World's Greatest Jazz Band
The World's Greatest Jazz Band was an all-star jazz ensemble active from 1968 to 1978.[1]
Dick Gibson founded the group at his sixth Jazz Party, an annual event.[1] The group performed mostly Dixieland jazz and recorded extensively.[1] It was co-led by Yank Lawson and Bob Haggart,[1] and did early jazz standards alongside contemporaneous pop songs done in a Dixieland style.[2] Though the group disbanded in 1978, the name was revived several times by Lawson and Haggart for limited engagements.
Members
[edit]- Billy Butterfield[1]
- Cutty Cutshall
- Vic Dickenson
- Morey Feld[1]
- Carl Fontana[1]
- Bud Freeman[1]
- Dick Gibson
- Bob Haggart[1]
- Scott Hamilton
- Clancy Hayes[1]
- Eddie Hubble[1]
- Peanuts Hucko[1]
- Keith Ingham
- Gus Johnson[1]
- Roger Kellaway
- Al Klink[1]
- Yank Lawson[1]
- Cliff Leeman
- George Masso[1]
- Lou McGarity[1]
- Johnny Mince
- Bob Miller
- Eddie Miller[1]
- Joe Muranyi
- Chuck Riggs
- Bobby Rosengarden[1]
- Sonny Russo
- Carrie Smith
- Maxine Sullivan
- Ralph Sutton[1]
- Dick Wellstood
- Bob Wilber[1]
- Roy Williams
Discography
[edit]- Extra! (Project 3 Total Sound, 1969)
- The World's Greatest Jazzband of Yank Lawson and Bob Haggart (Project 3 Total Sound, 1969)
- Live at the Roosevelt Grill (Atlantic, 1970)
- The World's Greatest Jazzband (Atlantic, 1971)
- What's New? (Atlantic, 1971)
- Hark the Herald Angels Swing (World Jazz, 1972)
- In Concert: Vol. 1 Massey Hall (World Jazz, 1973)
- Good News with Teresa Brewer (Signature, 1973)
- Plays Cole Porter (World Jazz, 1975)
- Plays Rodgers & Hart (World Jazz, 1976)
- Plays Duke Ellington (World Jazz, 1976)
- In Concert (Recorded Live at the Lawrenceville School) (Flying Dutchman, 1976)
- On Tour (World Jazz, 1976)
- On Tour Vol. 1 and 2 (World Jazz, 1977)
- Plays George Gershwin (World Jazz, 1977)
- On Tour II with Maxine Sullivan (World Jazz, 1977)[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 440. ISBN 0-85112-580-8.
- ^ Scott Yanow, World's Greatest Jazz Band at AllMusic
- ^ "World's Greatest Jazz Band | Album Discography". AllMusic. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
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