World's Greatest Jazz Band

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The World's Greatest Jazz Band was an all-star jazz ensemble active from 1968 to 1978. [1]

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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

Discography

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 440. ISBN   0-85112-580-8.
  2. ↑ Scott Yanow, World's Greatest Jazz Band at AllMusic
  3. ↑ "World's Greatest Jazz Band | Album Discography". AllMusic . Retrieved August 3, 2021.
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