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Billy Butterfield
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Austin Wylie
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Cliff Leeman
Cliff Leeman
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Bob Wilber
Bob Wilber
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World's Greatest Jazz Band
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Bob Crosby
Bob Crosby
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Carl Fontana
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Peanuts Hucko
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Mike Bloomfield
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Bob Brookmeyer
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Lloyd Glenn
Lloyd Glenn
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Dick Cary
Dick Cary
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Paul Butterfield
Paul Butterfield
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Gary McFarland
Gary McFarland
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Mark Naftalin
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Derek Wadsworth
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Paul Ricci
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Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan
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Red Mitchell
Red Mitchell
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Max Bennett
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Ernie Freeman
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George Masso
George Masso
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Kenny Wheeler
Kenny Wheeler
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Teddy McRae
Teddy McRae
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Wild Bill Davis
Wild Bill Davis
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Woody Herman
Woody Herman
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David Sanborn
David Sanborn
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Count Basie Orchestra
Count Basie Orchestra
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Al Cohn
Al Cohn
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Zoot Sims
Zoot Sims
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Herb Hall
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Bill Le Sage
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Johnny Mandel
Johnny Mandel
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Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz
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King's Singers
King's Singers
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Gil Evans
Gil Evans
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Dave Burns
Dave Burns
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Billy Byers
Billy Byers
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Jan Garber
Jan Garber
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Bill Watrous
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Kai Winding
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Sonny Burke
Sonny Burke
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Howard Roberts
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Jerry Gray
Jerry Gray
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June Christy
June Christy
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Johnny Smith
Johnny Smith
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Shorty Rogers
Shorty Rogers
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Alec Wilder
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Roger Neumann
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Jim Hall
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T-Bone Walker
T-Bone Walker
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Les Brown
Les Brown
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Jack Marshall
Jack Marshall
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Slide Hampton
Slide Hampton
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Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
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Jack Montrose
Jack Montrose
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Tommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey
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Bill Stegmeyer
American musician

Bill Stegmeyer

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Bill Stegmeyer (October 8, 1916 - August 19, 1968) was an American jazz clarinetist and arranger.

Stegmeyer attended Transylvania College from 1934 to 1936, and following his studies played with Austin Wylie (1937), Glenn Miller (1938), and Bob Crosby (1939–40). In the 1940s he did arrangement work and played clarinet (and occasionally, saxophone) with Billy Butterfield, Yank Lawson, Bobby Hackett, Will Bradley, and Billie Holiday (1945–47). He arranged for WXYZ, a Detroit radio station, from 1948 to 1950, and following this arranged for Your Hit Parade (1950–58) and CBS (early 1960s). In the 1950s he also continued to play jazz, with Lawson, Butterfield, Bob Haggart, Jimmy McPartland, and Ruby Braff. He died of cancer at age 51 in 1968. His only recordings as a leader were five tunes for Signature Records in 1945 and some V-Discs.