Showing posts with label Elmer Bernstein. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elmer Bernstein. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

The late James Horner was the master of suspenseful '90s hacking scene music during Sneakers and Clear and Present Danger

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"There were so many Horners," said Matt Zoller Seitz to fellow journalist S.I. Rosenbaum during a RogerEbert.com conversation ...
Monday, April 20, 2015

When enjoyable scores are attached to terrible movies, or why I feel kind of awful about adding Wild Wild West score music to "AFOS Incognito" rotation

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I don't care for Madonna and her cultural-appropriating ass, but I've always liked the music of William Orbit. The Drake-scaring...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

Tip-Top Quotables: "No one should ever be allowed to say there is no history of racial tension here," plus a few other great lines this week

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My favorite monthly section in old Source magazine issues was "Hip-Hop Quotables," in which the Source editors printed out th...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

The Doctor and the Devil: These are among the tracks I've added to AFOS rotation this month

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(Photo source: Art of the Title) Delia Derbyshire, "Doctor Who (Original Theme)" (now playing during "Hall H" ) ...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

James Wong Howe was one of Hollywood's greatest Asian American craftsmen, so because it's Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, peep Howe's handiwork below

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Sweet Smell of Success (Photo source: DVD Beaver ) The Elmer Bernstein-scored Sweet Smell of Success is one of my favorite older movie...
Friday, March 30, 2012

March Madness March of the Day archive

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The "Fruit of Islam" sequence from Malcolm X Friday, March 2, 2012: Intro Monday, March 5, 2012: "The Plot" from ...

March Madness March of the Day: "1941 End Credits" by John Williams

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"Williams brings on the movie's signature piece, the 'March from 1941 ,' which will inform and underlie almost everythi...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

March Madness March of the Day: "Stripes March" by Elmer Bernstein

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There are two fantastic pieces of music that director Ivan Reitman's 1981 military comedy Stripes introduced to me. One is "Do Wah...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

March Madness March of the Day: "Main Title" from The Great Escape by Elmer Bernstein

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I'll just let the late Elmer Bernstein have the floor. "The score for The Great Escape was not about action at all. It was in th...
Friday, July 15, 2011

"Rome, Italian Style" Track of the Day: Jimmy Smith, "Walk on the Wild Side"

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Song: "Walk on the Wild Side" by master Hammond B-3 organ player and Beastie Boys "Root Down" sample source Jimmy Sm...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Coffey is the color

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To promote the upcoming self-titled album by legendary and frequently sampled Motown guitarist Dennis Coffey, Strut Records recently drop...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

"On, Donner! On, Blitzen! On, Chuy! On, Tavo! C'mon, Becto!": 10 current favorite Christmas tracks

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The following is inspired by a holiday music meme I first saw posted by Matt on Scrubbles.net . Like Matt said in his list, some of us req...