Jack Nitzsche

Jack Nitzsche

Bernard Alfred Nitzsche

On 14 records in 2 Record Tribe collections

Played on

HarvestNeil Young, 1972Arranged By, Performer, Piano, Slide Guitar Singles Collection✱ The London YearsThe Rolling Stones, 1989Producer, Arranged By, Score Pack Up The Plantation - Live!Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, 1985Written-By Emotional RescueThe Rolling Stones, 1980Arranged By Million Dollar LegsThe New Tony Williams Lifetime, 1976Arranged By Music Excerpts From William Peter Blatty’s The ExorcistVarious, 1974Composed By RingoRingo Starr, 1973Arranged By Buffalo SpringfieldBuffalo Springfield, 1973Producer James Gang Rides AgainJames Gang, 1970Arranged By Retrospective - The Best Of Buffalo SpringfieldBuffalo Springfield, 1969Producer Neil YoungNeil Young, 1969Producer, Arranged By, Written-By Big Hits (High Tide And Green Grass)The Rolling Stones, 1966Arranged By, Organ, Piano, Handclaps Out Of Our HeadsThe Rolling Stones, 1965Percussion, Piano, Organ Be My Baby / So YoungThe RonettesArranged By

About

American arranger, producer, songwriter, and Academy Award-winning film score composer.

Born: 22 April 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Died: 25 August 2000 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA (aged 63).
Married to singers (1959-1978) and (1982-1989)

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 also worked extensively in film scores, notably for films such as Performance, The Exorcist and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. In 1983, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Up Where We Belong”.

The Nitzsche-phone

Nitzsche was a keyboard player on many mid-1960s albums by The Rolling Stones. On several, he was also credited as the player of the “Nitzsche-phone”. In an obituary on Gadfly Online, former Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham explained the credit:

“ I made that up for the credits on those Stones albums—it was just a regular piano (or maybe an organ) mic’d differently. It was all part of this package that was created around the Stones. People believed it existed. The idea was meant to be: “My god, they’ve had to invent new instruments to capture this new sound they hear in their brains.” And they were inventing fresh sounds with old toys—therefore, it deserved to be highlighted—it was the read-up of creation, of imagination—getting credit for a job well done.”