Thanks for that, Charles. I'd love to hear those.

I don't really see the comparison with Westerns, Telegonus, because the pictures we're talking about had contemporary settings. Jazz was the music of choice for a lot of young adults in those days. Indeed, West Coast Jazz was the cool new thing in the fifties and early sixties.

It's all subjective, of course, but I enjoy the Carmichael and Katz jazz scores in context and find them refreshing compared to the many science fiction films of the period that use library music. Some of them work better than others, of course, but you pays your money and you takes your chances.