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Jones also noted a danger of the film business. In his experience, “as a musician you get stereotyped pretty quick.” As soon as “you do hits all the colors fade away” and you become typecast as only being able...
Appreciation of Jones’ ability spread so quickly that by 1967, only four years after he began to score American features, acclaimed director Richard Brooks got him to score In Cold Blood even before he cast the movie. Brooks got an even better than usual performance from Jones, which...
Today, In Cold Blood is clearly dated and tainted by the irony of Robert Blake playing a cold-hearted killer, but Jones’ music holds up. It is clear what Jones meant when he said that “music paints the psyche of a film; it gives it...
Jones replied that Michael’s problems is that he “grew from a poor black child into an old white woman.” He moved on to giving his implicit and more damaging criticism, that, “You have to approach your...
The night’s other highlight came when the audience got a chance to see Jones listening to his own music in the theatre. Jones closed his eyes, and began to shake his foot to the beat, with his pleasure in the music rising in him. He then looked...