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Ginny Mancini (1924-2021)

Ginny Mancini (1924-2021)

Ginny Mancini, the wife of the late composer-arranger Henry Mancini, a polished singer who was one of the original Mel-Tones, and an elegant and graceful woman who was as down to earth as she was charming, died on October 25. She was 97. An ardent JazzWax reader, Ginny's last email to me arrived in May, in ...

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Interview: Ginny Mancini

Interview: Ginny Mancini

Some of Artie Shaw and Mel Torme's finest recordings came in 1946, when both were signed to the Musicraft label in jny: Los Angeles. Torme at the time fronted a vocal quartet known as the Mel-Tones. What set the Mel-Tones apart was their hip spin on the band vocal groups popular at the time. Torme wrote ...


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