Jack Lesberg
Jack Lesberg (February 14, 1920 – September 17, 2005) was an American jazz double-bassist. Lesberg performed with many famous jazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines, Jack Teagarden, Sarah Vaughan and Benny Goodman, with whom he went on several international tours. He also performed in the New York City Symphony under Leonard Bernstein in the 1940s. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, Lesberg had the misfortune of playing in that city's Cocoanut Grove on the night in 1942 when 492 people lost their lives in a fire. His escape was memorialized by fellow bassist Charles Mingus in an unpublished section of Mingus's autobiography Beneath the Underdog; this passage was read by rapper Chuck D. on the Mingus tribute album, Weird Nightmare. Lesberg continued to tour in the 1980s and was interviewed for KCEA radio in 1984, following a performance in Menlo Park, California. During the taped interview he spoke of the many bands and performers he worked with and expressed his feelings that he felt blessed to be a musician. He died of Alzheimer's in Englewood at the age of 85. |
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Recordings (Results 26-50 of 101 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Decca | 73647 | 7/17/1946 | Just you, just me-1 | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 73648 | 7/17/1946 | Atlanta blues -1 | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 73649 | 7/17/1946 | The way you look tonight | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 74023 | 8/5/1947 | My melancholy baby | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 74024 | 8/5/1947 | Tulip time in Holland | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 74025 | 8/5/1947 | Nobody knows | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 74026 | 8/5/1947 | We called it music | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 75227 | 9/6/1949 | That lucky old sun | Louis Armstrong ; Gordon Jenkins and his Chorus and Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 75228 | 9/6/1949 | Blueberry hill-1 | Louis Armstrong ; Gordon Jenkins and his Chorus and Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 75421 | 10/19/1949 | You're my thrill | Billie Holiday | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 75422 | 10/19/1949 | Crazy he calls me | Billie Holiday | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 75423 | 10/19/1949 | Please tell me now | Billie Holiday | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 75424 | 10/19/1949 | Somebody's on my mind | Billie Holiday | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 75866 | 2/16/1950 | If I knew you were comin', I'd 've baked a cake | Georgia Gibbs | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 75867 | 2/16/1950 | Stay with the happy people | Georgia Gibbs | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 75988 | 3/20/1950 | Maple leaf rag-1 | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 75989 | 3/20/1950 | Dill pickles-1 | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 75990 | 3/20/1950 | Sweet cider time, when you were mine | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 75991 | 3/20/1950 | At the Jazz Band Ball | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 76000 | 3/22/1950 | At the Jazz Band Ball | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 76001 | 3/22/1950 | Jazz me blues | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 76002 | 3/22/1950 | Everybody loves my baby | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 76473 | 6/9/1950 | Black bottom | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 76474 | 6/9/1950 | Original Charleston | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 76475 | 6/9/1950 | Yellow dog blues | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Lesberg, Jack," accessed November 1, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/205783.
Lesberg, Jack. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 1, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/205783.
"Lesberg, Jack." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 1 November 2024.
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