The Cool World (soundtrack)

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The Cool World
Soundtrack album by
Released1964
RecordedApril 23–24, 1964
GenreJazz
LabelPhilips (Verve reissue)
ProducerHal Mooney
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
Dizzy Goes Hollywood
(1963)
The Cool World
(1964)
Jambo Caribe
(1964)

The Cool World is a 1964 soundtrack album to the film The Cool World by Dizzy Gillespie and his quintet, composed and arranged by Mal Waldron,[1] a jazz pianist and composer.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic
[1]

The

AllAboutJazz reviewer commented that the score, "alternately dark and moody and exhilaratingly brisk, is full of short, resonant tracks [...] one of the great jazz film scores."[2]

Track listing

  1. "Theme from The Cool World" – 5:17
  2. "The Pushers" – 2:34
  3. "Enter, Priest" – 4:11
  4. "Duke's Awakening" – 2:43
  5. "Duke on the Run" – 5:16
  6. "Street Music" – 2:34
  7. "Bonnie's Blues" – 4:00
  8. "Coney Island" – 3:43
  9. "Duke's Fantasy" – 2:16
  10. "Coolie" – 3:39
  11. "Duke's Last Soliloquy" – 3:04

All music composed by Mal Waldron.

Personnel

Performance

References

  1. ^
    Allmusic
    . Retrieved September 26, 2011.
  2. ^ Kanzler, George (October 4, 2009) "Dizzy Gillespie: I'm Beboppin Too & The Cool World". AllAboutJazz.