Jaws [Original Score]

by John Williams

Overview

Jaws was John Williams' first film score to capture the imagination of the public, and the first hit movie score of the 1970s not to involve a love theme (a la Love Story). The obvious centerpiece of the music is the bump-bump-bump-bump theme associated with the movements (usually unseen) of the shark, which became so well known that it was used as an essential part of various comedy sketches in a multitude of media at the time (Williams himself quoted it comically in his scoring for Steven Spielberg's 1941). It does reappear in numerous forms, many of them veiled, throughout the score, along with a handful of additional memorable musical phrases associated with Williams' score, many involving the hunt for the shark. This was not only where John Williams' career as a superstar soundtrack composer began but also where he first started using the musical attributes that would identify that phase of his career. ~ Bruce Eder

Product Details

Release Date:	02/03/2015
Label:	Geffen / Polydor
UPC:	0602547138415

Tracks

1. Main Title (Theme From "Jaws")
2. Chrissie's Death
3. Promenade (Tourists on the Menu)
4. Out to Sea
5. The Indianapolis Story
6. Sea Attack Number One
7. One Barrel Chase
8. Preparing the Cage
9. Night Search
10. The Underwater Siege
11. Hand to Hand Combat
12. End Title

Album Credits

Performance Credits

John Williams   Primary Artist,Conductor
Pamela Goldsmith   Viola
Shelly Manne   Percussion
Virginia Majewski   Viola
Edgar Lustgarten   Cello
Richard Kaufman   Violin
Ted Nash   Flute
Miles Anderson   Trombone
Israel Baker   Violin
Douglas Davis   Cello
Bonnie Douglas   Violin
Chuck Domanico   Double Bass
Larry Bunker   Percussion
Ray Kramer   Cello
Ronny Lang   Saxophone
Allan Harshman   Viola
Jay Rosen   Violin
David Schwartz   Viola
Bob Bain   Guitar
Dorothy Remsen   Harp
Meyer Rubin   Double Bass
Marie Fera   Cello
Marshall Sosson   Violin
Sheridon Stokes   Flute
Milton Thomas   Viola
Ralph Grierson   Piano
Uan Rasey   Trumpet
Arthur Maebe   French Horn
Armand Kaproff   Cello
George Kast   Violin
Assa Drori   Violin
Gerald Vinci   Violin
Thomas Tedesco   Guitar
Malcolm McNab   Trumpet
Frederick Seykora   Cello
Lloyd Ulyate   Trombone
Arnold Belnick   Violin
Sheldon Sanov   Violin
Paul Shure   Violin
Nathan Ross   Violin
Haim Shtrum   Violin
Emil Radocchia   Percussion
James Getzoff   Violin
Dan Neufeld   Viola
John Neufeld   Clarinet
Harry Bluestone   Violin
Vincent DeRosa   French Horn
Dennis Karmazyn   Cello
Richard Taylor "Dick" Nash   Trombone
Graham Young   Trumpet
Nathan Kaproff   Violin
George Roberts   Trombone
Myra Kestenbaum   Viola
Herman Clebanoff   Violin
John T. Johnson   Tuba
Dorothy Wade   Violin
Ray Kelley   Cello
Jacob Krachmalnick   Violin
Joe Burnett   Trumpet
David Montagu   Violin
Peter Mercurio   Double Bass
Stanley Plummer   Violin
Veryle Brilhart   Harp
Luella Howard   Flute
Milton Kestenbaum   Double Bass
Kenneth Watson   Percussion
Ronald Cooper   Cello
Alfred Lustgarten   Violin
Francis Howard   Trombone
Harry Rumpler   Viola
Debbie Grossman   Violin
Josef Schoenbrun   Violin
Paul Bergstrom   Cello
Louis Kievman   Viola
Alex Murray   Violin
Rollice Dale   Viola
Thomas Buffum   Violin
Abe Luboff   Double Bass
Joseph Stepansky   Violin
Louise di Tullio   Flute
Myer Bello   Viola
Jack Marsh   Bassoon
James Decker   French Horn
John Ellis   Oboe
Richard Perissi   French Horn
Oscar Meza   Double Bass
Erno Neufeld   Violin
Ann Goodman   Cello
Jerry Williams   Percussion
Paul Bergman   Cello
Anatol Kaminsky   Violin
Donald Christlieb   Bassoon
Earle Dumler   Oboe
Kenneth Yerke   Violin
Davida Jackson   Violin
Norman Herzberg   Bassoon
Marvin Limonick   Violin
Robert Henderson   French Horn
Kathleen Lustgarten   Cello
David a. Duke   French Horn
Jose Mondragon   Double Bass
Ann Stockton   Harp
Dominick Fera   Clarinet
Charles Berghofer   Double Bass
Yuriko Kamei   Viola

Technical Credits

Ted Keep   Engineer
John Neal   Engineer
John Polito   Digital Restoration
Don Thompson   Mastering,Mastering
Ernie Wilkins   Composer
John Williams   Composer,Producer
Shawn Murphy   Engineer
Conor Brady   Art Direction
Patricia Sullivan Fourstar   Mastering
Steven Spielberg   Liner Notes
Phillip Siney   Digital Noise Reduction
Laurent Bouzereau   Liner Notes,Executive Producer
Ben Pateman   Booklet Editor
Sandy De Crescent   Contractor,Music Contractor
Larry Marmorstein   Design