Jack Elliott

Born Irwin Elliott Zucker in Hartford, Connecticut to a Romanian-Jewish family, he earned a degree from the Hartt School of Music and refined his compositional craft under Arnold Franchetti, Isadore Freed, Bohuslav Martinů and Lukas Foss before Judy Garland recruited him to California to arrange for her television program. Elliott’s television career spanned music direction for Andy Williams’ long… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources