Stan Rubin

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Stan Rubin (born July 14, 1933 in New Rochelle ) is an American band leader and clarinetist of Swing and Dixieland .

Rubin took an interest in big band music as a child when he could hear the orchestras of Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman live at the Glen Island Casino in New Rochelle. He learned the clarinet at Daniel Webster Elementary School , where a former big band musician was his teacher. During his school days he founded his first swing band, while studying at Princeton he put together the Tigertown Five (with Ed Polcer , among others ), with which the first recordings for Jubilee Records were made in 1953 . He played at Grace Kelly's wedding to Prince Rainier in 1956 and at Carnegie Hall . In the 1950s he recorded with his bands for labels such as Coral Records , RCA Victor and United Artists Records ; Musicians such as Billy Butterfield , Hank D'Amico , Cutty Cutshall , John Eaton , George Barnes , Bud Freeman , Milt Hinton and Marty Napoleon played in his formations . In 1958 he was a frequent guest on the TV show Art Ford's Greenwich Village Party .

Rubin had to end his career as an active musician after a tumor operation in 1984, but remained active as a band leader and played the hits of the swing era with his big band. In the field of jazz he was involved in 25 recording sessions between 1953 and 1983. In 1958, Rex Harris and Brian Rust criticized the “ immature crudity” in the early recordings of the Tigerhouse Five .

Discographic notes

  • Stan Rubin and his Tigertown Five (10-inch LP, Princetown Records / Jubilee 1953)
  • Dixieland goes Broadway (Coral, 1955)
  • Dixieland Bash (RCA Victor, 1955)
  • Dixieland Comes to Carnegie Hall (10 inch LP, RCA Victor)
  • Open House (Coral, 1957)
  • Back on Campus with his Sensational Big Band
  • Swing Hits of the 40s (1981)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, September 7, 2013)
  3. ^ The Swing Era Returns in a Tribute to a Bandleader in The New York Times
  4. ^ Rex Harris & Brian Rust: Recorded Jazz: A Critical Guide . London, Penguin Books, 1958.
personal data
SURNAME Ruby, Stan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American band leader and clarinetist of Swing and Dixieland
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH New Rochelle