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Artist Biography For Kenyon Hopkins

Kenyon Hopkins January 15 1912 – April 7 1983 Was An American Composer Who Composed Many Film Scores In A Jazz Idiom. Although He Has Been Neglected In Recent Years He Was Once Called "one Of Jazz's Great Composers And Arrangers".
Hopkins Also Composed Various Works Including Symphony Number 1 And Number 2 Chamber Music And The Jazz Ballet "Rooms" For Anna Sokolow.
He Recorded Several Albums For ABC Paramount Records Cadence Records Capitol Records And Verve Records During The 1960s. Many Of His Soundtrack Recordings Were Released On LP Including That For The 1956 Film Baby Doll Which Was Re-Released On CD. Discography Film Scores 1956 Baby Doll
1957 The Strange One
1957 12 Angry Men
1959 The Fugitive Kind
1961 Wild In The Country
1961 The Hustler
1964 Lilith
1966 Mister Buddwing
1966 This Property Is Condemned
1967 The Borgia Stick

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