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Unlike keyboardist Reginald "Sonny" Burke, who played modern jazz with <a href="spotify:artist:2dRsXWVnkku2cMDtV1h6NP">Stanley Turrentine</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5RzjqfPS0Bu4bUMkyNNDpn">Dizzy Gillespie</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:3Hl3dCaBcrnvBAOMAW4nJR">John Handy</a>, this Burke was an accomplished big band arranger. He studied violin and piano as a child, then played in various bands while studying at Duke in the late '30s. After moving to New York in 1938, Burke assumed leadership of <a href="spotify:artist:0ptcsWOGQcZaCIE2yr7dDu">Sam Donahue's</a> band and made several recordings. He wrote arrangements for the bands of <a href="spotify:artist:2afmt006cSGq0G3kA4u8je">Charlie Spivak</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:3xPpQCRiTBxgmL4PD8J5ek">Jimmy Dorsey</a> in the '40s, then from the late '40s into the '70s he directed recording sessions for Decca, Reprise, Warner Bros. and his own company, Daybreak. His orchestra accompanied such musicians as <a href="spotify:artist:5V0MlUE1Bft0mbLlND7FJz">Ella Fitzgerald</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:19eLuQmk9aCobbVDHc6eek">Louis Armstrong</a>, and he remained active as an arranger. ~ Ron Wynn, Rovi
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