Jackie Brown: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture Jackie Brown: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture Jackie Brown: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture is the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's motion picture "Jackie Brown". It was originally released on December 9, 1997. The film's score was composed by James Newton Howard. The soundtrack uses a variety of music genres, including soul. The soundtrack also includes dialogue from the motion picture and a lack of typical film score, similar to the other soundtracks of Tarantino films. Tarantino has said that in developing the script for "Jackie Brown", he decided on the majority of the songs during the writing stage.
Jackie Brown was also used for those of "Foxy Brown"; some of the background music is lifted from these films. The film's opening sequence is similar to that of "The Graduate", in which Dustin Hoffman passes wearily through Los Angeles International Airport past white tiles to a somber "The Sound of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkel. In "Jackie Brown", Grier glides by blue tiles in the same spot on a moving sidewalk in the same direction to a soaring soul music song, "Across 110th Street" by Bobby Womack, which is from the film of the same name that was a part of