Many movie people, who would never have dreamt of using jazz arrangers for scores, are doing it frequently now, even though they water them down.
Quotes about arrangers (5 Quotes)
Musicals became too expensive. When we were working at MGM, there was a whole company of talent - stars, directors, choreographers, song writers, conductors, arrangers. All worked under contract at regular salaries. To gather people like that today would be enormously costly.
Dean Martin's albums for Capitol are among the most timeless vocal pop ever recorded. He was a great singer, with a unique, behind-the-beat laconic style that perfectly fit his devil-may-care personality, and made very astute choices as to material and arrangers. And perhaps best of all, he never took himself too seriously, either on record or In life We're thrilled that he's a big part of our artist roster.
I mean, I don't think I would call Claus to do an album of big band tunes. You know, just like arrangers write for the artist they have in mind; you have to keep in mind if you're going to work with Claus Ogerman. You invite him to do what he does.
As lead arrangers, they have also advised us that they are highly confident of their ability to raise financing for the balance of the cash portion of our offer,