soundtrack Archive
14 Aug 2020
Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen: A Conversation with Derrick Bang (Part 2)
Continued from Part One … Bill Kopp: I think it’s interesting the number of times in the books when you end discussion of a given film and its music from, […]
13 Aug 2020
Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen: A Conversation with Derrick Bang (Part 1)
One of the many benefits of being a music journalist is that I come into contact with all manner of creative types. So it was that my friend Cheryl Pawelski […]
12 Aug 2020
Album Review: ‘Rolling Stone: Life and Death of Brian Jones’ Soundtrack
There are at least three categories of film soundtrack albums. One is a collection of songs, scores, cues and the like, often by a single composer/artist, music created expressly for […]
09 Jun 2020
Album Review: Miles Davis – Music From and Inspired by ‘Birth of the Cool’
There’s a trend in recent years: when releasing a film’s companion audio, the CD is sometimes branded as “Music From and Inspired By…” That gives to compiler of the audio […]
14 May 2020
Album Review: Marvin Gaye — More Trouble
I’ve read critical essays that characterize Marvin Gaye’s Trouble Man as part of a triptych of albums, one of three soundtrack albums for ‘70s “blaxpliotation” films. Yet against the backdrop […]
31 Jul 2019
A Look Back at Pink Floyd’s ‘More’ Soundtrack (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… A very brief instrumental, the unimaginatively named “Party Sequence” features Nick Mason on several overdubbed bongo drums, with wife Lindy trilling along on penny whistle. Side […]
30 Jul 2019
A Look Back at Pink Floyd’s ‘More’ Soundtrack (Part 1)
As 1969 began, decisive changes were underway for Pink Floyd. After making two albums and a number of singles with Norman Smith in the control room, Pink Floyd began to […]
23 May 2019
Pistols Were a Gas: ‘The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle’ at 40 (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… The same is true—even more so—when the Sex Pistols attack “Stepping Stone.” Jones changes the chords around, and Lydon flails as is his wont, but here […]
22 May 2019
Pistols Were a Gas: ‘The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle’ at 40 (Part One)
Regardless of how one felt (or feels) about them, the Sex Pistols affected a cultural revolution in music. They were neither the first nor the best punk rock group, but—for […]
15 Nov 2018
Hundred-word Reviews, November 2018 Part 1
More hundred-word reviews. If you’ve wandered in here before, you know the drill: they’re all worthwhile and deserve deeper coverage. These ten are all archival, reissue or compilation releases. Oakland […]