Neal Hefti

Neal Hefti ( born October 29, 1922 in Hastings, Nebraska, † October 11, 2008 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American jazz trumpeter, arranger and composer.

Biography

Neal Hefti was writing in the late 1930s arrangements for Nat Towles and Earl Hines. 1942-43 he was a trumpeter with Charlie Barnet, Horace Heidt, and Charlie Spivak, before in 1944 he was a member of Woody Herman's band ( First hob). Here he made a name for himself as an arranger ( Woodchopper 's Ball, Blowin 'Up a Storm ) and composer ( The Good Earth and wild root).

Hefti married in 1948 Hermans singer Frances Wayne and went with her to Hollywood. He then toured with Harry James and 1951 he founded his own band with Wayne as a singer, which he dissolved in 1953.

In the following years he arranged and composed especially for Count Basie ( Little Pony, Cute, Li'l Darlin ', Whirlybird ), Tex Beneke and for Tommy Dorsey and Jimmy (including Moonlight in Vermont, Charmaine ). Since the 1960s, he emerged as a film and television composer. In the 1950s and 1960s, he took several studio albums, in 1962 with the albums Sinatra Sinatra and Swingin ' Brass Sinatra and Basie: An Historic Musical First. His most famous pieces are likely probably the title music for the television series Batman and The Odd Couple ( The Odd Couple) with Jack Klugman and Tony Randall be.

Hefti was repeatedly nominated for a Grammy and three times awarded the Prize: twice as a composer for Count Basie and once as a composer of the television series Batman.

Works

Discography (selection)

  • The Band With Young Ideas
  • Concert Miniatures
  • Hefti, Hot and Hearty, 1955
  • Hefti in Gotham City
  • Neal Hefti 's Singing Instrumentals
  • Hollywood Songbook
  • Jazz Pops, 1962
  • Left and Right, 1956
  • Li'l Darlin ', 1964
  • Music USA
  • Pardon my Doo - Wah, 1954
  • Presenting Neal Hefti and His Orchestra
  • A Salute to the instrument

Soundtracks

  • Boeing Boeing (1965 )
  • How to bring his wife to (1965 )
  • Duel in Diablo (1965 )
  • Batman ( TV series) (1966 )
  • Barefoot in the Park (1967 )
  • The Odd Couple (1968 )
  • Darling, you let divorce (1969 )
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