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Henry Mancini
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Henry Mancini was born in 1924 in Cleveland, Ohio, and named Enrico by his Italian immigrant parents. In the late 1920s, the Mancinis moved to Pennsylvania when Henry's father found work at a steel mill in the Pittsburgh area. Henry learned to play the piccolo from his father, took formal flute and piano lessons, and began writing music arrangements on his own. The fall before his 18th birthday he entered New York's Juilliard School of Music on a scholarship.
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Following his release from the Armed Forces in 1946, Mancini joined the Glenn Miller-Tex Beneke orchestra as a pianist/arranger. It was here that he met the future Mrs. Mancini, Ginny O'Conner, who was one of the original members of Mel Torme's “Mel-tones.” They were married in Hollywood in 1947.
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Who said Henry Mancini was “just” a movie and TV show composer par excellence? How about the fact that in the right hands (and chops) Mr. Mancini can swing? Well, if you are Graham Carter of Jazzed Media, who better to bring together than the venerable genius, Phil Woods, and the West Coast supreme trumpeter, Carl Saunders, to bring Mancini’s compositions to life in a jazz idiom? Throw in the crack rhythm section of Jeff Jenkins, Ken Walker, and Paul Romaine and the deal’s sealed!
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Mancini had experience with acting and voice roles. In 1994 he made a one-off cameo appearance in the first season of the sitcom series Frasier, as a call-in patient to Dr. Frasier Crane's radio show. Mancini voiced the character Al, who speaks with a melancholy drawl and hates the sound of his own voice, in the episode "Guess Who's Coming to Breakfast?" Mancini ... had an uncredited performance as a pianist in the 1967 movie Gunn, the movie version of the series Peter Gunn, the score of which was originally composed by Mancini himself.
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Henry Mancini pulls out all the stops for the 1976 caper comedy Silver Streak. By turns lighthearted, romantic, and suspenseful, it is in many respects the quintessential Mancini score, with each cue bearing ...Read full review
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Mancini is a very sociable, congenial person and he wilts very quickly without relationships with good friends and people to share good times with. Henry Mancini thoroughly enjoys working with others on group projects or community activities. He is quite happy when he is a part of a club, support group, or team of some sort.
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