Composer, Jackson Greenberg (AKA Jane Roe, Netflix "Explained" Theme)

(TSAP S03E17)


Sam chats with composer, Jackson Greenberg about his
musical origins, creating the Netflix "Explained" theme, working
on AKA Jane Roe and much more!

"Jackson Greenberg is a Philadelphia born and raised, Los Angeles
based artist, composer, and producer. Jackson studied music
composition at Princeton University and The University of
Southern California Thornton School of Music, graduating both
programs with high honors. After moving to Los Angeles, Jackson’s
first job was assisting composer Randy Newman and Jackson’s first
original film score was for the Oscar and Emmy-nominated and Emmy
Award-winning Documentary Cartel Land. Jackson’s work has been
featured heavily in many television series including the
acclaimed theme song for the Explained series on Netflix which
went viral with over 2 million streams. In addition to having
multiple projects at the Sundance film festival over the last
decade, in 2017 he was named one of six fellows at the Sundance
Institute for Film Composition at George Lucas’ California based
Skywalker Ranch. His most recent film work can be seen in AKA
Jane Roe, FX Network’s first foray into documentary feature
films, two biopics for musicians DMX and Mary J Blige (Amazon),
NFL Film’s Maybe Next Year, as well as Netflix Features’
Audibleand their hit dating docuseries Dating Around.


In addition to his work for multimedia, Jackson’s original music
has been performed and recorded by symphonies around the world
(First Light, Slovakian National Symphony Orchestra, Ravello
records 2020), he’s produced and written for major label
recording artists such as Bay Ledges and TOMI, and continues to
release his own music through his own label (Voice Notes
2017-2019, 2020)."

Big thanks to Callum Tennick for editing.

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