Denny Zeitlin | |
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 Zeitlin in 2000 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Dennis Jay Zeitlin |
| Born | April 10, 1938 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer, clinical professor of psychiatry |
| Instrument(s) | Piano, synthesizer |
| Years active | 1952–present |
| Labels | Columbia/CBS, Sunnyside Records |
| Website | dennyzeitlin |
Denny Zeitlin (born April 10, 1938)[1] is an American jazz pianist, composer, and clinical professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco. Since 1963, he has recorded more than 100 compositions and was a first-place winner in the DownBeat International Jazz Critics' Poll in 1965 and 1974. He composed the soundtrack for the 1978 science-fiction horror film Invasion of the Body Snatchers.[2]
- ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 2771. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
- ^ Gilbert, Andreew (January–February 2014). "Denny Zeitlin: Of solo Piano, Psychology & Body Snatchers". JazzTimes.