Straight Ahead Samples arose out of the need to fill a void in the sampled instrument world: Jazz. The lack of usable, authentic jazz samples has kept us (and we assume, a lot of other composers) from NOT writing as much jazz as we wanted. So we decided to do some sampling for ourselves. It turned out so great, that we're making our libraries available to everyone to hopefully help increase the amount of jazz music produced for tv and film.

We make high-quality sounds for professional composers.

If you’ve seen a film recently, you’ve heard what we do.

My earliest musical memories are a mix of The Beatles' Red Album, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Vangelis' Animal Apocalypse, Jean-Michel Jarre's The essential 1976/1986 compilation.
My heart has always vibrated to the sound of artists who dared to challenge their comfort zone. Kate Bush, Bjork, Radiohead, The Beatles, Damon Albarn...

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Scored award winning short films (opened Tribeca and featured in over 100 film festivals, United Airlines and JetBlue). Specialize in soundtracks for award ceremonies for UN events, trailers and shorts up to 20 mins. Music featured at events at Royal Albert Hall, Lincoln Centre, Townhall, Harpa, Kyto Concert Hall and events in over 20 countries. 

Provide hour+ long scores for award ceremonies for high level United Nations events since 2010 (UNDP, UNEP, UNFCCC), scored a video presentation for an official London Olympics event.

Try to create uplifting and meditative music. This account focuses on event promos, award scores and short doc soundtracks. 
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Tommy Walter is an American film, documentary and television composer based in Los Angeles. He has written scores for a number of films and television programs as well as commercial spots and trailers for Sony Pictures, HBO, Target, Sprint, Subaru, Union Pacific Railroad and the Portland Trailblazers among others. He won an Advertising Federation Gold Award in Original Television Music for Target's “Art Unfolds” that aired during the broadcast of the Golden Globes.

Tommy began his career as a founding member of the critically acclaimed band Eels. The band toured the world in support of their release Beautiful Freak and the alternative rock hit “Novocaine For The Soul," winning the group a BRIT Award for Best International Breakthrough Act. Tommy then went on to start his own project, so far releasing four albums under the moniker Abandoned Pools. The single "The Remedy" reached number one on the MTV2 Rock Countdown while the band continued touring in America, Europe and Japan with artists such as, Garbage, Lenny Kravitz, Pink and A Perfect Circle.

​Growing up on the edge of LA County, Tommy spent his teenage summers at the Idyllwild Arts Academy in Southern California and the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan where he studied French horn and jazz bass. In college, he continued his studies in French Horn with James Decker at the University of Southern California, performing in the USC Symphony, but soon found his true calling in composition. He earned a Bachelor of Music in Theory & Composition studying with composers Donald Crockett, Stephen Hartke and Morten Lauridsen. He furthered his studies with a Certificate in Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television under the guidance of film scoring legends Jerry Goldsmith, Jonathan Debney, and David Raksin.

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