[Michael Giacchino's Lightyear]

I'm out on this movie and score.

[Nathan Johnson: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery]

The walrus was Paul

[The "(Fill in the Blank) Has Died" Thread]

1 hour ago, bruce marshall said:

Made a great Nixon.

Rip PBH

 

Probably my favorite screen Nixon.

[Which score is Doug Adams referring to here?]

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

[The Box Office thread]

On 12/06/2022 at 1:01 PM, Edmilson said:

Top Gun: Maverick earned 50m on its third weekend

 

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.

[The "(Fill in the Blank) Has Died" Thread]

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!

[JW Directly Quoting Other Pieces]

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.

[John T. Williams, the pianist]

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")

[JW Directly Quoting Other Pieces]

15 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Rakes Of Mallow

 

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.

[John T. Williams, the pianist]

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.

 

 

[Star Wars is better than everything]

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

[The Official Pop and Rock Music thread]

Great cover version

 

 

[Does Anyone Actually Listen To Jazz Anymore?]

9 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Django

 

Especially since they unchained him

[Does Anyone Actually Listen To Jazz Anymore?]

47 minutes ago, bruce marshall said:

Unfortunately, most jazz combos are still stuck in that tired formula of one verse and then everybody takes a solo- with the inevitable audience applause

 

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.

["Violin Concerto No. 2 and Selected Film Themes" Williams / Mutter album coming June 3rd from DG - Blu Ray Video coming August 19]

2 hours ago, bollemanneke said:

I think I'd like these pieces a lot more if they had toned down the vibrato

 

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

[SPACECAMP (1986) - NEW! 2022 2-CD Intrada Records]

SpaceCamp also failed because it wasn’t a good movie 

[Does Anyone Actually Listen To Jazz Anymore?]

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!

[Does Anyone Actually Listen To Jazz Anymore?]

Sigh

[E.T. Is 40 Today!]

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.

[Way Back When... Gramophone September 1972 John T. Williams Sinfonietta]

@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

[What is the last piece of classical music you listened to?]

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

 

 

[Jurassic Park and The Lost World Complete Release coming from LaLa-Land Records on 29th of November]

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.

[OBI-WAN KENOBI - spoilers allowed for all aired episodes]

I also have nothing to say on purpose

[OBI-WAN KENOBI - spoilers allowed for all aired episodes]

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).

["Violin Concerto No. 2 and Selected Film Themes" Williams / Mutter album coming June 3rd from DG - Blu Ray Video coming August 19]

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