THOMAS TALBERT
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Talbert is little known today but in the mid-1950s, he was an up-and-coming small-group and big-band arranger with enormous taste. Unfortunately for Talbert, he always seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time professionally. He moved from the West Coast to New York in the late 1940s just as California was becoming the cradle of new linear music. In New York, he gained traction but eventually found himself up against a new breed of lightning fast arrangers, and work increasingly meant formulaic pop record dates. By 1960, he retired, only to reappear on the West Coast scene 15 years later.
Talbert was born on August 4, 1924, in Crystal Bay, Minn. He was a self-taught musician who was inspired by the bands of Chick Webb, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and Jimmie Lunceford. Drafted during World War II, Talbert arranged music for a military band that performed for War
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