Jazz improvisation saxophone lennie niehaus biography
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Jazz improvisation saxophone lennie niehaus biography
Lennie Niehaus
American saxophonist and composer (1929–2020)
Musical artist
Leonard Niehaus (June 1, 1929 – May 28, 2020)[1] was an American alto saxophonist, composer and arranger on the West Coast jazz scene.
He played with the Stan Kenton Orchestra and served as one of Kenton's primary staff arrangers.[2] He also played with Ray Vasquez and trombonist and Vocalist, Phil Carreon and other jazz bands on the U.S. West Coast.
Niehaus had a close association as composer and arranger on motion pictures produced by Clint Eastwood.[3][4][5][2]
Life and career
Education and active years as a musician
Niehaus was born in St.
Louis, Missouri on June 1, 1929 to Aaron "Père"and Clariss (Weissman) Niehaus. His mother was a homemaker. His father, a Russian immigrant, was a violinist who played in an orchestra that accompanied silent films in theaters. In the mid-1930s, after talking pictures had taken hold, he moved the f