I Work the Whole City
One of Dave Blume’s jazz-pop arrangements of Bernard Herrmann’s Taxi Driver is featured on the soundtrack to James Cox’ WONDERLAND.
From
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/articles/2003/03_Oct—Film_Score_Friday.asp
A piece of “film music” familiar to many soundtrack collectors which has actually never been featured in a film before will be heard in the new film WONDERLAND, a docudrama about porn star John Holmes’ involvement in a brutal murder in the early 80s. Along with the inevitable songs and the Cliff Martinez score, one scene is scored with “I Work the Whole City,” one of Dave Blume’s jazz-pop reworkings of Bernard Herrmann’s original music from the old Taxi Driver soundtrack. The Sony CD of Wonderland does not include this cue, nor does it feature any of Martinez’ score.
Cliff Martinez, the composer of WONDERLAND, has the following to say about Herrmann:
“He’s one of the pioneers of minimalism in film. He had an amazing ability to take a simple three-note motif and spin off endless variations that not only held your interest, but created great emotion as well.”