Hal Willner, a record producer famed for his left-of-center tribute albums and concerts, and as the long-time sketch music producer for “Saturday Night Live,” has died of complications …
. He was 64.
Among the artists for whom Willner produced albums were Marianne Faithfull , Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed and Lucinda Williams. Prior to the Disney collection, he produced “Amarcord Nino Rota” in 1981, “That’s The Way I Feel Now: A Tribute to Thelonious Monk” in 1984 and “Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill” a year later, employing guests ranging from Deborah Harry to Wynton and Bradford Marsalis and John Zorn.
Willner had been at work for years on a T. Rex tribute album, with tracks already in the can by U2 and others, that is yet to be released.
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