West Orange guitarist Dave Stryker got himself some strings and he’s taking ‘em all to the movies. Stryker with Strings Goes To The Movies, released via Strikezone Records, includes themes for such movies as Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Anatomy of a Murder, Picnic and Gunn plus some James Bond action (You Only Live Twice). 'Theme From Shaft' revitalizes 1971’s Shaft tune into a big, boiling machine complete with 30-piece studio orchestra arranged and conducted by Brent Wallarab...

Stryker With Strings Goes to the Movies, sees guitarist Dave Stryker take some of cinemas most notable themes and make them his own, with a slant towards jazz interpretations.

The results speak for themselves, with Stryker taking well known themes and making them his own. No where is this more evident than in his interpretation of Isaac Hayes' them from the 1971 blaxploitation movie Shaft.

I lovingly crafted tribute to cinemas most memorable original themes.

Track listing:

01. In Your Eyes (Gabriel) (5:34) from Say Anything
02. Cinema Paradiso (Main Theme) (Morricone) (4:51) from Cinema Paradiso
03. You Only Live Twice (Barry/Bricusse) (5:57) from You Only Live Twice
04. Taxi Driver (Main Title) (Herrmann) (6:18) from Taxi Driver
05. Theme from Shaft (Hayes) (6:08) from Shaft
06. Cavatina (Myers) (5:59) from The Deer Hunter
07. Flirtibird (Ellington/Strayhorn) (6:07) from Anatomy of a Murder
08. Low Key Lightly (Ellington/Strayhorn) (5:22) from Anatomy of a Murder
09. Moonglow (Hudson/Mills) (6:14) from Picnic
10. Dreamsville (Mancini/Livingston/Evans) (5:14) from Gunn
11. Edelweiss (Rodgers/Hammerstein) (4:53) from The Sound of Music

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Nick Smithson