Crime jazz

Crime jazz (also known as "noir jazz" and "guitar noir") is a subgenre of jazz music that bears similarities to the soundtracks of film noir. Blog site Boing Boing characterizes the style as "jazzy theme music from 1950s TV shows and movies in which very bad people do very bad things." The music of Big Lazy has been described as crime jazz by Vintage Guitar. Some consider the music featured in the 1967 Spider-Man animated TV series to represent crime jazz. The theme song to the 1959 series Peter Gunn is among the most widely-known compositions in the style, according to Boing Boing.