When the word pretty is used to describe jazz, three arrangers come to mind: Tadd Dameron, Gigi Gryce and Quincy Jones. All of them were modern, artful and romantic in how they composed and scored ensembles. And all three were influenced by Billy Strayhorn, jazz’s romantic in chief. [Photo above of Tadd Dameron by William P. Gottlieb in the late 1940s]
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