Vic Lewis, a British bandleader whose intensive admiration for Stan Kenton and other West Coast jazz artists led him to form one of Britain's most admired American-sounding jazz orchestras of the late 1940s and 1950s, died on Monday in the U.K. He was 89.
Most American jazz fans are unfamiliar with Lewis, primarily because the bandleader toured the U.S. …
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