Golson was the composer of one of my favorite "funk"-styled M:I cues, often heard from S5 onwards.
Sorry to hear this, but a long life and well lived.
I would love La La Land's M:I television scores set to have included a little more of Benny's music - not that he did a huge amount for the show, but I understand Lalo had to take priority. Just playing his jazz-rocky cue 'The Wig Out', from the days when TV scoring wasn't in the hands of drone meisters like it often is today.
A few composers born in 1940 still around, although not with many film scores or the impact of Vladimir Cosma: Nando de Luca Pippo Franco Federico Monti Arduini Franco Godi Jean-Jacques Debout
Thank you, slint. I've not heard of any of those. Are you sure they're film composers, or did they just dabble in the artform once or twice?
All have score releases. Pippo Franco and Jean-Jacques Debout are much more famous for their singing/acting career and indeed did just dabble in the artform a few times. Federico Monti Arduini is only credited for two scores. I guess he was more active as a songwriter and keyboard player and he is much less known than the other four.
Perhaps only the final two are worth being listed if you draw that line. Franco Godi is a respected short/animated/TV score composer. He did a dozen of films, just not many. Nando de Luca had a long career in cinema, pop music (with Adriano Celentano) and jazz. While he only scored 8 films, he conducted scores as well, including for Pino Donaggio and Enzo Jannacci.
Pippo Franco's Hate is my God was one of the first italian western LPs I got. (L'odio è il mio Dio)
Slint, higher up in Litefoot's thread I did a list of Italian composers still with us who had done 60s /70s scores. Not many left. In a few cases they were the younger italian singers who moved into film scoring.
Franco Godi still active to promote his scores, and I guess a new Beat Records CD coming soon. (And unrelated to this topic, but for those who are curious, there is another new score announced, Switch (1979) by Guido & Maurizio de Angelis).
Struggling really hard to find film composers from 1924 and 1925. Not so strange, since they need to be ancient.
Does anyone know if vibraphonist and band leader Terry Gibbs (b. 1924) did any scores? It says on Wikipedia he often worked in film and TV studios in LA, whatever that means.
What about Argentine composer Hilda Dianda (b. 1925)? Did she do anything?
Should we count Alan Bergman (b. 1925)? Did he do anything other than lyrics?
Does anyone know if vibraphonist and band leader Terry Gibbs (b. 1924) did any scores? It says on Wikipedia he often worked in film and TV studios in LA, whatever that means.
Gibbs is among the many "West Coast" jazz musicians who most likely served in orchestras/ ensembles for films, like so many jazz musicians who found work in the film industry once the California jazz scene dried up.
For those who care, which is most likely none of you, Ted Gioia's West Coast Jazz is a must read.
Appears Michio Mamiya passed away in December last year, without any of us noticing. Age 95. The composer of the legendary GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES, among other things.
Of the others of the list, it appears Sofia Gubaidulina also died on March 13, age 93.
