Ray Conniff, who died on Saturday aged 85, was a jazz trombonist whose big band arrangements evolved over 20 years into the lush music favoured as an inducement to buy in supermarkets. Conniff's ...

Ray Conniff, the Grammy Award-winning composer and bandleader whose arrangements epitomized the Big Band sound while spawning such albums as "S'Wonderful" and "Somewhere My Love," has died. He was 85.

Ray Conniff, the Grammy Award-winning composer and bandleader whose arrangements epitomized the big band sound while spawning such albums as "S'Wonderful" and "Somewhere My Love," died Saturday. He… ...

A self-taught arranger and conductor from Attleboro, Mass., Conniff, who died in 2002, specialized in covering popular tunes with his own blend of vocal choruses and light instrumentals. His was an ...

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 ...

ESCONDIDO, Calif., Oct. 14 -- Ray Conniff -- the Grammy-winning arranger, bandleader, composer and trombonist behind some of the biggest pop hits of the 1950s and '60s -- has died. He was 85. Conniff ...