Lennie Hayton

Leonard George " Lennie " Hayton ( born February 13, 1908 in New York City; † April 24, 1971 in Palm Springs, California ) was an American pianist and arranger of the swing as well as a film composer.

Lennie Hayton worked early in his career in 1926 at the Little Ramblers and was from 1928 to 1930 in the second pianist Paul Whiteman Orchestra. He also took in the late 1920s with Frankie Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols, Joe Venuti and others on. In the early 1930s he worked as an arranger for the radio shows of Bing Crosby, where Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey Orchestra were presented. With its own orchestra, the ( including Fulton McGrath ) consisted of twelve to twenty musicians, Hayden went from 1937 to 1940 on nationwide tours.

In 1940 he became musical director at the record company MGM and particularly attended to the score. In 1947 he married the singer Lena Horne, for which he wrote arrangements and with whom he toured in the 1950s. Until his retirement in 1953 he reached four Academy Award nominations: for the Judy Garland musical The Harvey Girls ( 1946) and The Pirate (1948 ), and two for the film adaptation of the classic musical On the Town ( Today ' let's go strolling, 1949) - for which he won the Academy Award - and Singin 'in the Rain ( 1952). For the Barbra Streisand musical Hello, Dolly!, He received a second Oscar. His most recent film work was composed in 1968 for the Robert Wise movie star! . In 1970 he arranged for Frank Sinatra George Harrison Title Something.

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• John Jorgensen & Erik Wiedemann: Jazz Encyclopedia. Mosaic, Munich 1960
• Leo Walker: The Big Band Almanac. Ward Ritchie Press, Pasadena. 1978