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This California-based bandleader and singer was area of the same ’30s LA jazz and dance band scene that spawned musicians as famous as the madcap bandleader Spike Jones and big band jazz innovator Stan Kenton. Noble in fact employed Jones like a drummer in his dance music group in the …

b. Faye Leighton Jepsen, 25 Dec 1912, USA, d. 5 March 1994, Victoria, Vancouver Isle, English Columbia, USA. Created in NEW YORK, NY, USA, in 1937, Leighton Noble And His Orchestra instantly secured a exclusive engagement at Frank Dailey’s Meadowbrook location. The reason might have already been Noble’s earlier big …