- Asphalt Groovin'
- Constantine Snaps His Fingers
- Drive!
- Picnic
- Lonely Day
- Wine Safari
- Miles' Theme
- Los Olivos
- Chasing The Golfers
- Walk To The Hitching Post
- Abandoning The Wedding
- Slipping Away As Mum Sleeps
- Bowling Tango
- I'm Not Drinking Any #@%!$ Merlot!
- Miles And Maya
発売日:2004年10月12日(火)
レーベル:Watertower Music
レビュー (Amazon)Writer-director Alexander Payne's critically acclaimed, multi-Academy Award nominated mid-life-crisis/road trip comedy fuses the sensibilities of 50's/60's Italian farce with the edgier, character-driven ethos of 70's American films. The director admits the film's musical score was largely inspired by the former's Neapolitan jazz sensibilities (and the work of Piero Umiliani in particular), as skillfully evoked by composer Rolfe Kent, Payne's previous collaborator on
About Schmidt and
Election. Some instrumental choices and rhythmic quirks are clearly evocative winks at that Italian canon, yet Kent has produced a bright, focused modern score that is anything but slavish to its inspirations. Marrying the inherently expansive nature of jazz to the brutal time constraints of film scoring has never been easy, but using an all-star 10-piece ensemble (featuring notable contributions from pianist Ron Feuer, Roger Burn on vibes, flautist Pedro Eustache, the sax of Dan Higgins and percussionist Alex Acuna), Kent does it here with deceptive ease, producing a breezy suite of jazz cues that pulses with playful, upbeat cool.
--Jerry McCulley