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Young Man With a Horn |
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| Styles: |
Easy Listening - Vocal - Jazz - Big Band - Traditional - Labels - Sony - Swing - Trumpet |
| Media: |
Audio CD |
| Release Date: |
31 May 1999 |
| Label: |
Sony Jazz |
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| UPC Catalogue No: |
5099706550822 |
| Amazon Sales Ranking: |
42993 |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Description |
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The 1950 film Young Man With A Horn has a special place in the iconography of jazz as the first full-scale Hollywood treatment of the jazz musician as tortured genius, with Kirk Douglas first essaying the role he would later perfect as Vincent van Gogh in Lust For Life. Though the film was based very loosely on the life of Bix Beiderbecke, his introspective music was jettisoned in favour of more conventional, flamboyant, bravura trumpeting (suggesting Bunny Berigan as an alternative model for the self-destructive hero). At the time, Doris Day was making the transition from band singer to a specialist in "good girl" movie roles and she does a fine job on the film's torchy standards, especially "With A Song In My Heart", singing with a clear, distinctive voice that is so unaffected that it seems like a conduit for a songwriter's intentions. Harry James brings his rhythmic drive and sparkling technique to the soundtrack's hybrid of swing and 1920's jazz, while his gorgeous sound is most striking on the lush, frankly Gershwin-inspired "Melancholy Rhapsody". --Stuart Broomer |
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Tracks |
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I may be wrong |
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Man I love |
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Very thought of you |
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Pretty baby |
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Melancholy rhapsody |
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Would I love you |
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Too marvellous for words |
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Get happy |
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I only have eyes for you |
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Limehouse blues |
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With a song in my heart |
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Lullaby of Broadway |
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Moanin' low |
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