When Jack Nitzsche became stumped while scoring the film “An Officer and a Gentleman,” he turned to his friend Buffy Sainte-Marie for help. Buffy played him the melody for her song “Up Where We Belong ...

Jack Nitzsche had his thumbprints over much of American pop, from the early days of the Wrecking Crew and Phil ... No score yet, be the first to add. 0.0 To the deaf ears it fell on from that coked-up ...

Jack Nitzsche, the Oscar-winning songwriter, record producer, arranger, and musician who collaborated with many major pop figures of the sixties, has died, aged 63. He won the 1982 Academy Award for ...

In the hierarchy of rock prestige, singers and lead guitarists are at the top of the heap, record producers are somewhere in the middle, and arrangers are down there with roadies and tour accountants.

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Jack Nitzsche, 63, an Oscar-winning songwriter, record producer and studio musician who collaborated with major pop figures of the 1960s, died Friday in Los Angeles of a heart attack. He won the best ...

Jack Nitzsche, a producer who descended from the family of Friedrich Nietzsche, had the foresight and talent to work with everyone from Doris Day and Stevie Wonder to Marianne Faithfull and Buffy ...

There’s a craft that has all but disappeared from pop music these days — the craft of the arranger. Nowadays, the producer (or some other ProTools-mouse-clicker responsible for reassembling last ...

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To hear and see Neil Young express such deep-seated personal contentment near the end of his film Harvest Time is to understand more fully why he would go to some lengths to curate a box set of the ...