And the other aspect of it has to do with suspense music and kind of film noir. “Part of the tone of this music has something to do with early rock n’ roll – you know, Link Wray, rockabilly, surf music. The guitar melodies became the singer, so to speak.”īig Lazy has been on that less-traveled instrumental path ever since, blending film noir music with rock, jazz and other influences. Let’s just go and play without the singer. And it just seemed like OK, we’re working without a net here. But that all ended abruptly one night when Big Lazy played a gig at CBGB, a club in New York City that was part of the punk and new wave scene. They get to right the story, and we really just kind of supply the palette.”īack in the 80s, Ulrich’s music did have words, and his band did have a singer. And the interesting thing for us is that people get to write their own script. “They feel sort of narrative without having words,” Ulrich said. The songs he writes for Big Lazy have no lyrics. When you hear “front man,” usually you think of a singer. “You know, you’d go to a club in New York in the early 80s and there’d be experimental rock music and free jazz happening at the same time,” Ulrich said. When he’s not writing for TV, radio or film, Ulrich is songwriter and fedora-wearing front-man of the band Big Lazy. “Since it was about comedy, there was a lot of iconic silent film images," he said.
His songs have also been licensed for use between the stories on NPR news shows, and he wrote music for a PBS documentary called “Make ‘Em Laugh.”
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He said he’s best known for writing music for the series “Bored to Death” on HBO. The crime jazz label I guess comes from the fact that the music can sound like a film noir soundtrack.” “It’s been called 'crime jazz,' and 'guitar noir' and 'rock noir,'" Ulrich said. His music, infused with elements of rock and jazz, can have the feel of an old Hollywood black and white film score. He lives in New Jersey now, but Ulrich grew up in New York City, and studied jazz guitar for a while.
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