Sam Lanin

Label of a Sam Lanin recording on Banner Records.

Samuel Charles Lanin (September 4, 1891[1] – May 5, 1977)[2] was an American jazz bandleader.

Lanin's brothers, Howard and Lester, were also bandleaders, and all of them had sustained careers in music.[2] Lanin was one of ten children born to Benjamin and Mary Lanin, Russian Jews who had emigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.[2] Sam played clarinet and violin while young, and in 1912 he was offered a spot playing in Victor Herbert's orchestra, where he played through World War I.[2]

After the war he moved to New York City and began playing at the Roseland Ballroom in late 1918.[2] There he established the Roseland Orchestra; this ensemble recorded for the Columbia Gramophone Company in the early 1920s.

  1. ^ "Sam Lanin". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 1429. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.