Patrick Williams, who was best-known for his Emmy-winning television music but who was also a renowned and Grammy-winning big-band jazz leader and arranger, died Wednesday morning of complications from cancer at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 79.
Williams was among the most versatile composers of his generation, earning an Oscar nomination, four Emmys and two Grammys during more than 50 years of music-making in New York and Los Angeles.
In the middle of his most prolific period, scoring music for TV including “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “The Bob Newhart Show” and “The Streets of San Francisco,” he was also nominated for the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music for his groundbreaking “An American Concerto” (1976) for jazz quartet and symphony orchestra.
He scored nearly 50 films, often memorable scores for movies that were not big hits, including “Casey’s Shadow,” “The Cheap Detective” and “Cuba” in the 1970s; “Used Cars,...
Williams was among the most versatile composers of his generation, earning an Oscar nomination, four Emmys and two Grammys during more than 50 years of music-making in New York and Los Angeles.
In the middle of his most prolific period, scoring music for TV including “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “The Bob Newhart Show” and “The Streets of San Francisco,” he was also nominated for the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music for his groundbreaking “An American Concerto” (1976) for jazz quartet and symphony orchestra.
He scored nearly 50 films, often memorable scores for movies that were not big hits, including “Casey’s Shadow,” “The Cheap Detective” and “Cuba” in the 1970s; “Used Cars,...
- 7/25/2018
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
Authorities say a 14-year-old Florida girl was influenced by the fictional character Slender Man to set her Florida house on fire with her mother and brother inside. On Wednesday night, Lily Marie Hartwell's mother went to bed in their Port Richey home between 10 and 10:15 p.m. with her two children in their room. At about 1:45 a.m. on Thursday morning, she woke up smelling smoke and was only able to find her 9-year-old son. After safely getting him out of the house, she re-entered and was still unable to find her daughter. Fire rescue also had no luck when they looked for her.
- 9/6/2014
- by Caitlin Keating, @caitkeating
- PEOPLE.com
Authorities say a 14-year-old Florida girl was influenced by the fictional character Slender Man to set her Florida house on fire with her mother and brother inside. On Wednesday night, Lily Marie Hartwell's mother went to bed in their Port Richey home between 10 and 10:15 p.m. with her two children in their room. At about 1:45 a.m. on Thursday morning, she woke up smelling smoke and was only able to find her 9-year-old son. After safely getting him out of the house, she re-entered and was still unable to find her daughter. Fire rescue also had no luck when they looked for her.
- 9/6/2014
- by Caitlin Keating, @caitkeating
- PEOPLE.com
Eddie Daniels/Roger Kellaway: Live at the Library of Congress (Ipo)
The surprising thing about this album is how wild it is. I didn't expect this clarinet/piano duo playing lots of very old standards to shoot off on weird tangents filled with such startling dissonances; I've heard Daniels and Kellaway in separate contexts before this, and they were less adventurous then. They play the themes straightforwardly, but sometimes open those tracks with left-field intros that would make even Erroll Garner smile a bit enviously. And once they get to their solos (mostly in the sense of "featured," in Daniels's case, though Kellaway really is solo and sometimes he drops out to let Daniels fly unaccompanied), you never know whether you're going to hear a sedately prim excursion on bebop-level harmonies or a spurt of exuberance that takes in a wider range of styles. Their reading of Thelonious Monk's "Rhythm-a-ning,...
The surprising thing about this album is how wild it is. I didn't expect this clarinet/piano duo playing lots of very old standards to shoot off on weird tangents filled with such startling dissonances; I've heard Daniels and Kellaway in separate contexts before this, and they were less adventurous then. They play the themes straightforwardly, but sometimes open those tracks with left-field intros that would make even Erroll Garner smile a bit enviously. And once they get to their solos (mostly in the sense of "featured," in Daniels's case, though Kellaway really is solo and sometimes he drops out to let Daniels fly unaccompanied), you never know whether you're going to hear a sedately prim excursion on bebop-level harmonies or a spurt of exuberance that takes in a wider range of styles. Their reading of Thelonious Monk's "Rhythm-a-ning,...
- 4/14/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Just in time for Sundance, Provocation Entertainment has signed four new clients: filmmakers Frank Hudec and Darryl Wharton-Rigby, screenwriter Jim Tierney and actor Eddie Daniels. The company, which handles management, production and public-relations, made the announcement Tuesday. Provocation will celebrate the new signings with an exclusive party at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24. "As part of our commitment to fostering a clientele of groundbreaking transmedia artists, we've got a playwright transitioning to film [Tierney], a filmmaker branching into graphic novels [Hudec], a TV writer moving into documentaries [Wharton-Rigby], and an...
- 1/17/2012
- by Kurt Orzeck
- The Wrap
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