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Composer Thomas Newman Nods to Classic ’60s Jazz Scores for Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Let Them All Talk’
Jon Burlingame Leave it to director Steven Soderbergh and composer Thomas Newman to go retro ’60s with the music for their fourth collaboration, “Let Them All Talk.”Accompanying Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest and the rest of Soderbergh’s cast crossing the Atlantic on the Queen Mary 2 is a jazz score that might easily have been penned by John Barry (“The Knack”), Neal Hefti (“The Odd Couple”) or Henry Mancini (“The Pink Panther”).“Steven genuinely loves that kind of music,” Newman tells Variety. “It was fun to be doing something so different, so outspoken.
