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 รจ 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.
