Lennie Hayton

Lennie Hayton’s profession could be easily split into two. In early stages he was a jazz-oriented pianist and arranger involved with classic jazz schedules of the past due 1920’s. With the middle-1940’s he was mainly an arranger for orchestras and quite active as a studio room musician. Hayton excelled during both elements of his musical lifestyle. He started playing piano when he was six. One of is own first professional careers was dealing with Spencer Clark in the tiny Ramblers in 1926. He spent 1927 using the Cass Hagen Orchestra and was with Paul Whiteman during Sept. 1928 until Might 1930. During this time period of your time, Hayton made an appearance on a number of main jazz information with such players as Bix Beiderbecke, Frankie Trumbauer, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, Crimson Nichols and Miff Mole. Within the 1930’s he shifted from jazz, leading his very own orchestra and functioning as musical movie director for Bing Crosby for an interval. In old age, Lennie Hayton had written soundtracks for MGM (1941-53) and was the musical movie director for his wife Lena Horne. He documented two numbers being a head in 1928 and eight choices along with his shortlived big music group in 1939.