Lee Castle

Lee Castle ( born February 28, 1915 in New York City as Aniello Castaldo, † November 16, 1990 in Hollywood ( Florida)) was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.

Life

Lee Castle began his career as a musician in 1935 with Joe Haymes; then he worked for Artie Shaw (1936, 1941), Tommy Dorsey ( 1937-41 ), in whose father he had lessons, then at Jack Teagarden, Glenn Miller ( 1939), Will Bradley (1941 ) and Benny Goodman ( 1943). In the same year he participated in the musical film Stage Door Canteen. In 1938 he put together your own short-lived band and worked in the 1940s several times with his own formations, which recorded shots for Musicraft and Epic Records.

In 1953 he returned to the orchestra of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey; after Tommy Dorsey's death in 1955, he was deputy head, according to Jimmy Dorsey's death in 1956, he became director of the ensemble, which is now The Jimmy Dorsey band Directed by Lee Castle said. He retained this position until well into the 1980s.

Swell

• George T. Simon: The Golden Age of the Big Bands ( "The Big bands" ). Hannibal -Verlag, 2004 yards, ISBN 3-854-45243-8,
• Leo Walker: The Big Band Almanac. Ward Ritchie Press, Pasadena. 1978