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kenny graham - the small world of sammy lee ost - trunk - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Soundtracks

1. Soho At Dawn
2. Peepshow Bins
3. Thoughts At Home
4. Sammy 4
5. The Hustling Stars
6. Dash To Bellman's
7. Salt Beef
8. Four O'Clock Hop
9. Glasses? You Need Glasses?
10. And None Of Your Horse Manure
11. Patsy Asleep In The Flat
12. There's Never Been Anyone But You, Sammy
13. Some Of Us Care Sammy
14. Get Art Of It
15. It Just Wouldnt Work
16. Rue 902

The beautiful unreleased jazz score to the classic Anthony Newley 60s Soho underworld thriller, recorded in 1963 and never issued the master tape was discovered in the loft of Kenny Graham’s daughter’s home by Jonny Trunk !

Little is known about this jazz score, apart from the fact that it comes from one of the great early 60s London movies, and was written and performed by one of the more important jazz mavericks of the age. Kenny Graham was a jazz musician like no other. He’d formed an Afro Cuban band in the early 1950s, made an album of Moondog covers in 1957 (Moondog And Suncat Suites), been commissioned for advertising music, jazz compositions and film scores too. But he got little in return, so he’d turned his back on music by the mid 60s, never to write or perform again.

A true maverick and simply too far ahead of the jazz crowd to get noticed, this charming little score demonstrates just what a great composer he really was. The opening theme alone is one of the more sublime, early mooring jazz numbers you could ever wish to hear.