Name Yank Lawson | Role Musician | |
Died February 18, 1995, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States Similar People Bob Haggart, Billy Butterfield, Eddie Miller, Bob Wilber, Bud Freeman | ||
Yank Lawson & Bob Haggart's Jazz Band - College Fight Songs
John Rhea "Yank" Lawson (May 3, 1911, Trenton, Missouri – February 18, 1995, Indianapolis, Indiana) was a jazz trumpeter known for Dixieland and swing music.
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Born John Lausen in 1911, from 1933 to 1935 he worked in Ben Pollack's orchestra and after that became a founding member of the Bob Crosby Orchestra. He later worked with Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey, but also worked with Crosby again in 1941. Later in the 1940s he became a studio musician leading his own Dixieland sessions.
In the 1950s he and Bob Haggart created the Lawson-Haggart band and they worked together in 1968 to form the World's Greatest Jazz Band, a Dixieland group which performed for the next ten years.
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