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Van Alexander (May 2, 1915 – July 19, 2015) was an American bandleader, arranger, and composer. Early years. Van Alexander was born Alexander Van Vliet Feldman in Harlem. [1] . His mother was a classical pianist, and she taught him to play the piano. [2] . He studied music at Columbia University. [1] .
Jul 30, 2015 · Van Alexander, a composer and arranger who adapted a nursery rhyme into “A-Tisket, A-Tasket,” which became Ella Fitzgerald’s breakout hit in 1938, died on July 19 at a hospital near his home in...
Jul 22, 2015 · Van Alexander, a big band arranger and bandleader whose arrangements date back to 1936 and was best known for A-Tisket, a Tasket, a song he co-wrote with Ella Fitzgerald and arranged for Fitzgerald and Chick Webb in 1938, died on July 19 in Los Angeles. He was 100.
He was a band leader, a composer and a prolific music arranger in Hollywood for television and film. Alexander, who continued to compose and arrange television and...
Jul 20, 2015 · Van Alexander, the 1940s bandleader who co-wrote "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" with Ella Fitzgerald and went on to score dozens of films and TV shows in the 1950s and '60s, died of heart...
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Jul 20, 2015 · Van Alexander, the 1940s US bandleader who became a prolific film and TV show composer, has died aged 100. According to Variety, the conductor and author died of heart failure on Sunday in a...
Jul 26, 2015 · Van Alexander, a musical jack-of-all-trades, who co-wrote Ella Fitzgerald’s biggest hit in the 1930s, led a swing band, composed arrangements for other bandleaders and later became a composer and...
