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J.J. Johnson: TV/film music available?


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Fellow jazz proles, I'm doing some research on J.J. Johnson for an 80th-anniversary special and wondered if any of you know of currently available compilations which feature any of the music that he composed and/or scored for film and television in the late 1960s and the 1970s. I'd like to include at least one track in the radio program that I'm putting together. I'm hoping that our music library here has a copy of this book, which should make my search it a bit easier.

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Here's list of the films J.J. Johnson worked on:

1976 Street Killing [TV] Composer (Music Score)

1973 Willie Dynamite Songwriter / Composer (Music Score)

1973 Cleopatra Jones Composer (Music Score)

1972 Across 110th Street Composer (Music Score)

1972 Top of the Heap Composer (Music Score)

1971 Man and Boy aka Ride a Dark Horse Composer (Music Score)

Across 110th Street, I know, is easily available. It's one of my personal favorites, and the movie was great also. You can also get Willie Dynamite, Cleopatra Jones, and Top of the Heap on cd.

Don't know about the others.

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To the best of my knowledge, Starsy and Hutch was Tom Scott ..

although JJ may have done some shows ..

its hard to get at actual TV series underscore , because it vanishes into the

production company archives ( read 2" tape somewhere in a Burbank warehouse )

and is never seen again ..

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I bought a LP copy of the soundtrack for the film 'Man And Boy' in the '70s when JJ Johnson was away from the jazz scene. Jazz content is nil. The LP album does not say much about the film which looks like a black spaghetti western with Bill Cosby in the title role. Jay Jay composed ,usic obviously inspired by Ennio Morricone. Bill Withers sings the opening track : The Theme from 'Man And Boy'.

There is no musicians list. There is a good harmoni player on some of the tracks. Quincy Jones is credited with 'Musical Supervision'.

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