- Jazz bandleader, arranger, composer and pianist.
- Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1986.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 280-282. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
- Chief arranger for Claude Thornhill during the 1940's. Later a leading figure in the 'birth of the cool' movement on the West Coast, noted especially for his work with Miles Davis.
- Was self-taught.
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