What a brilliant pianist Artie Kane was. He played on so many soundtracks that he's almost guaranteed to be in everybody's collection somewhere. On many occasions I probably wouldn't know it was him, but when he was allowed to let loose he had a very distinctive style, with an amazing technique. I absolutely loved his solos on ZIGZAG (Oliver Nelson, the LP re-recording) way back when I got that release. Another one that comes to mind is THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN series. I "think" that was him on keyboards there too. Just realised that Oliver Nelson wrote both of those. I'm gonna check the FSM CD composers list to see how many FSM releases I have with Artie Kane playing on them.
Just checked - Artie Kane plays on 68 CDs released by FSM alone.
Also interesting to see he was married eight times. Don't know why that's interesting to me, but it's interesting.
Very sorry to hear of Artie's passing. The man is a film music legend (that's him playing piano on POA as he was doing a lot of work for Lionel Newman at Fox in the mid sixties, including TV stuff like "Batman"). BTW: If you want to hear some really clean keyboard technique, and you have the FSM "Man From U.N.C.L.E" Vol. 2, CD, check out his solo on "Samborina" (party source) from Walter Scharf's score for "The Giuoco Piano Affair" and his playing on "The Iowa-Scuba Affair " (Mort Stevens). Artie also composed some great scores for series TV, especially for Matlock, which he worked on for several seasons.
Sad to hear this! Since I was a young teenager I've loved his swinging jazzy LP of movie themes, "Henry Mancini Presents Artie Kane Playing The Swinging Screen Scene" from the early 70s on RCA Dynaflex records, an extremely thin and rather flexible LP material with superb sound quality. I transferred it to digital years ago and everybody would swear this wasn't from an LP.
What a brilliant pianist Artie Kane was. He played on so many soundtracks that he's almost guaranteed to be in everybody's collection somewhere. On many occasions I probably wouldn't know it was him, but when he was allowed to let loose he had a very distinctive style, with an amazing technique. I absolutely loved his solos on ZIGZAG (Oliver Nelson, the LP re-recording) way back when I got that release. Another one that comes to mind is THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN series. I "think" that was him on keyboards there too. Just realised that Oliver Nelson wrote both of those. I'm gonna check the FSM CD composers list to see how many FSM releases I have with Artie Kane playing on them.
Just checked - Artie Kane plays on 68 CDs released by FSM alone.
Also interesting to see he was married eight times. Don't know why that's interesting to me, but it's interesting.
At his wedding to JoAnn (his 8th) Lionel Newman had bumper stickers made that read "Honk If You've Been Married To Artie Kane".
Just two days before he died I was looking at CD liner notes and saw his name and was thinking to myself: Wait -- such-and-such composer knows him -- now I have a possible way to reach him and talk to him. Damnit. :-(
I’m surprised that nobody ever mentioned Kanye’s work with Jerry Goldsmith, and he showed off his various keyboards that were used later his scores. R.I.P. Artie Kane.
About 25 years ago, I took piano lessons from a woman who had lived in L.A. a few years earlier. She was interested in becoming a session pianist and met Artie Kane. She said he did all kinds of amazing stuff like playing the piano while facing away from the keyboard and playing while sitting under the keyboard. I think it intimidated her.
