Birth name Mortimer Gerald Corb Instruments Double bass Occupation(s) Jazz bass player | Genres Jazz Origin San Antonio, Texas Name Morty Corb | |
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Born April 10, 1917
San Antonio, Texas ( 1917-04-10 ) Died January 13, 1996, Las Vegas-Paradise, NV Metropolitan Statistical Area Albums Live at Winter Garden, New York & Blue Note, Chicago, Live in Japan: The Yokohama Concert - December 31, 1953 Music group Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars (1947) TV shows The Bob Crosby Show (1953) Similar People Barney Bigard, Earl Hines, Arvell Shaw, Billy Kyle, Louis Armstrong | ||
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Mortimer "Morty" Gerald Corb (April 10, 1917 San Antonio — January 13, 1996 Las Vegas) was an American jazz double-bassist.
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Career
Corb had a long career as a jazz musician that began in 1946 and lasted until his death. He performed and recorded with:
Corb performed for four years on Bob Crosby's television program. He also did extended work as a session musician in studios, and though he did little of this after the 1950s, he appears on some 300 recordings. He worked in bands in Disneyland after moving to California in 1947, and recorded his only album as a leader, Strictly from Dixie, in 1957.
Selected discography
As leader
- Bayou Blues
- Alexander's Ragtime Band
- Pennies from Heaven
- South
- Ramble In
- Honeysuckle rose
- Sugarcane Strut
- Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?
- Indiana
- Savannah Shakedown
- Farewell Blues
References
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