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To Cord Jefferson, jazz has always felt like “the sound of home.” So when thinking about the score for his first feature, American Fiction, where family was very much front and center, he felt there could be no more appropriate genre of music on which to draw. “I grew up in a household where jazz was…

Composer Laura Karpman received her first Oscar nomination on Tuesday for Amazon MGM Studios' American Fiction in Music (Original Score).  In a call with Deadline on Tuesday morning, Karpman is giddy to claim that she might have possessed a little foresight that led to this Oscar reigning moment as…

EXCLUSIVE: Laura Karpman was drip-fed jazz notes when she was a baby. Her mother's turn-table featured a playlist that included Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Wes Montgomery and Thelonious Monk, the virtuoso pianist, whose music informs and underpins her own jazz-infused score for Cord Jefferson's…

"This was three years ago, that I had a note from an executive on a script that I wrote that I needed to make a character 'Blacker'," director Cord Jefferson said at Deadline's Contenders Film: Los Angeles panel for American Fiction. "A lot of this is taken directly from my personal experience having…

When you’re composing music for a character named Thelonious "Monk" Ellison in the movie American Fiction, it should be pretty obvious where a composer like Laura Karpman might find her inspiration. “They wanted the music to sound like Beethoven, but I thought I’d take a different tack,” Karpman…