12AngryMen #9 (alternativesoundtrack #3)
(Jimmy Smith & Lou Donaldson – Summertime)
so the count is now 9 to 3 in favour of the guilty’s. The evidence is being torn to shreds piece by piece and what started as an open and shut case is turning into a battle of subjectivite opinion vs objective facts.
the two performances that, for me, are outstanding are Henry Fonda and Lee J Cobb. The others are good but these two are special. both are featured on this piece of dialogue.
the song which comes courtesy of organist supreme Jimmy Smith and Blue Note stable mate, Saxophone legend Lou Donaldson is a haunting 1957 rendition of the George Gershwin classic Summertime, (penned for the Opera Porgy & Bess). A song that has been covered more times than I’ve had hot dinners, rumour has it that Gershwin adapted it from a Ukranian lullaby ‘Oy Khodyt Son Kolo Vikon’, (A Dream Passes By The Windows), which he heard in 1926.
themusicologist 
in a masterful performance by Lee J Cobb we witness the full extent of his rage at the young,
impotent in the face of his own sons rejection
of him, he condems them all..gripping stuff!
the piece of music was a soothing antidote to the growing drama in the jury room.
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the bitter with the sweet…
thanks for the comments
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