Wardell Quezergue obituary

Distinguished and subtle New Orleans arranger and musicianWhen the tape stopped rolling as the string section finished playing Wardell Quezergue's orchestration of Mona Lisa, the old Nat King Cole song, for the Neville Brothers' album Fiyo On the Bayou in a New Orleans studio in 1981, the musicians stood and applauded the veteran arranger. "He brought tears to my eyes with his score," the singer Aaron Neville remembered.Quezergue, who has died aged 81, was a distinguished, if not the most widely...

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