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    Contents. hide. (Top) Beginnings. First Herd. Late 1940s. The Basie years. 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Death. Awards. Discography. Albums. Film scores. See also. References. Sources. Further reading. External links. Neal Hefti. Neal Paul Hefti (October 29, 1922 – October 11, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger.

  2. 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. Citing early influences like Buck Clayton and Harry Edison (from the Count Basie Orchestra), and bebop pioneer Dizzy Gillespie (touring with Cab Calloway’s band) he ...

  3. 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...

  4. 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.

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  5. 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 ...

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  7. 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.

  8. In early 1944 Neal was in conversation with Woody Herman's bass player, Chubby Jackson, who recommended him to Herman where he was to become a member of the First Herd trumpet section. Hefti contributed many fine arrangements and compositions to the Herman library, such as Wildroot, Apple Honey, Goosey Gander, The Good Earth , and many more.