Paris Blues: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack [Enhanced CD] [Soundtrack]

Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 24, 1998)
• Original Release Date: September 27, 1961
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Rykodisc
• ASIN: B000005Z5X
• Also Available in: VHS Tape
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #192,725 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Take The 'A' Train

2. You Know Something?

3. Battle Royal

4. Bird Jungle

5. What's Paris Blues

6. Mood Indigo

7. Autumnal Suite

8. Nite

9. Wild Man Moore

10. Paris Stairs

11. I Wasn't Shopping

12. Guitar Amour

13. A Return Reservation

14. Paris Blues

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great music, February 8, 2006

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Bomojaz (South Central PA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Paris Blues [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier are two expatriot jazz musicians living in Paris; Newman is there to compose serious music and Poitier to escape from racial prejudice in the US. Along come Joanne Woodward and Diahann Carroll on vacation, and in a flash they're paired off and in love. Carroll wants Poitier to return to the US ("life is better there now for blacks," she says). Newman wants to go back to America with Woodward, but realizes that music is his whole life and must pursue it further in Paris on his own. Since it's a jazz movie there's the obligatory drug scene with one of the other musicians. The plot and the writing are not that strong, but Newman (in only his second featured role) is pretty good. And when things start to sag, on comes Louis Armstrong for a swinging jam session (can't beat that!). Duke Ellington is responsible for the great musical score. Murray MacEachern dubbed Newman's trombone work, and Paul Gonsalves did Poitier's tenor sax dubs.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Paris Blues - DVD PLEASE!!!!!!, March 18, 2004

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Richard K. Heilman "aka 'Trouts10' and connoi... (Santa Barbara, Ca. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Paris Blues [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A fabulous movie all around: great plot,acting, music, and cinematography. Moody and atmospheric, it wonderfully captures the Paris '50-'60 jazz scene. BUT CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE FIND A WAY TO GET THIS ONTO DVD!!!

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Paris Blues - a defining moment, October 4, 2005

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P. R. johnson (Paris, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Paris Blues [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I moved to Paris in 2003. I am retired, black and american. Friends always asked ... why Paris? I kept saying, I vacationed in Paris but never found the moment until today...

I finally can identify when I first fell in love with Paris. It was when I was 10
years old and saw the movie Paris Blues. It starred Paul Newman and Joanne
Woodward but what struck me was it also starred Sidney Poitier and Diahann
Carroll, that was unheard off back then but I was too young to know. I still
remember a scene with Diahann Carroll wearing this coat. It was then that a quiet seed was planted inside me to love Paris. I don't recall who was with me that day, I just remember the film and I remember wishing it would come on television; I have no memory of seeing it again.

What made it standout was that they Poitier and Carroll were featured in
roles equal to Newman and Woodward. I never forgot that movie, it is truly
the reason I fell in Love with Paris. Later, I went to the little store
across from our place at 16th & Ridge and discovered a cheap perfume called ,
Evening in Paris, incredible. I tear up with this memory. I was somehow able to come up with the money to buy a bottle. A defining moment! Please, where and when can I find the DVD: The movie comes on Paris TV today at 11h25 and I will be watching.

Paulette