Jerry Hey

Jerry Hey (born 1950) is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, horn arranger, string arranger, orchestrator and session musician who has played on hundreds of commercial recordings, including Michael Jackson's Thriller, Rock with You, Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough, Workin’ Day and Night and the flugelhorn solo on Dan Fogelberg's hit "Longer". Additionally, he has performed with artists such as George Benson, Nik Kershaw, Al Jarreau, Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer, Earth, Wind & Fire, Whitney Houston, Frank Sinatra, George Duke, Lionel Richie, Rufus and Chaka Khan, Natalie Cole, Aretha Franklin, Patti Austin, among many others.
He is known as the Seawind trumpeter and arranger who plays with Gary Grant, Larry Williams and Bill Reichenbach Jr.
Biography
Jerry Hey was born in 1950 in Dixon, Illinois to a family of musicians. His mother was a pianist and his father was a trombonist. Jerry also had two older brothers who played the trombone and tuba. After completing high school, Jerry attended the National Music Camp for two summers. While in college, Hey studied under Bill Adam at Indiana University.
Jerry then relocated to Hawaii to become a member of Seawind band.
In 1976, Jerry Hey moved to Los Angeles with the Seawind and recorded two albums for CTI Records under the direction of Harvey Mason.
When Jerry Hey and Seawind moved to Los Angeles, Gary Grant had already been in the city for a year and was a well-known session player. He invited Jerry to join him on recording sessions, which helped to launch Jerry's career as a studio musician.
Soon after arriving in LA, Quincy Jones got in touch with Jerry to ask him to play and arrange for an album titled “I Heard That!!”. Following that session, Jerry and his associates were invited to perform on every one of Quincy's recordings. Hey later worked as a musician and arranger with David Foster.
Jerry is the uncle of American keyboardist, songwriter, producer, arranger and musical director Henry Hey.
He composed and arranged the song "Jedi Rocks" for the 1997 Special Edition re-release of Return of the Jedi. He co-produced four songs on Lisa Stansfield's 2014 album, Seven.
Hey has received 6 Grammy Awards and 11 nominations.
Awards
Grammy Awards
1981 – Best Instrumental Arrangement
Jerry Hey & Quincy Jones (arrangers) for "Dinorah, Dinorah" performed by George Benson
1982 – Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)
Jerry Hey & Quincy Jones (arrangers) for "Ai No Corrida" performed by Quincy Jones
1983 – Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)
Jerry Hey & David Paich, Jeff Porcaro (arrangers) for "Rosanna" performed by Toto
1984 – Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or A Television Special
Michael Boddicker, Irene Cara, Kim Carnes, Douglas Cotler, Keith Forsey, Richard Gilbert, Jerry Hey, Duane Hitchings, Craig Krampf, Ronald Magness, Dennis Matkosky, Giorgio Moroder, Phil Ramone, Michael Sembello, Shandi Sinnamon (composers) for Flashdance performed by various artists
1991 – Best Arrangement on an Instrumental
Jerry Hey, Quincy Jones, Ian Prince & Rod Temperton (arrangers) for "Birdland" performed by Quincy Jones.
1991 - Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)
Glen Ballard, Jerry Hey, Quincy Jones & Clif Magness (arrangers) for "The Places You Find Love" performed by Quincy Jones.
Discography
With Earth, Wind & Fire
I Am (Columbia, 1979)
Faces (Columbia, 1980)
Raise! (Columbia, 1981)
Powerlight (Columbia, 1983)
Electric Universe (Columbia, 1983)
Touch the World (Columbia, 1987)
Heritage (Columbia, 1990)
Millennium (Warner Bros., 1993)
In the Name of Love (Rhino, 1997)
The Promise (Kalimba, 2003)
Illumination (Sanctuary, 2005)
Now, Then & Forever (Legacy, 2013)
Holiday (Legacy, 2014)
With The Brothers Johnson
Blam! (A&M Records, 1978)
Light Up The Night (A&M Records, 1980)
Winners (A&M Records, 1981)
Blast! (A&M Records, 1982)
With Luis Miguel
Soy Como Quiero Ser (Warner, 1987)
Busca una Mujer (Warner, 1988)
20 Años (Warner, 1990)
Aries (Warner, 1993)
Segundo Romance (Warner, 1994)
Nada Es Igual (Warner, 1996)
Amarte Es Un Placer (Warner, 1999)
Mis Romances (Warner, 2001)
33 (Warner, 2003)
Cómplices (Warner, 2008)
Luis Miguel (Warner, 2010)
With Lalo Schifrin
No One Home (Tabu, 1979)
With Aretha Franklin
Love All the Hurt Away (Arista, 1981)
Jump to It (Arista, 1982)
Aretha (Arista, 1986)
With Elton John
21 at 33 (Rocket, 1980)
Duets (Rocket, 1993)
With Olivia Newton-John
The Rumour (Mercury, 1988)
With Bob Seger
Like a Rock (Capitol, 1986)
With Kenny Rogers
The Heart of the Matter (RCA, 1985)
With Syreeta Wright
Set My Love in Motion (Tamla, 1981)
With Joe Cocker
Across from Midnight (CMC, 1997)
With Cher
Prisoner (Casablanca, 1979)
With Dionne Warwick
Friends in Love (Arista, 1982)
With Cheryl Lynn
In Love (Columbia, 1979)
Start Over (Manhattan, 1987)
With Celine Dion
Falling into You (Columbia, 1996)
With Jon Anderson
In the City of Angels (Columbia, 1988)
With Patti LaBelle
Winner in You (MCA, 1986)
With Shelby Lynne
Love, Shelby (Island, 2001)
With Thelma Houston
Breakwater Cat (RCA, 1980)
With Selena
Dreaming of You (EMI, 1995)
With Barry Manilow
Swing Street (Arista, 1987)
With Taylor Dayne
Can't Fight Fate (Arista, 1989)
With Patti Austin
Patti Austin (Qwest, 1984)
The Real Me (Qwest, 1988)
That Secret Place (GRP, 1994)
On the Way to Love (Warner Bros., 2001)
With Michael Bolton
Time, Love & Tenderness (Columbia, 1991)
This Is The Time: The Christmas Album (Columbia, 1996)
With Jeffrey Osborne
Jeffrey Osborne (A&M, 1982)
Stay with Me Tonight (A&M, 1983)
One Love: One Dream (A&M, 1988)
With Lisa Stansfield
Real Love (Arista, 1991)
Lisa Stansfield (Arista, 1997)
With Anita Baker
Rhythm of Love (Elektra, 1994)
My Everything (Blue Note, 2004)
With Stevie Nicks
The Other Side of the Mirror (Modern, 1989)
With Christopher Cross
Every Turn of the World (Warner Bros., 1985)
With Dan Fogelberg
Phoenix (Epic, 1979)
The Innocent Age (Epic, 1981)
The Wild Places (Epic, 1990)
With Tanya Tucker
Should I Do It (MCA Records, 1981)
With David Crosby
Oh Yes I Can (A&M, 1989)
With Kenny Loggins
Back to Avalon (Columbia, 1988)
With Minnie Riperton
Minnie (Capitol, 1979)
With Steve Cropper
Playin' My Thang (MCA, 1981)
With Brenda Russell
Brenda Russell (Horizon, 1979)
Two Eyes (Warner Bros., 1983)
With Stephanie Mills
Home (MCA, 1989)
With Joni Mitchell
Dog Eat Dog (Geffen, 1985)
With Melissa Manchester
Emergency (Arista, 1983)
Mathematics (MCA, 1985)
With Jim Messina
Messina (Warner Bros., 1981)
With Deniece Williams
Hot on the Trail (Columbia, 1986)
As Good as It Gets (Columbia, 1988)
Special Love (Sparrow, 1989)
With Teena Marie
Lady T (Gordy, 1980)
With Peter Allen
Bi-Coastal (A&M, 1980)
Not The Boy Next Door (Arista, 1983)
With Beth Hart
Leave the Light On (Warner Bros., 2003)
With Donna Summer
Bad Girls (Casablanca, 1979)
Donna Summer (Geffen, 1982)
She Works Hard for the Money (Mercury, 1983)
All Systems Go (Geffen, 1987)
With Paul Anka
The Music Man (United Artists, 1976)
With Chaka Khan
What Cha' Gonna Do for Me (Warner Bros., 1981)
With Barry Mann
Barry Mann (Casablanca, 1980)
With Melanie C
Reason (Virgin, 2003)
With Sheena Easton
A Private Heaven (EMI, 1984)
With John Mayer
Heavier Things (Columbia, 2003)
The Search for Everything (Columbia, 2017)
With Dolly Parton
Heartbreaker (RCA Victor, 1978)
9 to 5 and Odd Jobs (RCA, 1980)
With Boz Scaggs
Other Roads (Columbia, 1988)
With Randy Crawford
Windsong (Warner Bros., 1982)
With Rickie Lee Jones
Pirates (Warner Bros., 1981)
The Magazine (Warner Bros., 1984)
The Evening of My Best Day (V2, 2003)
With Carole Bayer Sager
...Too (Elektra, 1978)
Sometimes Late at Night (The Boardwalk Entertainment, 1981)
With Paul McCartney
Pipes of Peace (Columbia, 1983)
With Michael McDonald
No Lookin' Back (Warner Bros., 1985)
With Michael Jackson
Off the Wall (Epic, 1979)
Thriller (Epic, 1982)
Bad (Epic, 1987)
With Desmond Child
Discipline (Elektra, 1991)
With Betty Wright
Betty Wright (Epic, 1981)
With Roberta Flack
Oasis (Atlantic, 1988)
With Richard Marx
Richard Marx (EMI, 1987)
Repeat Offender (EMI, 1989)
Flesh and Bone (Capitol, 1997)
With Mika
The Boy Who Knew Too Much (Casablanca, 2009)
With Philip Bailey
Continuation (A&M, 1983)
With Rod Stewart
Camouflage (Warner Bros., 1984)
With Randy Newman
Trouble in Paradise (Reprise, 1983)
Land of Dreams (Reprise, 1988)
With Natalie Cole
Dangerous (Atco, 1985)
Everlasting (Elektra, 1987)
With B.B. King
B.B. King & Friends: 80 (Geffen, 2005)
With Peter Cetera
World Falling Down (Warner Bros., 1992)
With Nicolette Larson
In the Nick of Time (Warner Bros. Records, 1979)
With Barbra Streisand
Songbird (Columbia, 1978)
Till I Loved You (Columbia, 1988)
With Jennifer Warnes
The Hunter (Attic, 1992)
With Rob Thomas
...Something to Be (Atlantic Records, 2005)
With Laura Branigan
Hold Me (Atlantic, 1985)
With Jimmy Webb
Angel Heart (Real West Production, 1982)
With Al Jarreau
This Time (Warner Bros., 1980)
Breakin' Away (Warner Bros., 1981)
Jarreau (Warner Bros., 1983)
High Crime (Warner Bros., 1984)
Heart's Horizon (Reprise, 1988)
Heaven and Earth (Reprise, 1992)
Tomorrow Today (GRP, 2000)
All I Got (GRP, 2002)
With Jennifer Holliday
Feel My Soul (Geffen, 1983)
With James Last Band
Seduction (Polydor, 1980)
With George Benson
Give Me the Night (Warner Bros., 1980)
20/20 (Warner Bros., 1985)
While the City Sleeps... (Warner Bros., 1986)
Standing Together (GRP, 1998)
With Livingston Taylor
Three Way Mirror (Epic, 1978)
With Neil Diamond
September Morn (Columbia, 1979)
The Best Years of Our Lives (Columbia, 1988)
With Michael Franks
One Bad Habit (Warner Bros., 1980)
With Atkins
Atkins (also does the horn section on Keep Trying) (Warner Bros., 1982)
With Darren Kramer Organization
The Darren Kramer Organization (1998)
With Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Southern Accents (MCA Records, 1985)
Playback (MCA Records, 1995)
With Miho Nakayama
Wagamama na Actress (King Records, 1993)
Mid Blue (King Records, 1995)
With Pauline Wilson
Tribute (McClees Corp., 2001)
With The Square/T-SQUARE
R･E･S･O･R･T (CBS/Sony, 1985)
Yes, No (CBS/Sony, 1988)
Refreshest (Sony, 1991)
With Dave Weckl/Dave Weckl Band
Master Plan (GRP, 1990)
Live (and very plugged in) (Stretch, 2003)
With David Foster
David Foster (Atlantic, 1986)
The Christmas Album (Interscope Records, 1995)
With Wilson Phillips
Shadows And Light (SBK Records, 1992)
Soundtracks
As sideman on soundtrack recordings
Aladdin soundtrack (Walt Disney, 1992)
Ally McBeal soundtrack (1997-2002)
Analyze This soundtrack (1999)
Austin Powers I, Austin Powers II, Austin Powers III (2002) soundtrack
Back to the Future soundtrack (MCA, 1985)
Back to the Future Part II soundtrack (1989)
Back to the Future Part III soundtrack (1990)
BAD short film soundtrack (1987)
Bad Boys soundtrack (1983)
Blown Away soundtrack (1994)
Bowfinger soundtrack (1999)
Big Trouble soundtrack (2002)
Bridge to Terabithia soundtrack (2006)
Captain EO short film soundtrack (1986)
Caddyshack soundtrack (1980)
Contact soundtrack
CHiPs soundtrack (1977-1983)
Disney features - Hercules (1997), Blast from the Past (1998), Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Isn’t She Great (1999) soundtracks
Father of the Bride I and Father of the Bride II soundtrack
Fandango soundtrack (1984)
Forrest Gump soundtrack
George of the Jungle soundtrack (Walt Disney, 1997)
Grand Canyon soundtrack (1991)
Godzilla soundtrack (Epic, 1998)
Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men soundtrack
Gypsy soundtrack (1993)
Lilo & Stitch soundtrack (Walt Disney, 2002)
Men in Black II soundtrack (Columbia, 2002)
Meet the Applegates soundtrack (1990)
Meet the Fockers soundtrack (2004)
Meet the Browns soundtrack (2008)
Mousehunt soundtrack (Varese Sarabande, 1997)
Mulan soundtrack (Walt Disney, 1998)
Payback soundtrack (1998)
Paternity soundtrack (Kritzerland, 2014)
Pocahontas soundtrack (Walt Disney, 1995)
Predator soundtrack (Varèse Sarabande, 1987)
Pretty Woman soundtrack (EMI, 1990)
Running Scared soundtrack (MCA, 1986)
Romeo Must Die soundtrack (2000)
Rocky II soundtrack (United Artists/EMI, 1979)
Rocky III soundtrack (Liberty, 1982)
Rocky IV soundtrack (Scotti Bros., 1985)
Reindeer Games soundtrack
Shrek Forever After soundtrack (DGC, 2010)
Spacejam soundtrack (Warner, 1996)
Spiderman 2 soundtrack (Sony, 2004)
Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi soundtrack (Walt Disney, 2017)
Stuart Little soundtrack (Motown, 1999)
Superbad soundtrack (Lakeshore, 2007)
Sister Act I & Sister Act II soundtrack
Sudden Impact soundtrack (1983)
The Adventures of Pluto Nash soundtrack (Beverly, 2002)
The Karate Kid Part II soundtrack (Warner Bros., 1986)
The Polar Express soundtrack (Reprise, 2004)
The Ugly Truth soundtrack (Lakeshore, 2009)
The Bodyguard soundtrack (1992)
The Color Purple soundtrack (1985)
The Odd Couple II soundtrack
The Notebook soundtrack (2004)
The Shadow soundtrack (1994)
Waterboy soundtrack (1998)
Waiting to Exhale soundtrack (2000)
Return to Me soundtrack (Sony Legacy, 2000)
What Lies Beneath soundtrack (Varese Sarabande, 2000)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? soundtrack (Buena Vista, 1988)
Judge Dredd / Expanded Original Motion Picture Score soundtrack (1995)
Young Guns II soundtrack (Intrada Special Collection, 2011)
Fandango soundtrack (Intrada Special Collection, 1984)
Blown Away soundtrack (Intrada Special Collection, 1994)
References
External links
1950 births
Living people
American session musicians
American male trumpeters
Grammy Award winners
Male trumpeters
American male jazz musicians
21st-century trumpeters
21st-century American male musicians
20th-century trumpeters
20th-century American male musicians
Seawind (band) members