Article: The Art of Deep Listening


Clint Eastwood listens to records at his home in 1959.
(CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images

Love the sentiment, but don’t think I’ll take advice from Mr. Eastwood! Loved his early movies and then he kind of went way off the rails.

Kinda? Lol

De gustibus. I don’t think Clint has made a bad film.

Anyhow. It’s just nice to see a mainstream outlet suggest that music is anything but a background event.

As to Clint? I just loved the photograph.

I think this fellow knew how to enjoy some music

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Seriously cool music, particularly jazz, has crept into the score of some of his films and was a central theme in one: Play Misty for Me. Not a coincidence.

Mr. Eastwood is a musician, composer, and audiophile. He wrote the scores to at least a half-dozen of his films. There is a scoring stage named after him. He received an honorary doctorate from the Berklee College of Music.

The man has chops.

I also understood he owned one of the largest private Jazz LP collections in the world. I think a fire destroyed many of his LPs. Not sure what the article discusses, behind a paywall for me.

And according to a cousin, a model who did a photo shoot with him shortly after he landed the Rawhide gig, a very nice guy. It’s been over a half century, but as I recall the proofs were terrific.

Try this?

I tend to delete the tracking stuff, but I guess that sometimes frees it from the paywall.