Buster Harding

Lavere Buster Harding ( born March 19, 1917 in Ontario, Canada, † November 14, 1965 in New York City ) was a Canadian jazz musician ( arrangement, piano, composition ) of the swing.

He grew up in Cleveland and taught himself and with Joseph Schillinger in New York. Then he led his own band in Cleveland, was at Marion Sears, lived a year in Canada before moving to New York in 1938. He was from 1939 to 1940 Arranger and second pianist in the big band of Teddy Wilson. It was followed by engagements in the early 1940s Coleman Hawkins and Cab Calloway. After that, he was a freelance arranger, among other things, Artie Shaw, Count Basie, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and Jonah Jones, as well as for Billie Holiday ( musical director of their recordings for radio and television from 1949) arranged.

He composed with Earle Ronald Warren 9:20 special and with Dizzy Gillespie Confusion.