Jack Lesberg

Jack Lesberg ( born February 14, 1920 in Boston, Massachusetts, † September 17, 2005 in Englewood, New Jersey ) was an American musician and known as a jazz bassist and violinist.

Jack Lesberg was one of the most successful jazz bassist of the 1940s and 1950s. As a teenager, he learned violin and viola. He played with many great jazz musicians, such as Muggsy Spanier (1940 ), Dizzy Gillespie (1944 ), Benny Goodman (1946, 1967), Louis Armstrong (1947, 1949, Tour 1956, 1965), Jack Teagarden, Earl Hines ( 1957), Eddie Condon ( 1945-1950, 1964) and Tommy Dorsey (1950). In 1965 he was at the Newport Jazz Festival. In 1968 he played with Ruby Braff and Zoot Sims. He also played with classical orchestras such as the New York City Symphony Orchestra (1945 to 1948).

Lesberg had an engagement at the Cocoanut Grove in Boston, where it caused a fire disaster on November 28, 1942. Lesberg was able to escape only thanks to favorable circumstances. His report on the disaster and the circumstances of his rescue impressed his colleagues, bassist Charles Mingus deeply.