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A kid prodigy around the violin, Jerry Grey (family name Graziano) used the analysis of composing and arranging while still a young man in East Boston. His 1st important work in music was as an arranger for Artie Shaw within the middle-’30s, while he was still in his teenagers — …

b. 3 July 1915, East Boston, Massachusetts, USA, d. 10 August 1976, Dallas, Tx, USA. As a kid Gray first analyzed violin and later on composing and organizing. At age 12 he performed within the Boston Junior Symphony Orchestra. Within the middle-30s he was employed by Artie Shaw, for whom …