Quincy Jones (b. 1933) is one of the most important figures in music and modern media history, not only as a composer but also a performer and a producer (as on Michael Jackson's Off the Wall and Thriller records). As a film composer he was most active in the 1960s and early '70s, when he scored not only black-themed pictures (In the Heat of the Night, They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!) but acclaimed and important productions like The Pawnbroker and In Cold Blood not related to race—becoming the first African-American composer to achieve major success in the field. For television, he wrote the popular themes to Ironside and Sanford and Son, among others. Although best-known for his jazz scores, his style was not so much jazzy as modern, updating the grammar of dramatic music. His 1962 "Soul Bossa Nova" became popular as the "theme" for Austin Powers over three decades later. IMDB

John Williams (b. 1932) is not only the composer of most of the biggest blockbusters of all time—including Star Wars, E.T., Jaws, the Indiana Jones films, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park and many more, many of them directed by Steven Spielberg—but he has transcended film music to become the world's most famous living composer, and an American institution. His popular symphonic scores are so iconic that they often overshadow the fact that he has been equally proficient at sophisticated, adult fare (Schindler's List, Images) and had a successful career in composing (for television and often comedy features), arranging and performing well before he even met Steven Spielberg. FSM, like most labels, will release everything it can of Williams's music, and has concentrated (for reasons of availability) on his early years as "Johnny" Williams when he was doing sterling work on relatively little-known television and films—always with an amazing attention to melody and detail. In fact, his early works are fascinating for the ways in which they foreshadow his later, world-renowned efforts. IMDB