Just watched the old movie classic - Picnic. Not really much in the way of jazz. In fact, the actual picnic scene is like Jazz on a Summer's Day without the jazz or, come to that, any non-caucasians, which is the way it was back then in 1955.
However, the classic dance sequence between William Holden and Kim Novak (neither of whom were known as dancers) showed more sensual chemistry in four minutes than Fred and Ginger did in all of their movies.
They danced to the movie's theme which was cleverly merged with Moonglow and had Stan Wrightsman (piano), George Van Eps (guitar), Phil Stephens (bass) and Nick Fatool (drums) along with some strings providing the soundtrack to this most iconic scene. A magical moment in a sea of dross - Lance
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I saw this film when it first came out and I have the DVD which I watch frequently.
One of the all-time great movies.
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