Hal Willner (April 6, 1956 – April 7, 2020) was an American music producer working in recording, films, television, and live events.[1] He was best known for assembling tribute albums and events featuring a wide variety of artists and musical styles (jazz, classical, rock, Tin Pan Alley). Willner died during the COVID-19 pandemic from complications brought on by the virus.
^John Leland (September 8, 2017). "Hal Willner's Vanishing, Weird New York". The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 12, 2017. Retrieved September 13, 2017.
HalWillner (April 6, 1956 – April 7, 2020) was an American music producer working in recording, films, television, and live events. He was best known...
Blazing Away (Island, 1990) produced by HalWillner Easy Come, Easy Go (Naïve, 2008) produced by HalWillner With Jeff Finlin Original Fin (NBFNY, 1999)...
producer HalWillner, including the 2006 concert film Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man, and performing a duet with Nick Cave as part of Willner's Allen Ginsberg...
age to sing it, not seventeen." The album of covers was produced by HalWillner after the two had spent numerous weekends listening to hundreds of songs...
One Week (see album section above), his collaborations with producer HalWillner (cf. section above), and with John Zorn on his music for films (cf. section...
at No. 10 on the UK Singles Chart. In October 2006, Reed appeared at HalWillner's Leonard Cohen tribute show "Came So Far for Beauty" in Dublin, along...
Willner may refer to: Alfred M. Willner (1859–1929), Austrian composer and librettist Arthur Willner (1881–1959), Czech composer HalWillner (1956–2020)...
Dolce Vita Suite", produced by Saturday Night Live music coordinator HalWillner. He also provided the voice of Leo Lionheart Jr. in the "MGM Sing-Alongs"...
Raitt had met Was through HalWillner, who was putting together Stay Awake, a tribute album to Disney music for A&M. Was and Willner both wanted Raitt to sing...
by American musician Lou Reed, released in April 2007 by Sounds True. HalWillner and Reed produced the album, a collection of meditational music intended...
appeared as himself in one episode of the NBC musical drama Smash. Butz played Hal Wilner in Greetings from Tim Buckley, a film on Tim and Jeff Buckley, which...
"Greetings from Tim Buckley". The event, produced by show business veteran HalWillner, was held at St. Ann's Church in Brooklyn on April 26, 1991. Buckley...
by various artists, and produced by HalWillner. It is one of numerous multi-artist tribute albums that Willner has produced, as well as one of the many...
group released an album that year Afterbirth of the Cool produced by HalWillner. Carney released several solo albums and was a member of the Oranj Symphonette...
Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys, produced by HalWillner, was released on the ANTI- label. Friday contributes to two tracks including...
Theatre in Ipswich in 2011. In September 2020 a tribute album produced by HalWillner, Angelheaded Hipster, was released featuring covers of Bolan songs by...
and David Fiuczynski. The album that is perhaps their masterpiece, the HalWillner-produced In Love (High Street, 1994), features vocal contributions from...
Australia in January 2007. Anohni sang "If It Be Your Will" as a part of HalWillner's Came So Far For Beauty concerts at the Sydney Opera House in 2005; this...
Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys, produced by HalWillner. Performing as a duo with Richard Thompson, she contributed "The Coo...
Deluxe Edition Laurie Anderson, Don Fleming, Jason Stern, Matt Sullivan & HalWillner, compilation producers; John Baldwin, mastering engineer; John Baldwin...
Carney. Ridgway has also contributed to albums and projects by producer HalWillner, Frank Black and the Catholics, the Flesh Eaters, the Divine Horsemen...
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