(1924-02-06)February 6, 1924 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died
January 17, 2021(2021-01-17) (aged 96) Carlsbad, California, U.S.
Genres
Jazz
Occupation(s)
Composer, arranger
Musical artist
Samuel Louis Nistico (February 6, 1924 – January 17, 2021), better known as Sammy Nestico, was an American composer and arranger. Nestico is best known for his arrangements for the Count Basie orchestra.[1]
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1924 – January 17, 2021), better known as SammyNestico, was an American composer and arranger. Nestico is best known for his arrangements for the Count...
Day Out with The Billy May Orchestra (1991) Close Your Eyes with The SammyNestico Big Band (1993) Soft and Low (1999) Full Circle (2000) Frankie and Billy...
1950s and 1960s made use of the work of the arrangers Neal Hefti and SammyNestico with featured musicians such as Thad Jones and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis...
the first collaboration between Basie and his long-time orchestrator, SammyNestico, who composed, arranged and conducted all of the songs on the record...
written down and credited to a specific arranger, as with arrangements by SammyNestico and Neal Hefti for Count Basie's later big bands. Don Redman made innovations...
Nominations". Chicago Tribune. Tribune Company. p. 10. Retrieved 1 May 2011. "SammyNestico - Artist - grammy.com". Grammy Award. Retrieved 18 March 2018. "A Complete...
the Note adopted a more contemporary style under the direction of SammyNestico. Beginning in the '70s, Senior Master Sgt. Mike Crotty was the Note's...
2022-04-13 Carpenters - Made In America, 1981, retrieved 2022-04-13 SammyNestico - Dark Orchid, 1981, retrieved 2022-04-13 David Essex - Be-Bop The Future...
Billie Holiday's "Lady in Satin." It was the final album orchestrated by SammyNestico prior to his death. The album reached number one on the iTunes Jazz...
sound in the 1950s and 1960s largely due to staff arrangers such as SammyNestico. Over the past four decades, Mike Crotty and Alan Baylock have taken...
1995 Q's Jook Joint 1999 From Q with Love 2000 Basie and Beyond (with SammyNestico) With Phil Kelly & The Northwest Prevailing Winds 2003 Convergence Zone...
Benny Carter (Kansas City Suite), Neal Hefti (The Atomic Mr Basie), and SammyNestico (Basie-Straight Ahead). Frank Sinatra recorded for the first time with...
Basie Street. All tracks are written by SammyNestico, except where noted Count Basie – piano SammyNestico – conductor, arranger Sonny Cohn – flugelhorn...
(Compilation) Warner Bros. 72 1 31 — 2000 Basie and Beyond (The Quincy Jones/SammyNestico Orchestra) — 10 — — 2001 Q - The Musical Biography of Quincy Jones (Compilation)...
Singer Bobby Vinton, MLB pitcher Joe Beimel, and big-band composer SammyNestico are also alumni. Norm Nixon, who holds the all-time assist record for...
(PCJB) to perform throughout China. Grammy Award-winning jazz composers SammyNestico, Frank Mantooth, Bob Mintzer and Emmy and Grammy award-winning composer...
– 6:07 "The Wind Machine" – 3:08 "Tall Cotton" – 5:50 All music by SammyNestico. Count Basie – piano Pete Minger – trumpet Frank Szabo Dave Stahl Bobby...
Sam Nanton (1904–1946) Dick Nash (born 1928) Louis Nelson (1902–1990) SammyNestico (1924–2021) Ed Neumeister (born 1952) Mark Nightingale (born 1967) Kid...
Class Champion 1980 New York Fantasy by Wayne Downey / Ya Gotta Try by SammyNestico / Pegasus by Hank Levy / Free by Robert Lamm / La Suerte de Los Tontos...
Imagination (Varese Sarabande, 1994) SammyNestico, Big Band Favorites of SammyNestico (Summit, 1998) SammyNestico, This Is the Moment (Fenwood 2002)...
his 1992 Christmas Songs album. The Count Basie Orchestra recorded a SammyNestico Big Band Arrangement of the song, re-named to 'Good Swing Venceslas'...
Christopher Alan Schmitz is an American composer and winner of the 2007 SammyNestico Award in Jazz Composition. He is currently a professor of music theory...
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