The Cool World (soundtrack)

The Cool World is a 1964 soundtrack album to the film The Cool World by Dizzy Gillespie and his quintet, composed and arranged by Mal Waldron,[1] a jazz pianist and composer.

This article is about the soundtrack from the 1963 film. For the 1992 film soundtrack, see Cool World (soundtrack).
The Cool World
Soundtrack album by
Dizzy Gillespie
Released1964
RecordedApril 23–24, 1964
GenreJazz
LabelPhilips (Verve reissue)
ProducerHal Mooney
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
Dizzy Goes Hollywood
(1963)		 The Cool World
(1964)		 Jambo Caribe
(1964)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album four stars and said that "This set is one of Diz's best records of the 1960s (which is saying something), and one of the best jazz film scores period...Waldron's sense of economy in picking both impressionistic and expressionist avenues for blues to speak through jazz in an inspired quintet like this is remarkable -- the temptation would be to excess at every turn, especially given Waldron's gift for sophisticated harmonies and spacy lyrical concerns...Ultimately, the soundtrack to Cool World is an enormous success artistically, standing head and shoulders over virtually every other such effort of the period, and a welcome addition to the Gillespie catalog, offering a very keen and muscular view of his 1964 band".[1] An AllAboutJazz reviewer commented that the score, "alternately dark and moody and exhilaratingly brisk, is full of short, resonant tracks [...] one of the great jazz film scores."[2]

Track listing
  1. "Theme from The Cool World" – 5:17
  2. "The Pushers" – 2:34
  3. "Enter, Priest" – 4:11
  4. "Duke's Awakening" – 2:43
  5. "Duke on the Run" – 5:16
  6. "Street Music" – 2:34
  7. "Bonnie's Blues" – 4:00
  8. "Coney Island" – 3:43
  9. "Duke's Fantasy" – 2:16
  10. "Coolie" – 3:39
  11. "Duke's Last Soliloquy" – 3:04

All music composed by Mal Waldron.

Personnel

Performance

References
  1. "The Cool World". Allmusic. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
  2. Kanzler, George (October 4, 2009) "Dizzy Gillespie: I'm Beboppin Too & The Cool World". AllAboutJazz.
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