Sammy Nestico
Full Name: Samuel Luigi Nistico
Birth Date: February 6, 1924
Deceased Date: January 17, 2021
Artist Bio:
Highly-respected trombonist and music arranger, widely-recognized as the most prolific composer of scholastic jazz-pop anthems, scored over 600 different songs that comprise the setlists of countless high school marching bands, arranged music for the US Air Force Band in the 50s and directed the US Marine Band in the 60s, joined the Count Basie Orchestra in 1968 and worked with his friend until Basie‘s death in 1984, thereafter enjoying a long career composing, arranging and conducting his own bands and those of others (Frank Sinatra among them), scoring films and TV theme songs, teaching college music courses, recording a dozen albums (the last in 2017) and writing marching band music, died from natural causes at home on 1/17/2021, age 96.
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Obituary Link:
https://jazztimes.com/features/tributes-and-obituaries/sammy-nestico-1924-2021/
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