Reply To: Jazz scores
If I’m covering film history, I would have to include A Streetcar Named Desire as the first, and Bob Belden’s Three Days of Rain as the most recent great jazz score.
Johnny Mandel’s I Want to Live is probably my favorite.
This topic is complicated by the fact that a lot of jazz “soundtrack” albums were really promotional tie-ins, e.g., Peter Gunn, and not scores per se.