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Sunday, June 08, 2008

Passing:Bill Finegan, Arranger and Big-Band Leader (NY Times)

From The New York Times:

By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Published: June 8, 2008

Bill Finegan, who arranged hits for Glen Miller and Tommy Dorsey and then formed a big band with Eddie Sauter, another legendary arranger, that was famed for skill, daring and very, very odd instruments, died on Wednesday June 4 in Bridgeport, Conn. He was 91.

Arrangers, the largely behind-the-scenes masterminds of the big-band era, took compositions by bandleaders and others and refashioned them. Mr. Finegan heavily arranged Miller’s first big hit, “Little Brown Jug,” and virtually everything he recorded in 1938 and 1939. He later became a regular arranger for Dorsey.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/arts/music/08finegan.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

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