Jerry Hey


Jerry Hey is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, 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". 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, Toshiki Kadomatsu, and Yumi Matsutoya.
He is known as the trumpeter and arranger for Seawind, whose other members have included Gary Grant, Larry Williams and Bill Reichenbach Jr.
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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; two older brothers played trombone and tuba. After completing high school, Hey attended the National Music Camp for two summers. While in college, Hey studied under Bill Adam at Indiana University.
Hey then relocated to Hawaii to become a member of the band Seawind.
In 1976, Hey moved to Los Angeles with Seawind, which then recorded two albums for CTI Records under the direction of Harvey Mason.
Gary Grant, who had already been in the city for a year when Hey arrived and was a well-known session player, invited Hey to join him on recording sessions, which helped to launch his career as a studio musician.
Soon after arriving in LA, Quincy Jones got in touch with Hey to ask him to play and arrange for Jones's album I Heard That!!. Following that session, Hey 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.
Hey 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

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Discography

With Earth, Wind & FireI Am Faces Raise! Powerlight Electric Universe Touch the World Heritage Millennium In the Name of Love The Promise Illumination Now, Then & Forever Holiday
With Billy Crystal & Christopher Guest
  • "I Hate When That Happens"
With The Brothers JohnsonBlam! Light Up The Night Winners Blast!
With Luis MiguelSoy Como Quiero Ser Busca una Mujer 20 Años Aries Segundo Romance Nada Es Igual Amarte Es Un Placer Mis Romances 33 Cómplices Luis Miguel
With Lalo SchifrinNo One Home
With Aretha FranklinLove All the Hurt Away Jump to It Aretha
With Elton John21 at 33 Duets
With Olivia Newton-JohnThe Rumour
With Bob SegerLike a Rock
With Kenny RogersThe Heart of the Matter
With Syreeta WrightSet My Love in Motion
With Joe CockerAcross from Midnight
With CherPrisoner
With Dionne WarwickFriends in Love
With Cheryl LynnIn Love Start Over
With Celine DionFalling into You
With Jon AndersonIn the City of Angels
With Patti LaBelleWinner in You
With Shelby LynneLove, Shelby
With Thelma HoustonBreakwater Cat
With SelenaDreaming of You
With Barry ManilowSwing Street
With Taylor DayneCan't Fight Fate
With Patti AustinPatti Austin The Real Me That Secret Place On the Way to Love
With Michael BoltonTime, Love & Tenderness This Is The Time: [The Christmas Album]
With Jeffrey OsborneJeffrey Osborne Stay with Me Tonight One Love: One Dream
With Lisa StansfieldReal Love Lisa Stansfield
With Anita BakerRhythm of Love My Everything
With Stevie NicksThe Other Side of the Mirror
With Christopher CrossEvery Turn of the World
With Dan FogelbergPhoenix The Innocent Age The Wild Places
With Tanya TuckerShould I Do It
With David CrosbyOh Yes I Can
With Kenny LogginsBack to Avalon
With Minnie RipertonMinnie
With Steve CropperPlayin' My Thang
With Brenda RussellBrenda Russell Two Eyes
With Stephanie MillsHome
With Joni MitchellDog Eat Dog
With Melissa ManchesterEmergency Mathematics
With Jim MessinaMessina
With Deniece WilliamsHot on the Trail As Good as It Gets Special Love
With Teena MarieLady T
With Peter AllenBi-Coastal Not The Boy Next Door
With Beth HartLeave the Light On
With Donna SummerBad Girls Donna Summer She Works Hard for the Money All Systems Go
With Paul AnkaThe Music Man
With Chaka KhanWhat Cha' Gonna Do for Me
With Barry MannBarry Mann
With Melanie CReason
With Sheena EastonA Private Heaven
With John MayerHeavier Things The Search for Everything
With Dolly PartonHeartbreaker 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs
With Boz ScaggsOther Roads
With Randy CrawfordWindsong
With Rickie Lee JonesPirates The Magazine The Evening of My Best Day
With Carole Bayer Sager...Too Sometimes Late at Night
With Paul McCartneyPipes of Peace
With Michael McDonaldNo Lookin' Back
With Michael JacksonOff the Wall Thriller Bad
With Desmond ChildDiscipline
With Betty WrightBetty Wright
With Roberta FlackOasis
With Richard MarxRichard Marx Repeat Offender Flesh and Bone
With MikaThe Boy Who Knew Too Much
With Philip BaileyContinuation
With Rod StewartCamouflage
With Randy NewmanTrouble in Paradise Land of Dreams
With Natalie ColeDangerous Everlasting
With B.B. KingB.B. King & Friends: 80
With Peter CeteraWorld Falling Down
With Nicolette LarsonIn the Nick of Time
With Barbra StreisandSongbird Till I Loved You
With Jennifer WarnesThe Hunter
With Rob Thomas...Something to Be
With Laura BraniganHold Me
With Jimmy WebbAngel Heart
With Al JarreauThis Time Breakin' Away Jarreau High Crime Heart's Horizon Heaven and Earth Tomorrow Today All I Got
With Jennifer HollidayFeel My Soul
With James Last BandSeduction
With George BensonGive Me the Night 20/20 While the City Sleeps... Standing Together
With Livingston TaylorThree Way Mirror
With Neil DiamondSeptember Morn The Best Years of Our Lives
With Michael FranksOne Bad Habit
With AtkinsAtkins
With Darren Kramer OrganizationThe Darren Kramer Organization
With Tom Petty and the HeartbreakersSouthern Accents Playback
With Miho NakayamaWagamama na Actress Mid Blue
With Pauline WilsonTribute
With The Square/T-SQUARER･E･S･O･R･T Yes, No Refreshest
With Dave Weckl/Dave Weckl BandMaster Plan Live
With David FosterDavid Foster The Christmas Album
With Wilson Phillips
With TM NetworkHumansystem
With KC and the Sunshine BandAll in a Night's Work
With PleasureFuture Now Special Things
With Patrice Rushen

Soundtracks

As sideman on soundtrack recordings