Jean-Claude Rey reads Truman Capote's work "Une Ete Indien." (Spoken in the French language) Personnel includes: Jean-Claude Rey (spoken vocals).

Music composed by Harold Arlen. Lyrics written by Truman Capote. This is part of Columbia Records "Broadway Masterworks" series. House of Flowers, based on a celebrated Truman Capote novella about love in a brothel in the West Indies, failed as a Broadway ...

As the album's title, drawn from a song used in Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, suggests, Broadway and nightclub singer Karen Akers explores the impact of love in her fifth album for DRG Records, which, ...

Although this is a tie-in release with the 2005 movie Capote, it's not exactly a soundtrack, or a Truman Capote album. It's something between the two, mixing Truman Capote recitations with incidental music from the film score. Most of the quite lengthy (76-minute) CD is devoted to excerpts from the 1966 album Truman Capote Reads Scenes from 'In Cold Blood': A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. Although the title might seem self-explanatory, for those who've seen the movie it's worth emphasizing that the spoken word passages from Capote's book In Cold Blood are not read here by Phillip Seymour Hoffman, the actor who played the writer in the film. They're read by Capote himself, and even if you're well acquainted with his life, it still comes as somewhat of a shock to hear such a middle-America-gone-awry tale delivered in such a fey yet matter-of-fact voice. Most listeners will find these readings rather tough going, and more effective as read in the printed page (or experienced indirectly via the movie), ...