I Tonya

This is the soundtrack album for Craig Gillespie’s film biography, of infamous Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie). Since most of the film takes place in the early 1990s, the soundtrack for the movie, I, Tonya, is largely made up of music from that time period. You can find here songs from Bad Company, Supertramp, Chris Stills, Fleetwood Mac, etc.

The Australian writer Henry Handel Richardson (1870–1946) was christened Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson: she adopted a male nom de plume in anticipation of professional prejudice. Although she made an international reputation as a novelist, she first trained as a pianist, and she wrote songs all her life – but they remained unpublished, so that her output as a composer has been completely overlooked. Her songs are straightforward and melodious, drawing their inspiration from Romantic German Lieder and Edwardian drawing-room ballads, lullabies and parlour songs in the manner of Bridge, Ireland, Quilter and other such composers.

Maurice Jarre wrote the central musical motif of his score for Doctor Zhivago, "Lara's Theme," in a few minutes in a hotel, amid a frantic five-week rush to score the 197-minute movie. That theme made the Doctor Zhivago soundtrack album one of the biggest selling soundtrack of the 1960s, a considerable feat when one reckons in the competition from A Hard Day's Night, Never on Sunday, A Man and a Woman, Exodus, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. The rest of Jarre's score is more in the realm of lushly textured Russian-themed mood music, filled with dark male choruses, folk and folk-like themes, and dense orchestrations, sort of faux-Tchaikovsky. The stereo separation is used to good effect, and the music as a whole forms a kind of romantic/exotic travelogue as much as a dramatic sketch of the movie's action.

There's little question that A Day in the Life of Todd Terry is one of the best albums of Terry's pioneering house ever released – it leads off with two of his best-known tracks, "A Day in the Life" and "I Hear the Music." And the rest of this compilation just reinforces his status as one of the best house producers of all time, from the uplifting vibes of "Clear Away the Past" and the tribal headrush of "Jungle Hot" to smoother tracks like "Teela's Theme".

Tuki is the song of one given to many. As the ECM leader debut of master drummer Momodou “Miki” N’Doye, it houses multiple fates under one roof and collates them into discernible rhythms and voices. N’Doye hails from Gambia, where in the mid-70s he met Norwegian musician Helge Linaae. This encounter brought him to Oslo, where, after coming into contact with such influential movers as Jon Balke, his future as shaker in the far north was secured.

The Marsalis family was bred to the traditions of New Orleans, and trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis maintains a residency at a Crescent City nightclub, Snug Harbor. Recording with his big band, the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, Marsalis’ Jazz Party is meant to capture the flavor of his Snug Harbor shows. The music is as diverse as New Orleans, with echoes of Latin America, classic R&B and blues. He goes Crescent City funky on “So New Orleans!”—one easily imagines the band decked in “Indian” feathers and marching down the street for Mardi Gras. Everything is sleek and precise; even the cacophonous moments sound carefully engineered within the arrangements.