Chances are ray conniff biography

RAY CONNIFF’S SHORT BIOGRAPHY BY VERA CONNIFF (1997)

Ray Conniff Biography*Ray Conniff, one of the few commercially successful musical geniuses of our time, was born on November 6, 1916, in Attleboro, Massachusetts.

Ray was exposed to music at an early age, his father was the leader/trombonist of the local Jewelry City Band and his mother played the piano.As a junior in Attleboro High School, Ray and some of his buddies decided to start a dance orchestra.

Taking some musical tips from his father, Ray started practic-ing trombone and wound up playing first trombone for the band. It was for this group that Ray did his first arrangement, his fellow musicians loved his interpretation of "Sweet Georgia Brown".Out of high school, Ray got his first professional job with Dan Murphy's "Musical Skippers" in Boston.

He played trombone, arranged music and drove a panel truck for the band. When a friend of his told him that Boston was too small for a talented musician to make it, Ray head