Martin Louis Paich (January 23, 1925 – August 12, 1995) was an American pianist, composer, arranger, record producer, music director, and conductor. As a musician and arranger he worked with jazz musicians Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Kenton, Al Hirt, Art Pepper, Buddy Rich, Ray Brown, Shorty Rogers, Pete Rugolo, Ray Charles and Mel Tormé. His long association with Tormé included one of the singer's earliest albums, '' Mel Tormé with the Marty Paich Dek-Tette''. Over the next three decades he worked with pop singers such as Andy Williams and Jack Jones and for film and television. He is the father of

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, a founding member of the rock band Toto.

Career

A native of

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, Paich learned accordion and piano at an early age. In the 1930s, when he was ten years old, he was leading bands and performing at weddings. At sixteen, he wrote arrangements with

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. He served with the U.S. Air Corps in World War II. He attended the University of Southern California and received a master's degree in composition from the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. Among his teachers were Julia Bal de Zuniga, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and

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. In the 1950s, in addition to working as music director for

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, he wrote arrangements for

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, Ray Brown,

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, Dave Pell,

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, Shorty Rogers,

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, and for the movie ''

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''. He began recording with

Mel Tormé Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed "the Velvet Fog", was an American musician, singer, composer, arrangement, arranger, drummer, actor, and author. He composed the music for "The Christmas Song" ("Chestnuts Roa ...

in 1955 on the album ''It's a Blue World'' when Tormé was moving from pop singer to jazz singer. During the next year, his ten piece band accompanied Tormé on the album '' Mel Tormé with the Marty Paich Dek-Tette'', which contained a version of the 1930s song " Lulu's Back in Town". He wrote arrangements for

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for the album ''

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''. In the 1960s, he spent less time as a musician and more as an arranger for pop singers such as Sammy Davis Jr.,

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, and Jack Jones. He also scored films, such as ''

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'' (1964), ''

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'' (1966), ''

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'' (1966) and ''

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'' (1969). In the 1970s, he worked as a composer and arranger in film and television, winning an Emmy award for the television drama '' Ironside''. He led the studio orchestras for television variety programs such as ''

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'' and ''

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'' and replaced

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in ''

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''. Marty orchestrated and conducted scores for the films '' The Fugitive'', ''

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'', and '' Prince of Tides''.

Death

Paich died of colon cancer at the age of 70 on August 12, 1995 at his home in Santa Ynez, California.

Awards and honors

* Emmy, Best Song or Theme, ''Ironside'', 1974

Discography

As leader

* 1955.01 ''- Jazz Music For The Birds And The Hep Cats'' (Betlehem, 1955) 'Russ Garcia And Marty Paich''* 1955.11 - ''Tenors West'' (Gene Norman Presents,1956) '' Giuffre, B Cooper, H Klee, B Enevoldsen With The Marty Paich Octet' * 1955.00 The Two previous recording were reissued as ''Paich ench'' (Fresh Sound Recs, 2006) * 1956.08 - ''The Marty Paich Quartet'' ''Featuring Art Pepper'' (Tampa, 1956) * 1956.08 - ''Hot Piano'' (Tampa, 1957) '' uartet' - Reissued as ''Jazz for Relaxation (Tampa, 1958)'' * 1957.06 - ''Paich Is The Picasso of Big Band Jazz'' (

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, 1958) - Reissued as ''What's New'' (

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, 1982) * 1957.06 - ''Marty Paich Trio'' (Mode, 1957) * 1957.07 - A Jazz Band Ball, First Set (Mode, 1958) '' arty Paich Combo' - Reissued as ''Revel Without A Pause'' (Interlude, 1959) * 1959.00 - ''The Broadway Bit'' (

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, 1959) '' rchestra' * 1959.06 - ''I Get a Boot Out of You'' (Warner Bros., 1959) '' rchestra' * 1959.10 ''- Take Me Along (

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, 1960) iano quartet' * 1960.06 - ''Lush, Latin & Cool'' (RCA Victor, 1961) '' iano quartet' * 1966 ? ''-The Rock Jazz Incident'' (

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, 1966) '' rchestra'

As arranger a/o sideman

With Dave Pell * 1956.09 - ''Swingin' in the Ol' Corral'' (RCA Victor, 1957) '' ctet' * 1957.01 - ''A Pell of a Time'' (RCA Victor, 1957) '' ctet' * 1958.08 - ''Swingin' School Songs'' (Coral, 1958) '' ctet' * 1959.02 - ''The Big Small Bands'' ( Capitol, 1960) * 1960-61 - ''The Old South wails'' (Capitol, 1961) '' ctet' * 1961 - ''I remember John Kirby'' (Capitol, 1961) '' uintet' With

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* ''Realization'' ( Imperial, 1968) * ''Slim Slo Slider'' (Imperial, 1970) * ''Outside Help'' ( Soul City/Big Tree, 1977) With

* '' Mel Tormé with the Marty Paich Dek-Tette'' '' (Bethlehem, 1956) ek-Tette' * '' Tormé Sings Fred Astaire'' (Bethlehem, 1956) '' ek-Tette' * ''At The Crescendo'' (Bethlehem, 1957) * ''Dedicated to the Golden State: Mel Torme's California Suite'' (Bethlehem, 1957) * ''Prelude To A Kiss'' (Tops, 1958) '' rchestra' * ''Songs for Any Taste'' (Bethlehem, 1959) '' rchestra' * ' Tormé' (

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, 1959) '' rchestra' * '' Back in Town'' (Verve, 1960) '' ith The Mel-Tones and Orchestra' * '' Swings Shubert Alley'' (Verve, 1960) '' ek-Tette' * ''Songs of Love'' (Hurrah, 1962) '' rchestra' * '' Reunion'' (

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, 1988) '' ek-Tette' * '' Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dektette – In Concert Tokyo'' (Concord, 1989) '' ek-Tette' With others * 1955. -

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, ''Paradise'' (Mode, 2004) *

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, ''Patti Austin'' (

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, 1984) *

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, ''Mr. Easy'' (RCA 1960) * Stephen Bishop, ''Bish'' (

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1978) *

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, ''Night Sounds San Francisco'' (

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, 1966) *

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, '' Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music'' (ABC-Paramount, 1962) *

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, '' Soul of the Ballad'' (

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, 1963) * Sammy Davis Jr., '' The Wham of Sam'', (Reprise, 1961) * Sammy Davis Jr., ''

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'', (Reprise, 1961) * Sammy Davis Jr., '' Sammy Davis Jr. Belts the Best of Broadway'', (Reprise, 1962) *

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, '' Tap Root Manuscript'' ( UNI, 1970) *

Bob Enevoldsen Robert Martin Enevoldsen (September 11, 1920 – November 19, 2005) was a West Coast jazz tenor saxophonist and valve trombonist born in Billings, Montana, known for his work with Marty Paich. Career Enevoldsen recorded did sessions with Ar ...

, ''Bob Enevoldsen Quintet'' (Tampa, 1956) * Bob Enevoldsen, ''Smorgasbord'' (

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, 1956) *

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, ''Music to Fill a Void Eight by Eight'' (Mode, 1957) *

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, ''Swingin' in Hi-Fi'' (Decca, 1956) *

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, ''Blow Hot Blow Cool'' (Decca, 1955) *

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, '' Ella Swings Lightly'' (Verve, 1958) * Ella Fitzgerald, '' Whisper Not'' (Verve, 1966) * Russell Garcia, ''Four Horns and a Lush Life'' (Bethlehem, 1956) * 1955. - Russell Garcia, ''Russel Garcia and His Four Trombone Band'' (Fresh Sound, 2005) *

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, Milt Bernhart, Howard Roberts, Curtis Counce, ''Jazz Studio 2 from Hollywood'' (Decca, 1954) *

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, Bob Cooper, Harry Klee, Bob Enevoldsen, ''Tenors West'' (

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, 1956) *

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, ''Herbie Harper Sextet!'' (Mode, 1957) *

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, ''And All That Jazz'' ( Columbia, 1958) *

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, '' Our Man In New Orleans'', (RCA Victor, 1963) *

, '' Trumpet and Strings'' (RCA Victor, 1964) *

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, '' Lena...Lovely and Alive'' (RCA Victor, 1962) *

, '' Lena Sings Your Requests'' (CRC, 1963) *

, ''Christmas with Mahalia'' (Columbia) *

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, '' The Fox'' ( Geffen, 1981) * Jack Jones, ''I've Got a Lot of Livin' to Do!'' ( Kapp, 1962) *

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, ''Mellow Moods of Love'' (RCA 1965) * Ronnie Lang, ''Modern Jazz'' (Tops, 1957) *

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, ''Mel Lewis Sextet'' (Mode, 1957) *

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, ''Affair...A Story of a Girl in Love'' (Liberty, 1957) *

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, ''Cheryl Lynn'' (Columbia, 1978) *

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, ''Gloria, Marty & Strings'' (Everest, 1963) *

, ''

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, 1956) *

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, ''Sometimes I'm Happy Sometimes I'm Sad'' (Liberty, 1960) *

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, ''Randy Meisner'' (

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, 1978) *

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, '' And Here She Is...Ann-Margret (RCA Victor, 1961) *

, '' Songs from the Swinger and Other Swingin' Songs'' (RCA Victor, 1966) *

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, ''The Voice of Audrey Morris'' (Bethlehem, 1956) *

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, '' Anita Sings the Winners'' (Verve, 1958) *

, ''Chile Pepper'' (Charlie Parker, 1956) *

, ''

'' (Contemporary, 1959) *

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, ''Lucky Lucy Ann'' (Mode, 1957) *

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, ''Something Else by Johnny Richards'' (Bethlehem, 1956) *

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, ''Mr. Roberts Plays Guitar'' (Verve, 1957) * Shorty Rogers, ''

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'' ( Elektra, 1989) *

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, ''A Jazz Profile of Ray Charles'' (Reprise, 1961) * Eddie Shu, ''Jazz Practitioners'' (Bethlehem, 1957) *

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, ''Songs of the Beatles'' (Atlantic, 1981) * Sarah Vaughan, '' Gershwin Live!'' (Columbia, 1982) *

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, ''Leon Ware'' (Elektra, 1982) * Fran Warren, ''Hey There! Here's Fran Warren'' (Tops, 1957) * Fran Warren, ''Come Rain or Come Shine'' (Venise, 1959)

References

External links

* * Thomas Cunniffe
"Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dek-tette"

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Career

Death

Awards and honors

Discography

As leader

As arranger a/o sideman

See also

References

External links