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Wednesday, August 7, 2024

TV Action Jazz - Mundell Lowe

 

Theme From "The Untouchable"

Themes From Mr. Lucky, The Untouchables
And Other TV Action Jazz
Mundell Lowe and His All Stars
Produced by C. E. Crumpacker
RCA Camden CAL 627
1960

From the back cover: Here's more TV Action Jazz!

Eight swinging themes from top TV shows, arranged by guitarist Mundell Lowe, gathered here for the satisfied thousands who picked up on the first volume, TV Action Jazz! (RCA Camden CAL-522).

Mundell Lowe scored the dramatic themes for trumpet or Fluegelhorn, four trombones, one reed, bass, drums, piano or vibes, and his own jazz guitar.

For this session, he surrounded himself with the cream of New York's current crop of jazz players: trumpet and Fluegelhorn: Clark Terry; trombones: Urbie Green, Frank Rehab, Willie Dennis, Dick Hilton or Rodney Levitt; reeds; Phil Bonder; piano or vibes: Eddie Costa; bass: George Duvivier, and drums: Ed Shaughnessy.

From Billboard - November 14, 1960: Guitarist Lowe, with his all-stars, follows up his strong-selling TV Action Jazz" with another set bearing the same name but with a new set of television themes getting the jazz treatment. Strong play and swinging solos mark his set which takes in eight new themes among them "Tightrope," "Mr. Lucky," "The Untouchable," "Markham" and "Bourbon Street Beat."

Theme from "Tightrope"
Hawaiian Eye
Theme from "Mr. Lucky"
Theme from "The Untouchables"
Bourbon Street Beat
Detectives Theme
Markham Theme
Johnny Staccato's Theme

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