Arranger Don Sebesky is best known for arranging many of producer Creed Taylor's albums for Verve, CTI and A&M. Sebesky backed artists like Wes Montgomery, George Benson and Freddie Hubbard with large string orchestras, making their music more accessible to people who didn't normally listen to jazz.
Sebesky has issued a number of albums under his own name over the years including Moving Lines, which first came out in 1985 on producer Bob Thiele's Doctor Jazz label and was reissued in 1990 by Sony with the cover pictured above.
The Contemporary Arranger's Workshop was Sebesky's own aggregation, presumbably based on the ideas expressed in his book The Contemporary Arranger (1975).
Listen to Sebesky's unique interpretation of the big band standard Cherokee, composed by Ray Noble and popularized by Charlie Barnett. The MP3 is taken from a cassette version of the album.
Cherokee
If you're patient and scout around, it's possible to score a used vinyl or CD copy of this album at a reasonable cost. Moving Lines is not available as a legal download.
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