Favorite trumpet music on movie soundtracks

Jeff Young · Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2002 8:48 pm Post subject:

A wealth of great trumpet exists on soundtracks. I'll start off with two of my favorites.

Paramount's "Living it Up", a 1954 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedy contains a wild dance scene with Lewis, and an equally wild and wailing trumpet in the background. I'm almost positive it was Maynard Ferguson since he was under contract for that studio at the time. Maybe someone can verify this.

Jimmy Stewart starred in "Anatomy of a Murder" in 1959. Duke Ellington wrote the score and his orchestra recorded the track. Cat Anderson can be heard during the closing moments with a soaring jazz cadenza and some amazing stratopheric chirps. I don't know if this recording exists on cd, but it was once available on vinyl.

Jeff Young

pedaltonekid · Heavyweight Member Joined: 15 Nov 2001 Posts: 1711

In the movie "Hooper" with Burt Reynolds they start out with what I think was "La virgin de la Macarena" that was awesome.
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budfan · Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2002 7:20 am Post subject:

The "Saving Private Ryan" soundtrack is filled with great trumpet solos and great brass playing in general. Timothy Morrison is amazing.

OzTrumpeteer · Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2002 8:29 am Post subject:

I like Uan Rasey's playing on the "Chinatown" soundtrack. A beautiful, full sound that, IMHO, really adds to the tone of the movie. Great writing by Jerry Goldsmith, too.

Anatomy of a Murder is available on cd, I think it was reissued a couple of years ago.

Martin · Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 2:38 am Post subject:

"Elevator to the Scaffold".
French "film noir" with soundtrack by Miles Davis.
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mark936 · Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 2:46 am Post subject:

The opening song of "True Grit" the cornet solo.

"Dirty Harry" sound tracks.

The latin ballroom dance number in "Saturday Night Fever."

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trjeam · Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 4:24 pm Post subject:

I really like the soundtrack to Arturo Sandoval's movie "For Love or for Country" It has some great trumpet playing.
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kzem · Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 6:19 pm Post subject:

I know you said "Movie" soundtracks, but...
Remember that TV show called "Parker Lewis Can't Lose?" Maynard had a cool solo on that show's opening theme song. I think it was on in the early 90's.

Kurt Z

mark936 · Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 6:57 pm Post subject:

Kzem.

NOPE.

mark936 · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 4:13 am Post subject:

How about all those "James Bond" soundtracks and theme songs?

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AccentOnTrumpet · Heavyweight Member Joined: 03 Nov 2002 Posts: 878

I really like "China Town" and "Elevator To The Scaffold" with Miles. The latter is a great album, a funny story from the making of it is on "Dinner At The Motel", supposedly a piece of Miles's lip came off in the mouthpiece while he was playing and got stuck in the pipe of the mouthpiece which made the sound weirder, but Miles kept going and did some interesting things with the situation, making it all look like he had intended to do it the whole time. That's Miles for you,

dbacon · Heavyweight Member Joined: 11 Nov 2001 Posts: 8592

Movie-"Elmer Gantry"

Composer-Andre Previn

Lead Trumpet-Uan Rasey

Uan told me the story in a lesson on Schlossberg Ex. 31, practiced very soft well above high C.

"Be carefull who hears you play this. Andre Previn heard me warm-up with it and wrote it into the score!"

You'll hear a pianisimo slurred (and clean) high C, high G, G on the staff. As easy sounding as if a flute played it.

With feeling.

Dave Bacon

PorkChops · Regular Member Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 11

There is some really creative trumpet work in the movie version of the musical Chicago. I don't know who he is yet, but this guy had a real nice sound.

ALLCHOPS · Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 11:16 am Post subject:

"I The Jury" Mid 70's flick w/ a great screamer on it. I don't know who he was.
Tony

_trumpetgod_02 · Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 11:28 am Post subject:

Sound Track to the movie "The Mask" with Jim Carrey.

And the sound track to "Glory"
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psalt · Regular Member Joined: 10 Oct 2002 Posts: 93

Malcolm McNab on every major movie over the last 30 years. Surely Malcolm and Uan Rasey have been the trumpet voice in Hollywood films over the last 55 years. I hope the ITG will eventually be able to document the achievements of these two giants.

trumpet451 · Regular Member Joined: 08 Sep 2002 Posts: 56

How about:

Theme from Star Trek: DS9 (the weekly shows, revised during the run but consistently gorgeous trumpet work),

Babe: Pig in the City (the lead player might have changed from one session to the next, but I'd love to hear who played those rich cornet solos), and

The Legend of Bagger Vance--wow!

If anyone could fill me in on the players and any history, that would be much appreciated!

Bill B.

shinytrumpet · Veteran Member Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 151

The Legend of Bagger Vance is definintely my all-time favorite.

I also thoroughly enjoyed the brass parts to Lord of the Rings. What an incredible sound!

Along the lines of the greatest trumpet solos/parts, what are some of everyone's favorite "movie composers?" I enjoy the works of James Horner and Hans Zimmer to name a couple.

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ZeroMan · Heavyweight Member Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 1112

I'm glad someone finally mentioned Malcom McNabb! I found it curious that this thread could go on for so long before his name was dropped.

My favorite film composers, in no particular order:

John Barry (I dig those trumpet parts in Dances with Wolves; I think it's McNabb playing them).

Maurice Jarré (esp. Lawrence of Arabia and Jacob's Ladder; the former introduced me to the sound of the ondes Martenot, the latter to the sounds of the shakuhachi, Bulgarian "head singing" female choirs and Mongolian polyphonic singing.)

John Williams (I'll take or leave his most recent stuff, but I think Jaws, Close Encounters, Raiders of the Lost Ark and the first 3 Star Wars are unmatchable; Schindler's List is good too.)

Howard Shore (Naked Lunch, Lord of the Rings; I cannot see how he is ever going to match LOTR.)

Aaron Copland! Yes... he wrote film music. Our Town, Of Mice and Men, and The Heiress, for which he won an Oscar. My fav is OUr Town.

also:
Miklos Rozsa (Ben-Hur, Julius Cesaer, The Double Life, Jungle Book)
Franz Waxman (Sunset Boulevard)
Malcom Arnold (Bridge on the River Kwai; I also dig his concert music and his trumpet concerto)
Erich Korngold (any film score; he wrote the book on film composing, IMO)
Henry Mancini (Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Pink Panther)
Bernard Herrmann (Citizen Kane, Psycho, Taxi Driver)
Alex North (A Streetcar Named Desire, Dragonslayer)

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DecentChap · Regular Member Joined: 17 Dec 2002 Posts: 64

re: "CHICAGO" the answer is:

DEREK WATKINS