Buster Harding

Among the best freelance arrangers from the golf swing period, Buster Harding was flexible a sufficient amount of to also write some contemporary charts through the bop period. He was raised in Cleveland where in fact the teen led his very own band in the first 1930’s. After employed in Buffalo with Marion Sears and spending per year in Canada, Harding organized and performed second piano for Teddy Wilson’s Orchestra (1939-40). He also composed for Coleman Hawkins’ temporary big band, going a quartet and was personnel arranger for Cab Calloway (1941-42). Harding became an extremely active freelancer arranger for a number of best rings including those of Count number Basie, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman (“Scarecrow”), Cab Calloway (“Jonah Joins The Cab”), Earl Hines, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Dizzy Gillespie among others including Billie Visit to 1954. Harding was much less active afterwards in lifestyle although he proved helpful for Jonah Jones for an interval within the 1960’s. Strangely more than enough, the underrated but talented arranger Buster Harding hardly ever led his very own record date.