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In 1999, Goodman founded the record label Museum Music<ref name="inkandescent" /> that specializes in creating custom music CDs for museums and related cultural organizations. That year, New York's [[Museum of Modern Art]] was hosting a [[Jackson Pollock]] exhibition. The museum was looking to create a compilation CD of music to accompany the exhibition, and Goodman was contacted as music consultant. Seeing a unique opportunity, Goodman successfully pitched MoMA to create the compilation himself, and thus Museum Music was born. "Jackson Pollock Jazz" featured music licensed directly from the artist's personal collection,<ref>[http://museummusic.com/jacksonpollockjazz.aspx Museum Music - Jackson Pollock Jazz]</ref> and was an immediate success. Shortly after, Museum Music landed business with the [[J. Paul Getty Museum]] in Los Angeles, which was preparing for its grand opening at the time, and has since grown to service dozens of major cultural institutions around the world.
In 1999, Goodman founded the record label Museum Music<ref name="inkandescent" /> that specializes in creating custom music CDs for museums and related cultural organizations. That year, New York's [[Museum of Modern Art]] was hosting a [[Jackson Pollock]] exhibition. The museum was looking to create a compilation CD of music to accompany the exhibition, and Goodman was contacted as music consultant. Seeing a unique opportunity, Goodman successfully pitched MoMA to create the compilation himself, and thus Museum Music was born. "Jackson Pollock Jazz" featured music licensed directly from the artist's personal collection,<ref>[http://museummusic.com/jacksonpollockjazz.aspx Museum Music - Jackson Pollock Jazz]</ref> and was an immediate success. Shortly after, Museum Music landed business with the [[J. Paul Getty Museum]] in Los Angeles, which was preparing for its grand opening at the time, and has since grown to service dozens of major cultural institutions around the world.


===Education and Advocacy===
===Education and advocacy===
Goodman strongly supports and advocates for the fair and just valuation of music. As a board member of the Production Music Association<ref name="PMA" /> and chair of its Performing Rights Committee, Goodman works to educate the membership on best practices for effectively valuing and exploiting their copyrights in today's evolving music industry. He is a regular panelist for such organizations as [[American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers|ASCAP]], [[Independent Feature Project|IFP]], [[American Film Institute|AFI]] and [[Society of Composers & Lyricists|SCL]], providing insight and expertise on these same issues, and has served as an [[American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers|ASCAP]] industry representative in meetings with members of the U.S. Congress, advocating for the rights of artists.
Goodman strongly supports and advocates for the fair and just valuation of music. As a board member of the Production Music Association<ref name="PMA" /> and chair of its Performing Rights Committee, Goodman works to educate the membership on best practices for effectively valuing and exploiting their copyrights in today's evolving music industry. He is a regular panelist for such organizations as [[American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers|ASCAP]], [[Independent Feature Project|IFP]], [[American Film Institute|AFI]] and [[Society of Composers & Lyricists|SCL]], providing insight and expertise on these same issues, and has served as an [[American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers|ASCAP]] industry representative in meetings with members of the U.S. Congress, advocating for the rights of artists.



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Joel Goodman is an Emmy-award winning American composer and recording artist, music business entrepreneur and educator.

His film scoring work has appeared at every major film festival in the world and includes scores to films and television programs that have received 5 Oscar nominations, 30 Emmy awards and over 40 Emmy nominations. Prior to scoring films, Goodman composed music for advertising and produced records, including those for Chuck Mangione,[1] Livingston Taylor[2] and Carla Lother[3] before releasing his own album as an artist in 2023. In 1999, he founded the record label Museum Music[4] and in 2002 co-founded the music licensing and publishing company MusicBox.[4][5] Through his production company Hi-Fi Productions, Goodman created 4 production music catalogs that are distributed by Universal Music Publishing. Goodman conducts university master classes in the US and Europe, is a regular panelist for such organizations as ASCAP, IFP, AFI and SCL amongst others, and currently serves on the board of the Production Music Association,[6] where he is the Chairman of the Performing Rights Committee.

Early life and education

Goodman was born in Brooklyn, NY and grew up in Queens, where he learned to play his first instrument (the trumpet) from the legendary public school music educator Allen Stier. He attended high school in Manhattan at The High School of Music & Art,[7] studying jazz with Justin DiCioccio and orchestral performance with Sydney Baker while taking private bass lessons from Rich Samalin and Ken Smith. As a result, Goodman played trumpet in the orchestra, and wrote arrangements and played bass for his high school jazz band. Some notable classmates of Goodman's include Charley Drayton, Bernard Wright, Sterling Campbell, Tony Mangurian, Larry Aberman, Erik Sanko, Eric Rosenberg, Roey Shamir and Marcus Rojas.

Goodman attended the Berklee College of Music as a double major focusing on both bass performance and jazz composition and arranging.[7] This gave him the opportunity to study with such greats as Herb Pomeroy, Michael Gibbs, Bob Freedman, John LaPorta, Gary Burton, John Abercrombie, Jerry Bergonzi, Steve Swallow and Bruce Gertz.

It was during this time that Goodman joined the jazz/world/fusion band Ananda founded by composer and guitarist Claudio Ragazzi. Their first album, titled Amazonia, was recorded for the record label Sonic Atmospheres and was produced by Craig Huxley.[8] The band toured regularly in the Northeastern United States and on a few occasions included appearances by Ralph Towner as a member of the live band.

Film and TV scoring career

After graduating from Berklee in 1984, Goodman moved back to New York City and began his music career as a live and studio session bassist.[7] In 1991 he became a staff composer for the music production house North Forty Music where he composed music for hundreds of major national television advertisements including those for American Express, Budweiser, IBM, Gatorade and Procter & Gamble.[7] Goodman worked at North Forty Music until 1999, when he left to pursue composing for film full-time.

Goodman's first score, for a documentary film called My Knees Were Jumping, came about by a chance meeting with an old high school friend on the streets of New York City. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1996 and opened the door for many more film scoring opportunities to come.[7]

While the music was being mixed into the film prior to its release, another film producer in the studio next door came in to inquire about the music, and this ultimately led to Goodman's next scoring project. Green Chimneys premiered at the Sundance Film Festival the following year. When the editor from Green Chimneys was hired to edit the Albert Maysles film Concert of Wills: Building the Getty Center, Goodman was asked to provide the music - an opportunity that played an important role in his subsequent founding of Museum Music.

Goodman has since gone on to score over 150 films and TV shows, and has collaborated with many distinguished directors and producers including Neil LaBute, Albert Maysles, Andrew Jarecki, Barbara Kopple, Wong Kar-wai, Rachel Grady, Marshall Curry, Sebastian Junger, Barak Goodman, Alexandra Pelosi, Michael Epstein, Joe Berlinger, Oren Jacoby, Irene Taylor Brodsky, Lesli lwerks, and Fisher Stevens.[9]

In 2012, Goodman received an Emmy Award in recognition of his score to the HBO film Saving Pelican #895. The award was presented as part of the 33rd Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards in the category of Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Music & Sound.[10] Goodman composed the theme for the series, American Experience. His theme debuted in 2011, Season 23, and has been used ever since.

An Exquisite Moment (Album)

On June 23, 2023, Goodman released the album, An Exquisite Moment. With An Exquisite Moment, Goodman's deeply personal and improvisation-rich debut album of "full-experience" music, the Emmy-winning composer embarks on an epic voyage of self-discovery alongside some of the most accomplished and creative names in jazz. Special guests Randy Brecker (flugelhorn, trumpet), Brandee Younger (harp), Lisa Fischer (vocals), John Patitucci (bass), and Philippe Saisse (piano, vibes, marimba) join an A-team core group consisting of Donny McCaslin (saxophones), Eric Harland (drums), Adam Rogers (guitar), Mino Cinélu (percussion), Scott Colley (bass) and Goodman himself on keyboards and bass. Available on Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp and more.

Other endeavors

Museum Music

In 1999, Goodman founded the record label Museum Music[4] that specializes in creating custom music CDs for museums and related cultural organizations. That year, New York's Museum of Modern Art was hosting a Jackson Pollock exhibition. The museum was looking to create a compilation CD of music to accompany the exhibition, and Goodman was contacted as music consultant. Seeing a unique opportunity, Goodman successfully pitched MoMA to create the compilation himself, and thus Museum Music was born. "Jackson Pollock Jazz" featured music licensed directly from the artist's personal collection,[11] and was an immediate success. Shortly after, Museum Music landed business with the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, which was preparing for its grand opening at the time, and has since grown to service dozens of major cultural institutions around the world.

Education and advocacy

Goodman strongly supports and advocates for the fair and just valuation of music. As a board member of the Production Music Association[6] and chair of its Performing Rights Committee, Goodman works to educate the membership on best practices for effectively valuing and exploiting their copyrights in today's evolving music industry. He is a regular panelist for such organizations as ASCAP, IFP, AFI and SCL, providing insight and expertise on these same issues, and has served as an ASCAP industry representative in meetings with members of the U.S. Congress, advocating for the rights of artists.

In addition, Goodman leads master classes and has served as composer-in-residence at universities, conferences and film festivals around the world,[12] encouraging the creative process and guiding both students and peers on effective methods for creative collaboration between composers and filmmakers.

Music Publishing

In 2002 Goodman and longtime college friend Daniel Stein founded the music licensing and publishing company MusicBox.[4][5] Under Goodman's leadership, the company licensed and produced custom music for all types of visual media, ultimately growing to include 24 catalogs and over 30,000 songs with representation in more than 45 countries worldwide. Anthem Music Publishing (then Ole Music Publishing, one of the largest independent music publishers in the world, acquired MusicBox in 2011.[13] Since 2014, Goodman has successfully launched the music publishing companies Spot On, Icon Trailer Music, Red Matter and Storyteller, all distributed and administered worldwide by Universal Music Publishing.

Personal life

Goodman is an active cyclist and fan of cycling. He rides over 5,000 miles a year and has completed several multi-day rides including the entire length of California (2x), cross-country United States tours (2x), across Tuscany, Italy, the Pyrennes, France, and the Italian Alps.

Credits

Discography

Beginning in 1996, Goodman produced four records for the acclaimed audiophile record label Chesky Records.

Year Artist Album Title Role Label
1996 I Ching Of the Marsh and the Moon[14] Producer, Composer, Arranger Chesky Records
1997 Livingston Taylor Ink[2] Producer, Arranger Chesky Records
1999 Carla Lother Ephemera[3] Producer, Composer, Arranger Chesky Records
2000 Chuck Mangione Everything For Love[1] Producer, Arranger Chesky Records
2023 Joel Goodman An Exquisite Moment Producer, Composer, Arranger A64 Records

Documentary film scoring credits (partial list)

Film Title Filmmaker Release Info
Entangled, and other Tree Stories dir. Irene Taylor HBO
Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story dir. Jennifer Takaki PBS
Loudmouth dir. Josh Alexander Greewhich Entertainment
Once Upon A Time In Queens dir. Nick Dvis ESPN
Doctor’s Orders dir. Billy Shebar Discovery
The Blinding Of Isaac Woodard dir. Jamila Ephron American Experience/PBS
Confronting A Serial Killer dir. Joe Berlinger Starz/SXSW
Murder Among The Mormons dir. Jared Hess & Tyler Measom Netflix
The Curve dir. Adam Benzine YouTube
Mae West: Dirty Blonde dir. Sally Rosenthal & Julia Marchesi American Masters/PBS
League of Legends: Origins dir. Lesli Iwerks Netflix
Jay Myself dir. Stephen Wilkes Oscilloscope
Q Ball dir. Michael Tolajian Fox Sports - MUSIC EMMY NOMINATION
Outside the Bubble dir. Alexandra Pelosi HBO
Ted Williams dir. Nick Davis American Masters/PBS
The Gilded Age dir. Sarah Colt American Experience/PBS
Voyeur dir. Josh Koury, Myles Kane Netflix
Shadowman dir. Oren Jacoby Amazon
Hell on Earth dir. Sebastian Junger, Nick Quested National Geographic
The Boys of '36 dir. Margaret Grossi American Experienc/PBS - MUSIC EMMY NOMINATION
La Laguna dir. Aaron Shock Amazon
Obit dir Vanessa Gould Amazon
MAKERS: Once and for All dir. Michael Epstein, Dyllan McGee PBS
Everything is Copy dir. Jacob Bernstein, Nick Hooker HBO
Harry & Snowman dir. Ron Davis FilmRise
Walt Disney dir. Sarah Colt American Experience/PBS
Spectres of the Shoah dir. Adam Benzine HBO - ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED FILM
Prescription Thugs dir. Chris Bell Samuel Goldwyn Films
Cancer: The Emperor of all Maladies dir. Barak Goodman PBS
Playing for the Mob dir. Joe Lavine ESPN - 30x30
MAKERS: Women in Business dir. Jamila Wignot PBS
MAKERS: Women in War dir. Rachel Grady PBS
MAKERS: Women in Space dir. Michael Epstein PBS
My Italian Secret dir. Oren Jacoby Film Sales Company
An Honest Liar dir. Tyler Measom & Justin Weinstein Abramorama
Bad Boys dir. Zak Levitt ESPN - 30x30
JFK dir. Susan Bellows American Experience/PBS
Running From Crazy dir. Barbara Kopple OWN Network, Sundance FF
Miss You Can Do It dir. Ron Davis HBO
The Diplomat dir. Jennifer Arnold and Senain Kheshgi ESPN - MUSIC EMMY NOMINATION
MAKERS: Women Who Make America dir. Barak Goodman PBS
American Winter dir. Joe Gantz & Harry Gantz HBO
Which Way is the Front Line from Here? dir. Sebastian Junger HBO, Sundance FF
Clinton dir. Barak Goodman American Experience/PBS
Being Elmo dir. Constance Marks Submarine Deluxe, Sundance FF Award Winner
Saving Pelican 895 dir. Irene Taylor-Brodsky HBO - MUSIC EMMY WINNER
Hot Coffee dir. Susan Saladoff HBO; Sundance FF
Triangle Fire dir. Jamila Wignot American Experience/PBS
Buck dir. Cindy Mehl Sundance Selects, Sundance FF Award Winner *additional music
My Lai dir. Barak Goodman American Experience/PBS
Once Brothers dir. Michael Tolajian ESPN - 30x30
A Small Act dir. Jennifer Arnold HBO; Sundance FF
Valentino: The Last Emperor dir. Matt Tyrnauer Acolyte Films, Toronto FF
Wyatt Earp dir. Rob Rapley American Experience/PBS
A Village Called Versailles dir. Leo Chiang ITVS/PBS
Grand Central dir. Michael Epstein American Experience/PBS
Buffalo Bill dir. Rob Rapley American Experience/PBS
Combat Diary dir. Michael Epstein A&E
Worse than War dir. Mike DeWitt PBS
Racing Dreams dir. Marshall Curry; prod. Bristol Baughan ESPN
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln dir. Barak Goodman; prod. Jamila Ephron American Experience/PBS
Breaking the Huddle dir. & prod. Joe Lavine HBO Sports
Looking for Lincoln dir. & prod. John Maggio & Muriel Soenens PBS
Walt Whitman dir. Mark Zwonitzer American Experience/PBS
Kit Carson dir. Steven Ives American Experience/PBS
Hear & Now dir. Irene Taylor Brodsky HBO; Sundance FF Audience Award Winner
Constantine’s Sword dir. Oren Jacoby First Run Features
Rain In A Dry Land dir. Anne Makepeace PBS
The Cats of Mirikitani dir. & prod. Linda Hattendorf PBS
Sister Rose’s Passion dir. Oren Jacoby; prod. Steve Kalafer HBO - ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED FILM
Bearing Witness dir. Marijana Wooten; prod. Barbara Kopple A&E
Final Cut dir. Michael Epstein; prod. Rachel Horovitz Trio; Berlin & Toronto FF
To Be Alive! (restored 2004) dir. Francis Thompson; prod. Alex Albenese Academy Award Winner
Just A Clown dir. Andrew Jarecki; prod. Marc Smerling Sundance FF
The American Novel dir. Michael Epstein American Masters/PBS
The Collector of Bedford Street dir. & prod. Alice Elliott HBO - ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED FILM
Robert Capa: In Love and War dir. Ann Makepeace; prod. Joanna Rudnick American Masters/PBS, Sundance FF
Children Underground dir. Edet Belzberg HBO, ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED FILM
Too Hot Not To Handle dir. Susan Lester; prod. Laurie David & Joe Lovett HBO
Las Vegas dir. Stephen Ives; prod. Amanda Pollak American Experience/PBS
The Staircase dir. Jean-Xavier Lestrade; prod. Denis Poncet ABC
Happy To Be Nappy dir. Diane Kolyer; prod. Ellen Goosenberg HBO
Born Rich dir. Jamie Johnson; prod. Nick Kurzon HBO, Sundance FF
Seabiscuit dir. Stephen Ives; prod. Eve Morgenstern American Experience/PBS
Making The Cut dir. Mike Tolajian; prod. Ray Romano & Matt Marantz HBO
10 Days That Changed America: Antietam dir. Michael Epstein; prod. Caroline Suh History Channel
None Without Sin dir. Michael Epstein; prod. Elizabeth McNeill American Masters/PBS
The Burning Wall dir. & prod. Hava Kohav Beller PBS, Berlin FF
A Boy's Life dir. Rory Kennedy; prod. Liz Garbus HBO
The Children of Chabannes dir. & prod. Lisa Gossels & Dean Weatherall HBO
American Standoff dir. Kristi Jacobson; prod. Barbara Kopple HBO; Sundance FF
Brooklyn North Homicide (Theme & Series) dir. Daniel Elias; prod. David Houts Court TV / BBC
Beauty In A Jar dir. Lisa Ades; prod. Lesli Klainberg A&E
In Search of China dir. Emma Joan Morris; prod. Robert Fruchtman PBS
In My Corner dir. Ricki Stern; prod. Annie Sundberg PBS
Concert of Wills: Building the Getty Center dir. Susan Froemke; prod. Albert Maysles Maysles Films
What About Me? dir. Ben Allanoff; prod. Ted Hope Good Machine
Green Chimneys dir. Constance Marks; prod. Neil Parent HBO; Sundance FF
My Knees Were Jumping dir. Melissa Hacker; prod. Melissa Hacker PBS; Sundance FF
Superchief dir. Nick Kurzon; prod. Nick Kurzon HBO

Narrative film scoring credits (partial list)

Film Title Filmmaker Release Info
Dirty Weekend dir. Neil LaBute prod. Duncan Montgomery, Tiller Russell Entertainment One
Canvas dir. Joseph Greco; prod. Sharon Lane, Adam Hammel, Bruce Beresford Screen Media Films
Club Soda dir. Paul Carafotes; prod. Paul Carafotes, Jake Steinfeld, James Gandolfini Independent, included in Stories USA
The Follow dir. Wong Kar-wai; prod. David Fincher bmwfilms.com
Evenhand dir. Joseph Pierson; prod. Jon Glascoe Sharp/Hart
Disorder dir. & prod. Jack Smith Universal
Interstate 84 dir. Ross Partridge; prod. Tonia Lynn; Kevin Spacey Trigger Street Productions
UnderMind dir. Nevil Dwek; prod. Andy Fierberg & Amy Hobby Double A Films
Lisa Picard is Famous dir. Griffin Dunne; prod. Dolly Hall & John Penotti GreeneStreet Films *additional music
The Forgotten dir. Vincente Stassolla; prod. Henry Simonds 1918 Productions
How to Kill a Mockingbird dir. Joe Sweet; prod. Amy Brewster Sweet Films
Cherry dir. & prod. Joseph Pierson & Jon Glascoe Cypress Films
Hoboken Tales dir. Jay Gable; prod. George Belshaw JudgeBelshaw Entertainment
Origin of the Species dir. Andres Heinz; prod. David Nickoll Panorama Releasing
Seed dir. Bobby Sheehan; prod. Sarah Feldmann IFC Films

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