Randy Newman

Timo Andres, Jeremy Denk, Brad Mehldau, Randy Newman – I Still Play (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 19, 2023 · Comments off

The existence of I Still Play as an album is a bit of a paradox. Each of these 11 tributes to [former Nonesuch president] Bob Hurwitz was written for an audience of one, on a particular Steinway in a specific Upper West Side living room. And yet here they are, making their way into the wider world. None are loftily ambitious or daringly experimental compositions. Rather, each distills an aspect of its author’s voice to a concentrated miniature. The prevailing tone is conversational rather than declamatory, though it’s a wide-ranging conversation. Large questions are posed but rarely answered in full. If the listener has the odd feeling of having stumbled into an exchange between two friends and missing an inside joke or shared reference here and there—that’s not far from the truth.

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Randy Newman – The Randy Newman Songbook (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 17, 2023 · Comments off

Nonesuch’s Randy Newman Songbook series—comprising solo recordings of songs from throughout Newman’s five-decade career—previously included two volumes, released on CD in 2003 and 2011. Sixteen additional songs from a newly released third volume, along with five bonus tracks (“Feels Like Home,” “A Wedding in Cherokee County,” “Family Album: Homage to Alfred, Emil and Lionel Newman,” “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country,” and “I’m Dreaming”), join those first two volumes to create this new complete Songbook box set. Mitchell Froom produced The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1 (which has been remastered for this box set) and was joined on Vol. 2 and Vol. 3 by Newman’s lifelong friend and colleague Lenny Waronker.

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Randy Newman – Toy Story 4 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 16, 2023 · Comments off

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (OST) from the film Toy Story 4 (2019). The music composed by Randy Newman (The Meyerowitz Stories, Cars 3). Toy Story 4 is a 2019 American 3D computer-animated comedy film, the fourth film in the Toy Story series. The film is written by Stephany Folsom, John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich, directed by Josh Cooley, stars Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Joan Cusack.

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Randy Newman – The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 3 (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 16, 2023 · Comments off

The album „The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 3“ is the third in a series comprising solo recordings of songs from throughout Newman’s five-decade career. Mitchell Froom and Newman’s lifelong friend and colleague Lenny Waronker produced The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 3.

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Randy Newman – Harps and Angels (2008/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 16, 2023 · Comments off

Harps and Angels is the 11th studio album by Randy Newman. It was released on August 5, 2008, and was produced by Mitchell Froom and Lenny Waronker. It contains two updated versions of previously released compositions.

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Randy Newman – Cars 3 (Original Score) (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 16, 2023 · Comments off

Randy Newman, who was behind the Oscar®-winning music in Disney·Pixar s Toy Story 3 and Monsters, Inc., composed the score for the first Cars movie and penned the Oscar®-nominated song Our Town. For Cars 3, Newman created a score that reflects the heart and high-octane action of the film 21 tracks are included on the soundtrack. Randy has a real connection to the Cars world, says MacDougall. His ability to capture the feeling of this film, its characters, locations and the Americana theme throughout is extraordinary the music is so naturally fluid and inspired. It really feels like Randy is coming home with this score.

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Randy Newman – Dark Matter (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 15, 2023 · Comments off

Dark Matter, Randy Newman’s first album of new material in nine years, is the follow-up to 2008’s acclaimed Harps and Angels, which the Guardian called “the work of a true master of popular song.” Produced by long-time Newman collaborators Mitchell Froom, Lenny Waronker, and David Boucher, the album includes songs about Vladimir Putin, the Kennedy brothers, Sonny Boy Williamson, science vs. religion, love and loss, and more.

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Randy Newman – Little Criminals (2002) [DVD-Audio ISO]

DVD-A By admin · August 22, 2017 · Comments off

After Good Old Boys, one of the most ambitious and thematically unified albums of his career, Randy Newman seemed to beat a willful retreat for his next project, 1977’s Little Criminals. For the most part abandoning the carefully structured orchestral arrangements that dominated Good Old Boys and Sail Away, Newman cut Little Criminals with a handful of pop-friendly session musicians and L.A. Mellow Mafia regulars (including most of the Eagles), and his arch, cutting satire gave way to a lighter but less thoughtful tone, with the humor becoming less mean-spirited (though becoming much more venomous than “Rednecks” might have been difficult). Newman even revisited one of his favorite themes, the pointlessness of racial prejudice, with a metaphor so silly no one could fail to understand it. Or at least that’s what he thought when he wrote “Short People”; the song unexpectedly took off as a novelty hit, and the vertically challenged across the country began attacking Newman for what they saw as an affront to their dignity and well-being. As a result, Little Criminals became Newman’s first (and only) gold album in the United States, but this set wasn’t an especially good way to introduce the average record buyer to his work. Little Criminals lacks the scope of Newman’s best work, the music is skillful but bland, and several of the songs sound like padding (especially “You Can’t Fool the Fat Man” and “Jolly Coppers on Parade”). While the title tune, “Rider in the Rain,” “In Germany Before the War,” and “Sigmund Freud’s Impersonation of Albert Einstein in America” (which was written for the movie Ragtime but not used) are fine songs, much of Little Criminals sounds like Newman was treading water; it’s not his worst album, but it sounds like the work of a man figuring out what his next move should be. (more…)