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The Jaws soundtrack (officially Jaws: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the music composed and conducted by John Williams for Steven Spielberg's 1975 film Jaws.The soundtrack is particularly notable for the 2-note ostinato which represents the shark, a theme so simple that Spielberg initially thought it was a joke by the composer.
Year Album Label Notes and remarks 1960 Checkmate [Original Music from The CBS-TV Show] [44] Columbia Re-recording; composed and conducted by Johnny Williams; also released in 1960, Columbia, stereo; reissued in the 2006 compilation Checkmate/Rhythm in Motion, Film Score Monthly; Reissued for digital download in 2012, Soundtrack Classics
A recording of "Conversations" was released on February 10, 2015, as part of Gloria Cheng's solo album 'Montage'. [16] "Music for Brass" for Brass Ensemble and Percussion (2014), premiered on June 12 by the National Brass Ensemble. [17] "A Toast!" (2014), celebrating the arrival of Andris Nelsons as new music director of the Boston Symphony ...
From the deep, quickening heartbeat of “Jaws” to the astral opening blast of “Star Wars,” the music of John Williams not only earns its place among the most iconic film scores of all time ...
Jaws is an album by saxophonist Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis with organist Shirley Scott, recorded in 1958 for the Prestige label. [5] Reception
The Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media is an honor presented to a composer (or composers) for an original score created for a film, TV show or series, or other visual media [1] at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.
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[62] [67] Jaws eventually grossed more than $470 million worldwide ($1.9 billion in 2010 dollars [68]) and was the highest grossing box office film until Star Wars debuted two years later. [69] [70] Jaws 2 was the most expensive film that Universal had produced up until that point, costing the studio almost $30 million. [43]