Ralph Yaw

Ralph Yaw wrote plans for a great number of swing-era bandleaders through the ’30s and ’40s, including Isham Jones, Cab Calloway, Eddie Barefield, Count number Basie, and Les Dark brown, but Yaw is best-known for his use Stan Kenton, for whom he wrote and arranged in the first ’40s. Kenton come up with his first music group in 1941; right from the start, it had been an “arranger’s music group” and Yaw required benefit. He was (along with Kenton himself) in charge of a lot of that early band’s publication, organizing and composing a large number of unique items for the music group, including the significant “Two Moods.” Yaw relocated to LA in 1919 and started playing piano in regional and touring rings. He performed piano in the Coconut Grove in Bakersfield, CA, from 1927-1934; he was also the club’s supervisor. His profession as an arranger blossomed in the ’30s; aside from the aforementioned, he also published for Johnny Richards and Crimson Nichols. Yaw essentially ceased his jazz actions around 1947 and consequently embarked on the career in nation music. His “NO MORE a Prisoner” was popular for vocalist Hank Snow.