Willis "Bill" Holman, a three-time Grammy-winning arranger, composer and saxophonist and one of the last-surviving artists who shaped West Coast jazz in the early 1950s, died May 6 in his sleep of natural causes. He was 96.
Influenced most by Gerry Mulligan's arranging and the sound of Count Basie's band, Bill began writing for Stan Kenton just as the po…