Jerry Fielding
American jazz musician, arranger, band leader, and film composer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the American politician, see Jerry L. Fielding.
Jerry Fielding (born Joshua Itzhak Feldman; June 17, 1922 – February 17, 1980)[5] was an American jazz musician, arranger, band leader, and film composer who emerged in the 1960s after a decade on the blacklist,[citation needed] to create boldly diverse and evocative Oscar-nominated scores, primarily for gritty, often brutally savage, films in western and crime action genres, including the Sam Peckinpah movies The Wild Bunch (1969) and Straw Dogs (1971).
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Birth name | Joshua Itzhak Feldman |
Also known as | Gerald Feldman,[1] credited as Jerry Feldman prior to June, 1947[2][3][4] |
Born | (1922-06-17)June 17, 1922 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Origin | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Died | February 17, 1980(1980-02-17) (aged 57) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Genres | Jazz |
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