Melvin James (Sy) Oliver,was one of America's great jazz composers and arrangers of the big band era, and a musician who had a significant impact on American popular music. Sy Oliver was born in ...

Sy Oliver was one of the most important arrangers of the swing era. A trumpeter, singer and arranger in Jimmie Lunceford's orchestra in the 1930s, Oliver was hired by Tommy Dorsey in 1939 to give the ...

Sy Oliver, who was born on Dec. 17, 1910, in Battle Creek, Michigan, (one article lists Dec. 10), moved to Zanesville at the age of 2, living with his family on Cliffwood Avenue. Both of his ...

NEW YORK — Melvin James “Sy” Oliver, one of America’s great jazz composers and arrangers and a man who had a significant impact on American popular music, died of cardiovascular ...

MELVIN JAMES “SY” OLIVER, 77, one of the great composers of the big band era who wrote such standards as “Easy Does It” and “Opus One,” died Friday. As an arranger and composer in the ...