Tenderly steve zegree biography
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In Memoriam: Steve Zegree
Two weekends ago, I learned that another one of my personal heroes, Steve Zegree, passed away. After writing the memoriam for Ward Swingle, (http://acappellaquest.blogspot.com/2015/01/in-memoriam-ward-swingle.html) I had hoped that this would be the last memoriam I would have to write for a while, but Steve Zegree deserves, at the very least, his own blog post outlining why he will forever be one of the greats.
1) Published Music
One of the great things about Steve Zegree was his arrangements.
Zegree was a master jazz musician (piano was his instrument) but more than that, he knew how to write music for a specific purpose. His arrangements ranged from extremely difficult, like the Westminster commissioned “They Say It’s Wonderful” to extremely accessible, like his arrangement of “Blue Skies.” Notice how I said accessible, not easy.
To perform jazz music, an ensemble must understand the fundamental aspects of ja