Buster Harding
Buster Lavere Harding (born March 19, 1917 in Ontario , Canada , † November 14, 1965 in New York City ) was a Canadian jazz musician (arrangement, piano, composition) of swing .
He grew up in Cleveland and learned self-taught and with Joseph Schillinger in New York. He then led his own band in Cleveland, was with Marion Sears , lived in Canada for a year before moving to New York in 1938. There he was arranger and second pianist in Teddy Wilson's big band from 1939 to 1940 . Engagements at Coleman Hawkins and Cab Calloway followed in the early 1940s . He then worked as a freelance arranger, working for Artie Shaw , Count Basie , Roy Eldridge , Dizzy Gillespie , Earl Hines , Glenn Miller , Tommy Dorsey and Jonah Jones and for Billie Holiday (musical director for their recordings for radio and television from 1949) arranged.
He composed with Earle Ronald Warren 9:20 special and with Dizzy Gillespie Confusion .
literature
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .
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| SURNAME | Harding, Buster |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harding, Buster Lavere |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian jazz pianist, arranger and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ontario , Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 1965 |
| Place of death | New York City |