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.

2008年10月16日 · 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’s...

Composer ("'Batman' Theme), conductor, arrager and trumpeter, educated in high school and through private music study. He was a trumpeter and arranger with dance orchestras including those of Harry James, Woody Herman, and Charlie Spivak between 1941 and 1951.

From an interview of Neal Hefti by Forrest Patten, September 7, 2004, for Journal into Melody: Forrest: And, of course, there was the theme music from the TV series, Batman.

2024年1月8日 · Rarely cast into the limelight, the role of ‘arranger’ was pivotal to the development of jazz and its infiltration of popular culture via film and television. As we’ll discover in this article, perhaps no arranger had such a wide reach as Neal Hefti, whose work spanned 4 decades.

2008年10月15日 · 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 the Charlie Barnett and...

2019年4月17日 · 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.

2008年10月15日 · Neal Hefti, a former big band trumpeter, arranger and composer who worked with Count Basie and Woody Herman and later composed the memorable themes for the movie “The Odd Couple” and...

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 …

2008年10月11日 · The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) mourns the loss of our dear friend and colleague, composer, conductor, arranger, trumpeter NEAL HEFTI. The Grammy-winning composer was born October 22, 1922 in Hastings, Nebraska, and died on October 11, 2008 in Los Angeles just short of his 86th birthday.