Pete Rugolo, a jazz-classical maverick in the late-1940s and architect of a brassy, West Coast orchestral sound that helped establish Stan Kenton and the music of television and the movies in the 1950s and 1960s, died on October 16 in Sherman Oaks, Calif. He was 95. [Photo by William P. Gottlieb]
Starting in 1944 with his first recorded arrangement for K…
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