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Neal Hefti
Background information
Birth name
Neal Paul Hefti
Born
(1922-10-29)October 29, 1922 Hastings, Nebraska, U.S.
Died
October 11, 2008(2008-10-11) (aged 85) Toluca Lake, California, U.S.
Genres
Swing
Occupation(s)
Musician, composer, arranger
Instrument(s)
Trumpet
Musical artist
Neal Paul Hefti (October 29, 1922 – October 11, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger. He wrote music for The Odd Couple movie and TV series and for the Batman TV series.
He began arranging professionally in his teens, when he wrote charts for Nat Towles. He composed and arranged while working as a trumpeter for Woody Herman providing the bandleader with versions of "Woodchopper's Ball" and "Blowin' Up a Storm" and composing "The Good Earth" and "Wild Root". He left Herman's band in 1946. Now concentrating on writing music only, he began an association with Count Basie in 1950. Hefti occasionally led his own bands.
Neal Paul Hefti (October 29, 1922 – October 11, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger. He wrote music for The Odd Couple movie...
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Theme", the title song of the 1966 Batman TV series, was composed by NealHefti. This song is built around a guitar hook reminiscent of spy film scores...
An Occasional Man (Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, 1955) The Odd Couple (NealHefti and Sammy Cahn, 1968) Off Minor (Thelonious Monk, 1947) Of Thee I Sing...
for BAFTA Film Award for Best Foreign Actor. The music was composed by NealHefti. The film holds a 64% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 14 reviews, with...
the band in the 1950s and 1960s made use of the work of the arrangers NealHefti and Sammy Nestico with featured musicians such as Thad Jones and Eddie...
Basie Plays Hefti is an album released by pianist, composer and bandleader Count Basie performing the compositions and arrangements of NealHefti recorded...
Campbell, Frank Zappa, Bobby Darin, Bobbi Gentry, David Clayton Thomas, NealHefti ("Batman Theme"), Elvis Presley, Dean Martin, Neil Diamond and Noel Boggs...
while not as numerous, include a variety of modern arrangements from NealHefti, Frank Devenport, Johnny Richards and Jimmy Mundy that often inspired...
Jerry Lordan and The Shadows, Neil Diamond, Joe Meek and The Tornados, NealHefti, Serge Gainsbourg, Robert Maxwell, Piero Umiliani, Jean-Joseph Mouret...
(slang), light construction equipment "Whirlybird", a jazz tune written by NealHefti featured on the Count Basie album The Atomic Mr. Basie "Whirlybird", a...
an album released by Columbia Records, featuring Doris Day backed by NealHefti's orchestra, on March 20, 1961. It was released in two forms; a monaural...
Shelly Manne - drums; Diego Iborra - percussion; NealHefti - arranger and conductor "Repetition" (Hefti)- 2:57 The history of the vinyl releases is a complex...
to bebop. During his swing period, his band included Buddy DeFranco, NealHefti, Lena Horne, Barney Kessel, Dodo Marmorosa, Oscar Pettiford, Wes Dean...
careers or sitting out the years of racial divide in the United States. NealHefti began to provide arrangements, including "Lil Darlin'". By the mid-1950s...
"Altfield") and Fred Weider. However the song was actually written by NealHefti, and the Who's cover is of the original rather than Jan and Dean's reworking...
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