Jack Hayes

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Jack Hayes (born February 8, 1919 in San Francisco , † August 24, 2011 in Coeur d'Alene ) was an American film composer and orchestrator.

Life

Hayes attended San Francisco State College and later the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music . He originally played the trumpet and gained his first experience as a composer and orchestrator on the radio, where he composed big bands for band leaders like Will Osborne . On tours he accompanied Abbott & Costello and the cowboy singers Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, among others .

In his almost 60-year career, he composed and orchestrated the music for more than 230 films. He worked with, among others, Burt Bacharach , Elmer Bernstein , Marvin Hamlisch , Quincy Jones , Michael Kamen , Henry Mancini , John Morris , Alfred Newman , Randy Newman and Lalo Schifrin . He also had a long-term collaboration with orchestrator Leo Shuken , with whom he had worked since the 1950s. Together they orchestrated The Glorious Seven (1960), Who Disrupts the Nightingale (1962, both for Bernstein), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961, for Mancini), The Greatest Story of All Time (1965) and Airport (1970, for Newman) .

For television he has composed for Quincy , The People of Shiloh Ranch and Smoking Colts, among others .

In his long career he was nominated twice for an Oscar : at the 1965 Academy Awards for Goldminer Molly (1964) and at the 1986 Academy Awards for The Color Purple (1985).

He took on other important orchestrations for Michael Giacchino , who used him in all of his films, beginning with The Incredibles - The Incredibles (2004). His last work was accordingly in 2009 for Oben , Star Trek and The almost forgotten world . In the same year he was recognized for his life's work by the Society of Composers & Lyricists and the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers (ASMAC).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jon Burlingame, Jon Burlingame: Composer Jack Hayes dies at 92. In: Variety. August 27, 2011, accessed January 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b ASCAP Mourns Renowned Orchestrator Jack Hayes (1919 - 2011). Retrieved January 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hayes, Jack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film composer and orchestrator
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 2011
Place of death Coeur d'Alene