Jerry Goldsmith - L.A. Confidential (Original Motion Picture Score / Deluxe Edition) '2022

Tracks list

       No composer was better suited to score a picture than Jerry Goldsmith
with L.A. Confidential (1997), director Curtis Hanson’s masterpiece of
the James Elroy novel about corruption in 1950s Los Angeles. Not only was a
Goldsmith a master of the thriller and crime genres, but his own career started
in the era depicted in the film, and he had scored the all-time great detective
noir, Chinatown.

 L.A. Confidential starred Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce and Kevin Spacey as police
detectives, with Kim Basinger as a Veronica Lake-lookalike prostitute, in a
labyrinthine but brilliantly constructed plot connecting city hall and the cops,
organized crime, Hollywood tabloids and the gutter. The film received nine Oscar
nominations—including for Goldsmith’s score—and won two,
for Basinger and Best Adapted Screenplay. It was heralded as an instant classic
and, 25 years later, is every bit as captivating.

 Goldsmith’s score combines a modern pulse, pace and suspense with period
idioms—notably a bluesy trumpet theme, performed by Malcolm McNab, which
to Goldsmith represented masculinity. The score distills the 1950s atmosphere of
smoke and seediness, as well as a certain bygone era of honor and justice, while
making the film ingeniously slick and contemporary—and, as always for
Goldsmith, emotional.

 L.A. Confidential’s score album was released by Varèse Sarabande
after the film in 1997. This Deluxe Edition features two programs on one disc:
28 tracks, running 45 minutes, representing the cues heard in the film, followed
by the original 11-track, 30-minute score album.  New liner notes are by Tim
Greiving. 
 
Tracklist:
1 01. Jerry Goldsmith - Bloody Christmas (Film Version) (01:45)
1 02. Jerry Goldsmith - Turn It In / The Deal (02:10)
1 03. Jerry Goldsmith - The Badge (00:50)
1 04. Jerry Goldsmith - The Café (Film Version) (01:28)
1 05. Jerry Goldsmith - The I.D. / Odds (01:42)
1 06. Jerry Goldsmith - Late Arrival / The Raid (01:32)
1 07. Jerry Goldsmith - Questions (Film Version) (02:03)
1 08. Jerry Goldsmith - Back-Up (01:02)
1 09. Jerry Goldsmith - Don’t Move (00:42)
1 10. Jerry Goldsmith - Bud And Lynn (01:14)
1 11. Jerry Goldsmith - False Information (02:36)
1 12. Jerry Goldsmith - Susan Lefferts (Film Version) (00:35)
1 13. Jerry Goldsmith - Rats / A Gift (02:17)
1 14. Jerry Goldsmith - Rodents (00:56)
1 15. Jerry Goldsmith - Rollo Tomasi (Film Version) (02:06)
1 16. Jerry Goldsmith - Not So Dumb After All (01:16)
1 17. Jerry Goldsmith - The Facts (00:51)
1 18. Jerry Goldsmith - The Perp / Know Him? (01:37)
1 19. Jerry Goldsmith - Ex-Cop (00:34)
1 20. Jerry Goldsmith - Photos (Film Version) (01:32)
1 21. Jerry Goldsmith - Out Of The Rain (Film Version) (01:03)
1 22. Jerry Goldsmith - Records (01:57)
1 23. Jerry Goldsmith - Out The Window (01:10)
1 24. Jerry Goldsmith - Patchett’s Dead (00:44)
1 25. Jerry Goldsmith - The Keys (Film Version) (01:56)
1 26. Jerry Goldsmith - Shootout (Extended Version) (04:34)
1 27. Jerry Goldsmith - Good Lad (Film Version) (02:29)
1 28. Jerry Goldsmith - The Victor (Film Version) (02:40)
1 29. Jerry Goldsmith - Bloody Christmas (From "L.A. Confidential") (02:53)
1 30. Jerry Goldsmith - The Cafe (02:22)
1 31. Jerry Goldsmith - Questions (02:23)
1 32. Jerry Goldsmith - Susan Lefferts (02:57)
1 33. Jerry Goldsmith - Out Of The Rain (02:49)
1 34. Jerry Goldsmith - Rollo Tomasi (03:05)
1 35. Jerry Goldsmith - The Photos (02:30)
1 36. Jerry Goldsmith - The Keys (01:53)
1 37. Jerry Goldsmith - Shootout (04:12)
1 38. Jerry Goldsmith - Good Lad (02:20)
1 39. Jerry Goldsmith - The Victor (02:33) 

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