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Woody Allen counts as one of the rare jazz-fan/filmmakers who use jazz to emphasize and punctuate their pictures. However, unlike directors who commission original scores from contemporary jazzmen as Godard, Malle, Preminger or Eastwood have done , Woody rarely went outside his own record-collection when looking for sound to illustrate his films (exceptions were the made-to-measure guitar solos recorded by Howard Alden and mimed by Sean Penn in Sweet and Lowdown, and the arrangements written by the faithful Dick Hyman for Allen's musical Everybody Says I Love You). Most of the time, Woody simply chose his music from jazz records he loved. Right from the start you can hear that Woody's tastes in jazz are extremely conventional, although a little less so when he plays the clarinet himself: on these occasions, his playing formally reproduces the Dixieland model of the Twenties. Among the things which, according to Woody, make life worth living (apart from Groucho Marx and Flaubert's Sentimental Education) is Louis Armstrong's recording of Potato Head Blues (in Woody's film Manhattan, over music by... Gershwin); Woody Allen's apparent passion for Armstrong is illustrated in a classic scene in Stardust Memories one of the most simply moving scenes in the world where Woody is listening to Louis' version of Stardust... Another of his favourite musicians is guitarist Django Reinhardt, who can be heard on several soundtracks: as a duo with Grappelli on piano; with the Quintette du

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Format: Vinyl
Artist: Woody Allen
Release Date: 02 December 2022
Genre: Jazz
Label: Diggers Factory
Distributor: MGM Music