Roger Segure

Roger Segure (May 22, 1905[1] – January 28, 2000)[2] was an American jazz arranger.

He was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.[1] Segure was primarily an autodidact. He accompanied Midge Williams on piano in the 1930s for her tours of the United States, and East Asia. Later in the 1930s he did arrangements for Louis Armstrong, Andy Kirk, and John Kirby.[1] From 1940 to 1944, he was the principal arranger for Jimmie Lunceford.[1] Segure penned the score for Lunceford for the film, Blues in the Night.[1] He moved to Los Angeles, California, in the 1940s, where he worked as a musical director for television and in music education.[1] Segure also helped integrate the Los Angeles chapters of the American Federation of Musicians.[3]