The late-'50s detective series Peter Gunn was popular, but Henry Mancini's music for it became iconic. NPR's Linda Wertheimer finds out what makes... The Private Eye Who Made Cool Jazz His Calling ...

Soaked in a New York downpour, a party gal searches for her lost cat in an alley, the man whose love she’s resisted looking on forlornly. As she cries out for the pet, chords from a Henry Mancini ...

The Henry Mancini family continues to celebrate what would have been the late legendary composer’s 100th birthday with the release of Henry Mancini’s The Henry Mancini 100th Sessions – Henry Has ...

You know the theme. That tenor saxophone is part of pop-culture history. Of course, the score to “The Pink Panther” is much more than just one sound. Mancini’s vision for slick, cool jazz thrives.

Monica Mancini can point to the exact night – April 9, 1962 – when she and her two siblings realized that their father, the legendary film composer Henry Mancini, wasn’t like other dads. “There was a ...