Alex North
Born: 4th December 1910, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: 8th September 1991, Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality: American
Alex North was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire (one of the first jazz-based film scores), Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He received fifteen Academy Award nominations for his work as a composer; while he did not win for any of his nominations, he received an Honorary Academy Award in 1986, the first for a composer.
He wrote the music for the Oscar-nominated song "Unchained Melody", which was used in the 1955 prison film Unchained. The song became a standard and one of the most recorded of the 20th century, with over 1,500 recordings made by more than 670 artists, in multiple languages.
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Eastern Sounds
Yusef Lateef (woodwinds), Barry Harris (piano), Lex Humphries (drums), Ernie Farrow (upright bass)
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Freddie Roach, Eddie Wright (guitar), Conrad Lester (tenor saxophone), Clarence Johnston (drums), Kenny Burrell (guitar)
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Conversations With Myself
Bill Evans (piano), Gary Peacock (upright bass), Paul Motian (drums)
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Grammy Awards, 7th Awards (1964), Best Instrumental Jazz Performance – Soloist or Small Group
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Les Baxter, Sam Butera, Georgie Auld, Jud Conlon, Milt Buckner, King Curtis, Nelson Riddle, Plas Johnson, Bill Perkins, Ray Anthony, Count Basie, Gordon Jenkins, Earl Palmer, Out-Islanders, Louis Prima, Don Costa, Jack Costanzo, Pepe Dominguin, The Continental
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