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LATE NIGHT DREAM Presents The Legends Jerry Hey The Man with the Horn by David Lucarotti Part 1 320kbit/s

This new Latenightdream podcast Serie called “The Legends” is a very special one dedicated to the most important musicians, arrangers or composers issued from my personal musical influences.
I decide to made a real tribute to one of my favourite musician, horn session arranger, producer of all time,

The one and only to made scintalling horns, the legendary maestro, Jerry Hey.

If i need to introduce you to Jerry Hey, he is one of the most prolifically recorded trumpet players around. His style, sound and musicality made him the go-to guy on the LA scene, and as a horn arranger he is second to none. His collaborative projects with the great Quincy Jones are now legendary, and even now, after 40 years at the very top of the business, Jerry is still the man to go to for scintillating horns.

In 1978, Jerry Hey was playing trumpet for Hawaiian collective Seawind, a slick, talented jazz fusion band on CTI Records with only two albums to its name. Across the Pacific, the horn section’s reputation was growing all over L.A., leading to further studio sessions – including a career-changing opportunity to work with famed producer Quincy Jones, who tapped Hey to play and chart horn lines for The Brothers Johnson’s Blam!, which hit Number One on the Billboard R&B albums chart that year.

Not only did the future six-time Grammy winner become Jones’ “first call” horn arranger on all his subsequent projects (George Benson’s Give Me the Night; Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad), but Hey became the go-to trumpeter and horn arranger in the industry, contributing to some of the biggest records of the subsequent decades including Chaka Khan’s “I Know You, I Live You,” Al Jarreau’s “Boogie Down,” Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Let’s Groove,” Toto’s “Rosanna,” Teena Marie’s “Behind the Groove,” Donna Summer’s “Bad Girls” and more.

Grammy Awards

1981 - Best Instrumental Arrangement
Jerry Hey & Quincy Jones (arrangers) for "Dinorah, Dinorah" performed by George Benson

1982 - Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)
Jerry Hey & Quincy Jones (arrangers) for "Ai No Corrida" performed by Quincy Jones

1983 - Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)
Jerry Hey & David Paich, Jeff Porcaro (arrangers) for "Rosanna" performed by Toto

1984 - Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or A Television Special
Michael Boddicker, Irene Cara, Kim Carnes, Douglas Cotler, Keith Forsey, Richard Gilbert, Jerry Hey, Duane Hitchings, Craig Krampf, Ronald Magness, Dennis Matkosky, Giorgio Moroder, Phil Ramone, Michael Sembello, Shandi Sinnamon (composers) for Flashdance performed by various artists

1991 - Best Arrangement on an Instrumental
Jerry Hey, Quincy Jones, Ian Prince & Rod Temperton (arrangers) for "Birdland" performed by Quincy Jones

From a personal perspective, Jerry Hey as Jeffrey Porcaro is one of the reason that moved me into a real music geek since i was a teen.
After hearing those early Michael Jackson, Earth Wind & Fire, Al Jarreau, Georges Benson albums, i became a music digger, i needed to find the unique sound of his horns arrangements, it was and still is a real obsession.

If i had to resume my involvement to this podcast tribute, I just can say that i've been "WORKIN DAY AND NIGHT” to select the tracks "STEP BY STEP” and now you just have to “let your body rock”

David Lucarotti

Read the interview with Jerry Hey: latenightdream.com/blog/interv...-with-jerry-hey

01.Toto - Rosanna
02.The Pointer Sisters - Burn Down the Night
03.Lee Ritenour - Road Runner
04.Alphonse Mouzon -The Jogger
05.Kenji Omura - Yumedono
06.Boz Scaggs - Cool Running
07.Ernie Watts - Hold On
08.Paulinho da Costa - My Love (Vocal)
09.Seawind - Can't Wait
10.Patti Labelle - Something Special (Is Gonna Happen Tonight) (Album Version)
11.Michael Davis - State of the Art
12.Narada Michael Walden - You're #1
13.Bill Champlin - Satisfaction
14.James Newton Howard - Grand Canyon Fanfare (End Titles Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
15.The Floaters - Levitation
16.Larry Williams - Invitation
17.Jeffrey Osborne - Ain't Nothin' Missin'
18.Luis Miguel - Suave
19.Harvey Mason - Till You Take My Love
20.The Manhattan Transfer - Spice of Life (2006 Remastered Version)
21.Champaign - Let Your Body Rock
22.Heatwave - Jitterbuggin'
23.Barry Manilow - Hey Mambo
24.Leon Ware - Lost In Love With You
25.Angela Bofill - Is This a Dream
26.Rodney Franklin - In the Center
27.Jimmy Messina - Lovin' You Every Minute
28.George Benson - Beyond The Sea (La Mer)
29.Sister Sledge - Bet Cha Say That To All The Girls
30.Stacy Lattisaw - Dynamite!
31.Michael Mc Donald - Sweet Freedom
32.Was Not Was - Walk The Dinosaur
33.Earth Wind and Fire - Pride
34.Dolly Parton - I Wanna Fall In Love
35.Al Jarreau - Black And Blues
36.Anita Baker - Squeeze Me
37.The Brothers Johnson - Street Wave
38.Quincy Jones - Turn On The Action
39.Lisa Stanfield - Why
40.Teena Marie - You're All The Boogie I Need (Album Version)
41.George Duke - Look What You Find
42.Ricky Lee Jones - The Real End
43.Bob & Pauline Wilson - In The Spirit

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