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Best low brass soundtracks

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Hey,
I've been on a soundtrack kick lately. What are your favorite low brass heavy soundtracks?
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Star Trek: The Movie - Tommy Johnson and Jim Self. The best tuba stuff starts with "The Cloud" and "Vejur Flyover".
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Poltergeist: http://www.amazon.com/Poltergeist/dp/B0 ... oltergeist" target="_blank
Tommy Johnson and Jim Self in another great Jerry Goldsmith score.

Batman Forever: http://www.amazon.com/Batman-Forever-Ex ... an+forever" target="_blank
Tommy.

The Incredibles: http://www.amazon.com/Incredibles-Score ... ncredibles" target="_blank
Tommy and John Van Houten.

Indiana Jones trilogy: http://www.amazon.com/Indiana-Jones-Sou ... iana+jones" target="_blank
Fletch (Raiders), Roger Bobo, with some additional work from Tommy (Doom), Tommy (Crusade).

Beetlejuice: http://www.amazon.com/Beetlejuice-Origi ... eetlejuice" target="_blank
Tommy and Jim, wall-to-wall tuba.

Jaws: http://www.amazon.com/Jaws-John-William ... words=jaws" target="_blank
Tommy and the infamous tuba solo on the first take.

Back to the Future: http://www.amazon.com/Back-To-The-Futur ... B000002O4S" target="_blank
Tommy.

The Natural: http://www.amazon.com/Natural-1984-Film ... he+natural" target="_blank
Tommy.

Toy Story: http://www.amazon.com/Toy-Story-Randy-N ... =toy+story" target="_blank
Tommy.

The Fugitive: http://www.amazon.com/Fugitive-James-Ne ... e+fugitive" target="_blank
Nice cimbasso work from Tommy and Jim.

Last Starfighter: http://www.amazon.com/Last-Starfighter- ... tarfighter" target="_blank
Tommy.

Medal of Honor series: http://www.amazon.com/Medal-Honor-Sound ... l+of+honor" target="_blank
Various players, but the editions with Chris Olka and the Northwest Sinfonia, especially Frontline, are particularly nice.

Dennis the Menace: http://www.amazon.com/Dennis-Menace-Sou ... the+menace" target="_blank
Jim Self, credited as solo tuba.

Close Encounters: http://www.amazon.com/Close-Encounters- ... encounters" target="_blank
Jim, Tommy, et al.

From Jim Self's website: http://jimself.com/articles.html" target="_blank
Scroll down to his listing of favorite film scores. Some great ones in there.

That should get you started down the rabbit hole.

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Oh...

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Its not a soundtrack, per se, but a cover of a popular TV show theme. These guys can really bring it!

Game of Thrones Theme (cover) for 23 Low Brass. (11 Bass Trombones, 6 Contrabass Trombones, 6 Tenor Trombones, 6 Tubas, and 3 Cimbassos)

A few New York City low brass players were joking around at a gig a year ago, talking about how much fun it would be fun to record an arrangement of some cool piece of music with an "extra low" low brass section. (Meaning: an extra special amount of bass trombone players, along with a tuba and a few tenor trombones.) An epic piece of music like the Game of Thrones theme would be perfect for this. The idea almost never got off the ground, due to the expected difficulties in putting something like this together. Two weeks ago, with the current Game of Thrones season coming to a close and the deadline approaching to release this track, they realized there was actually a 90 min timeslot on a random Tuesday afternoon when 6 contrabass trombone players were all going to be free at once. It was time to do it. Once you get Six Contra players in one place, you either run away fast- or join in. Seventeen other top orchestral and commercial NYC low brass players joined them, bringing the ensemble to 23 players, and this is the result. Enjoy the sound.

Musicians:

George Curran • bass and contrabass trombone
George Flynn • bass and contrabass trombone
Matt Ingman • bass and contrabass trombone
Jeff Nelson • bass and contrabass trombone
James Rogers • bass and contrabass trombone
Jack Schatz • bass and contrabass trombone
Patrick Herb • bass trombone
Mark Johansen • bass trombone
Christopher Olness • bass trombone
Max Seigel • bass trombone
Dale Turk • bass trombone
Tim Albright • tenor trombone
Demian Austin • tenor trombone
Mike Boschen • tenor trombone
Thomas Hutchinson • tenor trombone
William Lang • tenor trombone
Jörgen van Rijen • tenor trombone
Andrew Bove • tuba and cimbasso
Stephen Johns • tuba and cimbasso
Morris Kainuma • tuba and cimbasso
Joe Exely • tuba
Chuck Kerrigan • tuba
Marcus Rojas • tuba

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Check out Michael Giacchino's, ROAR, from the movie, Cloverfield. There's some good stuff in there!!
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I had my woofer take a dump on the soundtrack from the movie "AI"

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