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Spud Murphy
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Backgrounder: Spud Murphy - Gone With the Woodwinds
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Lyle “Spud" Murphy was one of the more fascinating figures in jazz and today is among the least known. Murphy was a multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and arranger. He was one of Benny Goodman's arrangers in the mid-1930s and wrote charts for many other bands. But his claim to fame was his 12-volume course in composing, arranging, and orchestration for the professional musician titled The Equal Interval System. He taught mostly in Los Angeles. His EIS was a modern system of music composition ...
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