Ellington's first film score, urged to undertake it by the film's director Otto Preminger. Ellington was a natural choice to convey the rich and varied emotional moods of this drama. Tension and release, danger and safety, movement and stillness, darkness and light. The textural palette that was Ellington's signature was always compellingly cinematic.

Released in 1959, the film Anatomy Of A Murder was banned in several cities because of indecent language and its sexual and violent subject matter. But its soundtrack stood out from the start as one of the best Jazz compositions around. Evocative, alluring, eloquent, 'it beckons like the scent of a femme fatale'...

Available as a limited 60th-anniversary edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on transparent red vinyl.

TRACKLIST :

A1. Main Title And Anatomy Of A Murder

A2. Flirtibird

A3. Way Early Subtone

A4. Hero To Zero

A5. Low Key Lightly

A6. Happy Anatomy

B1. Midnight Indigo

B2. Almost Cried

B3. Sunswept Sunday

B4. Grace Valse

B5. Happy Anatomy

B6. Haupe

B7. Upper And Outest