Nitzsche, Bernard Alfred

▪ 2001

“Jack” 

      American musician, songwriter, and arranger (b. April 22, 1937, Chicago, Ill.—d. Aug. 25, 2000, Hollywood, Calif.), not only worked with record producer Phil Spector (for whom he developed the “wall of sound”), and such musicians as the Rolling Stones, Neil Young, and Miles Davis—producing, creating musical arrangements for, and playing on many of their recordings—but also had his own hit instrumental record, “The Lonely Surfer” (1963), and scored some 35 films. He received Academy Award nominations for his scores for One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) and—along with Buffy Sainte-Marie and Will Jennings—won the best song Oscar for “Up Where We Belong,” the theme song of the latter film.

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