Bill Rank
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| Bill Rank | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Bill Rank |
| Born | June 8, 1904 |
| Origin |  Lafayette, Indiana |
| Died | May 20, 1979 (aged 74) |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Instruments | trombone |
| Associated acts | Jean Goldkette |
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Bill Rank (June 8, 1904 – May 20, 1979) was an American jazz trombonist.
Born in Lafayette, Indiana, he was best-known for his work in the Jean Goldkette orchestra of the late 1920s alongside Bix Beiderbecke in small groups and with Paul Whiteman until 1938.
He was a member of the WLW radio staff orchestra in Cincinnati from 1942 to 1947 and led a local Dixieland group called the Over The Hill Gang. Rank also recorded and performed with Dick Sudhalter.[citation needed]
[edit] Select discography
As bandleader
- Bix's Gang Lives (Fat Cat's Jazz)
With Bix Beiderbecke
- At the Jazz Band Ball (Okeh Records)
- Goose Pimples (Okeh Records)
- Jazz Me Blues (Okeh Records)
- Louisiana (Okeh Records)
- Margie (Okeh Records)
- Ol' Man River (Okeh Records)
- Rhythm King (Okeh Records)
- Royal Garden Blues (Okeh Records)
- Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down (Okeh Records)
- Somebody Stole My Gal (Okeh Records)
- Sorry (Okeh Records)
- Thou Swell (Okeh Records)
- Wa-Da-Da (Everybody's Doin' It Now) (Okeh Records)
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