Artist Info: Jerry Fielding

Jerry Fielding (June 17, 1922 - February 17, 1980) was an American film composer.
Although best remembered for the bold, evocative film scores he composed for tough-guy filmmakers Sam Peckinpah and Clint Eastwood, Jerry Fielding was also a premier arranger of the swing era, later headlining a series of space age pop LPs as well. Born Joshua Feldman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Fielding was a child prodigy who claimed among his earliest influences Bernard Herrmann 's pioneering scores for the radio dramas of Orson Welles. [read more...]