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Noir album recommendations

New member, looking for recommendations for great Noir/Jazz/Film Noir albums, Vinyl or CD. I really enjoy Miles Davis' Ascenseur pour l'échafaud , Chinatown''s soundtrack and more recent artists like Paul Pritchard(Gumshoe Blues, Stool Pigeon) but I'm having a difficult time finding anything that isn't just general Jazz. Really interested in music that evokes that down on his luck Private Investigator in a corrupt city where its always raining and you just cant trust anyone, including the dame that just walked in with a "simple" job.

windywoodworker
mfili35
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David chesky "jazz in the new harmonic" has that eeriness you're looking for with top notch sound and instrument separation

mahler123
3,048 posts
 

Try Quiet City, by Aaron Copland 

acman3
4,123 posts
 

Ran Blake

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arizonabob
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For some time I've been meaning to start a post on a similar subject. After becoming enamored with the film "The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button", I purchased the soundtrack and love disc 1 for 'sleep music' (I could do without the bombing sequence). Wanted recommendations for similar music and found jazz noir. Any other specific suggestions, instrumental only please and thank you. AB

stuartk
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@dayglow 

This is the first I've heard of Noir Jazz but that Terence Blanchard is excellent!

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