Career
Martino"s early working life was spent in European radio and night club orchestras, later composing for popular Italian singers and touring the world with his own orchestra. He had a late-blossoming career as a singer. Internationally he was mostly known for, composed in 1960, a standard that has been played many jazz performers since the early 1960s, including João Gilberto, Joe Diorio, Chet Baker, Toots Thielemans, Shirley Horn, Eliane Elias, Michel Petrucciani, Monty Alexander, Mike Stern and Robert Jospé.
Bruno Martino"s song "" appears in the album Italian Graffiti (1960/61) and is performed onscreen in Vincente Minnelli"s film Two Weeks in Another Town (1962).
lieutenant inspired the title of Kim Newman"s novel (1998), which takes place in Rome, 1959.