Murder, Inc.
by Irving Joseph
- Type: Album
- Released: June 1960
- Label: Time
- Country: United States
- Length: 32:33
- Community rating: 3.52/5 from 2 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Capitalizing on the mid-century popularity of hardboiled television detective scores, the project features an anonymous assembly of elite studio musicians. The resulting big band arrangements are saturated with aggressive brass, heavy percussion, and the requisite suspenseful, cinematic tension associated with crime jazz.
Genres
Descriptors: crime, instrumental, conceptual
Tracklist
- Prison Break (2:44)
- States Evidence (2:10)
- Third Degree (1:37)
- The Contract (2:37)
- We The Jury (2:53)
- Crime Wave (3:38)
- Stool Pigeon (2:20)
- Bad Day In Brooklyn (2:00)
- Murder, Inc (2:56)
- The Big Six (2:57)
- Double Cross (3:34)
- April In Brownsville (3:00)
Credits
- Irving Joseph - primary artist, composed by, conductor
- Phil Bodner - alto saxophone, clarinet, flute
- Sol Schlinger - baritone saxophone
- George Duvivier - bass
- Milt Hinton - bass
- Murray Stein - design
- Osie Johnson - drums
- Earle Brown - engineer
- John Cue - engineer
- Victor Brainard - engineer
- Art Ryerson - guitar
- Barry Galbraith - guitar
- Bucky Pizzarelli - guitar
- Eddie Costa - percussion
- George Devens - percussion
- Phil Kraus - percussion
- Bernie Leighton - piano
- Moe Wechsler - piano
- Richard Hixson - trombone
- Thomas Mitchell - trombone
- Jimmy Maxwell - trumpet
- Louis R. Mucci - trumpet