most famous soundtrack creator, A.R. Rahman. Those hoping for a full-on South Asian exploration should note that this is the only
Bollywood number on the disc; the rest
of the
film is scored by Spike Lee regular Terence Blanchard ( Malcolm X , 25th Hour ,Bamboozled .) Blanchard--a former member
of both Lionel Hampton's band and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers--has created moments
of quiet beauty in the soundtrack; "Press Here To Play" is a pensive piano and trumpet journey that ends (too soon) at 90 seconds, while "Nazis Pay Too Well" is another highlight, a masterfully-mournful orchestral piece well worth further expansion. Those pieces aside, the lion's share
of the soundtrack is a variation on one
of two separate musical themes, both
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