So beautiful and melancholy...this piece captures not only the feel of the movie, but also of the hung-over, hazy dusk of despair of early '70s New York itself--a decaying once-great city whose best years were rapidly receding into the past. (Thank goodness, of course, it came back!) I don't know how to describe it...it's like I can feel the closed-inness of the place through the music. Just haunting and filled with infinite sadness.
I was there in the early 70's before auto emission standards and all types of air emission standards had been set by the EPA. The air was always hazy and smelled of pungent chemicals. When people complain about the EPA I wish that I could transport them in time back to the early 70's to the Northeast US corridor so they could see and smell what it was like before the EPA was established. The clearing of the air had a lot to do with NYC's resurgence.
Yo la vi una sola vez en 1971, y solo me acuerdo o creo que me acuerdo de las botas de Jane y de algunos pasajes de la música de trompeta o saxo quizás del final de la película. La volveré a ver pronto
I finally saw this film for the first time last night! Great performances from both Fonda and Sutherland! The music captures the tone of the characters and the 70s era really well.
I saw this wonderful film on TV the other night. One of my favorite scenes is at the market with them buying fruit,and this music comes in. You can't take your eyes off Fonda what a star!
Favorite scene in the movie is them at the market with this beautiful song in the background. Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland create the mood so brilliantly. Truly moving.
I have a growing appreciation of this movie. It's solely down to Jane Fonda's intense and comprehensive portrait of the Bree Daniel character, that fits ever so nicely with if not thousands or millions of girls/women who at some point had to put their emotional development on pause and the thought processes, inner contradictory forces and character traits that follows. Her exquisite and detailed portrait therefore also showed the discoveries, realizations, determination and most important cognitive decision making and maturity that eventually saves her from rotting into evaporation. (While girls/women may suffer, so does boys/men and they also have their things to deal with, if bad upbringing has mutilated their inner space.) Love the theme. Her taking the trusting step beyond a point of no return, is at the market scene where she leans her face ever so softly onto Klute's shoulder and afterwards grips his jacket like an "I'm attached to you from now on". This precise moment was just so...."yeah, right choice girl".....and comforting. Brilliantly done. Brilliantly.
Just love that inner city utban jazzy vibe you get from this tune!! Take me either to Chicago, L.A, or New York, and on a time machine back to the early 70s please LOL
The melancholy trumpet here & in Chinatown are standouts in establishing a theme that captures the sadness of the "sin in the city" motif. Both LA composers...u c why these guys r in such demand. Great theme & wise enough to know that Less is definitely more.
@@micheler878 I wish I could, but Larry passed away a few years ago. He also played in Elvis Presley's Las Vegas band and was a studio musician with many other artists of the time.
Can not stopping watching this movie...saw it as a lad at Keno drive in theater with my folks... they would tell me to duck in the back seat when it was "adult"
Wonderful! A mesmerising tune. In 2010 I posted 40 seconds of the ending, which was all I could find then. Thanks very much for this - most appreciated.
This is a love story. A story of love through redemption. For me, the market scene is poetry, the sort that Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, those brief lyrical poems that catch you in that ‘unbearable lightness of being’
Perfect love theme. I was literally HAUNTED by the creepiness of this movie, like the scene where Klute is searching through dark alleys -- and when there was "someone on the roof"! Chills! And that scene where Cioffi's character is playing for Bree the recording of himself killing her friend was the stuff of nightmares. Usually, you can imagine it's just someone on a sound stage recording it -- but that sounded like it was someone really being murdered. The horror of it stayed with me for days.
I also LOVE the theme music from the Sam Elliot move "Lifeguard" (1976). BOTH that music and the Klute theme are so beautiful they are almost "painful".
Beautiful music to compliment the mood of the characters in the movie. This music makes me think of a love story instead of the gritty harsh reality of life as a prostitute in New York. The music does have a haunting quality. It makes me feel that this love story may not have a happy ending. BRILLIANT WORK. I love this soundtrack.
in the movie there's the final scene, she's on the phone then both quit the door, music that sounds till the end of very few titles... there this music is particularly good.
So beautiful and melancholy...this piece captures not only the feel of the movie, but also of the hung-over, hazy dusk of despair of early '70s New York itself--a decaying once-great city whose best years were rapidly receding into the past. (Thank goodness, of course, it came back!) I don't know how to describe it...it's like I can feel the closed-inness of the place through the music. Just haunting and filled with infinite sadness.
I was there in the early 70's before auto emission standards and all types of air emission standards had been set by the EPA. The air was always hazy and smelled of pungent chemicals. When people complain about the EPA I wish that I could transport them in time back to the early 70's to the Northeast US corridor so they could see and smell what it was like before the EPA was established. The clearing of the air had a lot to do with NYC's resurgence.
they wrote a book about it they said it was like Ancient Rome-lou
@@garryvanamburg5684 Pittsburgh used to be the same way. It was cleaned up alot since.
What an amazing and poetic way of a perfect description .
You've articulated it beautifully..
The EVERYTHING about this amazing film, THRILLS me still, and I've seen it at least 30 times.
Yo la vi una sola vez en 1971, y solo me acuerdo o creo que me acuerdo de las botas de Jane y de algunos pasajes de la música de trompeta o saxo quizás del final de la película. La volveré a ver pronto
I finally saw this film for the first time last night! Great performances from both Fonda and Sutherland! The music captures the tone of the characters and the 70s era really well.
May i ask where can i watch this movie ?
@@saaliiiii Tubi. I believe it's still available. You can watch for free.
@@saaliiiiitubi
written when movie music really MATTERED. Beyond mezmerizing.
Michael Small. Brilliant. Every few years I come back to this film and discover the beautifully, aching melody.
This is one of the best themes ever.
Just love the jazzy love themes from these 70s films, they make ya cry!!!
I saw this movie about nine times in a Chicago theatre (the Esquire?) when I was 17 and felt very much alone. It might have saved me.
I saw this wonderful film on TV the other night. One of my favorite scenes is at the market with them buying fruit,and this music comes in. You can't take your eyes off Fonda what a star!
haydn jenkins Τotally agree. Not a great movie but it contains two spectacular scenes. Pakoula is a great director.
agreed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That scene jumped out at me also....What it shows is rare and difficult to express...the subtle growth of love. We see in that scene a continuum....
Such a haunting yet romantic music piece
Rest in peace, dear Donald
Favorite scene in the movie is them at the market with this beautiful song in the background. Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland create the mood so brilliantly. Truly moving.
Joni John Τotally agree. Not a great movie but it contains two spectacular scenes. Pakoula is a great director.
Alexandros, absolutely. The movie has *moments* of greatness! :-)
Joni John These are the scenes I meant :-)
:-) agreed.
Joni John it's the way she tugs at his coat
There is just something about this theme that's just immaculate 🥰
Gorgeous theme....what a gift Michael Small left us with!
I have a growing appreciation of this movie. It's solely down to Jane Fonda's intense and comprehensive portrait of the Bree Daniel character, that fits ever so nicely with if not thousands or millions of girls/women who at some point had to put their emotional development on pause and the thought processes, inner contradictory forces and character traits that follows.
Her exquisite and detailed portrait therefore also showed the discoveries, realizations, determination and most important cognitive decision making and maturity that eventually saves her from rotting into evaporation.
(While girls/women may suffer, so does boys/men and they also have their things to deal with, if bad upbringing has mutilated their inner space.)
Love the theme. Her taking the trusting step beyond a point of no return, is at the market scene where she leans her face ever so softly onto Klute's shoulder and afterwards grips his jacket like an "I'm attached to you from now on". This precise moment was just so...."yeah, right choice girl".....and comforting. Brilliantly done. Brilliantly.
Yes-the scene at the fruit market!!! When this music came up I was mesmerized!
Just love that inner city utban jazzy vibe you get from this tune!! Take me either to Chicago, L.A, or New York, and on a time machine back to the early 70s please LOL
Yes glad someone else liked the market scene it just had something special .every
now and again I come back for it. thanks.
I think the most hauntingly beautiful theme music of any movie in history.
The melancholy trumpet here & in Chinatown are standouts in establishing a theme that captures the sadness of the "sin in the city" motif. Both LA composers...u c why these guys r in such demand. Great theme & wise enough to know that Less is definitely more.
I can't think which trumpet solo I like more: KLUTE or CHINATOWN. Both, so evocative and haunting ...
Absolutely adore this score...So much psychology there. So many different emotions and cognitive cross-currents.
& China town
My cousin is playing the piano in this film. Uncredited, but he's listed in the IMDB.
Who?
@@klotzilla Larry Muhoberac
Job Well Done
So cool! Does he have the sheet music for piano? Could you ask him for me? Thank you in advance
@@micheler878 I wish I could, but Larry passed away a few years ago. He also played in Elvis Presley's Las Vegas band and was a studio musician with many other artists of the time.
absolutely sultry very smooth i love it !
Happy Birthday Jane (Dec 21, 2017)---what a great performance and movie this was.
Can not stopping watching this movie...saw it as a lad at Keno drive in theater with my folks... they would tell me to duck in the back seat when it was "adult"
Just moves me in every way.. all my cells love this x
amazing
R.I.P. Donald
Wonderful! A mesmerising tune.
In 2010 I posted 40 seconds of the ending, which was all I could find then.
Thanks very much for this - most appreciated.
thank you for doing this. this music is one of the best aspects of this very great film!
this & Chinatown theme for trumpets!!!!
@@gregwinter1081 check out the theme from the 1989 movie "Sea of Love".
Anytime, I hear this love song it always pull at my heart strings....absolutely lovely. 🥰❤
This is a love story. A story of love through redemption. For me, the market scene is poetry, the sort that Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, those brief lyrical poems that catch you in that ‘unbearable lightness of being’
Great music for good movie!! Thank you!!
One of the ten best themes ever
David Shire Marlowe Theme is my fave
Perfect love theme. I was literally HAUNTED by the creepiness of this movie, like the scene where Klute is searching through dark alleys -- and when there was "someone on the roof"! Chills!
And that scene where Cioffi's character is playing for Bree the recording of himself killing her friend was the stuff of nightmares. Usually, you can imagine it's just someone on a sound stage recording it -- but that sounded like it was someone really being murdered. The horror of it stayed with me for days.
Sublime theme. Excellent film.
I need this vinyl
BEAUTIFULLY MAGNIFICENT.
@billyralphweeden
A great character study too; Bree is one of the most interesting women ever seen in cinema.
Beautiful
That's Jack Sheldon, playing the horn as only he could.
Thank you for posting this.
I also LOVE the theme music from the Sam Elliot move "Lifeguard" (1976). BOTH that music and the Klute theme are so beautiful they are almost "painful".
Beautiful music to compliment the mood of the characters in the movie. This music makes me think of a love story instead of the gritty harsh reality of life as a prostitute in New York. The music does have a haunting quality. It makes me feel that this love story may not have a happy ending. BRILLIANT WORK. I love this soundtrack.
Mesmerizing
Tears means something at that time.....
just received an original poster from e-bay....kick ass with the creases and all
Brilliant movie.
love love love this market scene....Fonda and Sutherland are sexy together music is wow
Haunting theme!
in the movie there's the final scene, she's on the phone then both quit the door, music that sounds till the end of very few titles...
there this music is particularly good.
This song fills me with anxiety especially at the end
This instrumental. There's no singing, no lyrics.
Great, thanks.
I think I'm addicted to this movie theme. Fonda was the sexiest of the sexy.
Yes there was a time when she was !
@ubbuu
It's one of her best performances.
Rest in peace, Donald
love it
70s movie themes like this and Taxi Driver ❤️
I’m hearing a connection to the 1979 film, “10”.
WOW!!!!
i love jane fonda in this
Волшебно!!!
@sepio41
My pleasure
classic modern noir ala china town/mulloholand falls etc -great
@hcrun
My pleasure, listen to the other tracks I've posted.
Haunting, sexy melody...
itunes or spotify
@steelydan53
Always a pleasure.
And Sutherland was perfect.
nice NICE
Sounds like Conte Candoli's trumpet.
seeing this on tv - put it on pause to research the music. any idea who performed the solo? (trumpet)
next question. was this score ever released as a full recording or not?
Who is the trumpet soloist? Thanks
Not sure, but I know Michael Small used 2 trumpets on this brilliant piece, you can hear the 2nd shadowing the 1st in some passages.
Jack Sheldon performs the solo on flugelhorn.
@@andrewheyes8055 thanks. I was wondering if this was a flugelhorn...
Anybody have the chords ? Quite similar to the Look of Love don't you think ?
Chris Blower exactly!
indeed nice intro.....
Jane Fondas best performance.
Would this film be considered as noir or noir inspired?
It would be considered as neo-noir.
The FIRST noir film in color--it was called at the time of its release--summer of 1971.
This is almost scary
i see Michael Shannon and Angelina Jolie remaking KLUTE with brad as the sadistic killer
Nice tune but misnamed. Love Theme?!? There is no "love" in this entire film. "It's so pathetic."