Looking for a PIANO JAZZ SONG ! Where online can I listen to the songs of “THE GOOD SHEPHERD” moviesoundtrack?
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I’m looking for a ballad piano song, that must have been written probably in the 20’s or 30’s, and that have been used in the movie “The Good Shepherd” ( in 2007, with Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie and Robert de Niro ).
It was played by a jazz-band, and Edward Wilson ( Matt Damon) began to dance with his partner. He danced with Angelina Jolie, and it was the song ” Blue Skies”, but he also danced with another girl ( the brunette who tried to play fake love affair in order to collect intelligence for the KGB), and this song had a beautiful piano intro…This song is still in my head, and I just love it…
That’s obviously a standart of the classical american jazz repertoire, but I can’t find the CD of the soundtrack in France.
If I know the original name of the composition, I would certainly find it, as performed by the main band.
Some people told me it must be “Umbreacable You” by Gershwin, but I couldn’t make them listen to the melody, and I checked this Gershwin song, and it wasn’t.
So, I know it was neither “Blue Skies” nor ” Umbreacable You”…
I’m looking for a ballad piano song, that must have been written probably in the 20’s or 30’s, and that have been used in the movie “The Good Shepherd” ( in 2007, with Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie and Robert de Niro ).
It was played by a jazz-band, and Edward Wilson ( Matt Damon) began to dance with his partner. He danced with Angelina Jolie, and it was the song ” Blue Skies”, but he also danced with another girl ( the brunette who tried to play fake love affair in order to collect intelligence for the KGB), and this song had a beautiful piano intro…This song is still in my head, and I just love it…
That’s obviously a standart of the classical american jazz repertoire, but I can’t find the CD of the soundtrack in France.
If I know the original name of the composition, I would certainly find it, as performed by the main band.
Some people told me it must be “Umbreacable You” by Gershwin, but I couldn’t make them listen to the melody, and I checked this Gershwin song, and it wasn’t.
So, I know it was neither “Blue Skies” nor ” Umbreacable You”…
If you saw the movie, can you please enlighten me, or give me a link or website helping me to check out which song it really is?
Another thing : I may be mistaken, but it looks also like the Irving Berlin style, that is to say very light and sweet melody.
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
Of course, the 10 points are for the first who finds this precious diamond…
Cheap Beach Holidays.
Tags: American Jazz, Angelina Jolie, Berlin Style, Edward Wilson, Gershwin Song, Irving Berlin, Jazz Band, Jazz Repertoire, Jazz Song, Love Affair, Matt Damon, Movie The Good Shepherd, Piano Intro, Piano Jazz, Piano Song, Precious Diamond, Robert De Niro, Song Blue Skies, Standart, Sweet Melody
July 12th, 2008 at 1:46 am
I can give some addresses you can search
rapidshare.com (free)
yahoo.com/group/Chelebi ( this group has links that you can find the file adress)
or go to limewire.com
July 14th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Hi Fatih,
A very famous version of ‘Blue Skies’ is from Al Jolson. It was performed in the movie ‘The Jazz Singer’ from 1927. This is the first talkie (not the whole movie). Last year, a collector’s DVD set was issued because of the 80th Anniversary of the movie. I have that box and like it very much. However, if you are not used to that type of movies it could be some kind of strange.
The versions of ‘Blue Skies’ that I have are from:
- Al Jolson
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Frank Sinatra
Embraceable you is a song from the musical ‘Girl Crazy’ by Gershwin. There are so many great standards in that musical: ‘I Got Rhythm’ and ‘But Not For me’ are the other two tracks, which became timeless jazz standards.
I have more than 10 versions of ‘Embraceable You’. One of the best known and best vocal versions is the one with Judy Garland.
If you want I can send you the mp3 files of some of them.
Here a movie version of ‘Embraceable You’ by Judy Garland:
(the record version is a bit different)
Here the original version of Blue Skies with Al Jolson: