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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 …

Ben Pollack was a talented drummer and a straight better bandleader, with an excellent ear for skill but none from the luck had a need to store his discoveries. He generally proved helpful without ever quite striking the big style himself; but his rings from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s …