Don Sebesky is an American jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 trombonist

Trombone

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 and arranger.

Biography

Sebesky trained in trombone at the Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan School of Music

The Manhattan School of Music is a major music conservatory located on the Upper West Side of New York City. The school offers degrees on the bachelors, masters, and doctoral levels in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition...

; in his early career, he played with Kai Winding

Kai Winding

Kai Chresten Winding was a popular Danish-born American trombonist and jazz composer. He is well known for a successful collaboration with fellow trombonist J. J. Johnson.-Biography:...

, Claude Thornhill

Claude Thornhill

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, Tommy Dorsey

Tommy Dorsey

Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey, Jr. was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing", due to his smooth-toned trombone playing. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey...

, Warren Covington

Warren Covington

Warren Covington was an American big band trombonist. He was active as a session musician, arranger, and bandleader throughout his career.-Biography:...

, Maynard Ferguson

Maynard Ferguson

Maynard Ferguson was a Canadian jazz musician and bandleader. He came to prominence playing in Stan Kenton's orchestra, before forming his own band in 1957...

 and Stan Kenton

Stan Kenton

Stanley Newcomb "Stan" Kenton was a pianist, composer, and arranger who led a highly innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra. In later years he was widely active as an educator....

. In 1960 he began devoting himself primarily to arranging and conducting; one of his best-known arrangements was for Wes Montgomery

Wes Montgomery

John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery was an American jazz guitarist. He is widely considered one of the major jazz guitarists, emerging after such seminal figures as Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian and influencing countless others, including Pat Martino, George Benson, Russell Malone, Emily...

's 1965 album Bumpin. Other credits include George Benson

George Benson

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's The Shape of Things to Come, Paul Desmond

Paul Desmond

Paul Desmond , born Paul Emil Breitenfeld, was a jazz alto saxophonist and composer born in San Francisco, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning that group's greatest hit, "Take Five"...

's From the Hot Afternoon and Freddie Hubbard

Freddie Hubbard

Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on...

's First Light. His 1973 release, Giant Box, hit #16 on the U.S. Billboard Jazz Albums chart.

He won three Grammy Award

Grammy Award

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s in the 1990s: Best Instrumental Arrangement for "Waltz for Debby

Waltz for Debby (song)

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" (1998) and "Chelsea Bridge" (1999), and Best Instrumental Composition

Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition

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 for "Joyful Noise Suite" (1999). He also won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations

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 for Parade

Parade (musical)

Parade is a musical with a book by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. The musical was first produced on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on December 17, 1998. The production was directed by Harold Prince and closed 28 February 1999 after only 39 previews and 84 regular...

 (1999) and Kiss Me, Kate

Kiss Me, Kate

Kiss Me, Kate is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It is structured as a play within a play, where the interior play is a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The original production starred Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk and Harold Lang.Kiss...

 (2000). Sebesky has also written a book, The Contemporary Arranger (1975).

Discography

• Don Sebesky and the Jazz-Rock Syndrome (1968)
• Distant Galaxy (1968)
• Giant Box (1973)
• The Rape of El Morro (CTI Records
  CTI Records
  CTI Records was a jazz record label founded in 1967 by producer/A&R manager Creed Taylor. Initially, CTI was a subsidiary of A&M Records, but the label went independent in 1970...
  
  , 1975)
• Three Works for Jazz Soloists and Symphony Orchestra (1979)
• Sebesky Fantasy (1980)
• Moving Lines (1984)
• Full Cycle (1984)
• Symphonic Sondheim (1991)
• Our Love Is Here To Stay (Telarc, 1997) - John Pizzarelli
  John Pizzarelli
  John Paul Pizzarelli, Jr. is an American jazz guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and bandleader. He has had a lengthy career as a recording artist, performing for a variety of labels that include Telarc Records, RCA Records and Chesky Records, among others...
  
   w/ Don Sebesky combo
• I Remember Bill: The Tribute to Bill Evans (1998)
• Joyful Noise: A Tribute to Duke Ellington (1999)
• Kiroron I-Kiroro Melodies (2000)

External links

• Don Sebesky at the Internet Off Broadway Database
  Lortel Archives
  The Lortel Archives, or the Internet Off-Broadway Database is an online database that catalogues theatre productions shown off-Broadway.The archives are named in honor of actress and theatrical producer Lucille Lortel.-See also:...