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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Celebrate 50 years of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest with Jack Nitzsche’s haunting score remastered on vinyl—perfect for anyone who’s survived their own Nurse Ratched. Fifty years on, One Flew Over ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Nitzsche was one of the backroom geniuses of pop, his contributions as arranger and pianist helping to define the golden age, his grandiose confections of big piano chords, tubular bells, sweeping ...

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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 ...