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Jazz-Related Articles

"All Night Long": Jazzing Around with "Othello"
by Paul Skrebels
The Best Cartoon You've Never Seen
by Jaime J. Weinman
Jazz and Cocktails: Reassessing the White and Black Mix in Film Noir
by Jans B. Wager
Jazz Score: The Final Set
by James Lochner
Music, Lust and Modernity: Jazz in the Films of Ingmar Bergman
by Eric Hedling
Return of the Cool
by Nick James
Saturday Night Swing Club goes Hollywood
by Mark Cantor
What You Ain't Heard Yet: The Languages of The Jazz Singer
by Joel Rosenberg

Jazz on Film Noir

Films with Jazz-Based Soundtracks

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Alex North
Alfie (1965)
Sonny Rollins
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Duke Ellington
The Benny Goodman Story (1956)
Henry Mancini / Benny Goodman
Bird (1988)
Lennie Niehaus
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Johnny Hartman
Chinatown (1974)
Jerry Goldsmith
Elevator to the Gallows (1957)
Miles Davis
The Five Pennies (1959)
Leith Stevens
I Want to Live! (1958)
Johnny Mandel
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Elmer Bernstein
Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Terence Blanchard / Bill Lee
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
John Lewis
The Pawn Broker (1964)
Quincy Jones
Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
Ray Heindorf
Round Midnight (1986)
Herbie Hancock
Taxi Driver (1976)
Bernard Herrmann
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Harry Connick, Jr.

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