Don Ellis - French Connection Original Motion Picture Soundtrack(1971-1975 EAC-FLAC
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Don Ellis was a hot item in 1971. He had done a few big band albums that sounded like Doc Severson plugged into Frank Zappa'a sound system, and was opening a lot of rock shows, back in the era when you could get rock and roll kids to listen to and appreciate jazz. 

So, Billy Friedkin makes French Connection, and gets Don to score it. Billy must have known he had a hit on his hands, and wanted a big name to put on the composer credit. Ellis does an entire, half hour score for the movie. Not a lot of this music made it into the film: evidently, Billy wanted to have a gritty film with lots of street noises, and, tastefully edited Don's score to bare bones. It works in the movie, but a lot of really good music never saw the light of day.

That is, until this CD was released on 2002. This is Ellis' full score: big band funk jazz, with lots of dark overtones, light and shades, and very creepy dynamics. This is the music of early 70s new york; men in fadoras and black ties walking down rainy ally ways. Sun setting over burned out buildings. Ellis has blasts of sound, followed by menacing, whispering synthasizer passages. His trumput is sometimes a creeping flashlight, sometimes a machine gun. It ecchos, screams, and moans like a junkie.

French Connection II, where the Frog kidnaps Doyle and hooks him to junk, was made in 1975. Ellis does an equally atmospheric score, slightly more funky, as this type of music had by 75' seeped far deeper into jazz. The film takes place in France, but the score has equal impact.

You don't hear a lot of this type of music anymore, especially on film soundtracks. Completely atmospheric, emotional music. Brillant work.

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Tracklist:
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The French Connection I Soundtrack  (1971)

01. Don Ellis - Main Title 
02. Don Ellis - Charnier 
03. Don Ellis - Copstail 
04. Don Ellis - The Old Fort 
05. Don Ellis - Staking Out Old Sal 
06. Don Ellis - The Car 
07. Don Ellis - Popeye Blues 
08. Don Ellis - Bugging Sal and Angie 
09. Don Ellis - Hotel Chase 
10. Don Ellis - Subway 
11. Don Ellis - The Shot 
12. Don Ellis - This Is It 
13. Don Ellis - Lincoln Blues 
14. Don Ellis - Rocker Panels 
15. Don Ellis - Au Revoir 
16. Don Ellis - The Last Roundup 
17. Don Ellis - Frog One Is in That Room 
18. Don Ellis - End Title 

The French Connection II Soundtrack (1975)

19. Don Ellis - Main Title / Waterfront 
20. Don Ellis - Boat Ride 
21. Don Ellis - Popeye's Montage 
22. Don Ellis - Volleyball 
23. Don Ellis - Hit 
24. Don Ellis - Heroin 
25. Don Ellis - O.D. 
26. Don Ellis - Pain 
27. Don Ellis - Rehabilitation 
28. Don Ellis - Revenge 
29. Don Ellis - Boat Bottom / Drydock 
30. Don Ellis - Stalking / Here Come the Cops 
31. Don Ellis - Big Chase 
32. Don Ellis - Exhaustion 
33. Don Ellis - End Title 

*2003 Film Score / 20th Century Fox | FSM 04-06



Don Ellis - Autumn (1968) [EAC-FLAC]:
    
https://www.piratebays.to/torrent/11621420/Don_Ellis_-_Autumn_%281968%29_%5BEAC-FLAC%5D


Don Ellis Orchestra - Shock Treatment (1968) [EAC-FLAC]:
   
https://www.piratebays.to/torrent/11625971/Don_Ellis_Orchestra_-_Shock_Treatment_%281968%29_%5BEAC-FLAC%5D


Don Ellis Octet - Pieces Of Eight. Live At UCLA (1967) [2CD] [EAC-FLAC]:
  
https://www.piratebays.to/torrent/11627320/Don_Ellis_-_Pieces_Of_Eight._Live_At_UCLA_%281967%29_%5B2CD%5D_%5BEAC-FLAC


Don Ellis Orchestra - 'Live' At Monterey! (1966) [EAC-FLAC]:
 
https://www.piratebays.to/torrent/11628092/Don_Ellis_Orchestra_-__Live__At_Monterey__%281966%29_%5BEAC-FLAC%5D



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