John T. Layton
Composer John Turner Layton was born in Washington, D.C., in 1894. He received a musical education from his father and attended the Howard University Dental School before moving to New York City in the early 1900s and meeting the man who would become his primary songwriting partner, Henry Creamer. He worked as a composer and musician his entire working life, retiring in 1946 and dying in 1978.
Composer John Turner Layton was born in Washington, D.C., in 1894. He received a musical education from his father and attended the Howard University Dental School before moving to New York City in the early 1900s and meeting the man who would become his primary songwriting partner, Henry Creamer. He worked as a composer and musician his entire working life, retiring in 1946 and dying in 1978.
Layton is best known for the Dixieland standard "After You've Gone", written with Henry Creamer.
Layton and Creamer wrote songs in a variety of genres, ranging from blues to Dixieland to up-tempo show tunes.
Layton was known professionally, at least at times, as "Turner Layton", presumably to differentiate him from his musician father, also named John Turner Layton.
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