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Clare Fischer

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...