Ninety-eight years ago today, Milton Rajonsky was born in Great Barrington, Mass. Milton would later become known as Shorty Rogers, a trumpeter and flugelhornist and composer-arranger who was one of West Coast jazz's primary architects in the early 1950s. He also pioneered a brassy, swinging sound for TV shows and his cool approach inspired Henry Mancin…
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