- Main Title
- Poker Game
- San Diego Party
- Henry Leaves
- Stakeout
- Barbara Surrenders
- Trio Convicted
- Trip To Corona
- Peg's Visit
- Gas Chamber Unveiling
- Nightmare Sequence
- Preparations For Execution
- Letter Writing Sequence
- The Last Mile
- Death Scene
- End Title
- Black Nightgown
- Theme From I Want To Live!
- Night Watch
- Frisco Club
- Barbara's Theme
- Life's A Funny Thing
発売日:1999年2月23日(火)
レーベル:Rykodisc
レビュー (Amazon)A work of unrelenting intensity, 1958's
I Want to Live stands as a benchmark of American film. Taking on a grab bag of then-taboo topics--prostitution, gambling, drug addiction--and presenting them in a morally ambiguous, unorthodoxly grim context,
I Want to Live predated the "new Hollywood" revolution wrought by such films as
Bonnie and Clyde and
Easy Rider by nearly a decade. With its unprecedented all-jazz score,
Live's music is no less trailblazing. A meta soundtrack of sorts, this collection actually functions as two LPs in one, documenting the performances of Gerry Mulligan's seven-piece band, who appears in the film, and the larger jazz ensemble underscore that sets the pace and tone for some of
Live's most memorable scenes. While Mulligan's combo swings with characteristic cool, it's the ensemble pieces that really stun. Composer Johnny Mandel intentionally chose an odd array of lead instruments and linked all his compositions with an arsenal of percussion to add to the film's edge of your seat/edge of sanity allure. The achieved effect is by turns moody and impressionistic, deliberate and plodding. Whatever the mood,
Live's clench on the listener is positively physical.
--Matt Hanks