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CONTRACT ON CHERRY STREET
Label: Prometheus PCR 503
Date: 1977
Tracks: 17
Time = 47:18
CD from Belgium.
Original soundtrack to television movie starring Frank Sinatra. Smoky main theme for trombone becomes launching pad for dynamic action score. Unusual orchestration uses strings, woodwinds, percussion in traditional configuration, then tacits trumpets and tuba, adding large choir of trombones to fill in missing brass registers. Extraordinary highlight: pursuit sequence for multiple tenor trombones playing difficult scales (in opposite directions!) over aggressive punctuation in bass trombones - everything using challenging odd meter rhythms. Action specialist Jerry Goldsmith conducts, shows off one of his greatest thrill rides! Limited edition CD.
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