Ennio Morricone

...of Miles Davis and Gil Evans's Sketches of Spain, Tortoise's more languorous post-rock reveries (marimba figures prominently), and Ennio Morricone's sorrowful yet dulcet spaghetti-western scores. Other diversions occur in "Latona," which...

In this article: Miles Davis, Trademark, Sketches of Spain, Gil Evans, Teo Macero, and Lee "Scratch" Perry

It's an album of dark corners and alleyways, lurking and deep rather than frenzied and panicked. Hence, more Badalamenti than Morricone. It's soundtrack work for experimental theater, in this case the disturbing horrorist Belgian...

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...seek help here. "I am from the infantry. We don't come to places like this," Spencer, 24, said above the strains of an Ennio Morricone composition. "Why don't we come? We've got each other." "That's the battle right there," said M....

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...compelled to take a look at the good, the bad and the ugly in movie theme songs, including-cue coyote flute- soundtrack king Ennio Morricone's actual theme song for the 1966 Clint Eastwood spaghetti-western classic The Good, The Bad and the...

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...album, is some of the most under-rated film music I can think of, easily on a par, for melody and evocation, with the work of Ennio Morricone. The movie is a brilliant aggregation and re-imagining of the Beatles music. The Disney classic...

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...Boston trio deploys traditional Chinese instruments on compositions that combine the post-rock grandeur of Mogwai with the flair of Ennio Morricone's spaghetti-western soundtracks. There are plenty of thrills to be found elsewhere in Reel...

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...age 76 after performing at a concert in Castel Volturno, Italy. Today's Birthdays: Actor Russell Johnson is 85. Film composer Ennio Morricone is 81. Blues singer Bobby Rush is 75. Actor Albert Hall is 72. American Indian activist Russell...

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...creating unique gifts for everyone in the family. Read Film score composer Morricone still active The legendary Italian maestro Ennio Morricone is responsible for some of the most iconic film scores in history, and - at 81 years old - he's...

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"They're All My Children": An Interview with Ennio Morricone (Feature) The legendary Italian maestro is responsible for some of the most iconic film scores in history, and at 81 years old is still going strong. It's unfortunate to be forced...

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