 johnny mandel (born november 23, 1925)contemporary musicians, volume 28. gale group, 2000. reproduced in biography resource center. farmington hills, mich. is a grammy and academy awarded american composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. among the musicians he has worked with are count basie, frank sinatra, peggy lee, anita o'day, barbra streisand, tony bennett, and shirley horn. ==biography== ===life=== born john alfred mandel, new york, n.y., to alfred, a garment manufacturer, and hannah, an opera singer, who discovered when he was aged 5 that he had perfect pitch.ascap henry mancini award honoring johnny mandel, by jem aswad. retrieved february 8, 2014. piano lessons ensued but johnny switched to the trumpet and later the trombone. mandel married lois lee in 1959,california, marriage index, 1949-1959, a subscription site, accessed 2014-02-26 and martha blanner in 1972,california, marriage index, 1960-1985, a subscription site, accessed 2014-02-26 and has a daughter, marrisa, born in 1976. ===music career=== he studied at the manhattan school of music and the juilliard school. 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 elliot 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, in cornwall-on-hudson, ny, he wrote jazz compositions like "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. johnny 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 [[gra
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