Mandel, Johnny
Johnny Mandel was born in New York City. Mandel took piano lessons beginning at age 5, but switched to the trumpet and later the trombone.
He studied at the Manhattan School of Music and Juilliard. In 1943 he played the trumpet with Joe Venuti, in 1944 with Billy Rogers and trombone in the bands of Boyd Raeburn, Jimmy Dorsey, Buddy Rich, Georgie Auld and Chubby Jackson. In 1949 he accompanied the singer June Christy in the orchestra of Bob Cooper. From 1951 till 1953 he played and arranged music in Elliott Lawrence's orchestra, and in 1953 with Count Basie. Later he resided in Los Angeles, where he played the bass trumpet for Zoot Sims.
A 1944 Band graduate of New York Military Academy, he wrote jazz compositions including "Not Really the Blues" for Woody Herman in 1949, "Hershey Bar" (1950) and "Pot Luck" (1953) for Stan Getz, "Straight Life" (1953) and "Low Life" (1956) for Count Basie, as well as "Tommyhawk" (1954) for Chet Baker.
Mandel has composed, conducted and arranged the music for numerous movie sound tracks. His earliest credited contribution was to "I Want To Live!" in 1958, which was nominated for a Grammy.
Mandel's most famous compositions include "Suicide is Painless" (theme from the movie and TV series M*A*S*H), "Close Enough For Love," "Emily," and "A Time for Love" (nominated for an Academy Award). He has written numerous film scores, including the score of The Sandpiper The love theme for that film, "The Shadow Of Your Smile," which he co-wrote with Paul Francis Webster, won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Song and the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1966.
He won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals in 1981 for Quincy Jones' album The Dude, and again in 1991 for Natalie Cole and Nat "King" Cole's "Unforgettable," and one year later once more for Shirley Horn's album "Here's To Life."
In 2004 Mandel arranged Tony Bennett's album "The Art of Romance." Bennett and Mandel had collaborated before on Bennett's The Movie Song Album, for which Mandel arranged and conducted his songs "Emily" and "The Shadow of Your Smile", and was also the album's musical director.
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