Results for "Henry Mancini"

Giacomo Ancillotto: Descansate Niño

by Neri Pollastri
February 2, 2026

È significativo fin dal suo titolo questo primo disco a proprio nome di Giacomo Ancillotto, musicista comunque già molto noto e assai apprezzato: Descansate Niño viene infatti da una strofa di Paolo Conte e si riferisce a un esitante musicista sul punto di dire la sua, cosa che Ancillotto fa in questo album, di fatto un ...

Take Five with Pianist Irving Flores

by AAJ Staff
August 10, 2025

Meet Irving Flores From his early beginnings as a child prodigy leading Orchestra Tamalipas to victory at the tender age of ten, to becoming a nationally treasured artist in Mexico, Irving's journey has been nothing short of legendary. Now based in San Diego, California, Irving continues to push musical boundaries and innovate within the jazz genre, ...

Fabia Mantwill Orchestra: In.Sight

by Neil Duggan
August 7, 2025

Slow, haunting strings usher listeners into Fabia Mantwill Orchestra's ambitious album In.Sight. This bold statement involves a 32-piece orchestra with six virtuoso soloists, performing compositions co-written by Mantwill, Snarky Puppy's Michael League and Greek composer Magdalini Giannikou. The album opens with “Satoyama," where those melancholic strings gradually bloom into bright melodic passages. The piece ...

Jazz Interpretations Of The Film Music Of Henry Mancini, Part 2

by Larry Slater
June 6, 2025

Henry Mancini was born Enrico Nicola Mancini in the Little Italy neighborhood of Cleveland to Italian immigrant parents. He is universally acknowledged as one of the great American film composers, and his melodies have long appealed to jazz artists. Mancini had an affinity for jazz. In the '50s and early '60s he led his ...

Jazz Interpretations of the film music of Henry Mancini, Part 1

by Larry Slater
May 30, 2025

Henry Mancini was one of the greatest composers in the history of film, and many of Mancini's scores swung. Henry Mancini was born Enrico Nicola Mancini in the Little Italy neighborhood of Cleveland to Italian immigrant parents. It's no surprise that many of Mancini's tunes have jazz sensibilities because he had deep jazz roots. ...

Dave Stryker: Stryker with Strings Goes to the Movies

by Richard J Salvucci
May 27, 2025

If this recording were named “Dave Stryker Plays Bernard Hermann" (or Miklós Rózsa or Elmer Bernstein), well that would be just fine. They were all gifted composers who wrote film scores. The consensus would likely be that a musician like Stryker was hardly wasting his time, but Stryker With Strings Goes to the Movies hits the ...

Chicago Jazz Orchestra: More Amor: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery

by Jack Bowers
April 21, 2025

When the Chicago Jazz Orchestra decided to record a tribute to Wes Montgomery, the choice of who would sit in for the legendary guitarist was obvious: Bobby Broom, a stellar guitarist in his own right who has called Chicago home for more than forty years and had performed a concert version of the album at Chicago's ...

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Matt Panayides: With Eyes Closed

by Richard J Salvucci
February 10, 2025

This is a charming recording: reflective, tranquil and built around the compositions of some of the most distinguished players and composers of what ought to be called the American Jazz Songbook. Here you have music written by Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Cedar Walton and Chick Corea, to name only the figures in one strain. ...

Tania Grubbs: The Sound of Love

by John Chacona
January 16, 2025

Meet a person from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and you are likely to get a Chamber of Commerce-worthy commendation of their city's greatness. When it comes to jazz, the civic pride is more than warranted; the Steel City was home to immortals such as Earl Hines, Mary Lou Williams, Art Blakey and Kenny Clarke. Vocalist Tania Grubbs grew ...