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I'd like to mention STRESS by Marius Constant & Martial Solal, although this is NOT a film score (for those who don't know Marius Constant, he's the composer of the THE TWILIGHT ZONE theme for season 2 )
Here I reproduce some of the liner notes for this CD (ERATO 2292-45778-2) :
Ever since jazz burst upon the western world for the first time composers have been trying to combine it with "serious" music, but the results have not in general been satisfactory. The chief problem has been a failure of assimilation : either the jazz element is reduced to the level of the merely quaint and exotic or the "serious" element is itself handled far too inhibitedly.
In "Stress" two composers, each of whom has a thorough understanding of both these musical traditions; come together in an exchange or dialogue which has nothing cosy about it but is interspersed with clashes, moments of friction and collisions. Whereas Solal's music is based on pearly lines, side-slipping pulsations of out-of-phase strong beats, and subtle harmonic schemes, Constant's makes use of strange timbres and clothes the Farbenmelodien in startlingly novel and yet strictly organized patterns of natural sonorities : the result is a fusion of their two worls, a conflict or a marriage between their styles.
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Another good choice is Mandel's POINT BLANK, although at 1967, it's coming in at the tail end of the period being discussed.
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There's one particular track on André Previn's THE SUBTERRANEANS which I think fits the bill. I can't recall the name of the cue offhand, but if you have it, you'll know what I'm talking about. It gets particularly nervously angularly longhaired near the end. I think it mirrors somebody at a party listening to the cool jazz sounds, then he or she gets totally pissed and blasted on drugs and runs down the street naked, blitzed. Brilliant depiction of manic madness from Previn's jazzy and symphonic masterpiece.
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