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 - WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT JAZZ BAND?!while watching this film there is a scene where a jazz band with a jazz flute solo that I just loved, and i believe the name of one of the songs they did on the soundtrack was "Architects Building" but what is the name of the jazz band?! will someone please respond to this? Rating:  - Very good Bullitt sound trackThis version does have the correct opening theme and chase sequence music which most people remember. It even has a rendition of the awful tune playing on the transistor radio in the hideout apartment. Ice pick Mike was also done pretty well. Rating: - Pure fire Schifrin, a registered marca for action in the movies!Bullitt is an extraordinary film with an extraordinary actor (the late Steve McQueen) and an extraordinary soundtrack by the specialist in music for scenes of nervous action, Señor Lalo Schifrin. They say that the best car race persecution filmed for entertainment in the one from 'Bullitt' and music accomplishes perfectly to it all. This is a reference album for a serious soundtrack collection. Also a big companion to listen to after or along with DVD. Also a stand alone CD independently from the movie due to inspired music and top Jazz performance. Rating: - Music to remember McQueen by.Yes, this is the theme music you will be thinking of everytime you see McQueen up on the silver screen. Even when he is kissing Natalie Wood in "Love With A Proper Stranger" you'll be asking yourself when he will pull out his pistol or ride off in his 1968 Ford Mustang. The heart of this album is "Shifting Gears" because it leads into the famous streets of Frisco car chase scene that made this movie so famous. But you cannot forget the theme music that opens the film. There is a cool nonchalance about it that boils over into moments of heat but then, without much effort, drifts right back into a ruminating cool that was/is the perfect compliment to Steve McQueen's on screen persona. Frankly, this is late 1960's acid jazz at its peak and somehow, after all of these years, it does not veer off into absurdity (or cliche) the way many of its contemporaries did. Who knows what will remain stylish several decades after its debut? Apparently Schifrin had good instincts. . . And while the movie's staying power has certainly helped the soundtrack one could argue rather persuasively that the music enhanced the film's reputation as well. If you like greasy horns, clomping bongos, rolling maracca lines and lots of high hat stings accentuating the measures, this is your kind of music. It will make you wish you had your own cop drama where you had the time and money to become your own stunt driver. Five stars. It's sinful pleasure. Rating:  - The same problems facing every other Bullitt recording.Did Lalo Schifrin incinerate the original score to Bullitt? Because that's the only way I can explain the lack of a true to the film version of this soundtrack. Don't get me wrong, both this CD and the 12-track Warner Bros. release are exciting jazzy arrangements, but they are no closer to being the original Bullitt score than a high school marching band. If you're looking for another pleasant arrangement of the classic score, purchase this. If you (like many other disappointed fans) are hoping to hear the menacing, thumping bass of the original "Main Title" as the camera pans across a darkened San Francisco, buy a copy of the film, because it's probably the only way you'll get to hear it in its original glory.
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