How else could we preface this? Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, John Williams’ acclaimed score to Steven Spielberg’s JAWS is rising up from the depths for its 50th anniversary. And this time, the bites are big. Williams’ longtime archivist Mike Matessino has remixed the original film score for a new release available digitally. These original tracks heard in the film remained unreleased until the early 2000s, but have never been heard with such clarity and precision.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine… an eating machine.” That line of dialogue could just as easily describe Spielberg’s film as its fearsome leviathan. Peter Benchley’s novel about a great white shark wreaking havoc on…

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