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A superb collection of songs from Clint Eastwood's iconic movies! Limited edition 180g blue coloured vinyl - with unique cover artwork. The great Clint Eastwood first started his career as an actor, but later gained further prestige as a director with films such as Unforgiven (1992), for which he won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture, Bridges of Madison County (1995), and Mystic River (2003), among many others. Also, as a piano player and composer himself, Eastwood's love for jazz and blues is apparent when listening to the music he chose for the soundtracks of several of his movies. In fact, he used Erroll Garner's celebrated song InchMistyInch in the first film he directed, titled Play Misty for Me (1971). Presented here is a collection of classic jazz, blues, swing and country performances featured in the soundtrack of some of his films. Clint Eastwood interview Jazz Times in 2007 InchWhen I was a kid growing up in Oakland, I started listening to a program called The Dixieland Jubilee. For fifteen minutes every day, they'd play the Frisco Jazz Band, Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band, stuff like that. Then there was a jazz store out near El Cerrito, and I went out there and started listening to things and purchased a few records. Bop was starting to come in pretty good. So I went over and saw Dizzy Gillespie with a big band in San Francisco. There was a lot of blues being played around Oakland at that time - Ivory Joe Hunter, Joe Houston, Wynonie Harris - and I got wrapped up listening to that. Album Tracks 1. Errol Garner - Misty (From Play Misty for Me) 2. Dinah Washington - I'll Close My Eyes (From the Bridges of Madison County) 3. Stan Getz - All the Thing You Are (From the Rookie) 4. Billie Holiday - I'll Be Seeing You (From J. Edgar) 5. Thelonious Monk - Round Midnight (From Thelonious Monk Straight No Chaser) 6. Marty Rob
