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Neal Hefti
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American jazz trumpeter, composer, songwriter, and arranger (1922-2008)
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It is catalogued under topics including 1922 births, 2008 deaths and 20th-century American conductors (music).
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Hastings, Nebraska, U.S.
Neal Hefti (October 29, 1922 - October 11, 2008) was an American musician, composer, and arranger.
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- Music at the Meadowbrook1953
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Neal Hefti (born October 29, 1922 in Hastings, Nebraska - died October 11, 2008 in Toluca Lake, California) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger. He began arranging professionally in his teens, when he wrote charts for Nat Towles. He became a prominent composer and arranger while playing trumpet for Woody Herman; while working for Herman he provided new arrangements for "Woodchopper's Ball" and "Blowin' Up a Storm," and composed "The Good Earth" and "Wild Root. <a href="https:
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Hastings
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- trumpet
- Record label
- Savoy Records
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- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- date of death
- 2008-10-11
- date of birth
- 1922-10-29
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- cancer
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