Popular jazz trombonist who studied the formula for making hits. RAY CONNIFF, who died on Saturday aged 85, was a jazz trombonist whose big band arrangements evolved over 20 years into the lush music ...

Ray Conniff, the bandleader, composer and arranger whose orchestra and chorus produced a string of Top 40 popular music albums such as “ ‘S Wonderful” and the Grammy-winning “Somewhere My Love,” has ...