Neil Hefti

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BIO Neal Paul Hefti (October 29, 1922 – October 11, 2008) 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. Hefti was born to an impoverished family in Hastings, Nebraska. As a young child, he remembers his family relying on charity during the holidays. He started playing the trumpet in school at the age of eleven, and by high school was spending his summer vacations playing in local territory bands to help his family make ends meet. Growing up in and near a big city like Omaha, Hefti was exposed to some of the great bands and trumpeters of the Southwest territory bands, and he was also able to see some of the virtuoso jazz musicians from New York that came through Omaha on tour. His early influences all came from the North Omaha scene. He said, "We'd see Basie in town, and I was impressed by Harry Edison and Buck Clayton, being a trumpet player. And I would say I was impressed by Dizzy Gillespie when he was with Cab Calloway. I was impressed by those three trumpet players of the people I saw in person... I thought Harry Edison and Dizzy Gillespie were the most unique of the trumpet players I heard." These experiences seeing Gillespie and Basie play in Omaha foreshadowed his period in New York watching Gillespie play and develop the music of bebop on 52nd Street

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Fifty Shades Of Grey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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Sinatra And Swingin' Brass

Batman - Exclusive Original Television Soundtrack Album

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Harlow

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Mary Poppins [Remastered Original Soundtrack/Bonus Tracks]

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The Music of DC Comics: 75th AnniversaryCollection

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TV Theme Songs

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Time-Life AM Gold TV Themes of the '60s

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Defenders Of Justice

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Fifty Shades Of Grey

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Television Theme Songs

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The Dark Knight - A Batman Anthology

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