Nelson Riddle – The Music's Over

Died On This Date (January 8, 2009) Irving Bush / Big Band Trumpeter

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Irving Bush
April 7, 1930 – January 8, 2009

Irving Bush was a respected big band trumpeter who, over the course of his lengthy career played with the likes of Nelson Riddle, Harry James, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald, to name a few. During those early days, he worked as part of the studio orchestras at Warner Bros., MGM, 20th Century Fox and others. During the early ’60s, he successfully auditioned for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra where he stayed as either a performer or in management over the next three decades. Irving Bush was 78 when he died of effects from myeloma on January 8, 2009.

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Died On This Date (October 6, 1985) Nelson Riddle / Respected Band Leader

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Nelson Riddle
June 1, 1921 – October 6, 1985

Nelson Riddle was an orchestra bandleader who was hired by Capitol Records in 1950 to arrange for their stable of the era’s great vocalists. While at Capitol, Riddle worked with Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin and Keely Smith. During the ’60s and ’70s, Riddle worked primarily in film and television, arranging and scoring the Batman series, and such films as Ocean’s Eleven, Robin and the Seven Hoods, and The Great Gatsby, for which he won an academy award. During the ’80s, Riddle worked with Linda Ronstadt’s popular and critically acclaimed series of pop standard albums. His work as arranger, earned him two Grammys. Nelson Riddle died of liver ailments in 1985. He was 64 years old.