Here's an Esquivel mega post hope there's something here for everybody.
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Music from a Sparkling Planet
Esquivel's world renown earned through his RCA Victor albums coincided with a period when rock groups eclipsed orchestras as the popular standard-bearers of pop music. Consequently, Esquivel was the last great big band leader. Saxophonist/composer John Zorn called him "a genius arranger who created a beautiful pop mutation." Esquivel certainly deserves credit as the visionary whose musical fuel-injection propelled the pop orchestra into the 21st century.
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2007818 - JGE
I still feel the last big band leader was Sun Ra.