Jazz Articles about The Ebony Big Band

The Ebony Big Band: The Music of Robert F. Graettinger: Live at the Paradiso

by Jack Bowers
April 2, 2003

Robert Graettinger, who made his mark as a composer / arranger for Stan Kenton’s “Innovations in Modern Music” Orchestra (1947-51), is remembered today by no more than a small circle of jazz aficionados who heard and appreciated such groundbreaking works as “City of Glass” and “Thermopylae,” among others.

Graettinger was only thirty-four when he succumbed to cancer in 1957, and the bulk of his scores, many of which were never recorded or even performed, languished in obscurity ...