Ray Conniff, the Grammy Award-winning arranger and bandleader whose arrangements continued and modernized the Big Band sound while spawning such albums as "'SWonderful" and "Somewhere My Love," has ...

Ray Conniff, the bandleader, composer and arranger whose orchestra and chorus produced a string of Top 40 popular music albums such as “ ‘S Wonderful” and the Grammy-winning “Somewhere My Love,” has ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Ray Conniff, the composer, trombone player and bandleader who won a Grammy Award for his recording of the ``Dr. Zhivago'' theme ``Somewhere My Love,'' has died. He was 85. Conniff ...

Ray Conniff, composer, trombone player and bandleader who won a Grammy for his recording of the “Dr. Zhivago” theme “Somewhere My Love,” died Saturday Oct. 12 at Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, ...

Mucho,'' ''New York, New York,'' ''S' Wonderful'' and ''Somewhere My Love,'' (theme from ''Dr. Zhivago'' in a career that spanned six decades, died Saturday. He was 85.

Conniff was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, and learned to play the trombone from his father. He studied music arranging from a course book. Early career After serving in the U.S. Army in World War ...

Ray Conniff, 85, a Grammy Award-winning conductor and arranger who engineered a series of commercially popular records in the 1950s and 1960s that were among the first to match wordless vocal choruses ...

Popular jazz trombonist who studied the formula for making hits. RAY CONNIFF, who died on Saturday aged 85, was a jazz trombonist whose big band arrangements evolved over 20 years into the lush music ...