Last week, saxophone legend Hal McKusick and I were talking about Boyd Raeburn's band from the mid-1940s and the staggering number of visionary arrangers Boyd had on board. Raeburn's penmen included Ed Finckel, George Williams, Johnny Richards, Johnny Mandel, Tadd Dameron, Ralph Flanagan, Dizzy Gillespie, Juan Tizol, George Handy and others.
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