Composer Kathryn Bostic brings her soulful artistry to the small screen with her score for Searchlight’s The Supremes At Earl’s All You Can Eat. A prolific composer, songwriter, pianist, and vocalist, Bostic blends raw blues influences into each piece to create a cohesive 13-track album. Hollywood Records will release ‘The Supremes At Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat (Original Soundtrack)’ on digital platforms on Friday, August 23, coinciding with the film’s release on Hulu.
From Best-Selling Novel to Feature Film
The Supremes At Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat is a comedy/drama based on the 2013 New York Times best-selling novel by Edward Kelsey Moore. The film follows lifelong best friends Odette (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor), Barbara Jean (Sanaa Lathan), and Clarice (Uzo Aduba) known as “The Supremes”, who share the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood from decades of weathering life’s ups and downs. Through the good times and bad, marriage and children, love and loss, unexpected circumstances threaten to shake up their dynamic as the trio faces their most challenging times yet. Directed by Tina Mabry, the film was written for the screen by Cee Marcellus and Tina Mabry.
Cinemacy is proud to premiere a three-track score sampler from The Supremes At Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat (Original Soundtrack), below:
Drawing from her jazz and classical expertise, Kathryn Bostic’s score gives a unique emotional depth to the characters’ backgrounds. The track “Clarice” is an uptempo piano soliloquy that elicits a tangible sense of longing. “Making Amends” has a more sweeping, cinematic flare with the inclusion of strings and bass notes. Her orchestral track “Sycamore Tree” offers a slower, more meditative, pace and poignantly reflects the characters’ evolution over time.
Says Bostic of the music, “The score reflects the growing friendship of the three main characters; Clarice, Odette, and Barbara-Jean as they explore challenges and triumphs within their own lives. I chose a simple melody that grows in variations and mood to reflect their personal catharsis that inevitably tests their friendship as well. Instrumentation is primarily orchestral and piano in addition to some bluesy guitar, vocal, and bass motifs. I wanted the score to support this brilliant cast and elevate their dynamic performance in very subtle ways.”
About Kathryn Bostic
Kathryn Bostic scored an Emmy nomination for her work on the documentaries Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir and NAACP award-winning Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am. In addition to her film & TV repertoire, she has also written for Broadway, most notably collaborating with the iconic playwright August Wilson on The Gem of the Ocean. Bostic has also collaborated with many prominent orchestras. In 2019, her piece “The Great Migration—A Symphony in Celebration of August Wilson” premiered with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
In 2016, Bostic became the first female African American composer to become a member of the Music Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. She held the role of Vice President of the Alliance for Women Film Composers from 2016-2018. She is also a recipient of many fellowships and awards including the prestigious Sundance Time Warner Fellowship, Sundance Fellowship for Feature Film Scoring, Sundance/Skywalker Documentary Film Scoring, African American Film Critics Award for Best Music in Film, BMI Conducting Fellowship and Society of Composers and Lyricists “Outstanding Music for Independent Feature Film.” As a vocalist, she has toured and recorded with many celebrated artists including Nas, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and David Byrne.
