Fwd: RE: Can't get enough of Stevie

["Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Last Saturday I awoke to an NPR feature on film composer Henry 
Mancini - Saturday would have been his 80th birthday. A new CD of his 
work has been released, and features Stevie playing Moon River, the 
harmonica feature from Breakfast at Tiffany's originally recorded by 
George Fields for the film score. It sounded like Stevie was actually 
trying to pay tribute to Fields' rendition instead of being flat-out 
Stevie, even though full-strength Stevie would have been a more 
interesting take on the tune. You can probably still access the 
program at the NPR website.

As a Mancini aside, I believe William Clarke once recorded Mancini's 
Pink Panther Theme originally written for saxophonist Plas Johnson, 
and Joe Filisko once did an interesting group harmonica stunt using 
the Peter Gunn theme.

By the way, there's a Hank Mancini postage stamp out for those into 
pop film tunes, and a Paul Robeson stamp for those into that mid-
century blend of African American Spirituals and Euro-classical for 
which he and Marian Anderson were the primary representatives.

Winslow

- --- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, IcemanLE@xxxx wrote:
He guests on Quincy Jones' "Q's Juke Joint", a bit of chromatic and a 
bit of 
singing.

This is a fabulous CD.

The Iceman
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