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New "Jazz In Polish Cinema" Box Set Release, Featuring Previously Unissued Krzysztof Komeda

Source: Selwyn Harris
November 5, 2014

Jazz on Film Records announces the release on November 17th of a definitive 4-CD box set titled Jazz in Polish Cinema (Out of the Underground 1958-67) with rare and previously unreleased original soundtracks following its highly acclaimed French New Wave Volume, that reached # 5 in Mojo Magazine’s best soundtrack CDs of 2013. The box set is a treasure-trove of rare and previously unissued classic jazz film soundtracks written by a pair of legendary Polish composers-pianists Krzysztof Komeda and Andrzej ...

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French New Wave (5-CD Box Set) Released On Jazz On Film Records

Source: Selwyn Harris
November 1, 2013

“Jazz was an integral part of the artistic scene that centred around the St-Germain-des-Pres. So it was only logical that the young, new wave directors made films by day using the same music they heard in the clubs at night.” Marcel Romano supervisor at Miles Davis’ Lift to the Scaffold studio recording, Dec. 1957) Jazzwise magazine Jazz on Film writer Selwyn Harris presents French New Wave produced, compiled, annotated by Harris and digitally remastered by the same engineer that produced ...

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Jazz On Film... Beat, Square & Cool, Vol. 2 In The Highly Acclaimed Jazz On Film Box Set Series

Source: Selwyn Harris
November 24, 2012

Beat Square & Cool—the 2nd box set in the Jazz on Film series following last year’s Film Noir—is not just a collection containing some of the greatest jazz-inspired film scores ever recorded, but it also tells the story of how jazz (mostly drawing from the bebop that was one of the defining American subcultural and artistic moments of the post-war era)became the soundtrack to key 'outsider' movies from the first wave of youth rebellion, teen angst and the emerging Beat ...

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