Pick of the crop
Budd fan | 09/06/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I've got heavily into Roy Budd's action/"crime jazz" scores & if I could choose only one reckon this to be the best of the lot - with the Budd trade-mark pulsating percussion & strings particularly powerful on this. Track 14 is my fav. Budd track ever.
The album "Buddism" is the best intro to his work whilst of the individual scores I consider this one along with "Black Windmill" & the much shorter "Internecine Project" to be the pinnacle.
(Note "Internecine" is on the "Something to Hide" CD , mispelt as "Intercine".
In the second rank I place "Stone Killer" & "Fear is the Key" which don;t quite sustain the brilliance - whilst the others don't really do much that he didn't do better on the above mentioned."