One of the first pairings of a jazz soloist with a big band and strings dates back to December 1947, and the event was largely an accident. At the time, Clef Records owner and producer Norman Granz was on a recording tear, trying to wax as much jazz as possible in advance of a threatened January 1, 1948 recording ban by the musicians union.
Granz rented …
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