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   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.

2. www.nytimes.com › 2008/10/16 › artsNeal Hefti, 85, Jazz and Hollywood Composer, Dies - The New ...

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   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 1960 ...

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   Who is Neal Paul Hefti?

   • 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.

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   Is Neal Hefti still alive?

   • I was never satisfied with it." Neal Hefti, trumpeter, composer and bandleader: born Hastings, Nebraska 29 October 1922; married 1945 Frances Wayne (died 1978; one son, and one daughter deceased); died Los Angeles 11 October 2008.

   Neal Hefti: Celebrated jazz arranger who wrote for Count Basie and

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   Who was John Hefti?

   • He was a contemporary of Quincy Jones and Ernie Wilkins and the three writers established a style for the Count Basie band that was to dominate jazz for 50 years. Hefti's mother was a piano teacher and when he was 10 he was given a second-hand trumpet for Christmas.

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   How did Hefti make money?

   • Hefti's beautiful ballad "Li'l Darlin' " from that set stuck in the public's memory and the Basie band played it regularly in concert ever after. Later on, in the Sixties, he made a huge amount of money from writing the theme to the Batman television programme.

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   Oct 11, 2008 · 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. Quick Facts Background information, Birth name ...

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   Neal Hefti, trumpeter, composer and bandleader: born Hastings, Nebraska 29 October 1922; married 1945 Frances Wayne (died 1978; one son, and one daughter deceased); died Los Angeles 11 October ...

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7. jazzfuel.com › neal-hefti-from-basie-to-batmanNeal Hefti - From Basie to Batman - Jazzfuel

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   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 ...

8. www.npr.org › 2008/10/15 › 95748800Trumpeter And TV Composer Neal Hefti Dies : NPR

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   Oct 15, 2008 · Courtesy of Paul Hefti. Neal Hefti reached a wide audience through the theme songs he composed for TV's Batman and The Odd Couple. But he was also a talented jazz arranger who got his start with ...

9. jazzinfo.org › artist › neal-heftiNeal Hefti bio - jazzinfo.org

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   Neal Hefti. Neal Hefti, born October 29, 1922 in Hastings (Nebraska) and died October 11, 2008. He was an American jazz trumpeter. He also composed music and was an arranger. In his teens, he began to arrange professionally when he created charts for Nat Towles. While playing trumpet for Woody Herman, he became a well-known composer and arranger.