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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.
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.
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.
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.
Apr 17, 2019 · Neal Hefti was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, tune writer, and arranger. He was perhaps best known for composing the theme music for the Batman television series of the 1960s, and for scoring the 1968 film The Odd Couple and the subsequent TV series of the same name.
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...
Nov 2, 2015 · On the new double CD, you'll find four albums—Band with Young Ideas (1951-52), Hefti Hot 'N Hearty (1954-55), Hollywood Songbook Vol. 1 (1958) and Jazz Pops (1962). What you'll hear is Hefti as an extraordinary orchestrator and a sterling composer of songs that would become band standards.
