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Listen To 4 Hardboiled Hours Of Smokey Nighttime Jazz Noir
Let Chet Baker, Angelo Badalamenti and Miles Davis take you on smoke-filled trip through crime.
Long before techno was dark and metal was black, jazz had established itself as the sound of noir. Jazz was the sound of urban outsider culture in the 1930s. Naturally that made it an obvious fit as a soundtrack to the dark crime movies of film noir.
The film genre’s focus on criminals, lowlifes and femmes fatales became intimately linked with jazz’s smooth and pulsating scores. That association has lasted all the up to Angelo Badalamenti’s jazz-inspired score for Twin Peaks.
Below you can hear Badalementi’s contribution to the jazz noir canon alongside over 4 hours of other classic pieces that will have you dreaming of neat whisky, narrative twists and half-drawn shutters in no time. To read more about jazz’s association with film noir, click here.
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