The Hustler movie soundtrack – Kenyon Hopkins composer

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Artist:Kenyon Hopkins |Label:Doxy |Format: LP |Genre:Soundtrack|
Album Condition: New | Cover Condition:Sealed

The Hustler (1961) was the first truly iconic film of Paul Newman‘s career. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards: Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Art Direction and two for Best Supporting Actor. The beautiful jazz score, finally re-released on vinyl, is by the composer Kenyon Hopkins (Baby Doll, 12 Angry Men, The Fugitive Kind). A great and much-underrated composer of jazz-inflected film scores and musical portraits, Hopkins worked in television beginning in the mid-1950s and branched out into film scoring soon after. Hopkins was particularly adept at using jazz themes, rhythms, and orchestrations in his scores, often paralleling the down-and-out subjects and settings on-screen with what Basic Hiphas called, “smoky, gritty, rotten-to-the-core jazz.”tracks are;
Main Title (Stop & Go)Minnesota Fats
The Loser
Sarah’s Theme
4 Flights Up
Fast Buck
Small Time Charlie
Bert’s Theme
Contract with Depravity
All Thumbs
Dining OutDerby Time
Lipstick on a Mirror
The Winner
End TitleNEW SEALED import LP