{"id":183962,"date":"2026-07-22T12:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/183962\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T12:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:04:13","slug":"la-panthere-rose-a-perdu-son-saxophoniste-plas-johnson-est-mort-a-94-ans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/183962\/","title":{"rendered":"La Panth\u00e8re rose a perdu son saxophoniste, Plas Johnson est mort \u00e0 94 ans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Le musicien de jazz am\u00e9ricain a jou\u00e9 le solo de The Pink Panther Theme compos\u00e9e par Henry Mancini. Il a \u00e9galement accompagn\u00e9 des l\u00e9gendes comme Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald et Barbra Streisand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fig-paragraph\">Le musicien de jazz am\u00e9ricain Plas Johnson, qui a interpr\u00e9t\u00e9 le c\u00e9l\u00e8bre th\u00e8me musical de\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/cinema\/2010\/12\/16\/03002-20101216ARTFIG00735-mort-du-realisateur-de-la-panthere-rose.php\" target=\"_blank\" data-fig-type=\"Article\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-gtm-custom-categorie=\"navigation\" data-gtm-custom-action=\"crossclick\" data-gtm-custom-label=\"Contextuel\" data-gtm-event=\"customEventSPE\" data-fig-domain=\"LEFIGARO\">La Panth\u00e8re rose<\/a>, est mort le 15 juillet \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e2ge de 94 ans, ont annonc\u00e9 mardi les m\u00e9dias am\u00e9ricains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fig-paragraph\">Fils d&rsquo;un saxophoniste professionnel, il s&rsquo;\u00e9tait d&rsquo;abord sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9 dans le jump blues et le R&amp;B avant de devenir un musicien respect\u00e9 sur sc\u00e8ne comme en studio. Il a notamment accompagn\u00e9 des l\u00e9gendes de la musique comme\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/mode-homme\/frank-sinatra-un-homme-un-style-20190514\" target=\"_blank\" data-fig-type=\"Article\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-gtm-custom-categorie=\"navigation\" data-gtm-custom-action=\"crossclick\" data-gtm-custom-label=\"Contextuel\" data-gtm-event=\"customEventSPE\" data-fig-domain=\"LEFIGARO\">Frank Sinatra<\/a>, Nat King Cole,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/actualite\/2006\/08\/02\/01001-20060802ARTFIG90016-ella_fitzgerald_la_grande_dame_du_jazz.php\" target=\"_blank\" data-fig-type=\"Article\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-gtm-custom-categorie=\"navigation\" data-gtm-custom-action=\"crossclick\" data-gtm-custom-label=\"Contextuel\" data-gtm-event=\"customEventSPE\" data-fig-domain=\"LEFIGARO\">\u00a0Ella Fitzgerald<\/a>\u00a0et\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/festival-de-cannes\/barbra-streisand-palme-d-or-d-honneur-lors-du-79e-festival-de-cannes-20260311\" target=\"_blank\" data-fig-type=\"NewsFlash\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-gtm-custom-categorie=\"navigation\" data-gtm-custom-action=\"crossclick\" data-gtm-custom-label=\"Contextuel\" data-gtm-event=\"customEventSPE\" data-fig-domain=\"LEFIGARO\">Barbra Streisand<\/a>. Au-del\u00e0 de la prestation remarqu\u00e9e de Peter Sellers dans le r\u00f4le de Jacques Clouseau dans La Panth\u00e8re rose, le c\u00e9l\u00e8bre th\u00e8me musical compos\u00e9 par Henry Mancini est d&rsquo;abord port\u00e9 par le solo de saxophone de Plas Johnson, avant que n&rsquo;entre en sc\u00e8ne l&rsquo;ensemble des cuivres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fig-body-link\">\n            \u00c0 lire aussi<br \/>\n        <a class=\"fig-body-link__link fig-premium-mark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/cinema\/journee-mondiale-de-l-animation-les-francais-champions-du-dessin-anime-20251027\" target=\"_blank\" data-fig-type=\"Article\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-gtm-custom-categorie=\"navigation\" data-gtm-custom-action=\"crossclick\" data-gtm-custom-label=\"Contextuel\" data-gtm-event=\"customEventSPE\" data-fig-domain=\"LEFIGARO\"><br \/>\n                Journ\u00e9e mondiale de l\u2019animation\u00a0: les Fran\u00e7ais champions du dessin anim\u00e9<br \/>\n    <\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>                                            <a class=\"fig-a11y-skip\" href=\"#fig-a11y-skip-main-inarticle\" is=\"fig-a11y-skip\" data-trigger-mode=\"visible-once\"><br \/>\n    Passer la publicit\u00e9<br \/>\n<\/a>            <\/p>\n<p class=\"fig-paragraph\">Henry Mancini a compos\u00e9 ce morceau sp\u00e9cialement pour le musicien. Le style de Plas Johnson lui avait valu une solide r\u00e9putation en tant que membre de The Wrecking Crew, un collectif de musiciens de Los Angeles r\u00e9put\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Le musicien de jazz am\u00e9ricain a jou\u00e9 le solo de The Pink Panther Theme compos\u00e9e par Henry Mancini.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[102],"tags":[12,13,18,17,129,128,96,95,5381,56876,108,109],"class_list":["post-183962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-people","tag-be","tag-be-fr","tag-belgique","tag-belgium","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-divertissement","tag-entertainment","tag-jazz","tag-la-panthere-rose","tag-musique","tag-people"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be_fr\/116963538807489984","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}