Jack Havener plays the saxophone, clarinet and flute. He was born in Dixon Tennessee and moved to Terre Haute, Indiana as a child. He became interested in Music when his siblings became interested. He started playing the saxophone as a sophomore in high school. He went to Indiana State.

Jack graduated from the Julliard School of Music in New York City in 1948 and was the first saxophone major to graduate. Columbia University was just up the street. He graduated two years later with a major in music education. Dwight Eisenhower signed his degree from Columbia University. He conducted three Broadway musicals and orchestrated music for many acts  that worked on the Ed Sullivan Show and the Jack Parr Show. He orchestrated music for CBS for the TV show "Car 54 Where Are You." He composed incidental music for a Broadway play called "The Warm Peninsula," starring Julia Harris and Larry Hagman.

Jack worked with several bands in New York City; Vincent Lopez at the Taft Hotel, Nat Brandwin at the Waldorf Astoria, and Milt Show at the Plaza Hotel. Jack says, "Music has been my only occupation all my life." Now his claim to fame is playing for Chicago's own Burgie Crandall and the 16 piece "Let's Dance Band."