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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 · His first recording session as a leader came in December 1946, fronting a group that included Kai Winding, Charlie Ventura, Billy Bauer, Chubby Jackson and singer Frances Wayne, whom Hefti would later marry. In 1947, Hefti recorded for RCA with Lucky Thompson [pictured] and His Lucky Seven.
In 1947 he wrote for a large orchestra and recorded a piece called "Repetition", a feature for the alto saxophone of Charlie Parker. Hefti recorded with his own studio bands in...
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.
Oct 16, 2008 · Neal Hefti, whose renown as a forward-looking composer and arranger for Woody Herman and Count Basie was probably overwhelmed forever after he went to Hollywood and wrote the theme for the...
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 · A fresh biographical sketch of bandleader Neal Hefti, written by Music Librarian Christopher Popa.
