Shorty Rogers(1924-1994)
- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Shorty Rogers began as a bugler with the Furriers Post of Jewish War
Veterans Boy Scout drum and bugle corps in The Bronx, New York. He
played with a number of big bands in the late 1940s, and arranged for
Woody Herman, later going to
Stan Kenton and His Orchestra.
Later he formed a jazz group, The Giants, and recorded a number of
albums for RCA Victor. He composed music for the avant-garde UPA
cartoons featuring Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel)
and Stan Freberg, while continuing to
arrange and perform many pop and jazz recordings. He died during the
KLON West Coast Jazz Festival.
