December 4th, 2006
Interpretations of John Williams' Star Wars music is a veritable cottage industry. A portion of it is sure to turn up at any concert performance featuring "movie music" as well as concert recordings featuring the same. Then, there's Meco's disco versions, The Evil Genius Orchestra's excellent cocktail versions as well as countless techno/trance/club versions.
So it should come as no surprise that there is at least one jazz variation. The ...
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July 27th, 2006
Since the mid-1970s, John Williams has never been lacking in notoriety.
Jaws, Towering Inferno, Close Encounters, Superman, Star Wars... these film scores made him a household name, gaining fame and respect for work that is generally restricted to devotees and cultists only. The Star Wars album even managed to break into the public's consciousness, becoming best-seller on the Billboard charts for 1977 and inspiring an awful disco/dance version of ...
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