Music From The Sound Track Of 'Mickey One' Played By Stan Getz Composed By Eddie Sauter

Artist: Stan Getz , and Eddie Sauter
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 731453123229
EAN: 0731453123229
ASIN: B00000DLX7

Release Date: 1998-11-24

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1965: The Year In Film (Part 3)

Tracks:

Once Upon a Time
Mickey's Theme
'On Stage (I'm a Polack Noel Coward)'/Mickey's Flight/The Crushout (Total Death)
Is There Any Word From the Lord/Up From Limbo/If You Ever Need Me/A Taste of Living...
The Succuba
Mickey Polka
'Where I Live'/The Apartment/Cleaning Up for Jenny/The Polish Landlady
I Put My Life in Your Hands/A Girl Named Jenny
Yes-The Creature Machine/Gulity of Not Being Innocent/Touching in Love/A Five Day Life...
Morning Ecstasy (Under the Scaffold)
As Long as I Live
Is There Any Word?/So This Is the Word
Mickey's Flight
Once Upon a Time
Mickey's Flight/The Crushout
Is There Any Word From the Lord?/Up From Limbo/If You Ever Need Me...
A Girl Named Jenny
Touching In Love
(Going to) Who Owns Me/The Big Fight
Morning Ecstasy
Is There Any Word?/So This Is the Word

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Customer Reviews:

The Most Important Soundtrack Ever Recorded.......2006-08-01

I first heard this music on a mono MGM lp, maybe around 1967...when I was seventeen playing on a fine portable stereo with take off speakers and tip down turntable. Even then, very inexperienced as I was, (No MIngus or Bitches Brew yet) this album struck me as extraordinary. This music is the most exciting and brilliant music that I have on any album or CD since then....it smoothly starts kinda Bossa, then moves right into power story telling with no holds barred. The sheer variety of sound that Eddie Sauter pulls out of his orchestra with Getz is staggering, and even when he let a polka emit out of the blitz, it bristles with a raw power...(WHen I first heard the polka which only last about a minute or so, as a 17 year old, I blew it off. ) What strikes you about this material is the dynamics...if you know the live Mingus, it approaches it, but Mingus never worked ideas like these....with that singular Getz voice becoming the interior of the Warren Beatty character always panicked....and never free. There's an early section where Getz plays three different solos over each other..all parts of the confused mind of the lead character....There are so many moments that move from sheer agony and fear into triumph and bliss, that it's almost too much to give yourself over to. Trust me, you've never heard anything like this album....and the previous collaberation between Eddie Sauter and Getz (Focus) doesn't come anywhere near this. This isn't just some avante-garde music that riffs along....this is some nailed grandeur singing in the streets. If you are a seeker of the extraordinary in music....this is at the top. Here's something else that's very unusual about this date. If you watch the film Mickey One in a theatre revival or on video, it seems that the soundtrack is a lesser, more subdued version the LP. It is. For the first time I've ever heard it, the version on the LP and CD is a redone full blown version done after the film version, with everyone now certain of the direction and power inherant in the structure. However on the CD, after this version, they add the film's quieter version, much less dynamics and simply not memorable as such. After that they even have various takes on sections, with studio conversations being heard...ala the Carl Stalling cartoon CD's. Speaking of Stalling, when he is at his most brilliant, it is very reminiscent of this score in it's imagination. What else do I think is amazing so you can have an idea where I come from? Well, Tom Waits Small Change still holds up as a masterpiece, along with a great deal of his later work...(I have a ton of video of the '80s stuff). I was a big nut over the Miles Electric period when that stuff came out, and still think Bitches Brew is as smooth as butta...I think what Paul Morelenbaum is doing is very hip....I think Joanna Newson is more talented than just about everybody.....I love Paul Bowles music by the EOS orchestra....Eric Satie, both Bernsteins, Bjork, Louis Jordan, and Henry Mancini's hard and experimental side. Whenever I hear that player piano from Touch Of Evil....the whole world just stops for me.
Get this Mickey One CD, don't play it as background...just hear the main version and just sit there....read the booklet. Or Krishnamurti. Andre in San Francisco

Jazz in Via Negativa.......2000-12-26

The soundtrack to Arthur Penn's Paranoid, neurotic "Mickey One" is a big, splendid failure, a score more concerned with defending a musical position than with being a cohesive soundtrack.

First, "Mickey One" tries to prove that Getz and Sauter's incomparable "Focus" was not a beautiful cul-de-sac but a valid and accessible musical tangent that could have been explored long into the future. "Mickey One" is highly listenable, masterful in places, but the shape of the film dictates that the tone of the music lunge around much too quickly to really be a kind of jazz 'tone poem' on the level of "Focus". Had Getz and Sauter worked on a slower, more meditative film, the discoveries of "Focus" might have found easier real world applications.

Second, the modish attempts to tweak the score to the film are not always successful. When Getz tries to infuse his playing with Mickey's paranoia, it just sounds like bad saxophone playing. But for the most part, the sharpened, knifelike quality to the recording does work. In places it sounds like Stan had been keeping his reeds in the freezer; but even so, he comes out sounding very good -- very "startlingly cinematic".

"Mickey One" is not a great score, but Getz is in fine form, there is some strong and lovely music here ... as well as some frantically overambitious scoring. This is a great disc to have on when you are trying to do nineteen things at once, because it's music that understands your dilemma.

Not a classic but a must for any Getz fan.

Stan's ballads establish lonely mood in spikey nervous score.......1999-02-08

Stan Getz worked with Eddie Sauter on "Focus" (Verve), one of Stan's best efforts and the record he was proudest of. Throughout his life he again tried to improvise with Sauter's arrangements and an orchestra with a score.

This time it didn't work. the music is very episodic (as most soundtracks are); only in the longer, lonely ballads does Stan show his stuff and establish an effective mood. The rest is full of fits and starts. Nervous, anxious music, spikey , dissonant, and experimental avante garde like the introduction to West Side story or Bernstein on a bad day .

Recording quality is quite bright and harsh.

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