Ray Pitts

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Ray Pitts

ts, US
Musician / Composer / Arranger of Jazz
A.k.a. Raymond Bernard Pitts

American arranger, composer, band leader, saxophonist and flutist (September 30, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts-November 2, 2012 in Nivå, Denmark). Moved to Denmark in 1962 and was an influential leader of Danish Radio Big Band from 1971 to 1973. The big band still plays a number of the compositions Pitts made for them. Member of the The Danish Radio Jazz Group 1965-1967. Received the "Django D'or of Honour"-price in 2005. He was supposed to have received the "Leo Mathisen price" on the day of his dying (Nov. 2 2012) and a honorary-concert with his compositions was instead made into a memorial-concert.

Instruments

Tenor sax
Soprano sax
Flute
Saxophone

Genres

Jazz
Pop
Blues

Plays With

Danish Radio Big Band

Kattunneq

The Danish Radio Jazz Group

The George Russell Sextet

Trouble

Underground Railroad

Band Members

Discography

Title	Artist	Year	Type
The Radio Jazz Group	Erik Moseholm, Ray Pitts	1965	Album

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Acknowledgements

To all the music fans that are contributing on Discogs, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia. Thanks to Franz Flückiger for providing Storygram used to visualize band membership.

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