This is a biography of one of the most important arrangers, orchestrators, composers and bandleaders in jazz, and the driving force behind several of the defini... » 

This is a biography of one of the most important arrangers, orchestrators, composers and bandleaders in jazz, and the driving force behind several of the defining idioms of modern jazz. From his start in the swing bands of the 1940s, his career spanned five decades of music. «