An Essential Guide to Ennio Morricone

In what promises to be a reference that I will keep coming back to, Exclaim provides An Essential Guide to Ennio Morricone:

When it comes to soundtrack maestros, few are esteemed as Ennio Morricone. The Italian cinematic legend’s musical legacy is filled with more high-water marks than seems humanly possible, and not just by reapplying the same old tricks ad nauseam. Amongst his decades-deep catalogue, you’ll find everything from chilling horror-score weirdness, to outer-reaching free jazz, to refined classicalism, to buoyant bossa-nova pop and psych-loaded rock, to the very foundations of what became spaghetti western — sometimes all within a single album.