Bob Haggart

Robert Sherwood "Bob" Haggart ( born March 13, 1914 in New York City, NY, USA, † December 2, 1998 in Venice, Florida, United States) was a jazz musician ( bass player, arranger, composer ).

The growing up in Long Iceland Haggart learned banjo, guitar, piano and trumpet. On the bass, he was self-taught. Between 1935 and 1942 he played as a bass player in the big band of Bob Crosby; next he took for Decca duets with drummer Ray Bauduc one ( "The Big Noise from Winnetka ", 1938). For Crosby, he composed the song "What's New? . "He then worked in the radio and recording studios before with Yank Lawson initially a studio band in Dixieland style and then in 1968 founded The World's Greatest Jazz Band; It included, inter alia, Ralph Sutton, Jay McShann, Bud Freeman, Gus Johnson or Nappy Lamare on. In 1985, he participated in Benny Goodman's TV show, Let's Dance, in part.

Haggart wrote arrangements for Crosby and the Hitnummern ' Big Noise From Winnetka ', which he played with drummer Ray Bauduc, ' What's New ' and 'South Rampart Street Parade '. He recorded with Ella Fitzgerald (1943 /47), Art Hodes, Eddie Condon, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Pee Wee Russell, Billie Holiday (1945 /47) and Mae Carlisle.

  • Jazz bassist
  • Composer (Jazz)
  • Arranger
  • American musician
  • Born in 1914
  • Died in 1998
  • Man
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