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Stewart Roussin Fischer, better known as "Dirk" Fischer or "Dirty Dirk" Fischer (September 1, 1924 – February 25, 2013),<ref name="scv">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=news }}</ref><ref name="cno">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=news }}</ref> was an American composer, arranger, jazz educator, trumpeter, and valve trombonist. Before moving to California in 1959, he spent his young adulthood in the Northern Plains, performing with and writing for territory bands booked out of Omaha, Nebraska. He is the brother of Clare Fischer.
Fischer was a faculty member at College of the Canyons, as Jazz Band Director and Instructor of Jazz Studies, from 1977 until February 12, 2005.<ref name="scv" /><ref name="cno" />
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Stewart Roussin Fischer, better known as "Dirk" Fischer or "Dirty Dirk" Fischer (September 1, 1924 – February 25, 2013),<ref name="scv">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=news }}</ref><ref name="cno">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=news }}</ref> was an American composer, arranger, jazz educator, trumpeter, and valve trombonist. Before moving to California in 1959, he spent his young adulthood in the Northern Plains, performing with and writing for territory bands booked out of Omaha, Nebraska. He is the brother of Clare Fischer.
Fischer was a faculty member at College of the Canyons, as Jazz Band Director and Instructor of Jazz Studies, from 1977 until February 12, 2005.<ref name="scv" /><ref name="cno" />
Stewart "Dirk" Fischer sections
Intro Growing up US Army Minnesota Early career: territory bands California Personal life Discography Selected Published/Copyrighted Compositions Music Publishers/Distributors See also References
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