Bill Holman (musician)

Bill Holman (musician)

Willis Leonard Holman (born May 21, 1927), known also as Bill Holman, is an American songwriter, conductor, composer/arranger, and saxophonist working primarily in the jazz idiom.

Although he has performed and recorded as a tenor saxophonist, Holman is best known as an arranger, one of the finest in jazz history. He has provided charts for, among others, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, and Gerry Mulligan's Concert Jazz Band. He has also led his own band over the years. His 1997 recording "Brilliant Corners/The Music of Thelonious Monk" won a Grammy award.


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