Billy Maxted was an American jazz pianist.

Maxted started out playing and arranging for the Red Nichols

Red Nichols

Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols was an American jazz cornettist, composer, and jazz bandleader.Over his long career, Nichols recorded in a wide variety of musical styles, and critic Steve Leggett describes him as "an expert cornet player, a solid improviser, and apparently a workaholic, since he is...

 big band from 1937 to 1940. He worked Ben Pollack

Ben Pollack

Ben Pollack was a drummer and bandleader from the mid 1920s through the swing era. His eye for talent led him to either discover or employ, at one time or another, musicians such as Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden, Glenn Miller, Jimmy McPartland and Harry James...

, Teddy Powell

Teddy Powell

Teddy Powell was an American jazz guitarist, composer and big band leader...

 and Will Bradley

Will Bradley

Wilbur Schwictenberg was an American trombonist and bandleader who also performed under the name Will Bradley...

. He was a fine pianist and arranger. He reached the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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 "Bubbling Under The Top 100"

Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles

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 chart in 1961 with a swing version of "Satin Doll".

After serving in the Navy he provided arrangements for Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman

Benjamin David “Benny” Goodman was an American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader; widely known as the "King of Swing".In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in America...

 and Claude Thornhill

Claude Thornhill

Claude Thornhill was an American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader...

 and co-led a band with Ray Eberle

Ray Eberle

Raymond "Ray" Eberle was a vocalist during the Big Band Era. Eberle sang with the Glenn Miller Orchestra.-Career:...

 (1947–1948). His composition "Manhattan Spiritual" was a top-10 hit for Reg Owen

Reg Owen

Reg Owen was an English conductor and arranger.Owen was born George Owen Smith in Hackney, London, and began playing the saxophone at the age of 15. He played in local groups such as Teddy Joyce's Juveniles and the Royal Kiltie Juniors, before founding his own ensemble whilst still in his teens...

 in 1958.

Maxted lived in Long Island

Long Island

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, NY for much of his life until he moved to Fort Lauderdale in 1961. In New York, Maxted was a fixture at Nick's in Greenwich Village.

Discography

• 1955 Hi-Fi Keyboards - Billy Maxted
• 1955 Pee Wee Erwin at the Grandview Inn
• 1955 Jazz at Nick's - Billy
• 1955 Dixieland Manhattan Style - Billy Maxted
• 1958 Dixieland Manhattan Style - Billy Maxted
• 1959 Jazz at Nick's Cadence
• 1959 Bourbon St. Billy And The Blues
• 1959 The Art of Jazz Seeco
• 1961 Swingability
• 196? Need It Be Named
• 1963 The Big Swingers K&H
• 1966 Maxted Makes It! Liberty