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Too Late Blues

Too Late Blues

Limited Edition of 1,000 Copies

Kritzerland (KR 20025-7)

Release Date: June 24, 2013

Conducted by David Raskin

Format: CD

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Track Listing

1. Seal One Part 1 – Sax Raises Its Ugly Head
2. Theme from Too Late Blues (A Song After Sundown)
3. The Rim Shot Heard 'Round the World
4. Mother Time (Juke Box)
5. Something Like Noodles/Something Like Bulio/Something Like That
6. Heel and Toe – Get Wildroot Hair Oil, Charlie
7. Bass Canard (Short Version)
8. Look Inward, Angel
9. Danzon
10. A Song After Sundown
11. Sambalero
12. Recording Studio Part 2 – A Song After Sundown
13. Wither Thou, Ghost!
14. Blues for Tomorrow
15. Ulysses in Swanktown
16. Like Lasagna
17. Ghost Blows Test
18. Benny Splits While Jimmy Rowles
19. Ciudad de Mexico
20. Wife's Other John
21. Finale – The Rim Shot Heard 'Round the World
22. Paramount Seal and Tie-In (Alternate Version)
23. BONUS TRACKS: Danzon
24. Ciudad de Mexico
25. Some Other Time
26. Benny Splits While Jimmy Rowles (Short Version)
27. Look Inward, Angel (Combo)
28. Look Inward, Angel (Combo – Long Version)
29. The Rim Shot Heard 'Round the World (Alternate Version)
30. Sambalero
31. Bass Canard (Long Version)
32. Wife's Other John (Extended Version)
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From the Manufacturer

Too Late Blues (1962) is certainly one of the greatest films ever made about the jazz world. Despite being a studio movie and being scripted, it feels like jazz, like an improvisation.

Too Late Blues is a beautifully made film, with great performances and gorgeous black-and-white photography, and a score to die for, by the great David Raksin. There is a lot of jazz in Too Late Blues. The easy way out would have been to do standards, but Raksin wrote all original music for the film, even for the source cues. And what music it is—Raksin at his best, and Raksin at his best is as good as it gets. It didn't hurt that he was working with some of the best West Coast jazz players of that era, including Red Mitchell, Benny Carter, Shelly Manne, Jimmy Rowles, Milt Bernhart, and the best studio musicians anyone could hope for—including the amazing trumpet player Uan Rasey.

Raksin wrote one of his most exquisite and inspired themes for the film, which he titled "A Song After Sundown." It's heard in jazz guises, within the dramatic score, and even as a vocalized performed by Stella Stevens' character. It's a haunting, melancholy theme filled with sadness and yearning—classic Raksin, as are the jazz cues and the dramatic score. It's all of a piece—absolute perfection in the picture and wonderful to listen to outside the film as well.

This is the world-premiere release of Too Late Blues. We had access to the scoring session masters and the original prerecords done for the "live" playing in the film. The latter were all recorded in one-track mono, while the score cues and some of the source cues were recorded in three-track stereo. Given how the music functions in the film (the first dramatic score cue occurs over an hour into the film), we took a different approach in sequencing the album, trying for an optimal listening experience rather than strict film order—which would have given an hour of jazz cues before the first score cue. We have included all the music written for the film—first the film cues, and then a bonus section filled with alternates and various odds and ends, over seventy-six minutes of prime David Raksin.

This release is limited to 1000 copies only.

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