Edgar Hayes & His Orchestra

b. Edgar Junius Hayes, 23 Might 1904, Lexington, Kentucky, USA, d. 28 June 1979, San Bernadino, California, USA. Hayes’ name will be connected with his tinkling, cocktail-lounge interpretation of Hoagy Carmichael’s ‘Superstar Dirt’, which emerged backed using a edition of ‘In The Disposition’, the coupling offering the piano-playing Hayes using a 1938 strike. After their studies at Fisk and Wilberforce Colleges, he produced his debut with Fess Williams, after that formed his very own Blue Lawn Buddies in Ohio in 1924. Through the entire 20s he caused various bands ultimately getting pianist-arranger with Mills Blue Tempo Music group in 1931 and keeping his place with the machine after Lucky Millinder assumed command three years afterwards. Departing Millinder in middle-1936, he produced his own music group, which debuted in early 1937, documenting monitors for Varsity and Decca Information. A healthy-sounding 14-piece music group, it initially highlighted Shelton Hemphill (trumpet), Joe Garland (tenor saxophone), Elmer Adam (bass) and Crawford Wetherington (alto saxophone), most of whom acquired partnered Hayes in the Millinder line-up. In the tempo section was a 22-year-old drummer called Kenny Clarke, afterwards to become among the kingpins of bebop. Hayes toured Scandinavia in 1938, documenting some monitors for the Swedish Odeon label, but neither these nor all of those other music group’s Decca game titles created another ‘Superstar Dust’ as well as the music group folded in 1941. By 1942 Hayes could possibly be within California where he performed a residency in the Somerset Home, Riverside, up to 1946, and he led a combo known as the Stardusters, playing at different west coast locations through to the first 50s. Through the 60s and 70s Hayes chosen a solo profession, performing primarily lounge duties and sometimes reprising ‘Celebrity Dust’ for anybody who happened to keep in mind his music group leading days.