Russ Garcia, an early West Coast jazz-classical theorist, composer, arranger and teacher whose trombone-centric big band scores in the 1950s could swing with pixie delight and jack-hammer power, died on Nov. 20. He was 95.
I interviewed Russ in 2008 about his life as well as his assertion that he had been mistakenly overlooked by the Academy of Motion Pi…
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