The Knack... And How To Get It

How many times have we heard emulations of Barry's work in recent
time, probably too many to mention, and with this release we get yet
another set of source cues. A score akin to accompanying a travelogue
film, the jazz riffs (complete with an excellent brass arrangement) float
along with a mastery that only a few composers of then and now could
ever hope to pull off (even Bernstein and Mancini would have a hard time).
It's mainly easy listening, nothing you would ever find in a Bond film, or
for that matter, any of epics like Dances With Wolves or Out Of Africa. The
score is a sedated Ipcress File in it's arrangement, good subtle background
music with a more than obvious theme. This CD would be a
recommendation for those who would like to get a good breadth of Barry's
works if they usually only bought the afore mentioned pieces, a nice
"retro-change-of-pace". I personally like the Hammond organ work in this
score (subtle in some parts, and leading in others). Oh yeah, the film won
the Cannes Film Festival "Best Picture" (Jury du Grand Prix) in 1965, so it
can't be all that bad.