Music From Peter Gunn
Music From The Television Show Peter Gunn
Composed by Henry Mancini
Arron Bell and His Orchestra
Featuring Arron Bell on bass
Produced by Eddie Heller
Lion L70112
1959
From the back cover: For a good two years up until the fall of 1958, you had to rely on six-shooters and stallions almost exclusively if you wanted action on your television set. Westerns dominated the networks and the ratings. Then, like a refreshing breeze, along came a great new detective series – an adult one, too: "PETER GUNN". Gunn (played by Craig Stevens) can handle a gun, but it's mainly his brain that's for hire to people in trouble. He's a new kind of private investigator – urbane, cultured, a bit cynical, with a touch of the "beat generation" about him. Sometimes, he seems almost to wander into a case out of curiosity or just plain boredom. But, there's nothing boring about his cases and the characters that come his way. Many of the latter are colorful denizens of a nightclub run by a lady known as Mother (Hope Emerson), where entertainment is served up by Gunn's singer-girl friend Edie (Lola Albright). Gunn's adventures are neatly varied in plot, usually spiced entertainingly with sharp humor even when the action is running high. Like we said, the series is "adult" in concept and execution—and its record-shattering climb in the popularity ratings shows that the formula is tasty to millions of video viewers.One of the outstanding features of "PETER GUNN" is its music-pulsating, compelling, spell-binding jazz that fuses with the action in brilliant fashion. When the first show in the series was telecast, NBC- TV was flooded with inquiries about the source of this music. Within a few weeks, the name of its composer, Henry Mancini, was a familiar one to TV fans. Mancini, in his work had come up with an exciting television "first": the first modern jazz back- grounds for the sound track of a filmed TV series. Top-drawer jazz, too-as attested to by the acceptance of even the most jaded of jazz experts.
Composed by Henry Mancini
Arron Bell and His Orchestra
Featuring Arron Bell on bass
Produced by Eddie Heller
Lion L70112
1959
From the back cover: For a good two years up until the fall of 1958, you had to rely on six-shooters and stallions almost exclusively if you wanted action on your television set. Westerns dominated the networks and the ratings. Then, like a refreshing breeze, along came a great new detective series – an adult one, too: "PETER GUNN". Gunn (played by Craig Stevens) can handle a gun, but it's mainly his brain that's for hire to people in trouble. He's a new kind of private investigator – urbane, cultured, a bit cynical, with a touch of the "beat generation" about him. Sometimes, he seems almost to wander into a case out of curiosity or just plain boredom. But, there's nothing boring about his cases and the characters that come his way. Many of the latter are colorful denizens of a nightclub run by a lady known as Mother (Hope Emerson), where entertainment is served up by Gunn's singer-girl friend Edie (Lola Albright). Gunn's adventures are neatly varied in plot, usually spiced entertainingly with sharp humor even when the action is running high. Like we said, the series is "adult" in concept and execution—and its record-shattering climb in the popularity ratings shows that the formula is tasty to millions of video viewers.One of the outstanding features of "PETER GUNN" is its music-pulsating, compelling, spell-binding jazz that fuses with the action in brilliant fashion. When the first show in the series was telecast, NBC- TV was flooded with inquiries about the source of this music. Within a few weeks, the name of its composer, Henry Mancini, was a familiar one to TV fans. Mancini, in his work had come up with an exciting television "first": the first modern jazz back- grounds for the sound track of a filmed TV series. Top-drawer jazz, too-as attested to by the acceptance of even the most jaded of jazz experts.
Mancini, Cleveland-born and 34 years old, is no new-comer to background scoring. He has dozens of movies to his credit, including "The Glenn Miller Story", for which he received an Academy Award nomination. His educational background in music is very impressive, including study at Carnegie Tech Music School and the Juilliard School of Music, work with com- posers Ernst Krenek and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. After three years in the Infantry during the war, his career got into full swing. Soon, he found himself with something like a waiting list of clients set to tap his talents: record companies, the movies, radio shows. And, he became a specialist in penning the backings for night club acts, working with such stars as Betty Hutton, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Gloria DeHaven, Marilyn Maxwell, Bob Crosby, Kathryn Grayson, Jane Powell, Dinah Shore, Toni Arden, Kitty Kallen, Polly Bergen, Billy Eckstine and Edie Adams. "PETER GUNN" represents Mancini's first work for a TV series.
The present album offers ten dramatic themes from the music for "PETER GUNN", including the hit "Dreamsville". Here, the popular jazz specialist Aaron Bell And his orchestra use them as departure points for some of the most listenable music-making you'll hear in many a moon!
ABOUT AARON BELL The "most" on a bass, Aaron is known in the jazz field as a dedicated perfectionist. His playing and arranging have always been characterized by good taste and its quality of being able to reach everybody. A veteran of such top American combos as those of Teddy Wilson, Andy Kirk, and Lester Young, he recently appeared at The Embers and The Left Bank in New York City, drawing ratings by fans and musicians as one of the top bass men around today. He also appeared on Broadway in the stage version of "Compulsion". The musicians Aaron chose to appear with him in this album were chosen for their flexibility and inventiveness and are considered to be among America's top musicians.
Dreamsville
Peter Gunn
Fallout!
A Profound Gass
The Brothers Go To Mother's
Session At Pete's Pad
The Floater
Brief And Breezy
Sorta Blue
Soft Sounds
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