Three Days of The Condor (1975) [reuploaded]

The Jazz Club series is an attractive addition to the Verve catalogue. With it's modern design and popular choice of repertoire, the Jazz Club is not only opened for Jazz fans, but for everyone that loves good music.
Dave Grusin has been a highly successful performer, producer, composer, record label executive, arranger, and bandleader. As a pianist, Grusin tends toward the fusion and smooth end of jazz, but he's primarily an accomplished film and television soundtrack composer. Grusin played with Terry Gibbs and Johnny Smith while studying at the University of Colorado. He was the assistant music director and pianist for Andy Williams from 1959 to 1966, and then started his television composing career…

The selections included in this collection were chosen for the various uses of the orchestra: Cuba Libre, The Santa Clara Suite, The Suite From the Milagro Beanfield War, The Heart is A Lonely Hunter, and Condor, are all versions of movie themes, stretching over the last thirty years; Summer Sketches was commissioned and recorded live in 1982 at the Budokan in Tokyo; and the Three Cowboy Songs have been orchestrated, up-dated and recorded for this project. The Porgy & Bess Medley is included as an orchestral homage to the Gershwin talents.