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Jack Nitzsche – Wizard of the 60s Pop Sound
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This very talented artist served a key role in the sound of 1960s rock & roll. As an important behind-the-scenes figure in popular music for 40 years, he worked as an arranger, producer, and songwriter. He had an unparalleled grasp of contemporary music and its possibilities.
The ratio of rock superstars to genuine arranging-production legends is at least a hundred-to-one. This artist was one of the greatest of his era, a wizard of the charts and mixing console, first coming to prominence in the music business in the late 1950s as the right-hand-man of producer Phil Spector.
He went on to work extensively with the Rolling Stones (who sang about him as “Jumpin Jack Flash“). Then he worked with Neil Young as another very significant musical partner, bringing a trained musician’s know-how to bear on the work of more instinctive rockers in a way that complemented and mutually deepened th • American musician, composer, arranger (1937–2000) Musical artist Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche (NEECH-ee;[3] April 22, 1937 – August 25, 2000) was an American musician, arranger, songwriter, composer, and record producer.[4] He came to prominence in the early 1960s as the right-hand-man of producer Phil Spector, and went on to work with the Rolling Stones, Neil ung, and others. He worked extensively in film scores for the films Performance, The Exorcist and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In 1983, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for co-writing "Up Where We Belong" with Buffy Sainte-Marie. Nitzsche was born in Chicago[4] and raised on a farm in Newaygo, Michigan, the son of German immigrants. He moved to Los Angeles in 1955 with ambitions of becoming a jazz saxophonist.[5] He was hired by Sonny Bono, who was at the time an A&R executive at Specialty Recor • Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche (22 April 1937 – 25 August 2000) was a musician, arranger, producer, songwriter, and film score composer. He first came to prominence in the late 1950s as the right-hand-man of producer Phil Spector, and went on to work with the Rolling Stones, Neil Young and others. He also worked extensively in film scores, winning a song of the year Oscar in 1983 for co-writing "Up Where We Belong" (from An Officer and a Gentleman.) Born in Chicago, Illinois, to German immigrant parents, and raised on a farm in Newaygo, Michigan, Nitzsche moved to Los Angeles, California in 1955 with ambitions of becoming a jazz saxophonist. He found work copying musical scores, where he met Sonny Bono, with whom he wrote the song "Needles and Pins" for Jackie DeShannon, later covered by the Searchers and many others. His own instrumental composition "The Lonely Surfer" entered Cash Box August 3, 1963, became a minor hit (#37 Cash Box), as did a Jack Nitzsche
Life and career
[edit]Jack Nitzsche
Life and career