Lloyd Thaxton, the host of a popular Los Angeles TV dance show in the 1960s who memorably injected a visual zaniness into his daily rock 'n' roll party for teenagers, died Sunday. He was 81.
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One of the founding fathers of the West Coast big-band sound is Russ Garcia. Born in April 1916, Russ was and remains a tireless orchestrator and was an early pioneer of atonal arranging. Starting as a trumpet player in the…