Reprise Recordings

Best known as the right hand man and arranger of producer Phil Spector and for his work with the Rolling Stones or Neil Young, among many others, Bernard Alfred “Jack” Nitzsche also worked extensively in film scores, notably for films such as 'Performance', 'The Exorcist' and 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest', and in 1983, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for co-writing “Up Where We Belong”. As a solo artist, he scored one of Reprise label’s 1st pop hits with his instrumental “The Lonely Surfer” in 1963.

Between January 14th to 23rd, 1974, Jack Nitzsche recorded a self titled album at Cinderella Studios in Madison, TN, and a release date was set for April 26th, before it was pulled from the label’s schedule by Warner Bros label chief Mo Ostin. The project was a collaboration between Nitzsche and underground filmmaker Robert Downey.

The album remained unreleased, abandoned in a North Hollywood storage facility that Warner employees call 'the vault', until Rhino Handmade included all 11 tracks in their Jack Nitzsche collection "Three Piece Suit : The Reprise Recordings 1971 - 1974", a long out of print internet only CD issued to great critical acclaim in 2001. This Light In The Attic LP release marks the 1st time it has been made available on vinyl, as originally intended. August 28th, 2020.