In late September, the director Tim Burton asked Pearl Jam to contribute a tune to his film "Big Fish," which will be released in New York and Los Angeles next month.
Though platinum acts can fetch anywhere from $500,000 and up for contributing a tune to film, both artists and studios admit that they're not in bed with each other just to crowbar a musician's B song into a pic's end credits.
Avey Tare hosted tonight's aural melee, bringing on The Blackouts, Ghost Capital, and Atlas Sound, who each contributed a chunk of tunes from their respective crates.
Avey Tare hosted tonight's aural melee, bringing on The Blackouts, Ghost Capital, and Atlas Sound, who each contributed a chunk of tunes from their respective crates.
Kate let me know that there was a monthly (more or less) podcast being organized, a "song club," which would have a dozen or so songwriters each contributing a new tune for each episode.
And the violinist Ashley MacIsaac, who played the folk-tinged fiddle lines in the multicultural "Orion," contributed a spirited medley of Celtic tunes before joining Mr. Glass's son, the fledgling pop singer Zack Glass, in a bluesy slide-guitar piece in the style of Jorma Kaukonen, as well as a guitar-and-violin version of "Happy Birthday".
Christina Macpherson, whose brother Bob managed the station, contributed the tune, based on an old Scottish ballad, "Thou Bonnie Wood o' Craigielea".
Johnny Hodges, the band's most gorgeously lyrical player and a fount of melody — he contributed the tunes for "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" and "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart" — became so annoyed that, during performances, he mimed rubbing dollar bills between his fingers when Ellington launched into a number that Hodges felt was rightly his.
Mr. Chambers is a drummer with a compositional streak that hasn't abated since he contributed interesting tunes to mid-60's records by the vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson.
It was never just theme-solos-theme, and not all five musicians contributed to each tune.
