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.