- Born
- Birth nameGary Michael Anderson
- Downbeat Hall of Fame Scholarship student at, and Summa Cum Laude Graduate of Berklee. Anderson has received the Outstanding Achievement Award alongside fellow alumnus Alf Clausen and was named one of Berklee's Fifty Outstanding Alumnus as part of Berklee's 50th Anniversary celebration.
In 1973 Anderson became a member of Woody Herman's Thundering Herd and spent the next five years touring as music director and chief arranger for this legendary jazz band. After seven albums and tours with Frank Sinatra & Tony Bennett as well performances with Joe Henderson, Charlie Mingus, Chet Baker and many others, Anderson decided to settle into the New York scene and soon found his niche as a studio arranger, orchestrator and composer for television, film and the Broadway stage.
Since the late 1970s Anderson has written for Network and Cable Television, Documentaries, Telefilms & Dramatic Series, Feature Films, Broadway, Off Broadway and Radio City Music Hall as well as 100s of commercials and albums.
He joined several world tours as a performer or musical director, including Woody Herman's Thundering Herd, Charles Mingus, Joe Henderson, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Mel Torme, Gerry Mulligan, and Chet Baker.- IMDb Mini Biography By: citygirl922@hotmail.com
- Las Vegas, Nevada
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