JSngry

Dude, I tried, believe me. Like you, it sounded familiar, but I couldn't place it exactly. As to where to go, try this: http://www.beyondjazz.net/ They got forums like this one and the nature of that music lends itself very nicely to your query. No promises, but hey...

When you say "blues", do you mean "blues" blues, or jazz/blues/etc (I'm asking because of the Alex North & Streetcar references)? Because I'm thinking that the underscore of a lot of older cartoons had very "jazzy" music, some of which probably might fit within your boundaries. Not sure how much, if any, has been extracted to standalone soundtracks, but there's probably some crazymad collectors/archivists/etc out there who have some something along those lines, either w/the actual scores or else recreations. But then again, animation was very "jazzy" in and of itself, and you say you're looking for sightings in un/non-expected places... But then again again, I think that most animators & their cohorts would be considered "outsiders" relative to "blues" in general, Cliff Edwards notwithstanding...

My guess? They expect a generally older demographic that's "frightened" of digital downloads. See, this is just nuts AFAIC. "Frightened" of digital downloads, yeah, ok, I know the type, but geez, they're all gonna be dead in, what, 30 days or so? Everybody else has figured out that you can either A) Buy this type stuff legit used or elsewhere if you look hard enough B) Get a burn from a friend and/or C) Download it from the internets for free. But what you can't find w/similar ease is the packaging. A professionally-printed booklet (not some ink-jet job) would be welcome, as would, in some instances, tray cards, etc. Not sure what the cost/benefit ratio on this would be, but I'd be more prone to pay, say, $4.95 for a real booklet than I would $14.95 for a CD-R of something (that I can easily get elsewhere in some form or fashion) and some "almost real" artwork... Hell, even build artist/composer/publisher royalties into the price to compensate for non-sales due do the promiscuity of digital reproductions of the musical content. I know that's a bit altruistic, but hey, it's new day!

Oh. A rights issue, I presume? Probably not going to find any separate soundtracks for those films. Hell, it's a miracle that those films even got found/preserved at all! Haven't really seen too many of them myself, so I have no idea what type musics were used in the soundtracks. But I'd have to think that there would be some blues/jazz in there somewhere, even in the underscore.

Hands down - "That Night" by Jazzanova feat. Bembe Segue. It's made a powerful connection with my heart, body, mind, and soul.

Further Bembe update: She keeps turning up on some really good broken-beat records and keeps sounding really good on them. She's also done a track w/Jazzanova, "That Night", that has really caught my ear as being a really good/interesting song. Imagine an old Strata-East thing re-imagined as a vocal vehicle perfectly suitable fodder for mainstream consumption, and that might give you an idea. Or something like one of those BN "spiritual" "with voices" albums with a vocalist taking the lead instead of an instrumentalist, that might give you an idea. Great groove, great changes, hell, great tune, period. Available for $0.89 (that's EIGHTY NINE CENTS!!!) as an Amazon download here (O-Board link built in, hopefully): http://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/order/than...wWGTZITaQ%3D%3D Some y'all might like this, some more y'all won't. C'est la vie. But ffor those who will (or even might), damn, 89 cents is a cheap price for damn near anything these days...

No interest in the African-American films?

WHOA!!!

http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=d99...p%3Bincl_cs%3D1

Yeah, her side w/Cannonball is fine, pretty much a classic, if only for "cultural soundtrack" reasons (you could, I guess, say the same thing about "Guess Who I Saw Today"), but other than that, nothing's really stuck for me over the years. Fine singer, but.... Although, I must say that I'd not mind hearing "It's Over" at least one more time before I die. That was a Top-40 hit, & I remember it as being the type of record Vicki Carr would've been making it I were in charge of making Vicki Carr & Vicki Carr records.

She quite often had top-shelf arrangers on her dates. That goes a long way for me. If the arrangements are cool enough, I can tolerate some lightweight-ish or otherwise less than fully satisfying singing as part of the total package.

Well, I'm not really "with" her all that much either, there's usually a "ground floor" of emotion missing in her singing for me, but I very much do dig Jimmy Scott.

Side note - just re-watched Anatomy the other day and was again amazed/fascinated/delighted/all of the above/etc with the exquisitely prolonged exit/decrescendo/whatever of the score out of the main title sequence into the main action. I'm not aware of any other movie that does it quite like that, although I'm certainly not enough of a film buff to have an informed opinion about that.

Yeah, the reharmonization they did makes it a whole new tune within a pre-existing one. Pretty nifty trick, and one they did on other pieces was well, but never as organically as on Stella, inmo.

This guy is a true hero. And the way the way the whole affair went down speaks volumes to the benefits of individuals and organizations spending the time and money to train and otherwise get people ready to handle the unlikely and/or unexpected. Too much of American life, personal and business, is geared towards playing the odds, with an eye towards anything else being viewed as a "luxury" or something "we don't have the resources for" or something like that. This incident shows that, yea, sometimes things do go wrong, and that yes, having people and procedures in place who are well-prepared for when they do does make a difference. When the shit hits the fan, proactivity beats reactivity damn near every time (sic)! Whether or not the positive principles displayed throughout this event proves a symbolic prelude to the upcoming change in administrations remains to be seen, but god, one certainly hopes so.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...-2004Dec24.html http://smu.edu/blackfilms/

Very good album.

You can hear Dinah in her, sure, but who you car really hear is Jimmy Scott.

EXCELLENT!!!

It was good enough for Lou Donaldson...

Deepest thanks for the tip, Ted.