Jack Eskew
Jackson Whiteside Eskew Kenmore (July 29, 1940 – February 6, 2016[citation needed]), known professionally as Jack Eskew, was an American arranger and orchestrator based in Los Angeles, California. He studied music at the University of Southern California before beginning his career in the early 1960s by touring the United States as a trumpeter with various bands, most prominently with Harry James.
Later in the 1960s, he led the band at Disneyland that appeared nightly in the famous subterranean rising stage, playing trumpet and piano. He subsequently became music director at Disneyland. During the 1960s and '70s, he musically supervised such television shows as the classic The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, The Sonny and Cher Show, and The Mac Davis Show.
From the early 1980s, Eskew worked with Oscar-winning film composer Bill Conti (best known for his scores of the Rocky series and The Right Stuff) and subsequently orchestrated The Karate Kid series, Baby Boom, Betrayed, A Prayer for the Dying, Broadcast News, The Addams Family, Rookie of the Year, Huckleberry Finn, The Big Blue, the Pierce Brosnan remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, Spy Hard, 8 Seconds, and Rocky Balboa, among others. Continuing his long collaboration with Conti, Eskew also orchestrated numerous telecasts of the annual Academy Awards with Conti serving at the helm as musical director and on-air conductor.[1]
Eskew was nominated three times for an Emmy Award, sharing with Conti the 1994 winning award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Direction, The 64th Annual Academy Awards.[2]
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External links
- Jack Eskew at IMDb (Incomplete)
- Emmy Site (Scroll down on linked page)
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- Peter Matz (1970)
- Dominic Frontiere (1971)
- Elliot Lawrence (1972)
- Peter Matz (1973)
- Jack Parnell, Ken & Mitzie Welch (1974)
- No Award (1975)
- Seiji Ozawa (1976)
- Ian Fraser (1977)
- Ian Fraser (1978)
- No Award (1979)
- Ian Fraser (1980)
- Ian Fraser, Chris Boardman, Billy Byers, and Bob Florence (1981)
- Bill Elton, Elliot Lawrence, Lanny Meyers, Tommy Newsom, Jonathan Tunick, and Torrie Zito (1982)
- Dick Hyman (1983)
- Ian Fraser, Chris Boardman, Billy Byers, J. Hill, and Lenny Stack (1984)
- Ian Fraser, Billy Byers, and Angela Morley (1985)
- Elliot Lawrence, James Lawrence, Lanny Meyers, Tommy Newsom, Glen Roven, Larry Schwartz, and Torrie Zito (1986)
- Buster Davis, Don Pippin, and Eric Stern (1987)
- Ian Fraser, Chris Boardman, Alexander Courage, and Angela Morley (1988)
- Ian Fraser, Chris Boardman, and J. Hill (1989)
- Ian Fraser, Billy Byers, Chris Boardman, Bob Florence, J. Hill, and Angela Morley (1990)
- Ian Fraser, Billy Byers, Chris Boardman, and J. Hill (1991)
- Bill Conti, Jack Eskew, Julie Giroux, Ashley Irwin, and Hummie Mann (1992)
- Ian Fraser (1993)
- Michael Rafter (1994)
- Marvin Hamlisch (1995)
- Glen Roven (1996)
- Mark Watters (1997)
- Bill Conti (1998)
- Mark Adler (1999)
- Paul Bogaev (2000)
- Marvin Hamlisch (2001)
- Mark Watters (2002)
- Bill Conti (2003)
- Harry Connick Jr. (2004)
- Michael Kosarin (2005)
- Paul Gemignani (2006)
- William Ross (2007)
- Steve Jordan and Mark Watters (2008)
- William Ross (2009)
- Dave Pierce (2010)
- Harry Connick Jr. (2011)
- Rob Berman and Rob Mathes (2012)
- Elliot Lawrence (2013)
- Don Was (2014)
- Greg Phillinganes (2015)
- Danny Elfman (2016)
- Rickey Minor (2017)
- Gregg Field (2018)
- Alex Lacamoire (2019)
- Rickey Minor (2020)
- Bo Burnham (2021)
- Adam Blackstone (2022)
- Greg Phillinganes (2023)
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