Original Soundtrack - The War: A Ken Burns Film
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Artist: Original SoundtrackEdition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2007-09-11
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- American Anthem - Norah Jones
- Walton, The Death of Falstaff - Leonard Slotkin & London Philharmonic Orchestra
- The Wang Wang Blues - Benny Goodman Sextet
- Movin' Back - Wynton Marsalis (composer & arranger)
- How Long Blues - Count Basie
- In the Nick of time - Edgar Meyer, Joshua Bell, Sam Bush & Mike Marshall
- It's Been a Long, Long Time- Bing Crosby with Les Paul
- America My Home (Excerpt) - Wynton Marsalis (composer & arranger)
- If I could Be With You (One Hour Tonight) - Kay Starr, accompanied by the Capitol International Jazzmen
- Blue As the Turquoise Night of Neyshabur (Excerpt) - Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble
- Until I'm In Your Arms Again - Wynton Marsalis
- Variations For the Healing of Arinushka - Kalle Randalu
- Basie Boogie - Count Basie & His Orchestra
- Solitude - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
- Concerto for Clarinet, Strings, Harp and Piano (Excerpt) - Benny Goodman, Aaron Copland & Columbia Symphony Orchestra
- If You Can't Smile and Say Yes - The King Cole Trio
- American Anthem - Amanda Forsyth & Bill Charlap
Music reviews of The War: A Ken Burns Film
Music Review: Great!
Rating: 5 Stars
Stirs chilling memories of the documentary. I highly recommend for anyone who enjoys Ken Burns.
Description of The War: A Ken Burns Film
This stunning soundtrack recording to Ken Burns's epic series features seventeen pieces of music from the film. It includes war-era favorites from Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Bing Crosby, and Nat 'King' Cole as well as music from Edgar Meyer, Aaron Copland and Yo-Yo Ma. The soundtrack also features new compositions from Wynton Marsalis, and Norah Jones's breathtaking performance of "American Anthem"- exclusive to this album.The War Photos
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The soundtrack for The War, documentarian Ken Burns's 2007 PBS series on World War II, alternates between earlier, wartime, and postwar material, all designed to complement the narrative. The material was clearly selected to evoke the mood of the era: Benny Goodman's sextet tears off a hot 1942 "Wang Wang Blues," and Count Basie lets fly with "Basie Boogie" (1941) and the prewar "How Long Blues." Also evoking the war years are Bing Crosby's hit "It's Been a Long, Long Time" with the Les Paul Trio, "Solitude" (1934) by Duke Ellington's Orchestra, and Kay Starr's "If I Could Be with You (One Hour Tonight)" and the Nat "King" Cole Trio's "If You Can't Smile and Say Yes" from a wartime V-Disc. Classical numbers include Leonard Slatkin and the London Philharmonic's 1989 version of "London: The Death of Falstaff" and an excerpt of Benny Goodman, in his spare time a respected classical clarinetist, performing "Concerto for Clarinet, Strings, Harp, and Piano" with Aaron Copland and the Columbia Symphony Orchestra in 1950. Newer recordings include Norah Jones's "American Anthem," reprised at the end by Amanda Forsyth and Bill Charlap, "Movin' Back," "Until You're in My Arms Again," and "America My Home" by Wynton Marsalis. --Rich Kienzle
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