Nov. 4: Quincy Jones –trumpet player, jazz great, composer, producer, arranger – died at 91 (he composed the soundtracks for many crime films, such as In the Heat of the Night, and lived in Seattle in the late ’40s where he become fast friends with Ray Charles...
Most recently, the 2021 Netflix documentary Pelé looked at his life from 1958-70, as he transformed from a young soccer phenomenon to a national hero. Also an accomplished musician, he composed music, including the soundtrack for 1977's Pelé, and recorded albums of popular Brazilian music....
A talented composer, Lynch has composed much of the music that appears in his projects and has helped produce and arrange tracks for acts like Julee Cruise and Danger Mouse. He’s also released several albums of his own, including “Crazy Clown Time” and “The Big Dream,” that fall in ...
The film wouldn’t be complete or nearly as beautiful, though, without it’s corresponding soundtrack, created by none other than Paul Thomas Anderson’s favorite musical boy genius Jonny Greenwood. The guitarist for famed rock band Radiohead also composed scores for Anderson’s There Will Be ...
Tasked with scoring the first DOOM game in over a decade, Gordon singlehandedly shifted the landscape of metal with his epic original soundtrack for DOOM 2016. Inspired heavily by djent, Gordon stacked layers of brutality upon synth and industrial elements to give the player their very own boss...
Stephanie came up with the title: 'How Do You Talk to an Angel.' Joe Smith, then head of Capitol Records, heard the song and asked for a full soundtrack for the series. Before the label released 'Angel' as a single, WEGX in Philadelphia received a DAT tape of the song from the ...
Marriner gravitated into conducting, and led the group in performing the soundtrack to Milos Forman’s Oscar-winning 1984 film “Amadeus,” composed mainly of Mozart pieces. It became one of the best-selling classical recordings of all time.Sirdeaner Walker Facebook/Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover Fou...
Marriner gravitated into conducting, and led the group in performing the soundtrack to Milos Forman’s Oscar-winning 1984 film “Amadeus,” composed mainly of Mozart pieces. It became one of the best-selling classical recordings of all time.Sirdeaner Walker Facebook/Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover Fou...
Jim Weatherly, 77. The Hall of Fame songwriter who wrote “Midnight Train to Georgia” and other hits for Gladys Knight, Glen Campbell and Ray Price. Feb. 3. Christopher Plummer, 91. The dashing award-winning actor who played Captain von Trapp in the film “The Sound of Music” and at...
By contrast, the hagiography of Guxin Ruxin provides a detailed description of his life, and for the first time in the sources includes the Porcelain Pagoda episode as well as the information that after his death, the Wanli emperor composed an encomium comparing him with Upāli (Lepneva 2019...