List of jazz arrangers
Appearance
The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic structure".[1] Jazz arrangers often take music written for other forms like popular music, religious music, or classical music and alter the tempo, rhythm, and the chord structure to re-create music for a jazz idiom. They can also take so-called head arrangements and commit them to paper.
A
- Mike Abene
- Muhal Richard Abrams
- Manny Albam
- Dominic Alldis
- Norman Amadio
- Toshiko Akiyoshi
- Kenneth Ascher
- Clarice Assad
- Grażyna Auguścik
B
- Rüdiger Baldauf
- Louis Banks
- Eddie Barefield
- Guy Barker
- George Barnes
- John Barry
- Steve Barta
- Count Basie
- Edgar Battle
- Alan Baylock
- Jim Beard
- Heinie Beau
- John Hubbard Beecher
- Bob Belden
- Louie Bellson
- David Berkman
- Harry Betts
- David Bloom
- Mike Bogle
- Dudley Brooks
- Benjamín Brea
- Leon Breeden
- Buddy Bregman
- Alan Broadbent
- Bob Brookmeyer
- John Brooks
- Sylvia Brooks
- Raymond Harry Brown
- Steve Brown
- Gary Brunotte
- James Tim Brymn
- Miroslav Bukovsky
- Ralph Burns
- Billy Byers
C
- Uri Caine
- Charlie Calello
- Benny Carter
- James Chirillo
- Kenny Clayton
- Avishai Cohen
- Al Cohn
- Bobby Cole
- Alice Coltrane
- John Coltrane
- Chris Combs
- Frank Comstock
- Ray Conniff
- Jack Cooper
- Doc Cook
- Eric Copeland
- Don Costa
- Hank Crawford
- Roy Crimmins
- Gary Crosby
- Alexander Cuesta
- Bill Cunliffe
- Bob Curnow
D
- Jimmy Dale
- Børre Dalhaug
- Tadd Dameron
- Sir John Dankworth
- Dol Dauber
- Michael Daugherty
- Wild Bill Davis
- Ernesto De Pascale
- Eli Degibri
- Eumir Deodato
- Maria Pia De Vito
- Frank DeVol
- Vojislav Đonović
- George Duke
- Eddie Durham
E
- Malcolm Edmonstone
- Richard Edwards
- Eliane Elias
- Duke Ellington
- Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis
- Don Ellis
- Atilla Engin
- Dave Eshelman
- James Reese Europe
- Gil Evans
F
- Bill Finegan
- Clare Fischer
- Stewart "Dirk" Fischer
- Bob Florence
- Fred Ford
- Reginald Foresythe
- Frank Foster
- William Franklin Lee III
- Stan Freberg
- Russ Freeman
- Stan Freeman
- Paolo Fresu
- Adrian Fry
- Gil Fuller
G
- Hal Galper
- Allan Ganley
- Joe Garland
- Carlos Garnett
- Chris Geith
- James Gelfand
- Herb Geller
- Michael Gibbs
- Andy Gibson
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Joe Gilman
- Vince Giordano
- Jimmy Giuffre
- Harry Gold
- Benny Golson
- Benny Goodman
- Gordon Goodwin
- Alain Goraguer
- Jerry Gray
- Ferde Grofé
- George Gruntz
- Dave Grusin
- Jan Gunnar Hoff
- Guttorm Guttormsen
H
- Tim Hagans
- Barrie Lee Hall, Jr.
- James A. Hall
- Jim Hall
- Morten Halle
- Louis Halmy
- Lenny Hambro
- Jimmy Hamilton
- Bob Hammer
- Slide Hampton
- Herbie Hancock
- George Handy
- Ken Hanna
- Buster Harding
- Tom Harrell
- Raymond Harry Brown
- Joe Haymes
- Scott Healy
- James Edward Heath
- Neal Hefti
- Eirik Hegdal
- Fletcher Henderson
- Horace Henderson
- Luther Henderson
- Rick Henderson
- Michel Herr
- Nikolaj Hess
- André Hodeir
- Bill Holman
- Geir Holmsen
- Kenyon Hopkins
- Shirley Horn
- John Hubbard Beecher
- Gary Husband
- Margie Hyams
- Dick Hyman
I
J
- Bob James
- Christian Jacob
- Gordon Jenkins
- J. J. Johnson
- Osie Johnson
- Sy Johnson
- Hank Jones
- Herbie Jones
- Jimmy Jones
- Oliver Jones
- Quincy Jones
- Thad Jones
- Bert Joris
- Julian Joseph
K
- Egil Kapstad
- Nikolai Kapustin
- Kjell Karlsen
- Dick Katz
- Oktawia Kawęcka
- Tom Kazas
- George Kelly
- Hal Kemp
- Stan Kenton
- Zvi Keren
- Kishon Khan
- Tony Kinsey
- Iver Kleive
- Steve Klink
- Tom Kubis
L
- John LaBarbera
- Pocho Lapouble
- Steve Laury
- Charles W. LaRue
- Andy LaVerne
- Graham Lear
- Kuh Ledesma
- Amy Lee
- Michel Legrand
- Brian Lemon
- Hank Levy
- John Lewis
- Magnus Lindgren
- David Lindup
- Fred Lipsius
- Melba Liston
- Fud Livingston
- Mary Lou Williams
- Curtis Lundy
- Arun Luthra
- Bruce Lynch
M
- Earl MacDonald
- Machito
- Dennis Mackrel
- Taj Mahal
- Henry Mancini
- Willie Maiden
- Johnny Mandel
- Gap Mangione
- André Manoukian
- Arif Mardin
- Lou Marini
- Skip Martin
- Dmitri Matheny
- Matty Matlock
- David Matthews
- Billy May
- Lyle Mays
- Gary McFarland
- Howard McGhee
- Tom McIntosh
- Neil McLean
- Jim McNeely
- Don Menza
- Emil Mijares
- Glenn Miller
- Bob Mintzer
- Shinji Miyazaki
- Thelonious Monk
- Phil Moore
- James Morrison
- Jelly Roll Morton
- Ken Moule
- Rob Mounsey
- Gerry Mulligan
- Jimmy Mundy
- Spud Murphy
- Ronald Myers
N
O
P
- Marty Paich
- Charlie Parker
- Aris Pavlis
- George Paxton
- Tommy Pederson
- Kim Pensyl
- Jack Petersen
- Herbie Phillips
- Sid Phillips
- Bill Potts
- Pino Presti
- André Previn
- Brian Priestley
- Tito Puente
R
- Roger Rae
- Bill Ramsay
- Ray Reach
- Don Redman
- Ilja Reijngoud
- Don Rendell
- Mike Renzi
- Todd Rhodes
- Johnny Richards
- Goff Richards
- Kim Richmond
- Nelson Riddle
- Jim Riggs
- Doug Riley
- Joe Riposo
- Joe Roccisano
- Ruben Rodriguez
- Shorty Rogers
- Gene Roland
- Jelly Roll Morton
- Tony Romandini
- Rashawn Ross
- Scott Routenberg
- Pete Rugolo
- George Russell
- Bill Russo
S
- Philippe Saisse
- A. K. Salim
- Steve Sample, Sr.
- John Sangster
- Jovino Santos-Neto
- Eddie Sauter
- Jan Savitt
- Paulus Schäfer
- Lalo Schifrin
- Maria Schneider
- Vic Schoen
- Arthur Schutt
- Don Sebesky
- Roger Segure
- John Sheridan
- Yasuaki Shimizu
- Wayne Shorter
- Don Sickler
- Julian Siegel
- Terry Silverlight
- Even Kruse Skatrud
- Erlend Skomsvoll
- Harry South
- Earle Spencer
- Russ Spiegel
- Peter Sprague
- Patrick Stanfield Jones
- Bill Stegmeyer
- Lanny Steele
- Jimmy Stewart
- George Stone
- Billy Strayhorn
- Fred Sturm
- Ed Summerlin
- Tierney Sutton
T
- Dan Terry
- Mia Theodoratus
- Frode Thingnæs
- Claude Thornhill
- Cheick Tidiane Seck
- James Tim Brymn
- Mel Tormé
- Eugenio Toussaint
- Jiří Traxler
- David W. Tucker
- Steve Turre
- Alvin Tyler
- Jeff Tyzik
V
W
- Chris Walden
- Jack Walrath
- Mervyn Warren
- Trevor Watkis
- Fritz Weiss
- Erling Wicklund
- Vaughn Wiester
- Bob Wilber
- Ernie Wilkins
- Edward Wilkerson
- Alex Wilson
- Gerald Wilson
- John Wilson
- Stanley Wilson
- Phil Wilson
- Sam Wooding
- Phil Woods
- Denny Wright
- Rayburn Wright
- Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski
Y
Z
References
- ^ "Arranging Music for the Real World: Classical and Commercial Aspects," Vince Corozine, 2002, p. 3