Tag Archives: The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra

Costs Finegan towers among the top arrangers from the big-band period, masterminding classics for bandleaders Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey before teaming with fellow arranger extraordinaire Eddie Sauter to present the pioneering Sauter-Finegan Orchestra. Blessed in Newark, NJ, on Apr 3, 1917, Finegan examined trumpet as a teenager and toured …

The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra was one of the most unusual bands from the Golf swing Period, not least since it didn’t even enter into existence until following the Golf swing Period was over. The outfit’s two market leaders, Edward Ernest (Eddie) Sauter (b. December 2, 1914, in NY [Brooklyn], NY; d. …

Equally skilled both in big-band and combo settings, Don Lamond is best-known for his association with Woody Herman’s Orchestra. He was raised in Washington, examined on the Peabody Conservatory in Philadelphia, and found early experience dealing with the big rings of Sonny Dunham (1943) and Boyd Raeburn. Lamond changed Dave …

Perhaps one of the most inventive arrangers to emerge through the golf swing period, Eddie Sauter’s organic and colorful graphs never suit that easily into any particular category. His function tended to end up being at its greatest when created for a particular purpose, format or soloist. Sauter originally performed …