Teasing the Korean Posted September 20, 2008 Report Share Posted September 20, 2008 (edited) Any fans aside from me? I listened to the uber-rare LP for "The Hustler" today and was again blown away. There is hardly anything by him on CD. What is up with that? Edited September 20, 2008 by Teasing the Korean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted September 20, 2008 Report Share Posted September 20, 2008 if my 1950s jazz book ever sees the light of day, I have some things on him - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted September 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2008 if my 1950s jazz book ever sees the light of day, I have some things on him - How about sharing some with us now, as a teaser for your upcoming book? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bright Moments Posted September 20, 2008 Report Share Posted September 20, 2008 he looks like kevin spacey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted September 21, 2008 Report Share Posted September 21, 2008 happy to post something - will have to find the stuff and maybe post tomorrow - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted September 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 happy to post something - will have to find the stuff and maybe post tomorrow - Whatd'ya find? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted September 27, 2008 Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 sorry, been busy - promise I will look tomorrow - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bill Barton Posted September 29, 2008 Report Share Posted September 29, 2008 (edited) Interesting. I wasn't familiar with his name until now although I do recall the music from "The Hustler." After checking out an online discography (Kenyon Hopkins) I wondered if anyone knows whether the East Side/West Side score is for the TV series that starred George C. Scott, Cicely Tyson and Elizabeth Wilson (East Side/West Side) or for a film. Edited September 29, 2008 by Bill Barton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted September 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2008 Interesting. I wasn't familiar with his name until now although I do recall the music from "The Hustler." After checking out an online discography (Kenyon Hopkins) I wondered if anyone knows whether the East Side/West Side score is for the TV series that starred George C. Scott, Cicely Tyson and Elizabeth Wilson (East Side/West Side) or for a film. It is indeed the "soundtrack" for that show. The quotes around "soundtrack" refer to the fact that TV "soundtrack" albums from that period could be very different from what was heard on the show. That said, Kenyon Hopkins did both the music for the TV show as well as the album, so I'm assuming there was at least some thematic consistency. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted September 29, 2008 Report Share Posted September 29, 2008 I used to have the Lilith soundtrack. I once interviewed Warren Beatty and much to my surprise he didn't like the film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted February 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 (edited) Just found out these two sessions are combined on a single CD: http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=vd79mp3v28&ref=browse.php&refQ=kwfilter%3Dkenyon%2Bhopkins%26amp%3Bincl_oos%3D1%26amp%3Bincl_cs%3D1 Edited February 27, 2010 by Teasing the Korean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted July 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2010 "Shock" and "Panic" have been reissued as well: http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=wmyty47tsd&ref=browse.php&refQ=kwfilter%3Dshock%2Bpanic%26amp%3Bincl_oos%3D1%26amp%3Bincl_cs%3D1 A friend of mine told me that these used to be available through comic books and monster magazines! Allen, did you ever dig up the info you had on Hopkins from your forthcoming 1950s jazz book? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man with the Golden Arm Posted July 2, 2010 Report Share Posted July 2, 2010 I could see those caf-fiend jags of yours Shock and Panic right next to the Jack Davis Frankenstein door poster! TTK, have you ever heard his OST of 'Mr. Buddwing"? Absolutely essential. I found a nice lp copy that I need to digitize somehow and share. I asked the folks at FSM about any re-issue plans of his work and was told it would be a licensing nightmare(?). All the cool work is on CTI and Columbia, I believe? 'East Side - West Side', 'The Reporter', 'Yellow Canary', 'Lonelyville' and 'Buddwing' would make a great Mosaic Select. I've heard most thru the fine folks out in the ethers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted July 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2010 TTK, have you ever heard his OST of 'Mr. Buddwing"? Absolutely essential. I found a nice lp copy that I need to digitize somehow and share. I asked the folks at FSM about any re-issue plans of his work and was told it would be a licensing nightmare(?). All the cool work is on CTI and Columbia, I believe? 'East Side - West Side', 'The Reporter', 'Yellow Canary', 'Lonelyville' and 'Buddwing' would make a great Mosaic Select. I've heard most thru the fine folks out in the ethers. Yes, I love "Buddwing," maybe my favorite overall. Over the years I've found many of his best ones, but a few have eluded me. Why would any one of those titles be any harder to license than anything else? I could see the problems with a box set. Yellow Canary and Buddwing are both on Verve - that would have been a nice twofer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted July 2, 2010 Report Share Posted July 2, 2010 (edited) only took a few years, but finally pulled my '50s ms and found only this brief graf on Hopkins: "The intelligence and brainy introspection of these new jazz compositional styles attracted attention in other quarters, with other types of artists who had not commonly collaborated with jazz and jazz musicians. The composer Kenyon Hopkins wrote the music for a dance piece called Rooms (choreographed by Anna Sokolow) and recorded it with Teo Macero on tenor saxophone. Hopkins, who would go on to write a number of movie soundtracks (like Lilith, This Property is Condemned, and Mr. Buddwing) was an interesting, adventurous, and cerebral composer. The episodic nature of the dance piece freed him up to depart from conventional ideas of thematic continuity and resolution, and gave Rooms a disconnected, existential, quality. Not strictly jazz, it made much more than indirect reference to it, and was a piece that, if not exactly jazz in format and expression, could not have been without jazz as precedent and inspiration. On the other hand, Rooms also drew from some ideas and forms that were quite foreign to the experience of the average jazz musician." Edited July 2, 2010 by AllenLowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted July 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2010 only took a few years, but finally pulled my '50s ms and found only this brief graf on Hopkins: Thanks for sharing Allen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 20, 2019 Report Share Posted March 20, 2019 Found this today for $4.99. Don't think I'll like it, but it's worth a fin to find out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgcim Posted March 21, 2019 Report Share Posted March 21, 2019 5 minutes ago, JSngry said: Found this today for $4.99. Don't think I'll like it, but it's worth a fin to find out! Phil Woods playing Hawaiian music? This might even be worse than Greek Cooking! No wonder he split for France. Kenyon used to use him on all his movie, TV and jingles work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 21, 2019 Report Share Posted March 21, 2019 Don't know how "Hawaiian" it actually is...that's why I bought it, to find out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted March 24, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2019 On March 21, 2019 at 8:15 PM, JSngry said: Don't know how "Hawaiian" it actually is...that's why I bought it, to find out. These albums are fairly hard to find, in my experience. I have two of them - France and Spain - and neither has received many repeat spins. I think Hopkins was really collecting a paycheck on these. I few of his Capitol albums fall into a similar category. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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