Joe Haymes big band arrangements
Published: 1920
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
Subjects: Manuscripts; Arrangers (Musicians); Music; Big band music; Swing (Music)
Description: The collection chiefly consists of Joe Haymes' musical arrangements, including many of his own compositions.  Most of the music manuscripts are in Haymes' own hand, and include scores, parts, lead sheets, piano-vocal scores, and sketches. In addition, there are a few newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, and a discography.
Notes: Open to research.

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Joe Haymes Big Band Arrangements, Music Division, Library of Congress.

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Gift; Arvella Bateman; 1978.

Joseph Lawrence Haymes (b. Marshfield, Missouri, on Feb. 10, 1907; d. Dallas, Texas, on July 10, 1964) was an American arranger, bandleader, pianist, and composer. In 1928, he became staff arranger for Ted Weems. Two years later he formed the Joe Haymes Orchestra which toured extensively and performed at the Roseland and Empire ballrooms in New York City. In 1933, Buddy Rogers took over the band and Haymes formed another group, the Joe Haymes Band. This group was later taken over by Tommy Dorsey. Haymes' career as a composer and arranger spanned from the 1920s, through the big band and swing eras of the 1940s, into the 1960s. He wrote arrangements for Jack Teagarden and Lawrence Welk as well as for CBS Records and various Hollywood studios.

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