I Want to Live! (United Artists) (1958)

— Newspaper Publicity: Mandel’s Modern Jazz Score On LP Album The musical score for “I Want To Live,” the Susan Hayward starrer opening ........ Oto thet eas. cane Theatre through United Artists release, is not only different in sound, it is different in concept. Never before has a movie score been such an important, integral part of the picture. In “I Want To Live,” Susan plays a role based on the life of Barbara Graham, California B-girl whose torrid. living led to her controversial trial and execution for murder. Barbara’s wild and frenzied life was infiltrated with jazz, the new, progressive jazz that started to find its voice when Barbara was enjoying life to its fullest. And it is that wonderful sound, the music for “I Want To Live,” that was composed, arranged and directed by Johnny Mandel. This fabulous sound track, as played by a big band of top-notch West Coast jazz musicians, and directed by Mandel, is available on a United Artists long-playing album called “Johnny Mandel’s Jazz Score from ‘I Want To Live.’ ” Rated by fellow musicians as one of the most brilliant young composer-arrangers to emerge on the modern scene, Mandel is also a recognized artist on the trombone and bass trumpet. A native New Yorker, he studied at the Manhattan School of Music and Julliard. He played with such noted jazz men as Joe Venuti, Jimmie Dorsey and Alvino Ray. He wrote for Artie Shaw, and arranged for Count Basie, Stan Getz and Chet Baker. Mandel is more than enthusiastic for the music of “I Want To Live.” Just get him started and he’ll tell you that “some people have dubbed this music ‘anxiety jazz,’ but it’s more than that. It’s jazz to fit every emotion. It’s a form with a wonderful future. I’m sure that in France, Italy, Japan, in any country you want to name where motion pictures are shown, they'll recognize and appreciate the all-jazz idiom and demand more. “And as for the long-playing album | feel that the music has a quality that will always stay fresh. You'll wear out the grooves and your diamond needles, before you'll tire of the boys giving out with the “I Want Too Live’ score.” Gerry Mulligan Heads ‘l Want to Live ’Combo Gerry Mulligan has achieved his present acceptance and influence among audiences and musicians throughout the world in several directions simultaneously. He is respected as the most fluent and personal of all modern baritone saxophonists. He is, moreover, a composer-arranger who has done much to restore lean, multi-linear ensemble playing to jazz. Mulligan’s recordings are among the most consistent sellers in jazz history. He is heard often on concert tours of colleges and major cities—and has appeared on a number of TV jazz programs. He makes his film debut in United Artists’ Susan Hayward starrer, “I Want to Live!”, due ........ athe Meer: Theatre. The sound track of the picture, including his performance, is available on United Artists Records’ “The Jazz Combo from ‘! Want To Live!’” Mulligan was born March 6, 1927 in New York City, and raised in Philadelphia. He organized a dance band, and at age 17, he did arrangements for the WCAU_ house band. It was at this time he met and was encouraged by the late Charles Parker. Eventually Mulligan emigrated to New York where he joined Gene Krupa, and stayed for a year. He left Krupa to become associated with Claude Thornhill, for whom he played and did arrange ments. And it was during the Thornhill era that Mulligan joined the influential circle of jazz greats such as Gil Evans, John Lewis. Miles Davis, and Lee Konitz. After going to the West Coast in 1951, he started a combo with Chico Hamilton on drums and Chet Baker on trumpet. In 1954, with certain replacements, he took the combo to the Jazz Festival in Paris, where they created a fantastic success. “Down Beat,” one of the nation’s top jazz magazines, voted him winner of its popularity poll of *53-54, and new star of 753. Besides being a major factor in opening the way for the current popularity of modern jazz with group expression as well as solo improvisation, Mulligan also brought a rather rare and pungent humor to jazz—in his playing and in his occassional addresses to his audiences. The music for “I Want To Live!” featured in the United Artists long-playing record album was composed, directed and arranged by Johnny Mandel. Seven of the nation’s top jazz men, including Gerry Mulligan, play the score. The others are Shelly Manne, drums; Red Mitchell, bass; Pete Jolly, piano; Frank Rosolino, trombone; Art Farmer, trumpet and Bud Shank, alto sax. One OF The Year's Top Dramas! Overwhelming In [ts Compulsion And Power!” -vAtirry THE SEARING AND SHOCKING, TRUE STORY OF BARBARA GRAHAM —WHOSE MURDER TRIAL ROCKED THE WoRLD! You will see and hear it all... the wild gang parties.. ‘the wail of the jazz horns...the parade of men... the saddened nights... the jails! SUSAN FIAYVVARD PULITZER Prize: WINNING CRIME REPORTER TALKS Asout Barsara GRAHAM! “This was the most baf fling case | ever covered. At first, | felt convinced that Barbara Graham was guilty of murder... but now, new facts and evidence have created in my mind a reasonable doubt!” , ~Ed Montgomery, San Francisco Examiner with Simon Oakland: Virginia Vincent: Theodore Bikel: Wesley Lau screen Play ty NELSON GIDDING ang DON MANKIEWICZ birectes ty ROBERT WISE: Produced ty WALTER WANGER <a FIGARO, INC. presentation: Released thrufULJ UNITED ARTISTS Original Jazz Score by JOHN MANDEL: As Played by Gerry Mulligan, Shelly Manne, Art Farmer, Bud Shank, Red Mitchell and An All-Star Jazz Orchestra The music from the sound track is avail able on United T H E A T R Ee Artists Records at all record shops. 4 Cols. x 155 Lines—620 Lines (44 Inches) Mat 401 é THIS RECORD ALBUMS PROMOTION SECTION HAS BEEN REPRINTED AND SENT TO 10,000 RECORD STORES ACROSS THE COUNTRY! UA GIVES YOU THIS KIND OF SATURATION TO MAKE SURE YOU MAKE THE MOST OF THIS OUTSTANDING MUSIC MERCHANDISING! PAGE “