ASMAC Podcast

This ASMAC Luncheon podcast features composer, arranger, producer, instrumentalist, sign-songwriter, author, and actor, Van Dyke Parks. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with musician Brian Wilson, and especially for his lyrical contributions to the Beach Boys’ Smile album project. For more information on this luncheon with Van Dyke Parks, please visit: http://www.asmac.org/van-dyke-...

Composer, performer, and recording artist Stanley Clarke was the guest speaker at the May 27, 2009 ASMAC luncheon at Catalina’s Jazz Club. He was introduced by ASMAC Board member Ira Hearshen with whom Clarke has worked on a number of projects over the years. Clarke’s creativity has been recognized with gold and platinum records, GRAMMY Awards, Emmy Awards, virtually every readers and critics’ pol...

Two of the world's most distinguished lyricists, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, have been contributing to the Great American Songbook for more than five decades. During their distinguished career, their songs have been nominated for sixteen Academy Awards, for which they have won three: "The Windmills of Your Mind" in 1968, "The Way We Were" in 1973, and the score for "Yentl" in 1984. "Windmills" and "...

A classically trained pianist, Patrice Rushen is one of the music industry’s most versatile and sought after artists. Considered one of the world’s top jazz pianists, Rushen has performed with many esteemed artists including Quincy Jones, Kenny Burrell, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Lionel Hampton, George Benson, Nancy Wilson, Michael Jackson and Dianne Reeves, to name just a few. For more inform...

July’s Special Guest could be referred to as ‘Unique.’ Marion Sherrill is known throughout the music industry as a copyist who has saved or helped to save many record sessions, concerts and music bits and pieces. For more information on this luncheon with Marion Sherrill, go to: http://www.asmac.org/event/luncheon-with-marion-sherrill

John Altman began his musical career at age 3 with Judy Garland at the London Palladium! Commencing his recording and live career in the late 60’s as an in-demand saxophonist - he has performed with many major figures in music, including Eric Clapton, Sting, Phil Collins (all of whom performed in his band, the Secret Police, an all star aggregation specially assembled for the Secret Policeman’s Ba...

One of the most versatile composers working today, Bruce Broughton writes in every medium, from theatrical releases and TV feature films to the concert stage and computer games. His first major film score, for the Lawrence Kasdan western Silverado, brought him an Oscar nomination. His very next project, a classically styled score for Barry Levinson’s Young Sherlock Holmes, earned a Grammy nominati...

Richard is the co-owner of Kraft-Engel Management, one of the world’s leading agencies specializing in representing film, theatre, television and video game composers, songwriters and music supervisors. Their clients include Danny Elfman, Alexandre Desplat, Alan Menken, John Powell, Jon Brion, Marco Beltrami, Marc Shaiman and Mark Isham. KEM’s clients have received 65 Oscar nominations and have wo...

Bruce Lambourne Fowler (born July 10, 1947) is a prominent American trombone player and composer. He played trombone on many Frank Zappa records, as well as with Captain Beefheart and in the Fowler Brothers Band. Currently, he composes and arranges music for movies, and has been the composer, orchestrator, or conductor for many popular films. Walt Fowler (born March 2, 1955) began his career as a...

Charles Ira Fox (born October 30, 1940) is an American composer for film and television. His most heard compositions are probably the "love themes" (the sunshine pop musical backgrounds which accompanied every episode of the 1970s ABC-TV show Love, American Style), and the dramatic theme music to ABC's Wide World of Sports and the original Monday Night Football, as well as his (and Norman Gimbel's...

Danny Gould (April 28, 1921 - November 4, 2010) Forensic musicologist, began in the recording industry as a composer, arranger, lyricist, pianist and conductor, and transitioned into the television and motion picture industry. After five years at Paramount Studios, he accepted what was to be a two-week temporary gig at Warner Bros., and ended up spending 39 years there, where he rose to the positi...

Conrad Pope is an American film composer and orchestrator. He has worked on numerous films and has collaborated with composers such as John Williams, James Newton Howard, Alan Silvestri, Danny Elfman, Mark Isham, James Horner, John Powell, Alexandre Desplat, and Howard Shore. Conrad Pope is the 2015 recipient for the ASMAC Golden Score Award. Introduced by Marlene Hajdu. (48:46)

Frederick Eugene John "Gene" Lees (February 8, 1928 – April 22, 2010) was a Canadian music critic, biographer, lyricist, and former journalist. Lees worked as a newspaper journalist in his native Canada before moving to the United States, where he was a music critic and lyricist. His lyrics for Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Corcovado" (released as "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars"), have been recorded by su...

John Altman (December 5, 1949, London) is a British film composer, music arranger, orchestrator and conductor, and currently serves on the ASMAC Board. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score) and was nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Film Music. His credits include music for Monty Python, James Bond movies...

William Garrett Walden, known as W. G. Snuffy Walden (born February 13, 1950) is an American musician and composer of film and television soundtracks. He has been nominated for numerous Emmy Awards throughout his career. In recent years he has composed for TV shows including: Under The Dome, Aquarius, Nashville, The Stand, West Wing, Felicity, Thirty Something, Drew Carey Show, and The Wonder Year...

Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions. His most popular works include the scores to The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, The Black Cauldron, Air...

Earl Cyril Palmer (October 25, 1924 – September 19, 2008) was an American rock & roll and rhythm and blues drummer, and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; known as a member of “The Wrecking Crew.” Palmer played on many recording sessions, including Little Richard's first several albums and many other iconic Rock & Roll songs. Introduced by Ray Charles. (37:32)

Eugene Thomas Puerling (March 31, 1929 – March 25, 2008) was a vocal performer and vocal arranger. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Puerling created and led the vocal groups The Hi-Lo's and The Singers Unlimited. He was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices in 1982 for his arrangement of "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (as performed by The Manhattan T...