Billy May
The last of the great arrangers who wrote regularly for Frank Sinatra, Billy May had several varied careers in and out of jazz. His first notable gig was as an arranger/trumpeter with Charlie Barnet (1938-1940), for whom he wrote the wah-wah-ing hit arrangement of Ray Noble's "Cherokee." Later, he worked in the same capacities for Glenn Miller (1940-1942) and Les Brown (1942) before settling into staff jobs, first at NBC studios, then at Capitol Records, where he led his own studio big band from 1951 to 1954. His arrangements for Sinatra, beginning with Come Fly With Me (1957) and ending with Trilogy (1979), are often in a walloping, brassy, even taunting swing mode, generating some of the singer's most swaggering vocals. May also did extensive scoring for television, film, and commercials. Although May was largely inactive in the '80s and '90s , he unexpectedly surfaced in 1996 with some typically bright big band charts for comic Stan Freberg's The United States of America, Vol. 2 (Rhino), 25 years after his contributions to Vol. 1. The veteran arranger died quietly at home on January 22, 2004 at the age of 87.
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100+ Jazz & Big Band Classics
Jazz - Erschienen bei Classic Music International am 30.11.2010
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Billy May Plays for Fancy Dancin'
Jazz - Erschienen bei Music Manager am 16.09.2019
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Music for Uptight Guys
Jazz - Erschienen bei Music Manager am 07.02.2022
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The Girls and Boys on Broadway
World Music - Erschienen bei TP4 Music am 06.01.2020
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The Green Hornet: Theme from the Television Series (Billy May) Single
Dominik Hauser, Chris Tedesco, Roy Wiegand
Soundtracks - Erschienen bei BSX Records am 05.07.2012
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Deluxe Edition
Jazz - Erschienen bei deluxer 60's hits am 17.07.2019
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The Essential Work of
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei Music Manager am 01.09.2015
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The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (Original Soundtrack) [1957]
Billy May, United Artists Studio Orchestra
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei Classic Soundtrack Collector am 01.11.2013
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Billy May’s Bacchanalia and Naughty Operetta
Vokalmusik (weltlich und geistlich) - Erschienen bei The Digital Gramophone am 15.01.2013
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Billy May's Naughty Operetta!
Jazz - Erschienen bei Stage Door am 01.01.1955
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Three Classic Billy May Albums: Billy May's Naughty Operetta!/Billy May's Bacchanalia/Cha-Cha!
Jazz - Erschienen bei Stage Door am 08.09.2014
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Lets Have A Drink
Jazz - Erschienen bei obligat music am 23.11.2015
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Smooth Ballroom Tunes
Lounge - Erschienen bei Revived am 01.08.2013
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Anita O'day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart
Jazz - Erschienen bei Black Sheep Music am 01.01.1960
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Best of the Essential Years: Billy May
Jazz - Erschienen bei Xelon Entertainment am 20.07.2012
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Billy May's Big Fat Brass
Jazz - Erschienen bei CoolNote am 12.09.2019
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