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Bebopaloobop Cowboy Bebop Berkeley Breakthrough

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie makes a limited U.S. debut at Berkeley's Landmark Shattuck April 4th. I'm excited! This is the first movie to come from the animated TV series. The one I bought a TiVo to catch from Adult Swim's 1:30am showings. The one with the incredible jazz score, complex characters, hard boiled plots, film noir meets Kubrick cinematography. It's the 2070s, the bounty hunters of spaceship Bebop are the good guys, and the rating is R. Sergio Leone, Charlie "Bird" Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie would be proud.

I can't understate Cowboy Bebop's music scores. Great blues and jazz musicians from Japan, New York, and Paris making original music as The Seatbelts. The soundtrack albums are eminently listenable. Should the film version keep the faith, think music Oscar next year. See also: The Real Folk Blues, Emily's Future Blues, a marvelous fan site in Italian, The Jazz Messengers, Faye Valentine.net, IMDb.