The Cincinnati Kid [Soundtrack]

Lalo Schifrin | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 9, 2002)
• Original Release Date: October 15, 1965
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Aleph Records
• ASIN: B000068QX7
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #423,062 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Cincinnati Kid - Ray Charles

2. Christian's Theme

3. The Cock Fight

4. The Man

5. I'm All Packed

6. Shooter

7. The Cincinnati Kid

8. New Orleans Procession

9. Mr. Slade

10. Melba

11. At The Farm

12. Walking Down

13. My Bet

14. Gambling Man

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Norman Jewison's gritty 1965 film (with themes familiar from The Hustler) may not have made Steve McQueen a superstar, but it quickly raised the profile of its scorer, the classically trained jazz pianist and composer Lalo Schifrin. If the Argentina-born Schifrin didn't introduce jazz in films, he certainly refined and focused it during the '60s and '70s as few others. Schifrin took this high-profile opportunity to utilize the full breadth of his diverse musical training and performance experience. Effectively mirroring his own multicultural roots and instincts, this score also shares more than a few parallels with his later '60s classic, Cool Hand Luke: jazz mixed freely with strong, melodic orchestral cues, then seasoned with enough Americana (the gospel-soul of "New Orleans Procession"; Ray Charles's original bluesy theme song) to impart not only a compelling dramatic mood, but a distinct sense of time and place to the film as well. This new digital recording of the score was supervised by the composer (who lends his deft touch at the piano to the period-jazz instrumental theme) and gives Schifrin's music a lively new sense of rhythm and sparkling contemporary sheen. --Jerry McCulley

Product Description

This is a classic, re-recorded digitally. 'The Cincinnati Kid' was one of Schifrin's first important film scores in Hollywood. Contains the original title song by Ray Charles.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The original is better, March 8, 2003

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This review is from: The Cincinnati Kid (Audio CD)

Why do they always do this? Re-record a great album only to make it worse. Maybe it is now digital but so what? What they've lost is the marvelous feeling of the original and some superb soloing (check out the bent note at the end of "Melba" on the original). Also, how the heck could they leave off "Dialogue in the Rain?" This is the one piece I bought this CD for and it wasn't there! This is a terrible shame because it's such a beautiful piece of music. The two additional pieces are nice but they don't make the album a five star for me. Please, will someone re-release the original "Original Soundtrack?" In my opinion it's a much better album.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not As Advertised, April 8, 2008

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"Wimm-g" (Effort, PA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Cincinnati Kid (Audio CD)

This is not the OST from Cincinatti Kid. It sounds like a bunch of HS kids screwing around. Terrible!