Bill Holman interviewed by Monk Rowe, Los Angeles, California, February 13, 1999 [video]

Table of Contents: Biography -- Early interest in arranging/Grew up with all jazz and commercial big bands on the Top 40 -- Told by Woody Herman : "We tell the arrangers that are unhappy...to start their own band" -- Influences/Writing for Stan Kenton helped by playing Gerry Mulligan arrangements -- Kenton's place in jazz history/Writing : hearing charts in his head -- Compliment on his charts from Peggy Lee -- Writing for grade C movies -- About Beatles arrangement -- "Zig zag" arrangement -- Zoot Sims/"Cool jazz"/Problem with "learning by eye" -- Work with Natalie Cole/"Sweetening" pop tunes --Defining straight and swing eighth notes -- "I'm too old to go around being influenced by everybody" -- Popular favorites/Advice for arrangers -- Work with producer Bones Howe.