To be a great arranger.

The album was titled What's New and featured music arranged by Sinatra's own great arrangers Billy May, Nelson Riddle and Don Costa.

"Someday I would love to teach a course on great arrangers by taking the best Peter Matz, Nelson Riddle and Gordon Jenkins arrangements and analyzing them."

He was a great arranger and interpreter of both pop songs and standards as well as a composer.

Aretha Franklin called him "classic and one of a kind", and one of the "all-time great" arrangers and producers.

He was, to me, the best blues arranger - he was a great arranger, period.

Pippo copied with unerring precision many records, sections, and he improved his talent as a great arranger.

But Trent has proved himself to be a great arranger and composer.

"That was really the first hint of what a great arranger he is, in addition to being a composer," said the pianist and collective member Frank Kimbrough, who played on the album.

Melba Liston, the great arranger and trombonist, hasn't been feeling well, but she's going to make it.