. It's cheap enough that Santa might actually bring me it (unlike those things I really really want but which cost about 30 quid).
P.S. - Funny how I only own two T.B. albums, one of them not even a film, but one of his themes for INSIDE MAN is reworked into part of the Katrina Requiem. Anyone notice that?
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Nov 20, 2017 - 6:39 AM
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nerfTractor
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Ah! I knew this was coming up, but I imagined that it would be a compilation from the original soundtrack scores. So it's Dick Brossé with the Brussels Sprouts. Is it recorded as a studio album, or is from a live concert? That may sound like an incredibly dumb question, but I can be incredibly dumb.
I really like Blanchard's scores. He's got the chops to pull off some powerful orchestral growlings, and a real understanding of what each instrument - and combination of them - can do. Sometimes I think that those jazz guys have more imagination, talent and daring in them than those with a more traditional schooling. Sometimes.
I know most of his work from watching the Spike Lee films, but I have very few soundtracks. Let's check... Goodness gracious me! I only have one! INSIDE MAN. But that's a particularly fine score for a movie which could have been burdened by the wall-of-sound thunderous percussion approach.
I also have his non-film album (which Peter mentions), "A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina") and it's splendid and haunting and powerfully moving.
Might add this to my Christmas list. It's cheap enough that Santa might actually bring me it (unlike those things I really really want but which cost about 30 quid).
P.S. - Funny how I only own two T.B. albums, one of them not even a film, but one of his themes for INSIDE MAN is reworked into part of the Katrina Requiem. Anyone notice that?
As I understand it, Terence had been working on Spike Lee’s INSIDE MAN right around the same time that Lee was putting together his epic documentary on Katrina WHEN THE KEVEES BROKE (in which Mr Blanchard also figures promently as the storm affected his family), and Lee himself made the choice to use the same music for both. The music very poignantly worked as accompaniment to the heartbreaking story of the hurricane’s devastation of the city. I imagine, though I don’t know this for a fact, that it was a natural evolution to then develop that same music into a standalone piece as a memorial.
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Would love one of those for James Newton Howard. He still hasn't got a single compilation album.
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Listened to this album a couple of times yesterday and it is excellent. A great intro for anyone not familiar with Blanchard's film work.
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