Jerry Goldsmith, a Hollywood goldsmith

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Total Trax (the OST movies podcast created by Rafik Djoumi, Oliver Desbrosses and David Oghia a.k.a Misteur D) is proud to present their very first book dedicated to the unforgettable film music producer Jerry Goldsmith (Rambo, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek the movie, Gremlins, Poltergeist, Total Recall, Basic Instinct and many more)

Jerry Goldsmith: un orfèvre à Hollywood is written by Yves Desrichard, with the collaboration of Rafik Djoumi and Olivier Debsrosses. Our book looks in detail at his biography, his influences, his musical masters, his years in television, his special relationships with certain filmmakers and the evolution of his compositional style.

His career went over five decades and has produced countless popular and critically acclaimed movies such as Rambo, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek the movie, Gremlins, Poltergeist, Total Recall, Basic Instinct), and so far no book in French has paid tribute to the great Jerry Goldsmith.

Film music has always been dependent to the movies they are played in.
The most beautiful of music sheets can be quickly forgotten if the movie does not get the success it deserves. Howeever, Goldsmith’s carreer switched back and forth between successes, hated films, forgotten works or even films that were discovered again while he did his best.
Therefore, most of his great music works are still unknown to this day even to aficionados. That project aimed at uncovering the endless potential of his career for the 20th anniversary of his passing.

The fruit of patient research and information gathering, Jerry Goldsmith: A Goldsmith in Hollywood retraces the Maestro’s career on all his projects, without exception, with a wealth of anecdotes and analysis, over almost 450 pages. That book will enable all fans to appreciate even more the consistency, diversity and modernity of this giant of film music.