Sam Lanin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sam Lanin

American jazz bandleader, musician

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1891

Place of Birth: Russian Empire

Date of Death: 05-May-1977

Profession: conductor, bandleader, music director, jazz musician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Samuel Charles Lanin (September 4, 1891 – May 5, 1977) was an American jazz bandleader. Lanin's brothers, Howard and Lester, were also bandleaders, and all of them had sustained, successful careers in music.
Lanin was one of ten children born to Benjamin and Mary Lanin, Russian Jews who had emigrated to Philadelphia in the decade of the 1900s.
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. After the war he moved to New York City and began playing at the Roseland Ballroom in late 1918.
There he established the Roseland Orchestra; this ensemble recorded for the Columbia Gramophone Company in the early 1920s.