Les Hite

A significant force being a bandleader in LA, Les Hite (who under no circumstances became popular beyond musician circles) led some significant (if sparsely documented) orchestras in the 1930s and ’40s. After their studies at the College or university of Illinois and playing saxophone in a family group band, Hite caused Detroit Shannon and toured using the Helen Dewey Display. When the revue dropped aside unexpectedly in LA, Hite resolved in the town. He worked well for the Spikes Brothers’ Orchestra, Mutt Carey, Curtis Mosby, and Paul Howard’s Quality Serenaders amongst others. In 1930 he got over Paul Howard’s music group and it became Sebastian’s Natural cotton Club Orchestra, quickly learning to be a fixture at L.A.’s Natural cotton Club for a long time. Hite’s big music group followed Louis Armstrong through the trumpeter’s stay static in Los Perspectives, and down the road backed Excess fat Waller. Hite’s Orchestra also made an appearance for the soundtracks of several films and produced a few uncommon visual looks in the films. Although his big music group sometimes toured (actually appearing in NY in 1937), it continued to be based in LA. After 1945, Hite steadily dropped from the music business although in his last five years he maintained a booking company. Furthermore to Armstrong and Waller, among the music artists who caused Hite had been Lionel Hampton, Marshall Royal, Lawrence Dark brown, Britt Woodman, Joe Wilder, and (for a limited period in 1942) Dizzy Gillespie. However, apart from its dates support Louis Armstrong, the Les Hite Orchestra just recorded 14 choices, all during 1940-1942; T-Bone Walker guested on “T-Bone Blues” while Dizzy Gillespie took an early on bop single on “Shirt Bounce.”