The soundtrack to the 1965 Warren Beatty art movie Mickey One is a little-known sequel to tenor saxophonist Getz and composer Eddie Sauter's superior jazz-and-strings date Focus of 1961. For the film, Getz again improvises his way across Sauter's punchy or lush orchestral charts. (Different takes were used for the LP and the film itself; the CD has both.) Given the dark moods and expressionist visuals of Arthur Penn's black-and-white allegory, however, this is the cheerful Focus's id-driven flip side. The soloist's usual limpid lyricism and melodic invention are in full view, but Getz--"in character" as a panicky entertainer on the run--indulges his more expressive side too. Tracking Mickey's progress, Sauter (and Getz) drift through playful impressions of rock & roll, polka, Vegas schlock, Salvation Army, jazz, and bossa nova, skipping lightly like style-quoting missing links between Charles Ives and John Zorn. It's vividly mysterious, fun, and a little mad--like the picture. --Kevin Whitehead
Music From The Sound Track Of 'Mickey One' Played By Stan Getz Composed By Eddie Sauter,Stan Getz,Eddie Sauter,Polygram Records,Cool,Jazz,Jazz Music,Mainstream Jazz,Pop,Post-Bop,West Coast Jazz
Jazz Music:
- My Standard
- New Groove Blues
- One Quiet Night [Import]
- Passages
- Recital By [Import] [Original recording remastered]
- Regards
- Relativity
- Saxophones a Saint-Germain des Pres [Original recording remastered]
- Shalimar
- Soft Lights and Sweet Music
Jazz Music
Palestrina: Missa de Beata Virgine 1 (1567)
Songs from the Ocean Floor [Import]
Renée Fleming - Signatures ~ Great Opera Scenes / Sir Georg Solti