CHINATOWN "soundtrack" (LP) (gold vinyl) (Roman Polanski / Jack Nicholson)
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Chinatown
original motion picture soundtrack
Format: LP
Record Label: Cinewax/Light In The Attic
Condition: New (M-/M) (unplayed copy, but I've removed the plastic/shrink wrap, put a plastic sleeve on it and separated the record to prevent seam splits during shipping)
* Record Store Day Black Friday exclusive - limited edition of 2500 copies on gold vinyl - remastered from the original tapes - housed in a deluxe Stoughton tip-on jacket with new artwork by Sterling Hundley - also contains a folded 18" x 24" poster
* Sometimes, it doesn’t take very long to create something brilliant. When producer Robert Evans rejected Phillip Lambro’s original score for Chinatown, Jerry Goldsmith was hired to create another, from scratch, in just 10 days. To say he rose to the challenge is an understatement. Goldsmith, a 20 year veteran of the TV and movie industry with credits including Dr Kildare, Planet Of The Apes and even The Waltons theme, turned in a work that was both a career peak for him and the saviour of Roman Polanski’s masterpiece of neo-noir. What was clever about it? It wasn’t quite straight jazz, it wasn’t quite classical. It was identifiably a movie soundtrack, but an unusual one at that, leaning heavily on Uan Rasey’s mournful trumpet solos, sparingly using pianos, harps, strings and percussion, and employing sounds and crashes as overtures. It doesn’t try to speak to the film’s 1930s setting so much as to the mood and feel of the movie, a piece about political and moral corruption in a water-starved LA featuring Jack Nicholson at the absolute top of his game. "I remember (Evans) speaking about the music having a contemporary feel, contemporary meaning the '30s," Goldsmith said in an interview before his 2004 death. "I said, 'Bob, I don’t think so - you see that on the screen, why should I do that in the underscore? ...Emotions are timeless.'"
* Track Listing: Love Theme From "Chinatown" (main title) / Noah Cross / Easy Living / Jake And Evelyn / I Can't Get Started / The Last Of Ida / The Captive / The Boy On A Horse / The Way You Look Tonight / The Wrong Clue / J.J. Gittis / Love Theme From "Chinatown" (end title)
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