Jazz and the movies have a long history. Many silent films were accompanied by live ragtime, and jazz in movies increased with the advent of talkies in 1929—both in terms of background music and plots. Entire movie scores by jazz artists is a different matter. That started in the late 1950s with I Want to Live (1958/Johnny Mandel) and continued with Ana…
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