Danny Elfman
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896 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
Danny Elfman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, no, it all made sense eventually.
Yeah.
But, you know, I taught myself to write music with the Mystic Knights because I had to write for these guys and I had no training.
And so I taught myself to write and I started writing these complicated charts.
Original stuff and...
doing transcriptions of Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington music from the mid-30s.
Kind of re-jiggering.
I wanted every note to be perfect.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
I know, but my first transcription was a Duke Ellington piano solo, a piece called Black and Tan Fantasy.
I wanted every note to be absolutely perfect.
play and write and transcribe and that's how he was able to produce all that work and tour amazing it's just amazing stuff and the other thing that i heard about him which i love is that when they were in new york that he pretty much had the band full time and he would just write down ideas to sketch stuff and just show up at the rehearsal say here's some new stuff yeah what a luxury let's just try these new ideas here's some charts wow have you ever heard those there's the recordings you know in the
I do.
You do, yeah.
It was an amazing era of inspiration.
And then when I heard the ska music, it brought me back to the West African highlife bands that I loved listening to.
Yeah, because I had all this music that I loved, singles I brought back up to High Life.
And High Life is kind of between reggae and salsa almost.
Is it more up-tempo?
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