Various Artists - BD Music Presents Film Noir - 1936 /1956 (2009)

Film noir is the heir to the hard-boiled detective novel and the gangster film. From the early 1920s, Dashiell Hammett created a new style of investigative storytelling—more rhythmic, syncopated, dense, and enigmatic. Cinema took up the mantle of the detective narrative, and from then on, film noir and the noir novel enriched each other with their narrative techniques: dark atmosphere, high-contrast black-and-white visuals, eroticism, fragmented timelines, voice-over narration, and sharp, concise dialogue.

The genre caters to the public’s fascination with seedy underworlds, luxury, sex, violence, and the eroticism of gangster women. Film noir succeeds because it is a concentrated expression of unspoken desires.

Tracklist:
1-1 Studio orchestra - The Maltese Falcon [3:53]
1-2 Dooley Wilson - As Time Goes By [3:12]
1-3 Miklós Rózsa - Double Indemnity [2:46]
1-4 Studio orchestra - Laura [1:26]
1-5 Nat King Cole - Laura [2:45]
1-6 Studio orchestra - Mildred Pierce [2:56]
1-7 Claudia Drake - I Can’t Believe You Are in Love with Me [1:16]
1-8 Anita Ellis - Put the Blame on Mame [2:08]
1-9 Studio orchestra - The Big Sleep [3:02]
1-10 Jo Stafford - Too Marvellous for Words [3:17]
1-11 Anton Karas - The Third Man [3:24]
1-12 Illinois Jacquet and Orchestra - D.O.A. [5:15]
1-13 Franz Waxman Orchestra - Sunset Boulevard [3:05]
1-14 Crossfire - Ginie Cause I'm from Virginia [0:33]
1-15 Jo Ann Greer - I’ve Been Kissed Before [3:28]
1-16 Nat King Cole - The Blue Gardenia [2:59]
1-17 Jo Ann Greer - Miss Sadie Thompson [4:42]
1-18 Leith Stevens;The Westcoasters - Private Hell 36 [3:11]
1-19 Nat King Cole - I’d Rather Have the Blues Than What I’ve Got [2:55]
1-20 Pete Kelly And His Big Seven - Pete Kelly’s Blues [3:24]
1-21 Elmer Bernstein - The Man with the Golden Arm [5:00]
1-22 Jean Wiener Trio - Touchez pas au Grisbi [3:30]
1-23 Larry Adler - Du rififi chez les hommes [3:08]
1-24 Michel Legrand;Michel Legrand Orchestra - Razzia sur la schnouf [3:03]
1-25 Jo Boyer & Orchestra - Bob le flambeur [2:34]
2-26 Benny Carter - Angel Eyes [3:30]
2-27 Illinois Jacquet;ILLINOIS JACQUET - Harlem Nocturne [4:33]
2-28 Duke Ellington - Laura [4:11]
2-29 Stan Kenton - Conflict [4:26]
2-30 Chet Baker - The Thrill Is Gone [2:47]
2-31 Leith Stevens - Havana Interlude [4:10]
2-32 Leith Stevens - Easy Mood [4:05]
2-33 Leith Stevens - Daddy Long Legs [3:47]
2-34 Leith Stevens - Joshua [3:26]
2-35 Leith Stevens - Lilli [2:44]
2-36 Leith Stevens - Dance of the Lilliputian [3:09]
2-37 Leith Stevens - Private Blues [1:31]
2-38 Benny Carter - Key Largo [3:11]
2-39 Johnny Mercer - One for My Baby [3:09]
2-40 Stan Getz - Serenade in Blue [3:55]
2-41 Miles Davis - Moon Dreams [3:21]
2-42 Elmer Bernstein - Break Up [3:46]
2-43 Elmer Bernstein - Audition [2:46]
2-44 Clifford Brown - Delilah [8:07]
2-45 Woody Herman - Misty Morning [3:16]
2-46 Roy Eldridge - I Remember Harlem [3:30]