{"id":1359,"date":"2008-06-04T22:15:01","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T05:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2008-06-04T22:15:01","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T05:15:01","slug":"bill_finegan_19172008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/06\/bill_finegan_19172008\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Finegan, 1917-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Brookmeyer sent this message today: <\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p>Bill Finegan passed peacefully on today with his son James and his daughter Helen by his side. He was a hero, a dear friend and one of the most gifted arrangers we have ever had. Somewhere an orchestra sounds better.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Finegan was an arranger who gave Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey some of their most<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px 20px; WIDTH: 282px; HEIGHT: 257px\" height=\"372\" alt=\"Sauter &amp; Finegan.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/Sauter%20%26%20Finegan.jpg\" width=\"435\" \/><\/span>substantial music. In 1952 he and Eddie Sauter formed the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, which was famous for its musicianship, wit and a couple of hits that included its theme song, a panoramic arrangement of &#8220;Doodletown Fifers.&#8221; At one time or another, the band included musicians of the quality of Nick Travis, Urbie Green, Eddie Bert, Mundell Lowe, George Duvivier, Eddie Costa and Don Lamond. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBest-Sauter-Finegan-Original-Doodletown-Fifers%2Fdp%2FB00000JWDD&amp;tag=rifftidougram-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\" target=\"_blank\">This CD<\/a> has a cross-section of the band&#8217;s work. <\/p>\n<p>Finegan once said, &#8221;From the time the late Eddie Sauter and I started this band, everything went wrong but the music.&#8221; To read more, <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE3DC143CF93AA15752C0A961948260\">go here<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bill Finegan was ninety-one. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Brookmeyer sent this message today: Bill Finegan passed peacefully on today with his son James and his daughter Helen by his side. He was a hero, a dear friend and one of the most gifted arrangers we have ever had. Somewhere an orchestra sounds better. Finegan was an arranger who gave Glenn Miller and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}