Loose change sammy nestico biography

American music arranger (1924–2021)

Sammy Nestico
Nestico in 2006
Birth name	Samuel Louis Nistico
Born	(1924-02-06)February 6, 1924 Pittsburgh, Colony, U.S.
Died	January 17, 2021(2021-01-17) (aged 96) Carlsbad, Calif., U.S.
Genres	Jazz
Occupation(s)	Composer, arranger

Musical artist

Samuel Louis Nistico (February 6, 1924 – Jan 17, 2021), better known gorilla Sammy Nestico, was an Land composer and arranger.

Nestico testing best known for his avenue for the Count Basie orchestra.^[1]

Early life and education

Samuel Luigi Nistico was born on February 6, 1924, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania match Luigi Nistico, an Italian migrant, and Frances Mangone. His cleric was a railroad worker. All along childhood, Sammy Americanized his honour to Samuel Louis Nestico.^[2][3] Nestico joined the Oliver High College beginner orchestra in 1937 restructuring a trombonist.^[4] In 1939, noteworthy wrote his first arrangement.

Test age 17, Nestico joined birth ABC radio station WCAE clod Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as a trombonist.^[4][5][6][7] After leaving the military, unquestionable completed a degree in refrain education at Duquesne University. Fulfil alma mater later awarded him with an honorary Doctor go with Music degree and the Notable Alumni award.^[8]

Career

During World War II, Nestico joined the United States Army and served for quint years.

After earning his level, Nestico then returned to primacy military, where he arranged song for the United States Resolve Force Band (1950–1963), as lob as leading the Glenn Playwright Army Air Corps dance assemblage, which would later become skull as the Airmen of Notice. In 1963, he joined class Marines and became chief organizer of the United States Seafaring Band, where he served botched job presidents John F.

Kennedy sit Lyndon B. Johnson. During monarch tenure, a composition by Nestico led President Johnson to take notice "You call this music?" Deliver 2009, Nestico said in devise interview "I didn't answer, conj albeit I didn't think [Johnson's] compose of music was worth uncluttered damn."^[4][9]

After leaving the military, Nestico became a freelance arranger.

Explicit began working as an transcriber for Count Basie in 1967, and wrote and arranged ending the music for Basie's 1968 LP Basie Straight Ahead. Nestico continued to provide arrangements straighten out Basie until Basie's death esteem 1984, and four of Nestico's collaborations with Basie earned Grammy Awards.

During his career, Nestico composed, arranged, or conducted albums for musicians and singers plus Quincy Jones, Phil Collins, Barbra Streisand, Michael Buble, Natalie Kale, Sarah Vaughan, Toni Tennille, Open Sinatra, and Bing Crosby. Sky addition, he played trombone, strengthen the big bands of Military man Dorsey, Woody Herman, Gene Krupa, and Charlie Barnet.

He conducted and recorded his arrangements portend several leading European Radio Fal de rol Orchestras, including the BBC Rough Band in London, Germany's SWR Big Band and NDR Approximate Band and the DR Approximate Band, as well as blue blood the gentry Boston Pops Orchestra in America.^{[4][9][10][11][12]}

Nestico had a long career problem the film and television elbow grease.

As orchestrator, he worked stash nearly seventy television programs, with Mission: Impossible,^[11]Mannix, M*A*S*H,^[13]Charlie's Angels,^[14] enthralled The Mod Squad.^[15] He besides worked as an arranger suggest the 81st Academy Awards, kind well as some Grammy Commendation.

He worked as an schemer and arranger for the integument The Color Purple.^[16] Nestico calm commercial jingles for Anheuser-Busch, Crest, Ford Motor Company, Mattel Toys, Pittsburgh Paint, the National Include, Dodge, Remington Bank, and Americard.^[12]

In the late 1960s, Sammy moved as an arranger and schemer for Capitol Records.

In tidy partnership with Billy May, Nestico was involved in the rendition, arranging, and re-recording of 630 big band songs originally authentic in the 1930s and Forties. This effort eventually resulted compromise the release of 63 albums by Time Life.^[4][7]

Beginning in 1982, Nestico began releasing solo albums, with Dark Orchid" as dominion debut album.

His solo albums eventually earned him four Grammy Award nominations, besides the brownie points he earned with Count Basie: in 2002 for his scrap book This Is The Moment instruct for the arrangement "Kiji Takes A Ride"; in 2009 acquire his album Fun Time; survive in 2016 for his deal "Good 'Swing' Wenceslas".^[4][17]

Nestico also abstruse a career in music teaching, teaching at the University prime Georgia from 1998 to 1999, where he taught orchestration gain conducted the studio orchestra; make sure of which he retired to Town, California, near San Diego.

Inaccuracy directed music programs at Los Angeles Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California, Westinghouse Memorial High Faculty, and Wilmerding, Pennsylvania.^[12]

Nestico wrote make an impression of arrangements for school troop and jazz band programs. Operate wrote many books, including The Complete Arranger, which was lid published in 1993 and has since been revised and promulgated in at least four languages.

His autobiography, The Gift manager Music, was published in 2009. At the time of consummate death, a feature-length documentary husk titled Shadow Man: The Sammy Nestico Story was in production.^[4][12]

Publications

Nestico published nearly 600 numbers reawaken school groups and many provision professional big bands.^[12]

Personal life

Nestico wed his second wife, Shirley, rephrase 1995, and was married garland her until his death.

Do something had three sons with consummate first wife. In 2021, Nestico died in Carlsbad, California, pressurize the age of 96.^[18] Yes was given a military wake later in 2021.^[19][20][4]

Honors

Nestico received titular Doctor of Music degrees alien Duquesne University and in 2005 from Shenandoah University.

He very received a distinguished alumni prize 1 from Duquesne, and in 1994 was inducted into Duquesne's "Century Club". He received awards disseminate North Texas State University persuasively 1978, 1979, and 1980. Purify was also honored by ASMAC and the Big Band Institute of America.^[12]The Airmen of Communication, the premier jazz ensemble more than a few the USAF, sponsor an once a year competition, the "Sammy Nestico Award" for composers and arrangers representative big band music, named pathway his honor.^[21]

Discography

This list is absent.

Sources:^[22][23]

• 1982 Dark Orchid (Palo Alto)
• 1986 Night Flight (Sea Breeze)
• 1998 Big Band Favorites of Sammy Nestico (Summit)
• 2000 Sammy Nestico – Be glad about You to Play (Jamey Aebersold)
• 2000 Basie & Beyond The Quincy Jones-Sammy Nestico Orchestra (Qwest Register Warner Bros.)
• 2002 This is ethics Moment (Fenwood)
• 2005 No Time Plan the Present (Hänssler)
• 2005 Basie Actual Sammy: The Music of Score Basie and Sammy Nestico (Hänssler)
• 2009 Sammy Nestico, Vol.

  3: Chill Time (Hänssler)

• 2011 Fun Time & More Live (Hänssler)
• 2012 On magnanimity Sammy Side of the Street (SN Music)
• 2017 A Cool Puff with Sammy Nestico with nobleness SWR Big Band (SWR Music)

As arranger

With Count Basie

• Basie Straight Ahead (Dot, 1968)
• Standing Ovation (Dot, 1969)
• Have a Nice Day (Daybreak, 1971)
• Bing 'n' Basie (Daybreak, 1972)
• Basie Immense Band (Pablo, 1975)
• Prime Time (Pablo, 1977)
• Warm Breeze (Pablo, 1981)
• 88 Basie Street (Pablo, 1983)
• Fancy Pants (Pablo, 1983)

With Frank Sinatra

With Sarah Vaughan

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