Edward Heyman
In the collection
2 records
Played with
Johnny Green
2 records together
Bill Evans
1 record together
Toots Thielemans
1 record together
Charlie Parker
1 record together
Marc Johnson
1 record together
Larry Schneider
1 record together
Paul Simon
1 record together
Phil Markowitz
1 record together
Gordon Jenkins
1 record together
Henry Mancini
1 record together
Johnny Mercer
1 record together
Michel Legrand
1 record together
About
American musician and lyricist (14 March 1907 in New York — 16 October 1981 in Jalisco, Mexico). He had an early start on his career writing college musicals, after college he started working with a number of experienced musicians in New York, like Victor Young, Dana Suesse and Johnny Green. He contributed songs to film scores including That Girl From Paris, Curly Top, Kissing Bandit, Delightfully Dangerous and Northwest Outpost.
His biggest hit is his composition "Body and Soul", written in 1930.
Heyman was an ASCAP writer and inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975.
From Discogs.