Duke Ellington - Anatomy Of A Murder + 1 Bonus Track [New CD] Bonus Track, With

INCLUDES 1 BONUS TRACKThe 1959 courtroom crime drama "Anatomy of a Murder" was directed by Otto Preminger and adapted by Wendell Mayes from the best-selling homonymous novel written by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker under the pen name Robert Traver.The film stars James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden, and George C. Scott. "Anatomy of a Murder" was one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to address sex and rape in graphic terms. It includes one of Saul Bass’s most celebrated title sequences, and a musical score, presented here in its entirety,composed and performed by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. Ellington himself plays a character in the film, called Pie-Eye.In 2012, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. Duke Ellington’s score won three Grammy Awards in 1959, for Best Performance by a Dance Band, Best Musical Composition First Recorded and Released in 1959 and Best Sound Track Album.A separate version of the film’s title track recorded by Ellington in the studio years later has been added as a bonus.ALL MUSIC COMPOSED BY DUKE ELLINGTON & BILLY STRAYHORNDUKE ELLINGTON & HIS ORCHESTRA:Clark Terry, Cat Anderson, Harold “Shorty” Baker (tp),Ray Nance (tp, vln, vcl), Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman, John Sanders (tb),Jimmy Hamilton (cl, ts), Russell Procope (as, cl), Johnny Hodges (as, sop),Paul Gonsalves (ts), Harry Carney (bar, b-cl, cl),Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn (p, celeste), Jimmy Woode (b), Jimmy Johnson (d).Columbia Films soundstage, Los Angeles, May 29 & June 1-2, 1959.INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLETTRACKS:01 MAIN TITLE AND ANATOMY OF A MURDER02 FLIRTIBIRD03 WAY EARLY SUBTONE04 HERO TO ZERO05 LOW KEY LIGHTLY06 HAPPY ANATOMY #107 MIDNIGHT INDIGO08 ALMOST CRIED09 SUNSWEPT SUNDAY10 GRACE VALSE11 HAPPY ANATOMY #212 HAUPE13 UPPER AND OUTEST14 ANATOMY OF A MURDER [Stereo single]15 MERRILY ROLLING ALONG (aka HERO TO ZERO)/SUNSWEPT SUNDAY16 BEER GARDEN17 HAPPY ANATOMY #318 POLLY (aka GRACE VALSE, HAUPE, LOW KEY LIGHTLY, MIDNIGHT INDIGO)19 POLLY20 HAPPY ANATOMY #4 [Dixieland version]21 MORE BLUES22 ALMOST CRIED [aka FLIRTIBIRD]23 ANATOMY OF A MURDER [a la Guy Lombardo]24 ANATOMY OF A MURDER [Mono single in Stereo]25 THE GRAND FINALE [rehearsal sequence]26 ANATOMY OF A MURDER [aka UPPER AND OUTEST][later studio version] (*)(*) BONUS TRACKSTOTAL TIME: 79:31 Min.