Ralph Burns

Born June 29, 1922

† Died November 21, 2001

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Emerging from Newton, Massachusetts, Burns began piano lessons in childhood and entered the New England Conservatory in 1938, shaping his jazz sensibility by transcribing masters such as Count Basie and Duke Ellington. After moving to New York in the early 1940s he joined Woody Herman’s band, contributing arrangements for hits like “Bijou” and “Northwest Passage” and helping launch Stan Getz’s sol… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources