![]() During his time composing for Miami Vice, Hammer also appeared in two on-screen cameos on the show, in the episodes "One Way Ticket" and "Like a Hurricane" on both occasions he played a musician at a wedding. Partly fuelled by this success, the first Miami Vice soundtrack album also reached the #1 spot on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart in 1985 (the last TV soundtrack to do so for over 20 years). Hammer's "Miami Vice Theme" earned him two Grammys and reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (the last TV theme song and the last instrumental to do so). Many of his other pieces, such as "The Talk", "Marina", "Lombard" and "Rico's Blues", are also immediately recognisable and incredibly popular with fans of the show. All of Hammer's most famous works are taken from the series, including the iconic "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme", both of which were hit singles around the world in the mid-1980s. Hammer's time on Vice gave the composer by far his greatest success, and his smooth synthesised soundtrack is today considered not just one of the defining aspects of the show, but to be among the greatest television scores ever written. Jan Hammer's first on-screen cameo, in "One Way Ticket" Hammer worked on made-for-tv movies, station bumpers and other small productions until the producers of Miami Vice approached him to provide score music for their new series. Hammer then joined forces on albums for Neal Schon (of Journey), James Young (of Styx), Mick Jagger, and reuniting with Beck in 1985, Hammer's recording "Escape" won the 1985 Grammy for Best Instrumental Performance. After graduation, Hammer joined the Mahavishnu Orchestra as a keyboardist, where he played from 1971 until In 1975 he formed The Jan Hammer Group, and recorded four albums, two with rock star Jeff Beck, returning the favor for Beck's 1980 album There and Back when Hammer turned solo. He began studying music at the Prague Academy of the Arts, but left for the United States after the Soviet Union invasion of his homeland in 1968, studying at Boston's Berklee College of Music. Hammer was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Beyond his musical duties, Hammer also made two cameo appearances in the show, in the episodes "One Way Ticket" and "Like a Hurricane", both times as a wedding musician. ![]() As the show's original composer, he composed the famous "Miami Vice Theme" that featured in all 111 episodes of the series. Jan Hammer (born Apas Jan Hamr) is an Czech musician, keyboardist, and songwriter who composed the background score music for the first four seasons of Miami Vice (although he was joined by John Petersen for much of season 4). ![]()
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