“Le Jazz Hot” – Henry Mancini
by richibi
“Mozart Mix“ (1991)
_______
in a movie,“Victor Victoria”, that should’ve
gotten more Oscars than it finally did,
“Le Jazz Hot“ sizzles, Henry Mancini
received one for the music, Lesley Anne
Warren should’ve too for her incandescent
moll
lock the door, she says to Julie Andrews,
in an otherwise compromising moment,
a line one should never forget
in Julie Andrews’ category, who could’ve
taken it away from Meryl Streep for
“Sophie’s Choice”
but jazz here is a misnomer, jazz merely
dolls up in this number an otherwise
entirely Classical structure, the melody
is right out of Mozart, rigid rhythm,
unflinching tonality, and repetition after
repetition, you can sing along just as you
can for Mozart, try doing that with anyone
after him, try to hum along with real jazz
but I’ll entirely agree that this
whatever-it-is is hot, steaming
catch the astounding vocal glissando
at the very end, just before the final
whispered recitative, riveting
Richard
Richibi's Weblog 