James Newton Howard

James Newton Howard is an American composer and conductor from Los Angeles who began his career as a session musician and keyboardist in the 1970s before moving into film composing in the 1980s, working primarily in the film and television genres. His musical style blends orchestral writing with electronic textures and contemporary production techniques, evolving over decades to encompass suspenseful, dramatic and atmospheric scoring widely used in mainstream Hollywood cinema.

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James Newton Howard

The Sheffield Track Record / The Sheffield Drum Record

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Howard, Kernis: Violin Concertos / Tovey: Stream of Limelight

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