Hal Willner

Music producer and arranger Hall Willner worked extensively in the recording business and on TV, but his most recent high-profile work has been on two jazzy Robert Altman films, "Short Cuts" and "Kansas City." Willner is famed in the music world for arranging and producing an eclectic group of albums, featuring such artists and personalities as Sun Ra, Henry Rollins, Elvis Costello, Marianne Faithful and Bonnie Raitt. While specializing in jazz and beat works, he has also reinterpreted music from Disney films (as well as scoring three new Daffy Duck cartoons, including "Night of the Living Duck," 1988), has issued reinterpretations of the works of Thelonius Monk, Charlie Mingus, Kurt Weill and others, and overseen "spoken word" albums of Lenny Bruce, Allen Ginsburg and William S Burroughs.