Claude Thornhill

piano, arrangement, conductor · 1908–1965 · Terre Haute (Indiana)

Pianist and bandleader, Claude Thornhill composed the standards "Snowfall" and "I Wish I Had You" and developed with Gil Evans a muted orchestral sound. His ensemble, which Gerry Mulligan and Lee Konitz joined in 1946, served in part as a model for the Birth of the Cool nonet.

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Styles

• Swing, big bands
• Cool (Birth of the Cool)

Landmark tracks

• Loch Lomond (1937)
• Snowfall (1941)

Sources

• Source

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