Denny Zeitlin
Denny Zeitlin | |
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Zeitlin in 2000 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Dennis Jay Zeitlin |
| Born | April 10, 1938 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer, clinical professor of psychiatry |
| Instrument(s) | Piano, synthesizer |
| Years active | 1952–present |
| Labels | Columbia/CBS, Sunnyside Records |
| Website | dennyzeitlin |
Denny Zeitlin (born April 10, 1938) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and clinical professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco. Since 1963, he has recorded more than 100 compositions and was a first-place winner in the DownBeat International Jazz Critics' Poll in 1965 and 1974. He composed the soundtrack for the 1978 science-fiction horror film Invasion of the Body Snatchers.