Man With the Gold Arm
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Composer: Elmer BernsteinEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2001-10-09
Music Label: Polygram UK
Soundtracks:
- Clarke Street
- Zosh
- Frankie Machine
- The Fix
- Molly
- Breakup
- Sunday Morning
- Desperation
- Audition
- The Cure
- Finale
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Free Music Review: Brilliant Use of the Jazz Idiom
Hit: 5 Stars
The 1955 movie THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM is about a former heroin addict, Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra), who is released from jail and rehab with high hopes for a future as a jazz drummer but is quickly sucked back into his old, self-destructive lifestyle. It is only when his old associates - including his clinging, deceitful wife, "Zosh" (Eleanor Parker) - are destroyed that Frankie, with the help of his true love, Molly (Kim Novak), can finally kick the drug habit for good and start to become the person he was meant to be. For this movie, Elmer Bernstein composed perhaps the most brilliant jazz score of any during the 1950's (and there were many great ones then, including SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS by Bernstein and ANATOMY OF A MURDER by Duke Ellington). The drum - Frankie's own instrument - provides the rhythmic basis of the score. In the film's opening its beat is alternately steady and agitated, just like Frankie's life; meanwhile, the brass screams and whirls out of control, mirroring Frankie's desperation as he runs off in search of one "last" fix. Appropriately, this is for the most part a very hard-edged, even brutal jazz score, reminiscent at times of Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein (his score for the film ON THE WATERFRONT), and Richard Rodgers' ballet SLAUGHTER ON TENTH AVENUE. Yet the melodramatic "Zosh" music helps characterize Frankie's wife as a self-dramatizing emotional cripple; a serene, even bucolic, Copland-esque sound is present, too (in the tracks "Molly" and "Morning," for instance), communicating Frankie's desire for peace of mind and a brighter future, and foreshadowing the movie's hopeful ending.
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Reissue of the classic Bernstein soundtrack which is acknowledged as one of the most tense an intense motion pictures ever made. The score was groundbreaking in it's day, reflecting the tightness of the film with it's palpitating, sometimes sinister jazz and symphonic arrangements. The jazz sequences are arranged and played by Shorty Rogers and His Giants with Shelley Manne. 2001.Broadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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