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Bill Russo: 'School of Rebellion'
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Bill Russo is best known to jazz fans as one of Stan Kenton's top arrangers in the early 1950s. But from time to time, Russo led his own orchestras on recording sessions. His first leadership date came in 1947, and from 1947 to 1950 he led a rehearsal band known as Experiment in Jazz. Russo's arrangements typically had a brooding, modern-classical fee, which was inspired by his studies with pianist Lennie Tristano in the mid-1940s. Russo also tended to focus ...
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Bill Russo: Ground-breaking Composer and Arranger
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All About Jazz
Composer, arranger, conductor, trombone, teacher Born: June 25, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois Died: January 11, 2003 in Chicago, Illinois
Bill Russo was one of the most important composers and arrangers in jazz history. He contributed some of the most innovative orchestral scores ever written in a jazz idiom to the Stan Kenton Orchestra in the Fifties, and later founded important jazz orchestras in London and Chicago.
He was born William Joseph Russo, and attended the same ...
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