Pioneers
Jelly Roll Morton
Don Redman (with Fletcher Henderson and hos own groups)
Bill Challis (with Jean Goldkette and Paul Whitman)
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Most Significant Arranger
Duke Ellington
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Other Importants Arrangers of the 1930s and 40s
Fletcher Henderson
Gene Gifford (with the Casa Loma Orchestra)
Sy Oliver (with Jimmy Lunceford and Tommy Dorsey)
Edgar Sampson (with Chick Webb)
Mary Lou Williams (with Andy Kirk)
Horace Henderson - Jimmy Mundy - Glenn Miller
Bill Finnegan (with Glenn Miller)
Eddie Sauter (with Red Norvo and Benny Goodman)
Billy May (with Charlie Barnet)
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Bop Innovator
Tadd Dameron
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Other Top Bop Arrangers
Ralph Burns (with Woody Herman)
George Handy (with Boyd Raeburn)
Gil Fuller (with Dizzy Gillespie)
Gerry Mulligan - Shorty Rogers
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The Great Stan Kenton Arrangers
| Pete Rugolo | Bill Russo |
| Bill Holman | Marty Paich |
| Johnny Richards | |
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1950s
Gil Evans - Neal Hefti (with Count Basie)
Ernie Wilkins - Frank Foster - Jimmy Heath
Benny Golson - Slide Hampton - Melba Liston
Quincy Jones
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Third Stream
John Lewis - Gunther Schuller - J.J. Johnson
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1960s
Oliver Nelson
Hank Levy (with Stan Kenton and Don Ellis)
Thad Jones
Bob Brookmeyer
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Avantgarde
| Bob Graettinger | George Russell |
| Sun Ra | Muhal Richard Abrams |
| Julius Hemphill | Muhal Richard Abrams |
| Maria Schneider | Carla Bley |
| Willem Breuker | George Gruntz |
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Crossover
Don Sebesky - Bob James - Eumir Deodato
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Modern Mainstream
| Gerald Wilson | Francy Boland |
| Rob McConnell | Bob Florence |
| John Clayton | Toshiko Akiyoshi |
| Wynton Marsalis | |
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