Roy Budd composed the score for Michael Winner’s 1973 crime thriller The Stone Killer, starring Charles Bronson as a hard-edged New York detective sent to Los Angeles to investigate a Mafia feud. Best known for his celebrated work on Get Carter, Budd brings the same sharp musical instinct to this soundtrack, balancing cool jazz textures with sweeping orchestral drama. The score opens with a deceptively gentle melody before expanding into a full 70-piece orchestral arrangement, revealing Budd’s flair for bold cinematic themes and tightly wound tension. Throughout, jazz phrasing threads through widescreen arrangements, giving the music both groove and grandeur. Blending orchestral scoring with smoky jazz-funk touches, The Stone Killer stands as a striking example of Budd’s ability to fuse jazz sensibility with classic film composition, appealing equally to soundtrack collectors and fans of 1970s library and jazz-funk sounds.
- A1 Main Title
- A2 Under Surveilance
- A3 The Plot
- A4 On The Trail
- A5 The Graveyard
- A6 In The Shadows
- A7 Too Late
- B1 The Old Precinct
- B2 Down Downtown
- B3 On The Move
- B4 Down Uptown
- B5 From Vietnam To New York
- B6 The Chase
- B7 Assassination
- B8 Final Capture
