If you hear a flute in a recent motion picture, there is a good chance it is Jim Walker playing.

Unfortunately, if you watch the credits at the end of that movie you will NOT find any musician listed.

A typical day in Los Angeles finds Jim heading for one of the major motion picture lots around 9:30 am, with his car trunk bulging with all of his flutes, recorders, pipes and whistles.

By 5:00 pm a double session with 40-90 musicians performing will have been completed.

Fifteen to twenty minutes of underscoring will have been recorded, most of which contains no exposed or challenging flute parts. Occassionally the score will contain a few prominent flute solos. All of the music will have been sight-read and recorded within minutes.

In general, a day of recording for soundtracks includes lots of time sitting around waiting for directors to make decisions about often very simple, unchallenging music to sight read and record.

Occasionally, however, you are given the hardest thing you can imagine playing to record on the spot - that's the terrorizing part. And, if you consistently don't play it well, you don't get called back!