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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.
Jan 8, 2024 · Neil Hefti: The Early Years. Born in Hastings, Nebraska on October 29, 1922, Hefti grew up in a poor family where, at the age of eleven, he started learning the trumpet at school.
Hefti recorded with his own studio bands in the early Fifties and, out of character, recorded an album featuring his trumpet solos, Left and Right, in 1956. The first tune he composed and...
Oct 15, 2008 · Neal Hefti, one of jazz's most intuitive big-band arrangers and composers of the 1940s and 1950s whose scores so perfectly matched the bands he wrote for that they often became their best-known recordings, died on October 11. He was 85.
Nov 2, 2015 · Neal Hefti: The Band Years. Hearing Neal Hefti: Forever in Time, a newly released double-CD from the U.K.'s Jasmine label, reminded me how superb Hefti was in the 1950s as a composer, arranger and conductor of his own studio orchestras.
Neal Hefti was born on October 29th, 1922 on a chilly, late autumn day, in the mid- Western State of Hastings, Nebraska. He commenced his musical education at the age of eleven on trumpet, and by the time he had reached fifteen had completed his first arrangement for the local Nat Towles band.
Feb 6, 2010 · Between 1957 and 1964, Hefti made six more 12" albums under his own name: "Concert Miniatures" (Vik LX-1092); "Pardon My Doo-Wah" with The Neal Hefti Singers (Epic BN 504); "The Hollywood Song Book: Academy Award Winners 1934-1945" (Coral 7CX-2, a 2-record set); "Music, U.S.A." (Coral CRL7-57256); "A Salute to the Instruments" (Coral CRL7-57286 ...
