Henry Mancini

"Currently the music director of Spartan Productions, Mancini can now claim the distinction of being the first musican to compose modern jazz for the sound track of a filmed television series.

The music in this album offers an excellent sampling of the sounds you're likely to hear any Monday eve when Peter Gunn swings into action on NBC-TV. The musicians are the same jazzmen who are heard to outstanding advantage in all the programs. Here are some of them: Drummer Jack Sperling and bassist Rolly Bundock state the show's forceful opening motif, Fallout! The raw-sounding trumpet belongs to Pete Candoli, a veteran of the Woody Herman and Stan Kenton bands. Dreamsville, which might be subtitled "a love refrain for hipsters," features a moving alto sax solo by Ted Nash; his brother Dick can be heard dueling with fellow trombonist Milt Bernhart on Session at Pete's Pad. Saxist Ronnie Lang, who, in common with most of the musicians here, is a graduate of the Les Brown band, wields a bulging baritone on Sorta Blue. Other soloists at Mother's, the nitery where Peter Gunn hangs his Brooks Brothers jacket, are vibist Larry Bunker and pianist Johnny T. Williams.

This music is Peter Gunn's kind of jazz. I think you'll find that it's your kind, too."

-Blake Edwards

COLLECTIVE PERSONNEL INCLUDES:

Pete Candoli, Stu Williamson, Uan Rasey, Larry Sullivan, Joe Triscari, Don Fagerquist, Ray Linn, John Audino (tp),
Frank Rosolino, Harry Betts, Milt Bernhart, Dick Nash, Dave Wells, Jimmy Priddy (tb),
Ted Nash (as, fl), Bud Shank (as, bs), Ronnie Lang (bs),
Dick Perissi, Art Maebe Jr. Bill Hinshaw, Jimmy Decker, George Hyde (frh),
Larry Bunker (vib), John T. Williams, Russ Freeman, Bob Florence, Jimmy Rowles (p),
Tommy Tedesco, Tony Rizzi (g), Buddy Clark, Rollie Bundock (b), Alvin Stoller,
Frank Capp (d), Emil Richards (perc).

Recorded at Radio Recorders Studios, Hollywood, 1959 & 1961

TRACKS:

01. Peter Gunn
02. Blue Steel
03. The Brothers go to Mother's
04. Session At Pete's Pad
05. Walkin' Bass
06. Dreamsville
07. The Little Man Theme
08. Sorta Blue
09. Goofin' At the Coffee House
10. A Quiet Gass
11. A Profound Gass
12. Fallout!
13. Lightly
14. Soft Sounds
15. Odd Ball
16. The Floater
17. Blues for Mother's
18. Brief and Breezy
19. Joanna
20. My Manne Shelly
21. Spook!
22. A Ball for John
23. Goofin' at the Coffee House (2nd)
24. Not from Dixie