Legacy Recordings has announced a soundtrack album for the HBO original movie Bessie. The album features the songs from the film, including seven new Queen Latifah performances, a postmodern reworking of Bessie Smith’s original recording featuring newly recorded vocals, as well as modern performances of blues, jazz and swing classics performed by Tamar-Kali, Cécile McLorin Salvant; […]
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‘Bessie’ Soundtrack Announced
Posted: April 29, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Bessie, HBO, Soundtrack
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 26, 2015)
Posted: April 26, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Happyish, HBO, Nathan Larson, Showtime, Solomon Grey, The Casual Vacancy
Premiering tonight is the Showtime original series Happyish created by Shalom Auslander and starring Steve Coogan, Kathryn Hahn, Bradley Whitford, Sawyer Shipman, Carrie Preston, Molly Price and Andre Royo. The show’s original music is composed by Nathan Larson (Boys Don’t Cry, Dirty Pretty Things, Margin Call, The Skeleton Twins). For more information about the series about a couple who face obsolescence […]
David Robbins Scoring HBO’s ‘The Brink’
Posted: April 14, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: David Robbins, HBO, The Brink
David Robbins is scoring the upcoming HBO original series The Brink. The show is created by Kim and Roberto Benabib and stars Jack Black, the composer’s brother Tim Robbins, Pablo Schreiber, Aasif Mandvi, Maribeth Monroe, Eric Ladin, Esai Morales and Geoff Pierson. The comedy follows the U.S. Secretary of State, a lowly Foreign Service officer and […]
Rachel Portman Scoring HBO’s ‘Bessie’
Posted: March 24, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Bessie, Dee Rees, HBO, Rachel Portman
Rachel Portman has been tapped to score the upcoming HBO original movie Bessie. The film is directed by Dee Rees (Pariah) and stars Queen Latifah, Michael Kenneth Williams, Khandi Alexander, Mike Epps, Tika Sumpter, Tory Kittles, Oliver Platt, Bryan Greenberg, Charles S. Dutton and Mo’Nique. The movie tells the story of legendary blues singer Bessie […]
Rupert Gregson-Williams & Chris Willis to Score HBO’s ‘Virtuoso’
Posted: February 7, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: Alan Ball, Chris Willis, HBO, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Virtuoso
Rupert Gregson-Williams revealed on Twitter that he will be co-scoring the upcoming HBO drama pilot Virtuoso with Chris Willis. The show is created by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under, American Beauty, True Blood) and stars Peter Macdissi, Alex Lawther, Francois Civil, Nico Mirallegro, Lindsay Farris and Iva Babic. The period drama is set in 18th […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (January 11, 2015)
Posted: January 11, 2015 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: 12 Monkeys, Dino Meneghin, HBO, Lifetime, Michael Andrews, MTV, Netflix, RedOne, Shawn Patterson, Syfy, Teen Wolf, The Adventures of Puss in Boots, Togetherness, Trevor Rabin, Whitney
Premiering tonight is the new HBO original series Togetherness created and executive produced by Mark & Jay Duplass and starring Amanda Peet, Melanie Lynskey, Mark Duplass and Steve Zissis. The show’s original music is composed by Michael Andrews (Neighbors, Bridesmaids, Donnie Darko) who previously scored the Duplass Brothers’ features Cyrus and Jeff Who Lives at Home. The series about two couples who are living […]
Ramin Djawadi to Score HBO’s ‘Westworld’
Posted: December 29, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: HBO, Jonathan Nolan, Ramin Djawadi, Westworld
Ramin Djawadi has signed on to score the pilot of the upcoming HBO original series Westworld. The show is created by Jonathan Nolan (The Dark Knight, Memento) & Lisa Joy based on Michael Crichton’s 1973 film of the same title and stars Anthony Hopkins, James Marsden, Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright, Thandie Newton, Miranda Otto, Rodrigo Santoro, […]
Soundtrack for HBO’s ‘The Leftovers’ Released
Posted: December 2, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Television Music AlbumsTags: HBO, Max Richter, score, Soundtrack, The Leftovers
WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album for the HBO original series The Leftovers. The album features selections from the original score of the show’s first season composed by Max Richter (Disconnect, Waltz with Bashir, The Congress). The soundtrack is now available to download on iTunes, where you can also listen to audio clips. The […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (November 9, 2014)
Posted: November 9, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dominik Scherrer, Hallmark Channel, HBO, James Gelfand, Jeff Beal, Northpole, Paul Englishby, PBS, Salting the Battlefield, Starz, The Missing, The Newsroom, Turks & Caicos, Worricker
Premiering tonight in the U.S. is the second part of the Worricker trilogy, Turks & Caicos directed by David Hare and starring Bill Nighy as MI5 spy Johnny Worricker, alongside Christopher Walken, Winona Ryder, Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes. The film’s original music is composed by Paul Englishby (An Englishby, Miss Pettigrew Lives for […]
Weekly TV Music Roundup (November 2, 2014)
Posted: November 2, 2014 by filmmusicreporter in TV Scoring AssignmentsTags: BBC America, Carter Burwell, Daniel Pemberton, Hallmark Channel, HBO, Lawrence Shragge, Olive Kitteridge, The Game, The Nine Lives of Christmas
Premiering tonight is the HBO original mini-series Olive Kitteridge directed by Lisa Cholodenko based on Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Price-winning novel of the same title and starring Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, Zoe Kazan, Bill Murray, John Gallagher Jr., Jesse Plemons and Brady Corbet. Carter Burwell (Fargo, Twilight, True Grit, Mildred Pierce) who previously scored Cholodenko’s 2010 […]
