Boyd Raeburn
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Biography
Boyd Albert Raeburn, born on October 27, 1913, in Faith, South Dakota, was an American saxophonist and big-band leader. He started his career in the 1930s leading dance bands, including a college orchestra at the University of Chicago. Raeburn formed a jazz big band in the early 1940s, gaining popularity through radio broadcasts from Chicagoâs Chez Paree. In 1944, his band, featuring arrangements by George Handy, was known for its avant-garde dissonances. Notable musicians like Dodo Marmarosa, Oscar Pettiford, Shelly Manne, and Dizzy Gillespie performed with them. The band moved to the West Coast in 1945 and disbanded by 1947. Raeburn left the music industry in the early 1950s and died on August 2, 1966, from a heart attack.
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- How High the Moon
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- Blue Moon by Boyd Raeburn
- Soft and Warm
- Love Tales
- Wait Till You See Her
- It Never Entered My Mind
- St. Louis Blues
- Trouble Is a Man
- Little Boyd Blue by Boyd Raeburn & His Orchestra
- Blue Echoes
- Body and Soul
- Duck Waddle
- Prelude to the Dawn
- Man With a Horn
- Hep Boyd's
- Blue Prelude
- Night In Tunisia
- Memphis In June by Boyd Raeburn & His Orchestra
- When Love Comes
- It Can't Be Wrong
- Interlude
- Boyd's Nest
- Two Spoos in an Igloo by Boyd Raeburn
