BILL HOLMAN
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Bill Holman (born May 21, 1927) is an American songwriter, conductor, composer/arranger, and saxophonist working primarily in the jazz idiom.
Born Willis Leonard Holman in Olive, California, near Santa Ana, Holman took up clarinet in junior high school and tenor saxophone in high school. By his late teenage years he was leading his own band. After serving in the United States Navy, where he studied engineering, he decided in the late '40s that he wanted to write big band music. He studied for a while at the Westlake College of Music in Los Angeles. His teachers included Dave Robertson and Dr. Alfred Sendrey. He also studied composition privately with Russ Garcia and saxophone with Lloyd Reese.
Holman played with the Ike Carpenter Band in 1949. During the '50s he was active in the West Coast jazz movement, playing in small bands led by Shorty Rogers and Shelly Manne. He wrote
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Big Band
2005
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Hommage
Big Band
2007
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