Bob Alcivar

Bob Alcivar (born July 8, 1938 in Chicago ) is an American jazz pianist , music producer , composer and arranger .

Alcivar studied piano and composition at Cornish College in Seattle . There he founded the jazz vocal group The Signatures with the DJ Norm Bobrow . They were quite successful in the late 1950s. Stan Kenton took her on tour; they received good reviews on Down Beat and they performed at the first Playboy Jazz Festival in 1959. In 1957 her first album The Signatures, Their Voices and Instruments was released on Whippett Records (by Gene Norman ) and this was followed by two albums on Warner Brothers The Signatures: Sign In (1958) and The Signatures: Prepare to Flip (1959). Because of his arrangements for the Signatures, Alcivar was invited decades later by The Manhattan Transfer to arrange for them. In the early 1960s they broke up in Las Vegas and Alcivar stayed there as an orchestral arranger. Finally, at the end of the 1960s, he moved his main focus to Los Angeles.

He composed for various TV series (such as Quincy ) and was musical director for various film scores (such as One with a Heart ). He also arranged for Bette Midler , Tom Waits , the Beach Boys , Sérgio Mendes , Julie London , The 5th Dimension and others. He arranged several jazz-oriented albums with film music themes, first One from the Heart: Sax at the Movies with various studio musicians such as Ernie Watts and Gary Foster .

In 1988 he published his book The Vocal Arranger .

He is the father of rock keyboard player Jim Alcivar.

Web links

• Bob Alcivar at Allmusic (English)
• Bob Alcivar in the Internet Movie Database (English)