If you’ve heard guitarist Dave Stryker leading his own group or as a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and many others, you know why The Village Voice calls him “one of the most distinctive guitarists to come along in recent years.” Jazz guitar legend Pat Metheny concurs, saying “I have followed Dave Stryker’s playing since his early days…and he just gets better and better with one of the most joyous feels around.”

In his latest work, “Stryker with Strings Goes to The Movies,” the Jacobs School of Music professor collaborates with his IU colleague and arranger Brent Wallarab to explore their mutual love of movies by recording 11 classic movie themes with a 30-piece studio orchestra. Together, they “embrace cinematics with a sound that feels bright and airy. A sense of wonder underpins the entirety of the album. Ups and downs, the high energy alongside the mellowed grooves, it has a cyclical understanding of time...bathing the sound in a nostalgic hue.” (Skopemag.com)

Choose this CD as your thank you gift when you support WFIU, and become the proud owner of the world's only recording with a track list that includes both the "Theme from Shaft" and "Edelweiss"!

Track Listing:

1 In Your Eyes (from Say Anything)

2 Cinema Paradiso (Main Theme) (from Cinema Paradiso)

3 You Only Live Twice (from You Only Live Twice)

4 Taxi Driver (Main Title) (from Taxi Driver)

5 Theme from Shaft (from Shaft)

6 Cavatina (from The Deer Hunter)

7 Flirtibird (from Anatomy of a Murder)

8 Low Key Lightly (from Anatomy of a Murder)

9 Moonglow (from Picnic)

10 Dreamsville (from Gunn)

11 Edelweiss (from The Sound of Music)

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