Jon Benjamin - Jazz Daredevil - The Soundtrack Collection

What this video is

Released July 24, 2020 on Sub Pop Records (catalog SP1374), The Soundtrack Collection is H. Jon Benjamin's second album under his Jazz Daredevil alter-ego — a comedic conceit built around deliberately incompetent piano performance. The album pairs Benjamin's Moog synthesizer playing with the Budapest Scoring Orchestra performing iconic film and TV themes including 'Danger Zone,' 'Also Sprach Zarathustra,' 'Axel F,'…

Why it matters

The Soundtrack Collection occupies a singular niche as comedic avant-garde music — intentionally terrible solo keyboard performance scaffolded by genuinely skilled orchestral arrangement. It extends a lineage of anti-music performance art (Florence Foster Jenkins, Peter Sellers' musical comedy)…