Luther Henderson
Luther Henderson (born March 14, 1919 in Kansas City , Missouri, † July 29, 2003 in New York City , New York) was an American composer and arranger of jazz and musicals .
His family moved to Harlem in 1923 , where they lived in the Duke Ellington neighborhood . In 1942 he graduated from the Juilliard School and after his military service in the Second World War (partly at the US Navy School of Music ) began to write as an arranger for musicals, initially for Ellington (who called him his classic arm , but occasionally in the Credits passed), in 1946 in the musical Beggars Holiday and at its Carnegie Hall concerts. From the 1950s he worked for television and arranged and orchestrated Broadway musicals such as Ain't Misbehavin ' to music by Fats Waller , Funny Girl , Flower Drum Song , Play On ( Tony Award nomination ), Jelly's Last Jam (via Jelly Roll Morton , also nominated for the Tony ).
He was also a longtime arranger for Canadian Brass (a Canadian wind quintet founded in 1970).
In 2004 he received the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship (but the honor only reached him posthumously).
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| SURNAME | Henderson, Luther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American musical composer and arranger |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kansas City , Missouri |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 2003 |
| Place of death | New York City , New York |