Dave Gelly 

Various: Jazz on Film – The New Wave II review – a rich and enjoyable collection

British jazz comes into its own on this eight-CD compilation of soundtracks from the late 1950s and early 60s
  
  

saturday night and sunday morning
All that jazz: Albert Finney and Shirley Anne Field in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive

At last, British jazz gets a chance to shine in this monumental series of soundtrack box sets. Dating mainly from the late 1950s/early 60s, the contents of these eight CDs include such landmarks as John Dankworth’s scores for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Criminal, along with All Night Long, a shambles of a film, but with music by Tubby Hayes. There’s also the virtually forgotten Nowhere to Go, sparked by the composition and trumpet playing of Dizzy Reece. Naturally, too, there’s a lot of Michel Legrand – less well-known ones, such as Eva and Cléo de 5 à 7 – plus some American classics, like Too Late Blues. As always, a rich and enjoyable collection.

 

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