The Henry Mancini family continue to celebrate what would have been the late legendary composer’s 100th birthday with the release of Dinner at Mancini’s, a lo-fi celebratory retrospective album via ...

The Henry Mancini family continues to celebrate what would have been the late legendary composer’s 100th birthday with the release of Henry Mancini’s “Pink Panther” featuring Lizzo and Sir James ...

Who could ever forget the assertive, pulse-quickening theme from Peter Gunn, the urbane TV detective series that ran from 1958-61, with its jazz-centered score by the incomparable Henry Mancini. In ...

I love Henry Mancini's film scores. I could listen to them all day, and I often do when writing. There's something about his music that makes you feel cool when the orchestra swings and reflective ...

The show falls on the 86th anniversary of his birth. Mancini was born in Cleveland, the only child of Italian immigrants. His family moved to West Aliquippa, Pa., when he was 5. Mancini died of ...

Seated at the piano on Marian McPartland’s “Piano Jazz” radio show in 1985, Henry Mancini was about to play his “Two for the Road” movie theme when McPartland made an observation: “To write this kind ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Music fans will celebrate the centenary of Henry Mancini's birthday this year at events worldwide. If Mancini had lived to see his ...

The name Henry Mancini represents one of the greats of film music, but it’s also a virtual trademark. The late and hugely popular composer’s elegantly nuanced work for movies and television make his ...

And though Mancini died in 1994, his friends, family and fans got to time-travel back to his heyday of the 1960s during a star-guided tour Saturday, a concert titled “Mancini Delivered: A Musical ...