Johnny Richards's big band arrangements always remind me of summers in Los Angeles at day's end. His albums are hot and humid affairs, but his French horns offer a balmy sea breeze while his trombones add calm and stir up images of an endless Pacific horizon. His piccolos are the caws of gulls.
I first came to Richards through his arrangements on Stan Ke…
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