Such a unique score this movie has that always stuck with me. I saw this movie when I was really young so there’s something comforting about this movie
Certainly on the whole; but I actually think his jazz background bled pretty heavily through his prior works. Listen to Yoda's Theme, to Marion's Theme... there are plenty of others. He was still jazzing it up, albeit more under the surface, in the Spielberg/Lucas era.
@@brucekuehn4031Both jazz and film Music has always harbored a deep interest in harmony and the methods of classical composers eg Gill Evans had a loft in the Village in the 50s where many greats would drop by like Miles and all those cats in the Birth of the Cool large ensemble and they'd listen to Alban Berg or Stravinsky etc. But if you listen to Ellington or Claude Thornhill you hear it if you know anything about music. But by the 60s the influence of jazz in everything from Film & tv Scores eg. Mancini, John Barry, and certainly Michel Lagrand. The Bossa Nova craze was completely jazz influenced. Leonard Bernstein, Andre Previn and the entire Jet Set were jazz crazy not to mention the French New Wave Directors the influence of jazz was inescapable.
@@paxwallace8324 Right, but Spielberg in this clip talks about Charlie Parker specifically and I’m not hearing it. John Towner Williams (Jaws, Star Wars, etc) was himself a pianist who made some Jazz albums. He is that guy at the piano (then know as Johnny Williams) on the Theme to Peter Gunn for Henry Mancini in 1959. But as a boy, JTW was surely influenced by his father - John Francis Williams who was also known as Johnny Williams. JFW was a percussionist who became famous with the eccentric Raymond Scott Quintette. There’s a whole separate story there. The family moved to Hollywood in 1948 when JTW would have been about 16. The father performed on movie soundtracks before his son.
