Jack Leonard told about Tommy Dorsey's famous arrangement of "Marie".
The album, which includes Mr. Jamal's famous arrangement of "Poinciana," spent two years on the Billboard charts, rare in any genre but unheard of in jazz.
On the other hand, the work Evans did before he became famous — the arrangements he wrote for Thornhill's big band in the 1940s, tense, slow-moving, mysterious and wry — was dealt with seriously, by an expanded 27-piece version of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
"Begin the Beguine," a song Sinatra recorded in 1946, has been reoutfitted in the stealthy swinging style of Nelson Riddle's famous 1956 arrangement for "I've Got You Under My Skin".
Throughout the Profile, Buford considers the connections between Williams's work and the homeland of the blues, where she lived: The Delta has served Williams as a highly personal, emotional reference library, something she keeps coming back to in her music, for images or metaphors or, sometimes, for its famous twelve-bar arrangements and its flattened blue notes.
Martin's famous string-quartet arrangement for "Yesterday," perhaps the most famous string arrangement of its period, is equally impeccable: a classical-minded music perfectly accenting a classical-minded song.
Mr. Wainwright rode the famous bongo-propelled arrangement of "Come Rain or Come Shine" to glory.
His most famous work is Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1: The Artist's Mother (1871 72; popularly called Whistler's Mother. James Abbott McNeill Whistler was born of Scottish-Irish ancestry.
But whereas in past generations the attention of a powerful leader would have raised the status of the famous honoree, the arrangement seems in our age to have been flipped.
The show includes his most famous work -- "Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1: Portrait of the Artist's Mother," known as "Whistler's Mother" -- on a rare trip to the United States from its home at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
