Eastwood Lane was an American

United States

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 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 who wrote piano

Piano

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 suites and ballet

Ballet

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 music.

Eastwood Lane was born in Brewerton, New York

Brewerton, New York

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His compositions for piano include In Sleepy Hollow (1913), Five American Dances (1919), Adirondack Sketches (1922), Mongoliana (1922), Eastern Seas (1925), Sold Down the River (1928), Pantomimes (1933), Fourth of July (1935), Here Are Ladies (1944), Jesuit's Journey (1947), Central Park, Colonial Suite, Knee-High to a Grasshopper. Three of his pieces, "Sea Burial", "Persimmon Pucker", and "Minuet for Betty Schuyler", were arranged by Ferde Grofe

Ferde Grofé

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 for the orchestra of Paul Whiteman

Paul Whiteman

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Lane's most popular piano suite is Adirondack Sketches. The titles of its six pieces are "The Old Guide's Story", "The Legend of Lonesome Lake", "Down Stream", "The Land of the Loon", "A Dirge for Jo Indian", and "Lumber-Jack Dance". These pieces had an influence on jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke

Bix Beiderbecke

Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke was an American jazz cornetist, jazz pianist, and composer.With Louis Armstrong, Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s...

's piano compositions.

Publications

• Norman P. Gentieu, "Eastwood Lane", Journal of Jazz Studies, Spring 1976, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 58-84.

External links

• MIDI sequences of "In Sleepy Hollow" (1913), "Five American Dances" (1919), "Adirondack Sketches" (1922)