Disco Stu

I'm out on this movie and score.

The walrus was Paul

Probably my favorite screen Nixon.

This thread title sounds like it should be a 20 questions game where we ask Doug questions to try and guess what film score he’s thinking of

What's funny is that if you compare its third weekend to its opening, it's still a smaller drop than Doctor Strange had to its second weekend. That stat is all the more notable because TG2's 3rd weekend is against Jurassic World and DS2's 2nd weekend was against nothing big. I have nothing against DS2, a movie I pretty much liked, it's just useful as a comparison to set off what an unexpected anomaly TG2 has turned out to be. It's also just kinda funny to me that DS2 can make more than $900 million worldwide and still have a slight aura of disappointment around it.

Another all-time great character actor has left us. RIP Philip Baker Hall https://www.thewrap.com/philip-baker-hall-star-of-magnolia-and-boogie-nights-dies-at-90/ Secret Honor and Magnolia are his two best performances IMO, but he had small but memorable roles in so many good movies and shows over the years. The Library Investigator in Seinfeld!

We also have to mention "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," the classic Jerome Kern ballad, used in Always, especially in that jaw-droppingly gorgeous arrangement found in the alternate end credits on the LLL set.

It's cool that playing with Russell Garcia was among his earliest professional studio musician gigs and then a decade later they were both featured composers on that great Stan Kenton album (Williams' "Prelude and Fugue" and Garcia's "Adventure in Emotion")

I still can't help thinking of that tune as the theme from The Quiet Man though . I have to think Spielberg wanted that tune used specifically as a nod to The Quiet Man, given that we know it's one of his favorite movies (and of course later used in ET). Not sure if I've ever seen him confirm that though.

What an absolutely gorgeous John Williams piano solo from 1956. The song is such a timeless jazz classic, it's nice to hear young Williams' take on it.

They better get movin' if they're gonna make a Valorum series for Disney+ while Terence Stamp is still with us

Great cover version

Especially since they unchained him

I don't think the formula is tired, certainly not with great solos and backgrounds, but for live recordings I also don't like the applause after each solo.

Yeah, I have to admit it's a little much for me a lot of the time

SpaceCamp also failed because it wasn’t a good movie

Jazz is my most listened to genre, even moreso than film scores/classical. If you ever glance at the main Jazz thread it's obvious that I mostly listen to "classic" jazz from the 20s-50s, I'm left pretty cold once things get too artsy fartsy (that said, there's tons of great groovy jazz in the 60s). For me, jazz has to be rooted in the blues and the rhythm of black American music from the early 20th century or I'm not interested in it. All that Swedish or whatever ECM stuff just isn't for me. However, I do listen to plenty of contemporary jazz as well. I listen to all kinds, but for anyone curious I'd wanna spotlight a great scene in NYC of composers/conductors still pushing the big band form forward. Here are a few albums from the last few years that I absolutely adore: Alan Ferber teaches at NYU these days, he put out some great albums in the 2000s as a nonet before graduating up to full big band. Jigsaw, his most recent album from 2017 is legit one of my favorite albums of any genre of the past 10 years. Here's two albums by young east Asian women who came to America to study in conservatories like Berklee and became jazz composers in college. They both bring a classical sensibility to the form in an interesting way. Jihye Lee Miho Hazama I posted about a couple of years ago here because she included a really cool interesting arrangement of Williams' Olympic theme. Her own compositions are also great! Jared Schonig is an amazing drummer and composer. His Two Takes big band album was my favorite album of 2021. The groove is hot!

Sigh

I have seen this movie so much that there is literally not a month that goes by in my life where I do not at least once sing the little section of Elvis Costello's "Accidents Will Happen" that Michael sings while piddling around my house. Greatest movie ever made with the greatest score ever writen.

@lairdo You might be interested to know that archive.org has the entire archive of Gramophone going back to 1923 https://archive.org/details/pub_gramophone archive.org is the best website on the internet. Here's the very first issue. I love that the editor makes a point to say they won't cover radio broadcasts. "We shall have nothing to do with the Wireless in these columns. Our policy will be to encourage the recording companies to build up for generations to come a great library of good music" https://archive.org/details/sim_gramophone_1923-04_1_1

Out of historical curiosity I listened to the very first recording of The Planets by the LSO in 1922-23. Pretty cool actually.

I often will still organize albums by "disc" even when it's an ad-hoc album of my own creation where discs go way over the actual physical limit of CD standards. It's just one way to organize things logically within the bounds of the software.

I also have nothing to say on purpose

I don't like TROS, but I much prefer the actual implied onscreen story (Lando's just thirsty for a way younger woman) to the one we know about from leaks (she's his daughter).

JW to ASM when she talks about the jazz influence on the concerto