At the age of 21, after teaching himself to play the piano, Tadd Dameron began
his career as a professional musician in the orchestras of Freddie Webster and
Blanche Calloway. From Cleveland, he moved to Chicago, where he wrote his first
arrangements, before moving to New York and then, in the early '40s, to another
great jazz city, Kansas City. A renowned composer and arranger, he wrote a large
number of themes that served as a reference for the younger generation of
boppers, of which he was one of the leaders, whether performing them in small
groups or in large modern orchestra...