Bill Holman (musician)

Willis Leonard "Bill" Holman ( born May 21, 1927 in Olive, California ) is an American jazz musician ( arranger, composer, saxophonist ).

Holman learned during high school tenor saxophone. After his military service and training as an engineer at the University of California, Los Angeles, he decided to write music for big bands and studied at the Westlake College in Los Angeles. He wrote in 1951 for Charlie Barnet. Since 1952 he worked as an arranger and instrumentalist in the orchestra of Stan Kenton (New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm ). He was both as an instrumentalist and as a composer and arranger formative for West Coast jazz of the 1950s, where he played in combos to Shorty Rogers and Shelly Manne and later his own group with Mel Lewis headed. Then he led his own big band, which is summoned again and again for its productions. In addition, he has worked with most major stars and ensembles of modern jazz, as Louie Bellson, Count Basie, Terry Gibbs, Woody Herman, Bob Brookmeyer, Buddy Rich, Gerry Mulligan, Doc Severinsen, the WDR or the hr -Bigband. He wrote dimension for vocalists like Anita O'Day, Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett, Carmen McRae, Judy Garland, Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Tormé, Michael Buble, June Christy, Natalie Cole and The Fifth.

From its often polyphonic compositions have been applied particularly well known: Bright Eyes, Evil Eyes, Trilogy, as well as film music to Swamp Woman ( 1956), Get Out of Town (1959 ) or Three on a coach ( 1966). In 1996 he received for his composition A View From the Side, recorded with the Bill Holman band, and in 1998 for arrangements on his album Brilliant Corners - The Music of Thelonious Monk a Grammy. He was re-elected to one of the leading ranks of Down Beat polls for " arrangement".

In 2010 he received the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Jive for Five ( VSOP, 1958) with Jimmy Rowles, Wilfred Middlebrooks, Mel Lewis
  • Bill Holman Meets the Norwegian Radio Big Band (Taurus, 1987) with Atle Hammer
  • A View from the Side ( JVC, 1995)
  • Brilliant Corners ( JVC, 1997)
  • Live ( Jazzed Media, 2004)

Collection

Swell

  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 8th Edition, London, Penguin, 2006 ISBN 0-14-102327-9.
  • Arranger
  • Composer (Jazz)
  • Film composer
  • Jazz saxophonist
  • American musician
  • Born 1927
  • Man
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