Jack Eskew

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Jack Eskew (Jackson W. Eskew) (born June 29, 1940) is an arranger/orchestrator based in Los Angeles, California. He studied music at the University of Southern California before beginning his career by touring the United States with various bands.

In the 1960s, he led the band at Disneyland that appeared nightly in the famous subterranean rising stage, playing trumpet and piano. He subsequently became music director at Disneyland. During the 1970s, he worked on such television shows as The Sonny and Cher Show and The Mack Davis Show.

From the early 1980s, Eskew worked with film composer Bill Conti and subsequently orchestrated such films as The Karate Kid series, Broadcast News, Huckleberry Finn, and the Pierce Brosnan remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, among others. Eskew, again working with Conti, has also worked as an orchestrator for numerous telecasts of the annual Academy Awards.