[Dixielandjazz] Pete Candoli NY Times Obit

[Steve Barbone]

Pete Candoli, Jazz Trumpeter, Dies at 84

NY TIMES - By PETER KEEPNEWS - January 17, 2008

Pete Candoli, a jazz trumpeter who made his mark as a high-note specialist
in the big-band era and went on to become one of the busiest studio
musicians in Hollywood, died on Friday at his home in Studio City, Calif. He
was 84.

The cause was prostate cancer, said his partner, Sheryl Deauville.

Born Walter Joseph Candoli in Mishawaka, Ind., on June 28, 1923, Mr. Candoli
became a professional musician in his teens and had already worked with
several big bands, including Tommy Dorsey¹s, when he joined the Woody Herman
Herd in 1944, at the age of 21. His stratospheric range was prominently
featured with Herman on numbers that he sometimes played while wearing a
Superman costume. He also took part in the historic 1946 Carnegie Hall
concert at which the Herman band performed the world premiere of Igor
Stravinsky¹s ³Ebony Concerto.²

In 1955 Mr. Candoli moved to Los Angeles. There, in addition to continuing
his jazz work with Stan Kenton and others, he became an active studio
musician, working on film and television soundtracks as well as record dates
for Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald and numerous others. He was a
member of the Henry Mancini ensemble that provided the memorable
jazz-inflected score for the television show ³Peter Gunn,² on which he
occasionally appeared on camera.

>From 1957 to 1962 Mr. Candoli was the co-leader of a small group with his
younger brother, Conte, an equally accomplished trumpeter with a similar
big-band résumé. The Candoli brothers continued to work together on and off
into the 1990s. Conte Candoli died in 2001.

Mr. Candoli¹s three marriages, all to fellow performers, ended in divorce.
He was married to the actress Vicky Lane from 1953 to 1958, the
actress-singer Betty Hutton from 1960 to 1967 and the actress-singer Edie
Adams from 1972 to 1989. He and Ms. Adams briefly toured in the 1970s with a
nightclub act in which he sang and danced as well as playing trumpet and
leading the orchestra.

Besides Ms. Deauville, he is survived by two daughters, Tara Candoli and
Caroline Byers, both of Los Angeles; a sister, Gloria Henke of Mishawaka;
and two grandchildren.