Harry Arnold was a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 jazz

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 saxophonist and bandleader

Bandleader

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Arnold led his first big band

Big band

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 in 1942, playing saxophone initially but eventually ceasing performance work primarily as an arranger. From 1949-52 he played and arranged for Thore Ehrling's band and worked extensively as a studio musician, particularly writing film score

Film score

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s through much of the 1950s. From 1956 to 1965 Arnold led the Swedish Radio Big Band, which included many of Sweden's best known jazz musicians of the era, such as Arne Domnérus

Arne Domnérus

Sven Arne Domnérus was a Swedish jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist, popularly nicknamed Dompan....

, Bengt Hallberg

Bengt Hallberg

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, and Åke Persson

Åke Persson

Åke Persson was a Swedish bebop jazz trombonist.Persson, known as "the Comet", moved from southern Sweden to Stockholm in 1951, where he played in Simon Brehm's quintet...

. American trumpeter Benny Bailey

Benny Bailey

Benny Bailey, born Ernest Harold Bailey , was an American bebop and hard-bop jazz trumpeter.-Biography:...

 played with the band for a time, and Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones

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 arranged and briefly led the group; they recorded with Ernestine Anderson

Ernestine Anderson

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, Lucky Thompson

Lucky Thompson

Eli "Lucky" Thompson was a United States jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist...

, Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Hawkins

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, Toots Thielemans

Toots Thielemans

Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans , known as Toots Thielemans, is a Belgian jazz musician well known for his guitar and harmonica playing as well as his whistling. Thielemans is credited as one of the greatest harmonica players of the 20th century...

, Tony Scott

Tony Scott

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, and Stan Getz

Stan Getz

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. The group disbanded in 1965, after which Arnold continued work as an arranger and led big bands in Europe until his death in 1971,at the age of 51.