In 1948, Valdes harnessed the influences of American jazz, Cuban melodies and African rhythms when he became the principal pianist and arranger for the house orchestra of Havana's Tropicana night club, the crown jewel of Cuban nightlife.

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Besides being keyboardist and guitar player for globe, the trendy dance-sound band, he is composer, arranger and producer for the techno group trf, and for the wildly successful fashion and music phenomenon Amuro Namie.

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The musical analysis in the book is limited--mostly annotated transcriptions of some Desmond solos by other musicians--but for the general reader there are scores of photos and the liberal use of Desmond's lifelong correspondence with his father, Emil Breitenfeld , an organist and arranger in San Francisco responsible for much of his son's musical education.

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"Through an arranger they had met on the road, Vic Schoen, they landed one show, for one night only at the Edison Hotel with The Billy Swanson Orchestra, where they sang exactly one verse of one song, " the bio said.

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Quincy Jones. (Applause.) The 2010 National Medal of Arts to Quincy Jones for his extraordinary contributions to American music as a musician, composer, record producer, and arranger.

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