Raeburn

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Some groups recall the past, like trumpeter Yank Lawson’s New Orleans-style orchestra, while others, like Woody Herman, Stan Kenton and especially Boyd Raeburn, anticipate modern jazz.

From The Wall Street Journal

Raeburn’s early big-band version of Dizzy Gillespie’s “A Night in Tunisia,” with Earl Swope playing the melody on trombone, also points forward to the end of one era and the beginning of another.

From The Wall Street Journal

In 1803, the greatest painter of the day, Sir Henry Raeburn, was commissioned to create a new image of the greatest poet of the day, Robert Burns.

From BBC

Zachs, who is director of the Blackie House Library and Museum in Edinburgh, had been searching for the lost Raeburn since he first came to Edinburgh 42 years ago.

From BBC

"So there was no reason to think that this was the missing painting - except that I had acquired a letter 20 years before from the man who had the Nasmyth portrait in his possession and who chose Raeburn as the person to produce a new painting, an image of Burns that would endure for the ages."

From BBC