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How ‘Saturday Night’s’ Intense Ticking Score Was Created By Tap Dancing, a Fiddle and Jon Batiste
Jon Batiste on creating a tense score for "Saturday Night" and playing Billy Preston.
Batiste is doing double duty in Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night,” he’s playing musician and band leader Billy Preston, and he also composed the film’s score. “It was just a lot of info about what we saw as an audience, and the rest was first-hand accounts from folks on the cast who we spoke to and Jason, who had done a ton of research and shared it with us.” “I loved being immersed in the process and not separating them in a way that I could even dictate being on the set, creating, acting, composing and recording all at once.” He continues, “It gave everything that we did this real sense of presence.
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