I was running around our facility the other day trying to get some tasks done while dodging other employees and music popped into my mind of frantic fast paced trumpet playing almost “flight of the bumblebee” pace.
I couldn’t recall if I had see it in a particular movie or if it was a common trope of people either running or driving in a panic while a solo trumpet is matching the tempo of the scene. The scene may even have an actual trumpet player performing as part of the movie while they flash between him and other clips of the scurrying characters.
Was it the 1970 movie, “Tora! Tora! Tora!”? There is a scene where the band is playing the anthem but speeded it up insanely because the Japanese were beginning their attack.
Your description reminds me of that very fast trumpet piece in Kill Bill Vol. 1 (I think where the Bride goes off to Japan?) which sounds like a classical piece done in a manic Mariarchi style.
Not a sax, but maybe “March Of The Swivelheads” the song from Ferris Beuller when he’s trying to beat his parents home. Also not a sax, but Jump Into The Fire by Harry Nilsson, the song playing in Goodfellas when Henry was being followed by the helicopter.
The manic jazz/surf rock trumpet / piano soundtrack a bit of a trope with spy/heist themed shows and films though (sort of like the plane flying across the map bit).
It quotes snippets of Flight of the Bumblebee but it’s not the same piece; there are several parts of the trumpet line that Al Hirt added to what old Nikolai wrote.
