In the late 1940s Russ Garcia studied extensively with cutting-edge European theorists and composers in Hollywood. Yet he always retained his jazz sensibility. After arranging a series of terrific albums in the early 1950s that established him as one of the West Coast's fastest and most complete orchestrators, Verve producer Norman Granz tapped him in 1…
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