Billy Maxted

Billy Maxted

Billy Maxted (January 21 1917, Racine, Wisconsin - October 11 2001, Ft Lauderdale, Florida) was an American jazz pianist.

Maxted started out playing and arranging for the Red Nichols big band from 1937 to 1940. He worked Ben Pollack,Teddy Powell and Will Bradley. He was a fine pianist and arranger.

After serving in the Navy he provided arrangements for Benny Goodman and Claude Thornhill and co-led a band with Ray Eberle (1947-1948)

Maxted lived in Long Island, 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


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