progrockfan
04-09-2016, 05:17 PM
Greetings all!
Elsewhere on this site, I listed my ten favourite composers of all time - to wit:
J.S. Bach
Claude Debussy
Igor Stravinsky
B�la Bart�k
Duke Ellington
Miles Davis
Charles Mingus
Lennon / McCartney (okay, so I cheated, there's two of them)
Steve Morse
Ennio Morricone
If you want to include improvisers - instant composers, so to speak - then John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa and Ravi Shankar would find their way onto my list as well.
Morricone makes my list because he's the only soundtrack composer I've heard who (espeically in his early-1970s work) consistently incorporates elements of progressive rock, psychedelia, jazz fusion &c. into his music. In fact, Zappa's comedy-laden experiments aside, he's probably the only 20th-century classical composer I've heard who does this.
So: Can anyone here recommend soundtrack composers, or specific soundtracks, that also incorporate these elements?
So far I know of three soundtracks that fit this criteria, more or less:
* Jerry Goldsmith's score for the original Planet of the Apes (1968);
* Simon Fisher Turner's score for Edward II (1995); and
* Eric Serra's score for The Fifth Element (1997).
With the exception of the Goldsmith, none of them are quite as progressive as Morricone at his frenzied peak - but at least they trend in the right direction.
Suggestions, anyone? ;)
Elsewhere on this site, I listed my ten favourite composers of all time - to wit:
J.S. Bach
Claude Debussy
Igor Stravinsky
B�la Bart�k
Duke Ellington
Miles Davis
Charles Mingus
Lennon / McCartney (okay, so I cheated, there's two of them)
Steve Morse
Ennio Morricone
If you want to include improvisers - instant composers, so to speak - then John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa and Ravi Shankar would find their way onto my list as well.
Morricone makes my list because he's the only soundtrack composer I've heard who (espeically in his early-1970s work) consistently incorporates elements of progressive rock, psychedelia, jazz fusion &c. into his music. In fact, Zappa's comedy-laden experiments aside, he's probably the only 20th-century classical composer I've heard who does this.
So: Can anyone here recommend soundtrack composers, or specific soundtracks, that also incorporate these elements?
So far I know of three soundtracks that fit this criteria, more or less:
* Jerry Goldsmith's score for the original Planet of the Apes (1968);
* Simon Fisher Turner's score for Edward II (1995); and
* Eric Serra's score for The Fifth Element (1997).
With the exception of the Goldsmith, none of them are quite as progressive as Morricone at his frenzied peak - but at least they trend in the right direction.
Suggestions, anyone? ;)