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Willis Leonard Holman (May 21, 1927 – May 6, 2024) was an American composer, arranger, conductor, saxophonist, and songwriter working in jazz and traditional pop. His career spanned over seven decades, starting with the Charlie Barnet orchestra in 1950.
May 8, 2024 · Willis "Bill" Holman, a three-time Grammy-winning arranger, composer and saxophonist and one of the last-surviving artists who shaped West Coast jazz in the early 1950s, died May 6 in his sleep of natural causes. He was 96.
May 10, 2024 · Bill Holman, an arranger and composer whose work with Stan Kenton, Gerry Mulligan and other jazz greats established him as a transformative figure in the cool jazz sound associated with...
May 9, 2024 · Bill Holman, a Grammy Award-winning jazz arranger and composer who helped shape the big-band music of Stan Kenton and Doc Severinsen’s “Tonight Show” orchestra and wrote orchestrations...
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Feb 16, 2023 · Willis “Bill" Holman, a three-time Grammy-winning arranger, composer and saxophonist and one of the last-surviving orchestrators who shaped West Coast jazz in the early 1950s, died May 6 in his sleep of natural causes. He was 96.
May 15, 2024 · On 6 May 2024, we lost a dear friend of ASMAC, Bill Holman (Willis Leonard Holman) at the age of 96, two weeks shy of his 97th birthday.
May 11, 2024 · When looking back at the remarkable career of arranger, composer, and saxophonist Willis Leonard “Bill” Holman, it is important to consider how he has so profoundly influenced generation after generation of big band players and writers.
