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JazzWax List: Detective Jazz

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Marc Myers
Sep 12, 2011
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In the very late 1950s and early '60s, jazz, TV and the movies merged. During those years, movies and TV shows increasingly featured swinging big band jazz for themes and incidental music—particularly action films and detective shows. The hipper the leading man, the cooler the orchestration. Here are five of my favorite albums of this genre (please feel…

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