Tadley Ewing Peake "
Tadd"
Dameron (February 21, 1917 – March 8, 1965) was an American
jazz composer, arranger and pianist. Saxophonist
Dexter Gordon called him the "romanticist" of the bop movement, while reviewer
Scott Yanow wrote that Dameron was the "definitive arranger/composer of the
bop era".