Quincy Jones, John Williams and Herbie Hancock record a rendition of Henry Mancini’s “Peter Gunn” in honor of the composer’s 100th birthday.
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to celebrate Henry's 100th birthday, we kne we had to start with an album.
And the first son that we chose was “Peter Gunn.” You know, Da da da da da da.
Right?
Everybody knows that song.
What people don't know is that in 1957, John Williams was Henr Mancini's session piano player.
He was in his twenties.
So Monica, Henry's daughter and my wife, picked up the phone and called John and said, Do you want to come back in and reprise your piano part?
And he said, Absolutely!
So we then reached out to Quincy Jones, who was a, you know, as close a member of the Mancini family as anyone.
He said he would love to conduct.
I called Herbie Hancock and said Would you like to be the other piano player and maybe play some keys?
He absolutely said yes.
And then we decided to really fire things up to put Arturo Sandoval, the fabulous trumpet player in the band.
And when we finally got to the studio and all of those four musicians were together, it was historic.
Between them, there are 97 Grammy Awards.
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