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Tony Scott: Top Gun
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Since leaving New York in 1959, Tony Scott (a top bebop-oriented clarinetist) has been an eager world traveler who enjoys exploring the folk music of other countries. Unfortunately, his post-1959 recordings have been few, far between, difficult-to-locate, and sometimes erratic, but Scott was an unheralded pioneer in both world music and new age.
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Tony Scott attended Juilliard during 1940-1942, played at Minton's Playhouse, and then after three years in the military he became one of the few clarinetists to play bop. His cool tone (heard at its best on a 1950 Sarah Vaughan session that ... includes Miles Davis) stood out from the more hard-driving playing of Buddy DeFranco. Scott worked with a wide variety of major players (including Ben Webster, Trummy Young, Earl Bostic, Charlie Ventura, Claude Thornhill, Buddy Rich, and Billie Holiday), led his own record dates (among his sidemen were Dizzy Gillespie and a young Bill Evans) which ranged from bop and cool to free improvisations (all are currently difficult to locate), and ranked with DeFranco at the top of his field.
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Scott returned to commercials, until one of his advertisements, which included images of fighter jets, was seen by the Hollywood producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. They invited Scott to direct the Tom Cruise film Top Gun (1986), a big-action story of trainee fighter pilots that became a huge commercial success. Working with some of the industry’s biggest actors and producers he has directed a portfolio of films that are often loud, stylish, and spectacular, including Beverly Hills Cop II (1987, starring Eddie Murphy), Revenge (1990, Kevin Costner), Days of Thunder (1990, Cruise and Robert Duvall), The Last Boy Scout (1991, Bruce Willis), True Romance (1993, from a script by Quentin Tarantino), Crimson Tide (1995, starring Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman), The Fan (1996, Robert de Niro and Wesley Snipes), Enemy of the State (1998, starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman), Spy Game (2001, with Robert Redford and Brad Pitt), Man on Fire (2004, starring Denzel Washington), and Domino (2005, with Keira Knightley and Mickey Rourke).
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Scott made his feature debut in 1983 with the modern vampire story The Hunger, starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. In 1986, he directed Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis in the mega-blockbuster Top Gun, featuring stunning aerial sequences that helped make the film a global success. His additional film credits include Beverly Hills Cops III, starring Eddie Murphy; Enemy of the State, with Will Smith; Spy Game, starring Robert Redford and Brad Pitt; and Domino, starring Keira Knightley.
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In 1990, Scott returned to the Simpson-Bruckheimer fold to helm the big-budget film Days of Thunder. Once again directing Tom Cruise in a similar plot to Top Gun, though the film was a box-office disappointment when released in the summer of 1990.
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Robert Redford stars as veteran CIA agent Nathan Muir in this thriller from Tony Scott (TOP GUN, ENEMY OF THE STATE). Set in 1991, Muir expects his last day before retirement to be an easy one.
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