Caveman's Valentine (Soundtrack)

by Terence Blanchard

Overview

The Caveman's Valentine finds composer Terence Blanchard teaming up again with director Kasi Lemmons and actor Samuel L. Jackson, with whom he worked previously on Eve's Bayou. This time, the score presents a special challenge in that the main character of the film, Romulus Ledbetter, played by Jackson, is supposed to be a classically trained pianist who is also slightly crazy. On top of that, the movie is a mystery/thriller. Add up those plot elements, and Blanchard was faced with composing a piano-based, classically informed score full of dramatic and suspenseful passages, which might have seemed quite a task for a musician still best known as a jazz trumpeter. Running slightly more than an hour, this soundtrack album presents 28 musical cues from the film, many of which are brief passages meant to support the developments of the story. But using the Northwest Sinfonia, Blanchard does get to write more complete orchestral pieces at several points, notably the aptly named "Musical Rampage," "The Letter," and the seven-and-a-half-minute "Finale." His music is always functional, but it also displays a flair for classical styles. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	03/06/2001
Label:	Decca
UPC:	0044001358623
Rank:	155523

Tracks

1. Caveman's Valentine, film score~Tuning-The Min Title
2. Caveman's Valentine, film score~Moth Ballet
3. Caveman's Valentine, film score~Clink, Clink, Stuyvesant's Tower
4. Caveman's Valentine, film score~Valentine in the Tree
5. Caveman's Valentine, film score~Caveman in the Trash
6. Caveman's Valentine, film score~He Was Beautiful to Me
7. Caveman's Valentine, film score~Help Me
8. Caveman's Valentine, film score~Bus
9. Caveman's Valentine, film score~Bob and Betty
10. Caveman's Valentine, film score~ROM on the Street
11. Caveman's Valentine, film score~ROM and Arnold Ride
12. Caveman's Valentine, film score~Sheila at the Farm
13. Caveman's Valentine, film score~Regnava Nel Silenzo
14. Caveman's Valentine, film score~Does It Hurt
15. Caveman's Valentine, film score~That's Where You Made It
16. Caveman's Valentine, film score~Musical Rampage
17. Caveman's Valentine, film score~Caveman Gets off Track
18. Caveman's Valentine, film score~Lovemaking
19. Caveman's Valentine, film score~Into the Freezer
20. Caveman's Valentine, film score~ROM and Lulu Drive
21. Caveman's Valentine, film score~Caveman Outside the Cave
22. Caveman's Valentine, film score~Another Life
23. Caveman's Valentine, film score~Except Once
24. Caveman's Valentine, film score~ROM on Balcony
25. Caveman's Valentine, film score~Letter
26. Caveman's Valentine, film score~Now
27. Caveman's Valentine, film score~Subway
28. Caveman's Valentine, film score~Finale

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Terence Blanchard   Primary Artist,Piano,Conductor
Awadagin Pratt   Primary Artist,Piano
Northwest Sinfonia and Chorus   Primary Artist
Joan Sutherland   Primary Artist,Soprano (Vocal)
Northwest Sinfonia   Orchestra

Technical Credits

Sam Hofstedt   Assistant Engineer
Robert Vosgien   Mastering
Kathy Nelson   Executive in Charge of Music
Joan Sutherland   Performer
Jay Weigel   Music Copyist,Orchestration
Simon James   Contractor
Randy Dry   Soundtrack Coordination
Tony di Mito   Assistant Music Editor
Erika Duffee   Production Assistant
Penny Bennett   Art Direction
Michael Esneault   Assistant Copyist
Northwest Sinfonia and Chorus   Performer
Buck Damon   Music Supervisor
Leah M. Panlilio   Soundtrack Coordination
Kerry Hayes   Photography
Lori Slomka   Music Editor
Harry Garfield   Executive in Charge of Music
Don Murray   Engineer,Engineer,Mastering
Tim Adams   Percussion Consultant
Gaetano Donizetti   Composer
Timothy Adams   Consultant
Trevon Kezios   Soundtrack Coordination
Steve Culp   Assistant Engineer
Robert Puff   Assistant Copyist
Robin Burgess   Assistant Producer,Session Producer
Terence Blanchard   Composer,Producer,Sleeve Notes,Orchestration