| LC control no. | no 93022641 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Leonard, Harlan, 1905-1983 |
| Variant(s) | Leonard, Mike, 1905-1983 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 19050702 |
| Death date | 1983 |
| Place of birth | Butler (Mo.) |
| Place of death | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Affiliation | Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra United States. Internal Revenue Service Hayes's Kansas City Sky Rockets (Musical group) |
| Profession or occupation | Jazz musicians Saxophonists Clarinetists Executives |
| Found in | His Mistreated [SR] 1940: labels (Harlan Leonard and his Rockets) New Grove dict. of jazz (Leonard, Harlan (Quentin); (Mike); b. 7/2/05, Kansas City, MO; d. 1983, Los Angeles: saxophonist and bandleader) African American National Biography, accessed February 19, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Leonard, Harlan “Mike”; Harlan Quentin Leonard; jazz musician, saxophonist, bandleader, clarinetist, financial manager; born 02 July 1905 in Butler, Missouri, United States; was lead alto saxophonist, doubling on clarinet and soprano sax, in Bennie Moten's ensemble (1923-1931); became part of a new band, Hayes's Kansas City Sky Rockets; after working in a defense job for Lockheed and at the post office, he joined the cashier's section at the Los Angeles office of the Department of Internal Revenue (1949); eventually became chief of the section; died 1983 in Los Angeles, California, United States) |
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