Donald Rubinstein

Donald Rubinstein: Martin

by Dave Wayne
February 19, 2016

Jazz doesn't typically play a huge role in horror film soundtracks. Sure, there are exceptions. Jazz guitarist Joseph LoDuca scored Sam Raimi's adaptation of Stephen King's The Evil Dead. Giorgio Gaslini's collaboration with the prog-rock group Goblin on Dario Argento's Suspiria certainly has some jazz-related elements, as does the work of Krzysztof Komeda (Rosemary's Baby), Bruno Nicolai, Ennio Morricone, and other European film composers. Sleazy funk and warped psychedelia are plentiful in the genre. Take, for example, the soundtrack to ...

Circus Boy CD by Donald Rubinstein: Imagining the Inner Life of a 1940s Jewish Circus-Boy-Poet-Pianist

Source: Mantra Public Relations
July 24, 2007

For composer, musician and artist Donald Rubinstein, imagining the persona of a 1940s' pianist named Jeremy Bonafide, the hero of Rubinstein's latest CD, Circus Boy, was to come to grips with his own sympathy with the outsiders in society, the discarded and misfits.

Loosely based on the real life of turn-of-the-century jazz innovator and trumpeter Billy Bolden, who was never recorded yet widely admired, Jeremy Bonafide could have been real. Rubinstein says, “Circus Boy is about someone who was brilliant ...
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