Clare Fischer lived many musical lives, first as a jazz pianist and composer
with an affinity for Latin sounds, and later as a string arranger for pop
artists. Born Douglas Clare Fischer on October 22, 1928, Fischer grew up in a
musical family and attended Michigan State University. Early in his career, he
provided keyboard accompaniment and arrangements for the jazz vocal group the
Hi-Lo’s, and later contributed arrangements to Dizzy Gillespie’s A Portrait of
Duke Ellington in 1960.
Fischer then struck out on his own and released a handful of albums of
straightforward piano...