Whatever happened to the composer who scored Cowboy Bebop and the original GITS series of anime?
She, Yoko Kanno, started working on the live-action Cowboy Bebop this year in collaboration with Netflix.
Other works:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Kanno#Anime_works
IIRC, a lot of Cowboy Bebop was fully impromptu. I know I listen to the harmonica tracks sometimes (I tried to study Harmonica years ago...) and its basically a collection of "Jazzy sound improv", which probably was more of the work of the player than the composer. Well... you know Jazz. The "composer" to Jazz pieces rely heavily upon the individual player's improv-skills. Its just the nature of that genre of music.
So something like "Tank" (the opening) was probably largely composed. But switch it up to "Spokey Dokey", and I bet that this song is more freeform.
Spokey Dokey is listed as "The Seatbelts" (the same band, led by Yoko Kanno, who did the famous "Tank" opening to Cowboy Bebop). I can't seem to figure out who the harmonica player was exactly. Seems like Yoko Kanno is the pianist (keyboard???), but the Wikipedia page is pretty vague on that.
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Anyway, given how much Jazz is about the individual players / musicians just going off on Improv for minutes at a time... nothing will ever quite sound like the original Cowboy Bebop soundtrack. Future Jazz pieces, even by the same composer, will only be ephemerally related. Its just how the genre goes.
