Herbie Haymer

Herbie Haymer ( born July 24, 1915 in Jersey City, New Jersey, † April 11, 1949 in Santa Monica ) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

At 15, he began playing alto saxophone and switched to tenor saxophone five years later. Haymer began in the Carl Sears - Johnny Watson band then played briefly with Rudy Vallee and Charlie Barnet.

From 1935 to 1937 Haymer member of Red Norvo Orchestra, from 1937 to 1941 with Jimmy Dorsey, 1941/42, Woody Herman, 1942/43, with Kay Kyser. Prior to his time in the Navy in 1944, he was briefly a member of Benny Goodman and Dave Hudkins band. After his discharge from the Army in 1945, he worked as a session musician in Los Angeles and worked on recordings by Red Nichols, Lyle Griffin and Benny Goodman ( 1947) with. In 1945 he led a quintet in which Charlie Shavers, John Simmons, Buddy Rich and Nat King Cole at a recording session for the label Sunset participated ( " I'll Never Be the Same "). The recordings were released later Nat Cole's name; three more titles Haymers published 1946 Keynote Records. In 1949, he took a few more numbers with Frank Sinatra on; when returning from one of these sessions, he was killed in a traffic accident.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Nat King Cole, Anatomy of A Jam Session, recorded June 9, 1945 in Hollywood. Haymer played tenor saxophone and was head of the session, Nat King Cole played piano, drums Buddy Rich, Charlie Shavers trumpet and John Simmons bass.

• Jazz saxophonist
• American musician
• Born in 1915
• Died in 1949
• Man