Bill Holman
Sign in to saveAmerican composer, arranger, and conductor (1927–2024)
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- Popular Comics 98
- Popular Comics 101
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1927-05-21
- Active to
- 2024-05-06
cool jazzjazzswingtraditional pop
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Bill Holman (May 21, 1927 - May 6, 2024) was an American songwriter, conductor, composer/arranger, and saxophonist working primarily in the jazz idiom. Born Willis Leonard Holman in Olive, California, near Santa Ana, Holman took up clarinet in junior high school and tenor saxophone in high school. By his late teenage years he was leading his own band. After serving in the United States Navy, where he studied engineering, he decided in the late '40s that he wanted to write big band music. <a hre
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bill
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Spouse
- Jeri Southern
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Award
- NEA Jazz Masters
- Instrument
- saxophone
- Record label
- Capitol Records
- Military branch
- United States Navy
- Image
- Bill Holman and Stan Kenton.jpg
- Number of children
- 1
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- date of birth
- 1927-05-21
- end of work period
- 2024-00-00
- name in native language
- Bill Holman
- birth name
- Willis Leonard Holman
- start of work period
- 1951-00-00
- date of death
- 2024-05-06
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