Piero Umiliani’s La Ragazza Dalla Pelle Di Luna is one of hundreds of wordless, deeply expressive vocals that Edda Dell’Orso recorded for Italian film composers in the 60s and 70s. Senegalese talking drum master Massamba Diop brings modulated flurries of his ancient instrument to the mbalax style, with some incredible dancing on the video.Įsperanza Spalding and Gretchen Parlato’s version of Jobim’s Inutil Paisagem is a fantastic blend of vocal percussion, scat and warm, human bass which reminds us that bossa nova is best in extreme close-up.
George Duke’s Mashavu is an engaging and atmospheric interlude in which percussion instruments howl, yelp and grunt like animals in a jungle clearing.Īlways a fuzzy line between vocals and instruments with the Cocteau Twins, whose Musette and Drums drops you straight into a blizzard before whirling you off to a place where howling guitars dance with impressionistic wordless vocals. It became a jazz classic, and we’ll lead off with two versions – a vocal treatment by the Four Freshmen and a wonderfully emotive sax version by Don Byas. Apparently, director Otto Preminger wanted to use Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Lady, Raksin objected, Preminger gave him the weekend to write an alternative and his wife helped him get in the right mood by leaving him. David Raksin’s Laura is one of the great noir themes for one of the great noirs.
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