Jack Lesberg

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Jack Lesberg, Max Kaminsky , and Peanuts Hucko , Eddie Condon's, New York, ca May 1947, photo: Gottlieb

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 bassists of the 1940s and 1950s. As a teenager he learned the violin and viola. He played with numerous great jazz musicians, for example 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 to 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 (1945-1948).

Lesberg was engaged in the Cocoanut Grove in Boston when a fire disaster occurred there on November 28, 1942. Lesberg was only able to save himself thanks to favorable circumstances. His account of the disaster and the circumstances surrounding its rescue deeply impressed his colleague, bassist Charles Mingus .

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SURNAME Lesberg, Jack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 2005
Place of death Englewood , New Jersey