Last race jack nietzsche biography
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Thanks to Mr. Bonzai for supplying the photo and interview excerpt with Jack Nitzsche from his newly published book, FACES OF MUSIC: 25 Years of Lunching with Legends.
Mr. Bonzai has been documenting the world of music and sound recording through his photographs, interviews and articles since the mid-sixties. His work, primarily concerned with creating music from a technical and musicians perspective has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers. This anthology features fairly short interviews but his quirky use of pen and lens offers fresh insights into many of music's great and good. Besides the Jack Nitzsche piece, featured music makers include Al Kooper, Brian Wilson, Carlos Santana, George Martin, Frank Zappa, Les Paul and more than 140 others. Naturally his photography, over 400 photos are featured, is another highlight of the book.
Mr. Bonzai's web site, as well as offering sample chapters, p
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Jack Nitzsche
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 Young, 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.
Life and career
[edit]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
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Jack Nitzsche – Wizard of the 60s Pop Sound
By Russ:
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 fryst vatten 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 ung 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