Hopkins, Kenyon: The Hustler (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Kenyon Hopkins: The Hustler (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - VINYL LP

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Title:

The Hustler (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Artist:

Kenyon Hopkins

Label:

Doxy

Product Type:

VINYL LP

UPC:

889397381097

Genre:

Soundtrack

Release Date:

2014-12-16

The Hustler (1961) was the first truly iconic film of Paul Newman's career. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards: Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Art Direction and two for Best Supporting Actor. The beautiful Jazz score, finally re-released on vinyl, is by the composer Kenyon Hopkins (Baby Doll, 12 Angry Men, the Fugitive Kind). a great and much-underrated composer of Jazz-inflected film scores and musical portraits, Hopkins worked in television beginning in the mid-1950 's and branched out into film scoring soon after. Hopkins was particularly adept at using Jazz themes, Rhythms, and Orchestrations in his scores, often paralleling the down-and-out subjects and settings on-screen with what Basic Hip has called, "smoky, gritty, rotten-to-the-core Jazz."
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