Bob Alcivar

Bob Alcivar ( born July 8, 1938 in Chicago) is an American jazz pianist, music producer, composer and arranger.

Alcivar studied at Cornish College in Seattle piano and composition. There he founded with DJ Norm Bobrow jazz vocal group The Signatures. They were the end of the 1950s quite successfully. Stan Kenton took them on tour; they received good reviews in Downbeat and they stood at the first Playboy Jazz Festival in 1959. 1957 she released her first album The Signatures, Their Voices and Instruments in Whippett Records ( Gene Norman ) and it was followed by two albums for Warner Brothers The Signatures: Sign In ( 1958) and The Signatures: Prepare to Flip ( 1959). Because of his arrangements for the Signatures Alcivar was decades later invited by The Manhattan Transfer, to arrange for them. Beginning of the 1960s, they broke up in Las Vegas and Alcivar remained there as an orchestral arranger. Finally, he moved his focus effect end of the 1960s to Los Angeles.

He composed for various TV series ( such as Quincy ) and was musical director for various film scores (as in One from the Heart ). He also arranged for Bette Midler, Tom Waits, The Beach Boys, Sérgio Mendes, Julie London, The 5th Dimension, and others. He arranged several jazz - oriented albums of film music themes, first One from the Heart: Sax at the Movies with various studio musicians such as Ernie Watts and Gary Foster.

In 1988 he published his book The Vocal Arranger.

He is the rock keyboard player Jim Alcivar the father.