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| This is a comments thread about FSM CD: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three |
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Jul 19, 2009 - 12:26 PM
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Mark Ford
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I've never heard 12 tone serialism that is as accessible and fun as it is in this score. Great driving stuff beneath the tone rows holds it all together and really propels it along.
Some tracks sound as if a minor unresolved version of the Eee-O-11 theme met up with the Escape from the Planet of the Apes opening titles, especially track 5, "Money Montage. It's like a case of "You got Ocean's in my Escape!" "No, you got Escape in my Ocean's!" All kidding aside, there's some great listening throughout with a great driving main title and some standout tracks like numbers 5 & 6.
This is a singular score that really works well in support of an excellent film. If you're looking for a modern, progressive jazz-flavored, gritty, urban, funky New York sound, you'll find it here.
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Ba-WOMP-WOMP-WOMP...
Ba-WOMP-WOMP-WOMP...
Ba-WOMP-WOMP-WOMP...
Ba-WOMP-WOMP-WOMP...
Simply one of greatest Main Themes in Film history. Period.
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LOL, LeHah, there's no such thing as a bad neighborhood in Connecticut!
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The official theme of the Lexington Avenue Local (6) train!!!
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lexedo, I mentioned that resource a while back in regard to one of your previous comments about Artie Kane. And if you click on his name, you'll get all the scores he has played on which were released by FSM and fall under the AFM list. Even within that narrow base he's on just short of one hundred FSM CDs. Stuff as diverse as THE YAKUZA, MARATHON MAN, THE ILLUSTRATED MAN and FANTASTIC VOYAGE. I think just about my favourite Artie Kane piano work is on Oliver Nelson's great ZIGZAG score. It's just amazing. Good composer too when he got the chance. It's very interesting to cross-reference other instrumentalists using the resource.
And THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1-2-3 is just about the best half hour movie score album ever.
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Dec 15, 2012 - 11:32 AM
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lexedo
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What a great resource, Graham! Thanks for pointing out the approach for using the web links, etc. His playing on Pelham 123 is really just butter - smooth and tasty.
Re: ZigZag. I actually love Oliver Nelson, and the movie is pretty cool in a 70s way also. I wonder if that's Artie Kane playing behind Anita O'Day on Green Dolphin Street (the source cue)? Whoa - that would really be something; her take is very excellent - sexy and soulful.
[edit]It makes me happy that discussions of largely unknown, but excellent, musicians can take place in this Forum. Guys like Artie Kane, Tommy Tedesco, Larry Bunker, etc. would mostly be forgotten if some of us didn't maintain the interest, which is really a jazzer thing. I am still determined to find out the LSO drummer on Brannigan - the guy ate his Wheaties that day for sure.
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I am still determined to find out the LSO drummer on Brannigan - the guy ate his Wheaties that day for sure.
A friend of mine spoke to John Richards, the recording engineer, about Brannigan (one of my favourite scores) years ago and he said then that the core rhythm section - as far as he could remember - were session musicians, with members of the LSO providing brass, strings etc.
No names alas, but people like Barry Morgan and others of his ilk spring to my mind. I'd certainly have put my money on someone like him rather than an LSO drummer.
EDIT: I agree with Graham by the way - The Taking of Pelham 123 is the perfect half-hour score album.
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Back to ZIGZAG, Artie Kane and Anita O'Day for a moment - I'm a bit fuzzy-headed this morning, so I'm having difficulty assimilating info, but the liner notes for ZIGZAG say that the version of "On Green Dolphin Street" (Disc 1, Track 22) is a "pre-record" with Ray Mace on piano, while the version heard on Track 27 is the "orchestrated film version" - which I suppose suggests that it could be Kane on piano in that one at least.
The other standards sung by Anita O'Day on the ZIGZAG CD are, as you'll know, from THE OUTFIT. Ray Mace was again the pianist on those, although it's Artie Kane on the actual Fielding tracks.
I know this thread is about THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123, but my post is relevant because I've somewhat "derailed" it, and I've also used the word "track" twice. Humour doesn't get much better than this.
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