Sam Paglia's B-Movie Heroes is the soundtrack of a film that only exists in the compositor's mind. Even if the names of the tracks correspond to moments, characters, and places, and if the sleeve seems to be one of a cartoon, with a drawing in the front and sketches in the back and inside, this is all made-up. Paglia is the one who drew those and invented the so-called B-Movie Heroes. Spiritual son of the '70s Italian B-movie soundtrack compositors -- such as Morricone, De Angelis, etc.-- he also includes in his musical possibilities such contemporary genres as jungle ("Jungle Avenue"), and is also inspired by bossa geniuses like
Stan Getz ("Linda"). Acknowledging as personal heroes people like
Jimmy Smith,
Lalo Schifrin,
Otis Redding, the excellent writer John Fante, and the cartoonist
Chuck Jones, one can immediately settle his mind with the man, and B-Movie Heroes proves itself up to it. ~ Romain Guillou