JACK NITZSCHE, who has died in Los Angeles aged 63, was an influential record producer of the 1960s; he arranged and played on many of the Rolling Stones' best … He had a son by the first marriage. "Interview with Scott Mathews". The project was a collaboration between Nitzsche and underground filmmaker Robert Downey. Jack Nitzsche. He first 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 and Neil Young, among others. He became arranger and conductor for producer Phil Spector,On several Rolling Stones records, he was credited as player of the "Nitzsche-phone".
Between January 14-23, 1974, Jack Nitzsche recorded a self-titled album at Cinderella Studios in Madison, Tennessee, and a release date was set for April 26, before it was pulled from the label's schedule by Warner Bros. label chief Morris "Mo" Ostin. Jack Nitzsche, Soundtrack: An Officer and a Gentleman. He was married to Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. Jack Nitzsche. He then began to work as part of Spector's production team, concentrating on the arrangements for Spector's dramatic sound.Spector was happy to take all the credit for his records.
In 1966 he had produced the track "Expecting to Fly" when Young was still with Buffalo Springfield, and when Young went solo he played piano with his backing band, Crazy Horse, and supervised the strings on Harvest (1972).Next he made an album with the London Symphony Orchestra which mixed classical and pop music - St Giles Cripplegate (1972). In 1983, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for co-writing "Up Where We Belong".https://static.bbc.co.uk/music_clips/3.0.31.1/img/default_artist_images/pop1.jpghttps://musicbrainz.org/artist/28a20b09-5ef7-4f81-878a-a5d8aef5ab1c Retrieved January 8, 2013. JACK NITZSCHE The Lonely Surfer. He wrote the incidental music for The Exorcist (1973), using the vibrations of crystal glasses as the soundtrack for the priest's arrival at the site of the possession.His work on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) brought him an Oscar nomination, and seven years later he won the prize for Best Song with "Up Where We Belong", sung by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes in An Officer and a Gentleman. "Brian, Bill and Charlie didn't play on it as they'd dropped off to sleep". Bernard Alfred Nitzsche (April 22, 1937 – August 25, 2000), known professionally as Jack Nitzsche, was an American musician, arranger, songwriter, composer and record producer.