Editing Anatomy of a Murder (section)

==Soundtrack==
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{{Infobox album
| name       = Anatomy of a Murder
| type       = soundtrack
| artist     = [[Duke Ellington]]
| cover      = Ellingtonmurder105.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 1959
| recorded   = May 29 and June 1–2, 1959
| venue      =
| studio     = [[Radio Recorders]], [[Los Angeles]]
| genre      = [[Jazz]]
| length     =
| label      = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]
| producer   =
| chronology = [[Duke Ellington]]
| prev_title = [[Side by Side (Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges album)|Side by Side]]
| prev_year  = 1959
| next_title = [[Live at the Blue Note (Duke Ellington album)|Live at the Blue Note]]
| next_year  = 1959
}}

The jazz score of ''Anatomy of a Murder'' was composed by [[Duke Ellington]] and [[Billy Strayhorn]] and played by Ellington's [[orchestra]]. Several of Ellington band's sidemen, including [[Jimmy Hamilton]], Jimmy Johnson, [[Ray Nance]], and [[Jimmy Woode]] appear, and Ellington himself plays the character Pie Eye.<ref>{{cite web |title = Anatomy of a Murder |work = The Library of Congress |url = https://www.loc.gov/item/jots.200013378/ |publisher = Library of Congress |access-date = February 23, 2021 }}</ref>

Mervyn Cooke, in the ''History of Film Music'', asserts that despite being heard "in bits and pieces" the score "contains some of his most evocative and eloquent music... and beckons with the alluring scent of a [[femme fatale]]." Including small pieces by [[Billy Strayhorn]], film historians recognize it "as a landmark {{mdash}} the first significant Hollywood film music by [[African Americans]] comprising non-[[diegetic#Film sound and music|diegetic]] music, that is, music whose source is not visible or implied by action in the film, like an on-screen band." The score avoids cultural [[stereotypes]] which previously characterized jazz scores and "rejected a strict adherence to visuals in ways that presaged the [[French New Wave|New Wave]] cinema of the '60s."<ref>{{cite book |last = Cooke |first = Mervyn |year = 2008 |title = History of Film Music |publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn = 978-0-521-01048-1 }}</ref>

The [[soundtrack album]], containing 13 tracks, was released by [[Columbia Records]] on May 29, 1959. A CD was released on April 28, 1995, and reissued by [[Sony]] in a deluxe edition in 1999.<ref name="Panorama">{{cite web |url = http://www.depanorama.net/index.htm |title = A Duke Ellington Panorama |access-date = May 14, 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170909014624/http://www.depanorama.net/index.htm |archive-date = September 9, 2017 |url-status = dead }}</ref>

===Reception===
''[[Detroit Free Press]]'' music critic Mark Stryker concluded: "Though indispensable, I think the score is too sketchy to rank in the top echelon among Ellington-Strayhorn masterpiece suites like ''[[Such Sweet Thunder]]'' and ''[[The Far East Suite]]'', but its most inspired moments are their equal."<ref name=stryker>{{cite news |last = Stryker |first = Mark |title = Ellington's Score Still Celebrated |date = January 20, 2009 |work = Detroit Free Press }}</ref>{{efn-ua|The score employs a "handful of themes, endlessly recombined and re-orchestrated. Ellington never wrote a melody more seductive than the hip-swaying "Flirtibird", featuring the "irresistibly salacious tremor" by [[Johnny Hodges]] on the [[alto saxophone]]." A stalking back-beat barely contains the simmering violence of the main title music" The score is heavily dipped in "the scent of the blues and Ellington's orchestra bursts with color."<ref name=stryker/>}}

The [[AllMusic]] review by Bruce Eder awarded the album 3 stars and called it "a virtuoso jazz score—moody, witty, sexy, and—in its own quiet way {{ndash}} playful".<ref name="Allmusic">{{cite web |last = Eder |first = B. |url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/r110356 |title = AllMusic Review |website = [[AllMusic]] |access-date = May 17, 2010 }}</ref>

Ellington's score won three [[Grammy Awards]] in 1959: [[Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra&nbsp;– for Dancing|Best Performance by a Dance Band]], [[Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition|Best New Musical Composition]], and [[Grammy Award for Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television|Best Soundtrack Album]].

{{Music ratings
|rev1= [[AllMusic]]
|rev1Score= {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/>
|rev3 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide]]''
| rev3Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book |editor-last = Swenson |editor-first = J. |year = 1985 |title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone |isbn = 0-394-72643-X |page = 69 }}</ref> 
|rev2 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]]''
|rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1 = Cook |first1 = Richard |author-link1 = Richard Cook (journalist) |last2 = Morton |first2 = Brian |author-link2 = Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title = [[The Penguin Guide to Jazz|The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]] |year = 2008 |edition = 9th |publisher = [[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |isbn = 978-0-141-03401-0 |page = 436 }}</ref>
}}