Martin Louis Paich (January 23, 1925 – August 12, 1995) was an American pianist, composer, arranger, record producer, music director, and conductor. As a musician and arranger he worked with jazz musicians Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Kenton, Al Hirt, Art Pepper, Buddy Rich, Ray Brown, Shorty Rogers, Pete Rugolo, Ray Charles and Mel Tormé. His long association with Tormé included one of the singer's earliest albums, '' Mel Tormé with the Marty Paich Dek-Tette''. Over the next three decades he worked with pop singers such as Andy Williams and Jack Jones and for film and television. He is the father of

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Career

A native of

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, Paich learned accordion and piano at an early age. In the 1930s, when he was ten years old, he was leading bands and performing at weddings. At sixteen, he wrote arrangements with Pete Rugolo. He served with the U.S. Air Corps in World War II. He attended the University of Southern California and received a master's degree in composition from the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. Among his teachers were Julia Bal de Zuniga, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and

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. In the 1950s, in addition to working as music director for

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, he wrote arrangements for

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, Ray Brown, Stan Kenton,

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, Buddy Rich,

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, and for the movie '' Lady and the Tramp''. He began recording with

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in 1955 on the album ''It's a Blue World'' when Tormé was moving from pop singer to jazz singer. During the next year, his ten piece band accompanied Tormé on the album '' Mel Tormé with the Marty Paich Dek-Tette'', which contained a version of the 1930s song "

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". He wrote arrangements for

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for the album ''

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''. In the 1960s, he spent less time as a musician and more as an arranger for pop singers such as

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, Dinah Shore, and

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. He also scored films, such as ''

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'' (1964), ''

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'' (1966), ''

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'' (1966) and '' Changes'' (1969). In the 1970s, he worked as a composer and arranger in film and television, winning an Emmy award for the television drama '' Ironside''. He led the studio orchestras for television variety programs such as '' The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour'' and ''

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'' and replaced

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in '' The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour''. Marty orchestrated and conducted scores for the films '' The Fugitive'', ''

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'', and '' Prince of Tides''.

Death

Paich died of colon cancer at the age of 70 on August 12, 1995 at his home in Santa Ynez, California.

Awards and honors

* Emmy, Best Song or Theme, ''Ironside'', 1974

Discography

As leader

* ''Hot Piano'' (Tampa, 1956) * ''Marty Paich Quartet'' (Tampa, 1956) * ''Marty Paich Trio'' (Mode, 1957) * ''Jazz for Relaxation'' (Tampa, 1958) * ''The Picasso of Big Band Jazz'' ( Cadence, 1958) * ''The Broadway Bit'' (

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, 1959) * ''I Get a Boot Out of You'' (Warner Bros., 1959) * ''Present Robert Merrill's Music from the Broadway Production Take Me Along'' (

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, 1960) * ''Lush, Latin & Cool'' (RCA Victor, 1961) * ''The Rock Jazz Incident'' ( Reprise, 1966) * ''What's New'' (

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, 1982) * ''Paich-Ence'' ( Fresh Sound, 2006)

As sideman

With

* ''A Pell of a Time'' (RCA Victor, 1957) * ''Swingin' in the Ol' Corral'' (RCA Victor, 1957) * ''The Big Small Bands'' ( Capitol, 1960) * ''Way Better'' (Capitol, 1961) With Johnny Rivers * ''Realization'' (

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, 1968) * ''Slim Slo Slider'' (Imperial, 1970) * ''Outside Help'' (

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/Big Tree, 1977) With

* '' It's a Blue World'' (

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, 1955) * ''

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'' (Bethlehem, 1956) * '' Mel Torme and the Marty Paich Dek-Tette'' (Bethlehem, 1956) * ''Songs for Any Taste'' (Bethlehem, 1959) * '

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' (

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, 1959) * '' Back in Town'' (Verve, 1960) * '' Swings Shubert Alley'' (Verve, 1960) * ''Songs of Love'' (Hurrah, 1962) * ''

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'' (

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, 1988) * ''

Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dektette – In Concert Tokyo ''Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dektette – In Concert Tokyo'' is a 1988 live album by the American jazz singer Mel Tormé, accompanied by a big band arranged and led by Marty Paich. Track listing #"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That ...

'' (Concord 1989) * ''I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart'' (Giants of Jazz, 1999) * ''The Art Pepper Marty Paich Sessions'' (Lone Hill, 2007) With others *

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, ''Paradise'' (Mode, 2004) *

Patti Austin Patti Austin (born August 10, 1950) is an American R&B, pop, and jazz singer and songwriter. Music career Austin was born in Harlem, New York, to Gordon Austin, a jazz trombonist. She was raised in Bay Shore, New York on Long Island. Quincy ...

, ''Patti Austin'' ( Qwest, 1984) * Jesse Belvin, ''Mr. Easy'' (RCA 1960) * Stephen Bishop, ''Bish'' (

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1978) *

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, ''Night Sounds San Francisco'' (

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, 1966) *

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, '' Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music'' (ABC-Paramount, 1962) *

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, '' Soul of the Ballad'' (

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, 1963) *

, ''

The Wham of Sam ''The Wham of Sam'' is a 1961 studio album by Sammy Davis Jr., arranged by Marty Paich and Morty Stevens. Reception The Allmusic review by Lindsay Planer awarded the album four stars and said that Davis' "untouchable sense of rhythmic flair unle ...

'', (Reprise, 1961) *

, '' What Kind of Fool Am I and Other Show-Stoppers'', (Reprise, 1961) *

, ''

Sammy Davis Jr. Belts the Best of Broadway ''Sammy Davis Jr. Belts the Best of Broadway'' is a 1962 studio album by Sammy Davis Jr., arranged by Marty Paich. Track listing # "Too Close for Comfort" (Jerry Bock, George David Weiss, Larry Holofcener) - 3:01 # " My Romance" ( Richard Rodger ...

'', (Reprise, 1962) *

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, '' Tap Root Manuscript'' (

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, 1970) * Bob Enevoldsen, ''Bob Enevoldsen Quintet'' (Tampa, 1956) * Bob Enevoldsen, ''Smorgasbord'' (

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, 1956) *

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, ''Music to Fill a Void Eight by Eight'' (Mode, 1957) *

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, ''Swingin' in Hi-Fi'' (Decca, 1956) * Herbie Fields, ''Blow Hot Blow Cool'' (Decca, 1955) *

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, '' Ella Swings Lightly'' (Verve, 1958) * Ella Fitzgerald, '' Whisper Not'' (Verve, 1966) * Russell Garcia, ''Four Horns and a Lush Life'' (Bethlehem, 1956) * Russell Garcia, ''Russel Garcia and His Four Trombone Band'' (Fresh Sound, 2005) * Herb Geller, Milt Bernhart, Howard Roberts, Curtis Counce, ''Jazz Studio 2 from Hollywood'' (Decca, 1954) * Jimmy Giuffre, Bob Cooper, Harry Klee, Bob Enevoldsen, ''Tenors West'' (

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, 1956) * Herbie Harper, ''Herbie Harper Sextet!'' (Mode, 1957) *

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, ''And All That Jazz'' (

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, 1958) *

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, ''

Our Man In New Orleans ''Our Man in New Orleans'' is an album by Al Hirt (RCA-LPM-2607) released by RCA Victor. The album was conducted and arranged by Marty Paich and produced by Steve Sholes. The album landed on the ''Billboard'' Top LPs chart in 1963, reaching No. ...

'', (RCA Victor, 1963) *

, ''

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, '' Lena...Lovely and Alive'' (RCA Victor, 1962) *

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, '' Lena Sings Your Requests'' (CRC, 1963) *

, ''Christmas with Mahalia'' (Columbia) *

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, '' The Fox'' ( Geffen, 1981) *

, ''I've Got a Lot of Livin' to Do!'' ( Kapp, 1962) *

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, ''Mellow Moods of Love'' (RCA 1965) * Ronnie Lang, ''Modern Jazz'' (Tops, 1957) * Mel Lewis, ''Mel Lewis Sextet'' (Mode, 1957) * Abbey Lincoln, ''Affair...A Story of a Girl in Love'' (Liberty, 1957) * Cheryl Lynn, ''Cheryl Lynn'' (Columbia, 1978) *

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, ''Gloria, Marty & Strings'' (Everest, 1963) *

, ''

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, ''Randy Meisner'' ( Asylum, 1978) *

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, '' And Here She Is...Ann-Margret (RCA Victor, 1961) *

, '' Songs from the Swinger and Other Swingin' Songs'' (RCA Victor, 1966) *

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, ''The Voice of Audrey Morris'' (Bethlehem, 1956) * Anita O'Day, '' Anita Sings the Winners'' (Verve, 1958) *

, ''Chile Pepper'' (Charlie Parker, 1956) *

, ''

'' (Contemporary, 1959) *

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, ''Lucky Lucy Ann'' (Mode, 1957) * Johnny Richards, ''Something Else by Johnny Richards'' (Bethlehem, 1956) * Howard Roberts, ''Mr. Roberts Plays Guitar'' (Verve, 1957) *

, '' Shorty Rogers Courts the Count'' (RCA Victor, 1954) * Shorty Rogers, ''The Big Shorty Rogers Express'' (RCA Victor, 1956) *

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'' Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind'' ( Elektra, 1989) * Jack Sheldon, ''A Jazz Profile of Ray Charles'' (Reprise, 1961) *

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, ''Jazz Practitioners'' (Bethlehem, 1957) *

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, ''Songs of the Beatles'' (Atlantic, 1981) * Sarah Vaughan, ''

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'' (Columbia, 1982) * Leon Ware, ''Leon Ware'' (Elektra, 1982) *

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, Jack Sheldon, ''A Jazz Band Ball: First Set'' (Mode, 1957)

References

External links

* * Thomas Cunniffe
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Career

Death

Awards and honors

Discography

As leader

As sideman

See also

References

External links