Jazz leader Pete Rugolo, 95, dies
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share: digg facebook twitter Pete Rugolo, who helped shape the sound of jazz in the 1940s and 1950s as a composer, arranger and record producer and later wrote several theme songs for television dramas including “The Fugitive,” died Oct. 16 at a nursing facility in Sherman Oaks, Calif. Rugolo, who first gained prominence as a composer and arranger for bandleader Stan Kenton in the 1940s, was an …
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Jazz leader Pete Rugolo, 95, dies