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- Jazz and the urban nightclub milieu became the sound and space for illicit activity in film noir. Jazz infused shadowy-styled crime films conveying a distinctive seedy atmosphere of nightlife, booze, cabarets, speakeasies and ‘taboo’ Jazz Age prohibitions.
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Aug 16, 2023 · A textbook example of the blend of visual and sonic aesthetics that dominated fifties cinema, this iconic film is just one of the many that utilises the device of location, with a portion of the action taking place in the classic (albeit slightly stereotypical) setting of a jazz club.
Jazz noir can include everything from classic rock, trip hop, classical, blues and new wave. It's really the noir part that's important; isolated, bluesie, dreamlike, moody, melancholic and menacing tones.
Film noir (/ n w ɑːr /; French: [film nwaʁ]) is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylized Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations. The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir.
Sep 25, 2012 · The golden age of film noir is basically 1941 (The Maltese Falcon being the first classic) to 1958 (Touch of Evil being the last). Most of the music for those films was not jazz, but rather modernistic orchestral music. Jazz on film was generally relegated as source music (the stuff that comes off of jukeboxes, radios etc in the scene).
- Skip Heller
Oct 14, 2021 · Jazz and the urban nightclub milieu became the sound and space for illicit activity in film noir. Jazz infused shadowy-styled crime films conveying a distinctive seedy atmosphere of nightlife, booze, cabarets, speakeasies and ‘taboo’ Jazz Age prohibitions.
- Sheri Chinen Biesen
- (Rowan University)
- 2021
Apr 12, 2017 · When I say ‘film noir jazz’ what do you think? A slow, moody kind of jazz, usually with a trumpet solo? I thought you’d say that. The truth is, jazz had nothing to do with classic 1940s noir. Jazz was sometimes featured as ambience music, for example from a jukebox or in a club. It was never the soundtrack of a film.
Jazz served as a shorthand for the seduction and risks of the mean streets in early film noir. As working jazz musicians began to compose the scores for and appear in noir films of the 1950s, black musicians found a unique way of asserting their right to participate fully in American life.
