Les Hite

LES HITE d1962. American jazz bandleader. His big band (known as Sebastian's Cotton Club Orchestra) primarily played in Los Angeles, though they occasionally went on tour. Musicians who played in the band included ; Lionel Hampton / Marshal Royal / George Orendorff / Lawrence Brown / Britt Woodman / Joe Wilder / T-Bone Walker / Marvin Johnson and Dizzy Gillespie. Les Hites Syncopators were featured for the opening day ceremony of a "colored country club" called the Appomattox owned by Leon Hefflin Sr on Labor Day, September 1st 1930. He rarely recorded and for this reason much of the details of his life and work are poorly documented. The only sessions he did were 14 numbers recorded between 1940 and 1942