Mystic River
He's been an international movie star icon, successful producer, acclaimed director, and fervent jazz revivalist. But after years of cinemusic flirtations, Clint Eastwood finally adds "film scorer" to his already burgeoning resume. Those familiar with his jazz affections and a laconic keyboard approach that seems to echo his very acting style won't be surprised by the elegantly moody "Main Title" he's composed for this character-driven drama. But the autumnal, minimalist, and post-modern influenced orchestral cues (performed with sympathetic grace by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood Festival Chorus) Eastwood offers elsewhere here are yet another forceful example of an artist who's typically used his mainstream successes to leverage new creative challenges for himself.Kyle Eastwood(the film legend's son) offers up a jazzy coda to his father's bittersweet orchestral portrait with the playful, R&B; bump of "Cosmo" and soulful "Black Emerald Blues."  --Jerry McCulley