Henry Mancini

What do Charo, Gallager (the watermelon-smashing comedian), Mohammed Bello Adoke (the Nigerian Minister of Health), Mario Cuomo, Henry Mancini, Bob Hope, Joe Namath, Willem Dafoe, Lynn Swan, Myron Cope, Franco Harris, the Kingston Trio, Woody Herman, Phil...

Tony Bennett may have left his heart in San Francisco a half-century ago, but the rest of him is still going strong as he approaches his 85th birthday next month. The man famously labeled Frank Sinatra's favorite singer isn't in evidence at the Laguna...

Pete Rugolo, an award-winning composer and arranger who came to prominence in the world of jazz as the chief arranger for Stan Kenton's post-World War II band and later wrote the themes for TV's "The Fugitive" and "Run for Your Life," has died. He was 95....

"Breakfast at Tiffany's" premiered Oct. 5, 1961, at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Half a century later, it conjures images among its fans of Audrey Hepburn with an updo and a cigarette holder, George Peppard in a skinny tie......

Reviews of the Broadway cast albums of "Catch Me If You Can," "The Book of Mormon" and Daniel Radcliffe in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying."...

Buddy Holly got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame last week, but still has no Grammy Awards. Holly and other pioneering rock and rollers have long been overlooked by Grammy voters....

Four Northern State University students will be featured as soloists at a concert tonight concluding the 41st annual South Dakota Jazz Festival. This year's featured guest artist, trombonist Tony Baker, will perform with NSU faculty members and the...

If you're missing the musical family gene, there's still hope for all you would-be sensationally romantic piano players out there. That's what Jim Brickman, "America's romantic piano sensation" whose CDs are top sellers, admitted Thursday night. "My...

The romance-filled piano playing of Jim Brickman will fill the sound waves of the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall next week. The 8 p.m. concerts May 12 to 14 at Costa Mesa's Segerstrom Center for the Arts will have a second half that features the...

Blake Edwards, comedy director, Julie Andrews husband and Peter Sellers star-maker, has died at the age of 88. He directed “The Pink Panther,” the original, not the Roberto Benigni/Steve Martin versions, and “A Shot in the Dark”...

How do you open a new arts center in the San Fernando Valley? Well, Monica Mancini, declaring herself "the original Valley girl,� launched into a haunting rendition of her late father’s classic "Moon River," accompanied by Dave Koz and Arturo......

One of the premier interpreters of the Great American Songbook, Michael Feinstein will appear Saturday at Walt Disney Concert Hall, where he will perform a program of classic American songs and jazz numbers with a focus on film music by......