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GBBP 184: Jeff Russo

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This week, we conclude our mini-marathon of Star Trek composers. Over the course of about a month, we turned the spotlight onto the four composers responsible for nearly all of the music in televised Star Trek (except for the original series). If you missed our earlier episodes with Jay Chattaway, Dennis McCarthy, and Ron Jones, you might want to go add them to your playlist now.

Whereas those three composers wrote a vast majority of the score heard in The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise, the music you hear in the current iteration of the televised franchise – Star Trek: Discovery – is thanks to Jeff Russo. Though Russo cut his musical teeth, as it were, as a founding member of the rock band Tonic, he’s no stranger to the composer’s life. In addition to Discovery, he’s written scores for Legion, Fargo, Altered Carbon, Power, and HBO’s The Night of. And that’s just scratching the surface.

On this episode, we talk about his musical roots, writing music for films versus television, getting the Star Trek gig while on a camping trip, the soul of Trek music, and why he sometimes still needs to pinch himself in the morning.

(I do not own the musical excerpts used in this episode, obviously. All rights remain with their respective copyright holders.)

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Jamie Greene
Jamie is a publishing/book nerd who makes a living by wrangling words together into some sense of coherence. Away from The Roarbots, Jamie is a road trip aficionado and an obsessed traveler who has made his way through 33 countries (and counting). Elsewhere on the interwebs, he's a contributor to SYFY Wire and StarWars.com and hosted The Great Big Beautiful Podcast for more than five years. Watch The Roarbots on Youtube

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