Touch Of Evil

Plas Johnson recently gave me an original copy of the Touch Of Evil Soundtrack to add to my vinyl collection. He was featured on the rock & roll tracks from this classic Orson Welles film, and shared some great memories of working closely with Henry Mancini on this, and several other projects including Peter Gunn, The Pink Panther, Charade, and The Party. If you haven’t seen Touch Of Evil, you’re in for a real treat. The opening credits are a piece of cinematic mastery and the music is outstanding , now available on CD.

Christmas In Hollywood

Over the years, many jazz artists have ended up detouring into pop when they recorded Christmas albums. But listeners can rest assured that Christmas in Hollywood is both a Christmas album and a true jazz album. Plas Johnson, of course, could have easily made this a pop recording -- the versatile tenor saxman has certainly backed his share of non-jazz artists, and is probably most noted for his performance on Henry Mancini’s “Pink Panther Theme”. Christmas in Hollywood, however, is very much a hard bop/soul-jazz recording.
It was a great pleasure for me to work with Plas once again on the production of this CD, as well as legendary balladeer and blues shouter Ernie Andrews.
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