Teddy Lee (2)

American dance orchestra leader and alto saxophonist born Ted Lega (1918-1998) from Joliet Illinois. He first played saxophone in the Joliet Township HS band. He then played professionally beginning in the late 1930s with Mel Marvin and His Orchestra (Marvin and other members were also from the Joliet Township HS band), then the George Olden Orchestra, the Chuck Foster Orchestra, and the Ray Pearl and his Orchestra also known as Ray Pearl and his Musical Gems). When the Ray Pearl Orchestra broke up in 1956 he played for a year with the Wayne King Orchestra before forming the Teddy Lee Orchestra in 1958.He led the Orchestra until he died. His son, also Teddy, took over the orchestra in about 1992.