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 some 600 swing charts during the decade.
But his claim to fame was his 12-volume course in composing, arranging, and orchestr…
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