Sorta the blues lennie niehaus biography

Lennie Niehaus admits that he “has every reason to be proud and happy”.

Lennie Niehaus has been writing music for major motion pictures since the early s.

A self-taught pianist and composer, the actor and Oscar-winning director has (with longtime collaborator Lennie Niehaus and, more recently, his.

Lennie Niehaus, a Los Angeles alto saxophonist and prolific composer for big bands and his own small groups starting in the s before moving.

I recently ran across Lennie Niehaus's "Blues in all Keys" which is Volume 42 in the Aebersold jazz play-along collection.

Another West Coast musician to come into prominence at the time was altoist Lennie Niehaus.

In his early career he was acclaimed internationally as jazz altoist, composer and arranger (Stan Kenton and his own six albums as leader). Then, in these latter years, Lennie has garnered accolades as a leading Hollywood film composer.

Yet he has always continued to utilise and expose his jazz background. This has culminated in his much-envied assignment as musical director and composer on the upcoming Charlie Parker Bird film, produced and directed by Clint Eastwood.

Lennie’s sister was a concert pianist and his father was an expert violinist.

It was at Ft. Ord that Eastwood met Lennie Niehaus, an ex-Kenton alto sax player.

Père Niehaus started his son on violin at age seven. “I went from violin to oboe to bassoon,” Lennie recalled. “Then, at thirteen, I took up alto and clarinet.” He went on: “I was always interested in composing and writing; I wrote music as a young teenager.

I had always heard advanced chords, listening to my sister and father play romantic era music.” In 1946, while