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Edward William May Jr. (November 10, 1916 – January 22, 2004) was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music for The Green Hornet (1966), The Mod Squad (1968), Batman (with Batgirl theme, 1967), [1] and Naked City (1960).
10. Nov. 2021 · Billy May arranged for some of the best in the business, artists like Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, and Anita O’Day. Published on. November 10, 2021. By. Richard Havers. Billy...
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26. Jan. 2004 · Jan. 26, 2004. Billy May, a prolific arranger best known for his work with Frank Sinatra, died on Thursday at his home in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., his wife, Doris, said. He was 87....
Edward William „Billy“ May Jr. (* 10. November 1916 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; † 22. Januar 2004 in San Juan Capistrano, Kalifornien) war ein US-amerikanischer Musiker, Komponist, Arrangeur und Bandleader . Leben.
19. Dez. 2019 · December 19, 2019. Billy May: Bill's Bag. At the dawn of the 1950s, Billy May was the first arranger to update swing for Hollywood studio orchestras in the LP era. May's scores in 1951 were refreshingly free of classical overtones or a reliance on the blues. Instead, his brassy arrangements were jaunty, imaginative and witty.
The last of the great arrangers who wrote regularly for Frank Sinatra, Billy May had several varied careers in and out of jazz. His first notable gig was as an arranger/trumpeter with Charlie Barnet (1938-1940), for whom he wrote the wah-wah-ing hit arrangement of Ray Noble's "Cherokee."
In Frank Sinatra: The Capitol years. …worked with veteran big-band musician Billy May on outstanding up-tempo albums such as Come Fly with Me (1958) and Come Dance with Me! (1959), and with the arranger-composer Gordon Jenkins, whose lush string arrangements heightened the melancholy atmosphere of Where Are You? (1957) and No One Cares (1959).
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