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Caesar Giovannini
Caesar Giovannini is credited on 394 releases across 57 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1956–2020 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
394
Pressings credited
57
Albums
8
Decades active
49
In collections
Biography
Caesar Giovannini (February 26, 1925 – September 23, 2017) was an American pianist, band arranger and composer. Born in Chicago Illinois, Giovannini began piano studies at the age of five. He attended the Alfred Nobel Grammar School in Chicago and the Lane Technical High School. He graduated from the Chicago Conservatory of Music in 1948 with a Bachelor of Music and a master's degree in composition. While serving in the Navy, he was appointed in the US Navy Band in Washington, DC. From 1949 to 1956 he joined NBC in Chicago and gained fame through appearances on the Dave Garroway and Ransom Sherman shows. During 1956 and 1957 he was music director for the Kukla, Fran and Ollie television show. In 1958 he joined ABC Chicago. His instrumental compositions for Concert Band include Alla Barocco, El Torero, Overture in B-Flat, Overture to a New Era, and Chorale and Capriccio (with orchestrations by Wayne Robinson). From 1961 to 1976, he played piano on many movie soundtracks including The World of Henry Orient (1964), Wait Until Dark (1967), The Fox (1967), The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968), Shaft's Big Score (1972) and Raid on Entebbe (1976).
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Credited work
394 releases · 57 albums · active 1956–2020
- Performance · 597
- Other credits · 57
Studios: Universal Recording Studio · United Recording Corp. · RCA Studios, Hollywood · Charter Publications
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1977
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Original Motion Picture Sound Track)
1973
Percussion In Hi-Fi
1956
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
1963
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Original Motion Picture Score)
1963
Rhapsody In Rhythm
1962
Solo Encores
1961
In My Lifetime
1996
Frequent collaborators
- Clebanoff And His Orchestra
- Various
- David Carroll
- Roger Williams (2)
- Wayne King His Saxophone And Orchestra
- The Clebanoff Strings
- Wayne King And His Orchestra
- Neil Diamond
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