Claude Bolling - Borsalino Medley (Bande originale du film avec Alain Delon) (2020)

Adapted from the novel The Bandits of Marseilles by Eugene Saccomano, Borsalino is based on real life gangsters who took over Marseille in the 1930s. The film laid the foundation for a lasting partnership between actor-producer Alain Delon, director Jacques Deray and composer Claude Bolling. The actor saw in it the opportunity to produce a spectacular big-budget film with a historical reconstruction, and also the chance to act opposite Jean-Paul Belmondo, who he considered to be the other star of the new generation of French cinema actors.

The score of Borsalino is built around an extensive use of the main theme, based from a honky-tonk piano theme that Bolling had written for a disc edition, which gives a nostalgic tone to the film. This well-known theme tune became an instant classic for Borsalino and its actor Delon. Bolling expressed his admiration for early jazz and provided a very stylish score with a retro flavour. For Borsalino and Co, like in the first one, in addition to a graver symphonic score, Bolling used waltzes and fox-trot pieces as background music for the sequences depicting Czardas’s receptions.

Tracklist:
01. Claude Bolling - Borsalino Medley (4:55)
02. Claude Bolling - Borsalino Swing (3:08)
03. Claude Bolling - Borsalino Slow (Version originale 1974) (2:34)
04. Claude Bolling - Le retour de Roch (2:40)
05. Michèle Bach - Prends-moi matelot (2:55)
06. Claude Bolling - Prends-moi matelot (Instrumental) (2:35)
07. Michèle Bach - Tu m'as dit oui (2:50)
08. Claude Bolling - Borsalino & Co. Générique début (2:59)
09. Claude Bolling - Le retour de Borsalino (Version originale 1974) (1:30)