William Russo

Person, US, United States

Releases

Albums

=> Virtuosity: A Contemporary Look
=> 1952 Deep People
=> 1955 Jazz Composers Workshop
=> 1956 The World of Alcina
=> 1960 Seven Deadly Sins
=> 1963 Russo in London
=> 1965 Stonehenge
=> 1973 Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story / William Russo: Three Pieces for Blues Band and Orchestra
=> 1977 Gershwin: An American in Paris / Russo: Street Music
=> 1991 Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / An American in Paris / Concerto in F / Bernstein: “West Side Story” Dances / Russo: Three Pieces for Blues Band & Orchestra
=> 2002 Russo: Street Music / Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra / Gershwin: An American in Paris
=> 2013 Russo in London / Blowing Up a Storm
=> 2023 Symphonic Blues Project

Relations

1950 – 1954 composer-in-residence

=> 🧑 Stan Kenton and His Orchestra

1947-03-13 – 1953 married

=> 🧑 Shelby Jean Davis

1982-08-23 – 1992 married

=> 🧑 Carol Loverde

1950 – 1954 member of band

=> 🧑 Stan Kenton and His Orchestra

member of band

=> 🧑 Bill Russo Orchestra

parent

=> 🧑 Camille Davis Russo

teacher

teacher

teacher

teacher

teacher

teacher

teacher

teacher

teacher

1952-09-11 arranger

=> 🎶 23 Degrees North, 82 Degrees West

1953-07-08 arranger

=> 🎶 April in Paris

1953-07-08 arranger

=> 🎶 Autumn In New York

1953-07-08 arranger

=> 🎶 Crazy Rhythm

1953-07-08 arranger

=> 🎶 How High the Moon

1953-07-08 arranger

=> 🎶 I Got It Bad (And That's Ain't Good)

1953-07-08 arranger

=> 🎶 I've Got You Under My Skin

1953-07-08 arranger

=> 🎶 Reverie

1953-07-08 arranger

=> 🎶 You and the Night and the Music

arranger

=> 🎶 A Foggy Day

arranger

=> 🎶 Afrodesia

arranger

=> 🎶 All About Ronnie

arranger

=> 🎶 Bli‐Blip

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=> 🎶 Brown‐Skin Gal (in the Calico Town)

arranger

=> 🎶 Chocolate Shake

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=> 🎶 Falling in Love With Love

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=> 🎶 Fascinatin' Rhythm

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=> 🎶 Fascinatin’ Rhythm

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=> 🎶 Fugue

arranger

=> 🎶 Gazelle

arranger

=> 🎶 I Cover the Waterfront

arranger

=> 🎶 I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)

arranger

=> 🎶 I Got It Band and That Ain’t Good

arranger

=> 🎶 I’ll Never Stop Loving You

arranger

=> 🎶 I’ve Never Been in Love Before

arranger

=> 🎶 If Life Were All Peaches and Cream

arranger

=> 🎶 Jump for Joy

arranger

=> 🎶 Jump for Joy

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=> 🎶 Just Squeeze Me (but Don’t Tease Me)

arranger

arranger

arranger

arranger

arranger

=> 🎶 Masquerade Is Over

arranger

=> 🎶 Nothin’

arranger

=> 🎶 Over the Rainbow

arranger

=> 🎶 Polka Dots and Moonbeams

arranger

=> 🎶 Shadow Waltz

arranger

=> 🎶 Sophisticated Lady

arranger

=> 🎶 Street of Dreams

arranger

=> 🎶 Surrey With the Fringe on Top

arranger

=> 🎶 Sweets

arranger

=> 🎶 The Tune of the Hickory Stick

arranger

=> 🎶 The World of Alcina

arranger

=> 🎶 There's a Small Hotel

arranger

=> 🎶 Two Left Feet

arranger

=> 🎶 Two Sleepy People

arranger

=> 🎶 You and the Night and the Music

arranger

=> 🎶 You Are Too Beautiful

arranger

=> 🎶 You're My Thrill

1956-05-06 conductor

=> 🎶 The World of Alcina

1958-08-20 conductor

=> 🎶 Brown‐Skin Gal (in the Calico Town)

1958-08-20 conductor

=> 🎶 I Got It Band and That Ain’t Good

1958-08-20 conductor

=> 🎶 If Life Were All Peaches and Cream

1958-08-20 conductor

1958-08-20 conductor

1958-08-21 conductor

1958-08-21 conductor

1958-08-21 conductor

=> 🎶 Just Squeeze Me (but Don’t Tease Me)

1958-08-21 conductor

=> 🎶 The Tune of the Hickory Stick

1958-08-21 conductor

=> 🎶 Two Left Feet

1962-12-21 – 1962-12-22 conductor

=> 🎶 Suite No. 1 Opus 5, Part I: Portrait of the Count

1962-12-21 – 1962-12-22 conductor

=> 🎶 Suite No. 1 Opus 5, Part II: Egdon Heath (To Stan Kenton)

1962-12-21 – 1962-12-22 conductor

=> 🎶 Suite No. 1 Opus 5, Part III: Frank Speaking (To Frank Rosolino)

1962-12-21 – 1962-12-22 conductor

=> 🎶 Suite No. 1 Opus 5, Part IV: Thisbe (To Max Jones)

1962-12-21 – 1962-12-22 conductor

=> 🎶 Suite No. 1 Opus 5, Part V: Sweets (To Pete Cameron)

1962-12-21 – 1962-12-22 conductor

=> 🎶 Suite No. 2 Opus 8, Part I: Bill’s Blues

1962-12-21 – 1962-12-22 conductor

=> 🎶 Suite No. 2 Opus 8, Part II: Ennui

1962-12-21 – 1962-12-22 conductor

=> 🎶 Suite No. 2 Opus 8, Part III: Dusk

1962-12-21 – 1962-12-22 conductor

=> 🎶 Suite No. 2 Opus 8, Part IV: 23° North / 82° West

1950-02-03 instrument

=> 🎶 Conflict

1950-02-03 instrument

=> 🎶 Mirage

1950-02-03 instrument

=> 🎶 Soliloquy

1950-02-03 instrument

=> 🎶 Solitaire

1950-02-03 instrument

=> 🎶 Theme for Sunday

1950-02-04 instrument

=> 🎶 Cuban Episode

1950-02-04 instrument

=> 🎶 Evening in Pakistan

1950-02-04 instrument

=> 🎶 Incident in Jazz

1950-02-04 instrument

=> 🎶 Incident in Jazz

1950-02-04 instrument

=> 🎶 Lonesome Road

1950-02-04 instrument

=> 🎶 Trajectories

1950-02-05 instrument

=> 🎶 Blues in Riff

1950-02-05 instrument

=> 🎶 In Veradero

1950-02-05 instrument

=> 🎶 Jolly Rogers

1950-02-05 instrument

=> 🎶 Mardi Gras

1950-02-05 instrument

=> 🎶 Salute

1950-05-18 instrument

=> 🎶 Art Pepper

1950-05-18 instrument

=> 🎶 Halls of Brass

1950-06-05 instrument

=> 🎶 Maynard Ferguson

1950-06-05 instrument

=> 🎶 Shelly Manne

1951-08-15 instrument

=> 🎶 An Esthete on Clark St.

1951-08-15 instrument

=> 🎶 Cathy

1951-08-15 instrument

=> 🎶 Cookie

1951-08-15 instrument

=> 🎶 Ennui

1951-08-15 instrument

=> 🎶 Gloomy Sunday

1951-08-15 instrument

=> 🎶 Sposin'

1951-08-15 instrument

=> 🎶 Vignette

1951-09-19 instrument

=> 🎶 Coop's Solo

1951-09-19 instrument

=> 🎶 Sambo

1951-09-20 instrument

=> 🎶 Blues in Burlesque

1951-09-20 instrument

=> 🎶 Street of Dreams

1951-10-14 instrument

=> 🎶 Coop's Solo

1951-10-14 instrument

=> 🎶 Ennui

1951-10-14 instrument

=> 🎶 Salute

1951-10-14 instrument

=> 🎶 Samana

1951-11-12 instrument

=> 🎶 All of Me

1951-11-12 instrument

=> 🎶 All of Me

1951-11-12 instrument

=> 🎶 Back in Your Own Backyard

1951-11-12 instrument

=> 🎶 Pooch McGooch

1951-11-12 instrument

=> 🎶 Pooch McGooch

1951-11-12 instrument

=> 🎶 The Count on Rush Street

1951-11-12 instrument

=> 🎶 The Count on Rush Street

1951-12-05 instrument

=> 🎶 A Horn

1951-12-05 instrument

=> 🎶 City of Glass: Second Movement: Dance Before the Mirror

1951-12-05 instrument

=> 🎶 City of Glass: Third Movement: Reflections

1951-12-07 instrument

=> 🎶 City of Glass: First Movement, Part 1: Entrance Into the City

1951-12-07 instrument

=> 🎶 City of Glass: First Movement, Part 2: The Structures

1952-03-19 instrument

=> 🎶 Modern Opus

1952-09-08 – 1952-09-16 instrument

=> 🎶 23N-82W

1952-09-08 – 1952-09-16 instrument

=> 🎶 Frank Speaking

1952-09-08 – 1952-09-16 instrument

=> 🎶 Improvisation

1952-09-08 – 1952-09-16 instrument

=> 🎶 Invention for Guitar and Trumpet

1952-09-08 – 1952-09-16 instrument

=> 🎶 Lonesome Train

1952-09-08 – 1952-09-16 instrument

=> 🎶 My Lady

1952-09-08 – 1952-09-16 instrument

=> 🎶 Portrait of a Count

1952-09-08 – 1952-09-16 instrument

=> 🎶 Prologue (This is an orchestra!)

1952-09-08 – 1952-09-16 instrument

=> 🎶 Swing House

1952-09-08 – 1952-09-16 instrument

=> 🎶 Taboo

1952-09-08 – 1952-09-16 instrument

=> 🎶 Young Blood

1952-09-11 instrument

=> 🎶 23 Degrees North, 82 Degrees West

1952-09-15 instrument

=> 🎶 You Go to My Head