Tony Saad's Genealogy Tree by

Michael Giacchino

tony110500 — 2024-03-14 12:54:01 UTC

Michael Giacchino is one of the reasons I love watching Pixar movies. His music is evocative of so many emotions and atmospheres, from the fanfare of The Incredibles to the classy chicness of his Ratatouille musical score. I love his ability to combine different genres together like classical music, jazz, latin, and even rock.

Miles Davis

tony110500 — 2024-03-14 12:54:33 UTC

I love his ability to seamlessly improvise musical segments on the spot, most especially in his album Kind of Blue, one of my favourite albums. Miles Davis was also an innovator who kept looking for new ways to express himself musically, which is something I want to do in my creative practice.

Elwood Buchanan

tony110500 — 2024-03-14 12:55:29 UTC

Elwood Buchanan was Miles Davis’s music teacher in his youth. Buchanan gave him his first adjustable mouthpiece and taught him all the different ways he could modify it to create unique sounds. Lauren Parks (2021) revealed that Buchanan urged Miles to stop sounding like everyone else, which was something that resonated with the then-young trumpeter.

Charlie Parker

tony110500 — 2024-03-14 13:01:45 UTC

According to Robert Greenberg (2024), Miles Davis once said that there are four words in jazz; 'Louis Armstrong. Charlie Parker'. The use of chromatic scale and passing notes in parker's creation of bebop heavily influenced Miles's Playing (C. Lambert, personal communication, 15 March 2024). Although Miles would go on to make is own style, this would remain a feature of his throughout his career.

Dizzy Gillespie

tony110500 — 2024-03-14 13:02:55 UTC

Dizzy Gillespie was an early mentor to Miles Davis, and he taught him how to reach incredibly high notes on the trumpet (C. Lambert, personal communication, 15 March 2024). Miles would make this a feature of his musical style, especially in his famous album Kind of Blue (1959).

Benny Goodman

tony110500 — 2024-03-14 13:03:55 UTC

Michael Giacchino has a deep appreciation for Benny Goodman’s music. He remarked (2010) that ‘To me, Benny Goodman is a genius. His clarinet solos aren't random. They're so melodic that you can actually sing back the solo, note for note. You can keep that solo right inside you’.

Henry Mancini

tony110500 — 2024-03-14 13:04:21 UTC

The classical jazz music of Henri Mancini was a significant part of Michael Gacchino’s musical formation. It shaped his style of music and in his words; ’These are guys I listened to incessantly growing up and they're huge, huge reasons why I'm doing what I'm doing’ (Giacchino, M 2004).

John Barry

tony110500 — 2024-03-14 13:08:35 UTC

John Barry influenced not only Michael Giacchino’s musical style but also his technical approach to recording the score. According to John Spiegel (2018), 'The bombastic, retro-styled score feels indebted to the Bond films of the 1960s as well as other jazzy compositions. However, Giacchino steps beyond simply cribbing from the past by creating his own distinct themes within that recognizable era of music'. Giacchino was also drawn to the use of tapes to record the musical performances to enhance the brass-heavy compositions.

Tony Saad (Me!!)

tony110500 — 2024-03-15 03:34:09 UTC