Roger Segure
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Roger Segure (May 22, 1905{{cite book|title=The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor=Colin Larkin|publisher=Guinness Publishing|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=2222}} – January 28, 2000){{Cite web|url=https://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/search/display?dbid=auth&id=60976567|title=Segure, Roger, 1905-2000 - Full record view|website=Librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au|access-date=October 10, 2021}} was an American jazz arranger and songwriter.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York. Segure was primarily an autodidact. In the 1930's, he managed singer Midge Williams and provided piano accompaniment for her tours of the United States and East Asia. He penned several songs for Williams with writer Langston Hughes. Later in the 1930's he did arrangements for Louis Armstrong, Andy Kirk, and John Kirby. From 1940 to 1942, he was an arranger for Jimmie Lunceford.Determeyer, Eddy (2006) Rhythm Is Our Business. University of Michigan Press. Segure penned the score for Lunceford for the film, Blues in the Night. He moved to Los Angeles, California, in the 1940s, where he worked as a musical director for television and in music education. Segure also helped integrate the Los Angeles chapters of the American Federation of Musicians.
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Further reading
- Leonard Feather, The Encyclopedia of Jazz, 1955
- "Roger Segure". Grove Jazz online.
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Category:American jazz pianists
Category:American male jazz pianists
Category:American music arrangers
Category:Musicians from New York (state)