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Billy May is musician and arranger Frank Sinatra called upon to arrange several of his albums. May began working with Sinatra in 1958 with Sinatra's Capitol album Come Fly with Me.[1]He then worked alongside Sinatra in the later Capitol years, arranging one of Sinatra's commercially greatest Capitol albums, Come Dance With Me![2] and Come Swing with Me![3] respectively. May also worked on ...
16. Feb. 2023 · Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey May 22, 2014. This is Bill Holman’s birthday. At 87, the great arranger shows no inclination to sit around basking in the glow of his achievements. He and his band are gearing up for a concert tomorrow night at the Los Angeles Jazz Institute’s Adventures In Big Band Jazz, a four-day celebration featuring ...
When the Miller band dissolved during World War II, May settled in Los Angeles to work with NBC and Capitol Records as a studio arranger, and with the bands of 'Les Brown', Woody Herman, Alvino Rey and Ozzie Nelson. But his longest association was with Frank Sinatra, with whom he worked on the noted albums "Come Fly With Me" (1957), " and "Come Dance With Me" (1958), "Come Swing With Me" (1961 ...
31. Dez. 1997 · Trumpet player and arranger BILLY MAY talks about working with Frank Sinatra. May worked with sinatra on and off from the mid 40's to the mid 80's. He arranged Sinatra's albums Come Fly With Me ...
Billy May and His Orchestra. Distinguished multiple Grammy-winning trumpeter, arranger, conductor and songwriter whose instantly-recognizable style remains a longtime trademark. The son of a roofer and a youthful asthmatic, his physician advised therapy through playing the tuba. In his school band, he developed an appreciation of the other ...
15. Mai 1998 · Trumpet player and arranger Billy May talks about working with Frank Sinatra. May worked with Sinatra on and off from the mid 40's to the mid 80's. He arranged Sinatra's albums Come Fly With Me, Come Swing with Me, and Come Dance with Me, on Capitol Records He did the arrangments for the Ellington-Sinatra album on Reprise. On Sinatra's 1979 release, Trilogy, May arranged the section called The ...
24. Jan. 2004 · He did two seasons of Naked City until a heart attack sidelined him and Nelson Riddle – another great Sinatra arranger then working in TV – succeeded him for the series' final year. May returned to TV in the fall of 1966 with The Green Hornet, including a clever orchestral takeoff on "The Flight of the Bumblebee" as the series theme, with a bravura performance by trumpet virtuoso Al Hirt.
