8436563180859

Anatomy Of A Murder

Duke Ellington

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Format: CD

Cat No: 606373

Release Date:  25 August 2023

Label:  Soundtrack Factory

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  8436563180859

Genres:  Jazz  Soundtracks  

  • Description

    Special limited edition, contains 16-page booklet with vintage memorabilia.

    The 1959 courtroom crime drama Anatomy of a Murder was directed by Otto Preminger and adapted by Wendell Mayes from the best-selling homonymous novel written by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D Voelker under the pen name Robert Traver. The film stars James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden, and George C. Scott.


    Anatomy of a Murder was one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to address sex and rape in graphic terms. It includes one of Saul Bass's most celebrated title sequences, and a musical score, presented here in its entirety, composed and performed by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. Ellington himself plays a character in the film, called Pie-Eye.


    In 2012, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being of "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant".


    Duke Ellington's score won three Grammy Awards in 1959, for Best erformance by a Dance Band, Best Musical Composition, and Best Sound Track Album. A separate version of the film's title track, recorded by Ellington in the studio years later, has been added to this special edition as a bonus track.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Main Title And Anatomy Of A Murder
      • 2. Flirtibird
      • 3. Way Early Subtone
      • 4. Hero To Zero
      • 5. Low Key Lightly
      • 6. Happy Anatomy #1
      • 7. Midnight Indigo
      • 8. Almost Cried
      • 9. Sunswept Sunday
      • 10. Grace Valse
      • 11. Happy Anatomy #2
      • 12. Haupe
      • 13. Upper And Outest
      • 14. Anatomy Of A Murder [stereo Single]
      • 15. Merrily Rolling Along (Aka Hero To Zero)/Sunswept Sunday
      • 16. Beer Garden
      • 17. Happy Anatomy #3
      • 18. Polly (Aka Grace Valse, Haupe, Low Key Lightly, Midnight Indigo)
      • 19. Polly
      • 20. Happy Anatomy #4 [dixieland Version]
      • 21. More Blues
      • 22. Almost Cried [aka Flirtibird]
      • 23. Anatomy Of A Murder [a La Guy Lombardo]
      • 24. Anatomy Of A Murder [mono Single In Stereo]
      • 25. The Grand Finale [rehearsal Sequence]
      • 26. Anatomy Of A Murder [aka Upper And Outest] [later Studio Version]