[Dixielandjazz] Pete Candoli NY Times Obit

Thu Jan 17 09:12:51 PST 2008

Steve -- The cause was prostate cancer, said his partner, Sheryl Deauville.
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Your post brings up a subject that none of us likes but I have four musician 
friends who have Prostate cancer.  Another one has recently died.

I was calling one of them to do a gig a couple of months ago and somehow 
medical came up in the conversation.  He and I had both been in the AF 
together and has full medical benefits as a retiree.  He bragged that he 
never went to doctors and didn't particularly believe in them.  He was one 
of these guys that thought he was really physically fit.  He let me know 
that he wasn't available for the gig and that's where it ended.  This 
particular musician isn't the sharpest pencil in the box and I wondered if 
he even knew that he had full benefits but after having similar 
conversations over the years with a couple of other AF guys I just dropped 
it.

His cancer is pretty far advanced I think.  The last report that I had was 
that he couldn't lift an arm so I think it's spread.

A lot of us are getting older and unfortunately this type of cancer can grow 
for years without any symptoms.  The good news is that there is a simple 
blood test to detect it early.

Two other musicians that I know had it and went through the therapy and are 
cancer free for more than 15 years.

I think it's sad that we lose these guys early.  All of these guys are good 
players and friends of mine so get checked.
Larry
St. Louis
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Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] [Dixielandjazz] Pete Candoli NY Times Obit

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.

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