Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe musical landscape for Pixar’s “Soul” was one of two worlds. “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” resident band frontman Jon Batiste used a jazz-filled, hectic musical palette to reflect New York City and the world of Joe Gardner, a middle-school band teacher who yearns to be a jazz pianist in the Pete Docter-directed animated feature.A prepared piano — an instrument with its sound temporarily altered — helped Batiste find his way into the sound of the celestial world that Joe finds himself in after plunging down a manhole.The world is “the Great Before.” This is where composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross stepped in to work on the music of the soul world where everything is translucent and opaque.
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