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 His escape was memorialized by fellow bassist Charles Mingus in an unpublished section of Mingus's autobiography Beneath the Underdog; this passage was read by rapper Chuck D. on the Mingus tribute album, Weird Nightmare.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 51-75 of 101 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Decca | 76476 | 6/9/1950 | Ragging the scales | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 81513 | 9/6/1951 | Ain't we got fun | Frank Froeba | instrumentalist, guitar | |||
Decca | 81514 | 9/6/1951 | After the ball | Frank Froeba | instrumentalist, guitar | |||
Decca | 81515 | 9/6/1951 | All by myself | Frank Froeba | instrumentalist, guitar | |||
Decca | 81516 | 9/6/1951 | Dancing with tears in my eyes | Frank Froeba | instrumentalist, guitar | |||
Decca | 81521 | 9/10/1951 | I wonder what's become of Sally | Frank Froeba | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 81522 | 9/10/1951 | Oh by Jingo (Oh by Gee.you're the only girl for me) | Frank Froeba | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 81523 | 9/10/1951 | When your old wedding ring was new | Frank Froeba | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 81524 | 9/10/1951 | If I had a girl like you | Frank Froeba | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 82613 | 4/3/1952 | Forgive me | Peggy Lee | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 82614 | 4/3/1952 | Be anything (but be mine) | Peggy Lee | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 82615 | 4/3/1952 | I'm glad there is you | Peggy Lee | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 82616 | 4/3/1952 | You go to my head | Peggy Lee | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 84144 | 3/9/1953 | Clarinet marmalade | Jimmy McPartland Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 84145 | 3/9/1953 | Singin' the blues | Jimmy McPartland Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 84736 | 6/22/1953 | Memphis blues | Ray McKinley Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 84737 | 6/22/1953 | Ol' shanks mare | Ray McKinley Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 84738 | 6/22/1953 | Rhythm-a-tic | Ray McKinley Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 84739 | 6/22/1953 | Long gone | Ray McKinley Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 85816 | 2/2/1954 | Fernandez of the Andes | Pearl Bailey | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 85817 | 2/2/1954 | He's gone | Pearl Bailey | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 86473 | 6/29/1954 | Don't talk to me about | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 86474 | 6/29/1954 | Thou swell | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 86475 | 6/29/1954 | $ 500 reward | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 86476 | 6/29/1954 | Baby's lullaby | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Lesberg, Jack," accessed September 15, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/205783.
Lesberg, Jack. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved September 15, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/205783.
"Lesberg, Jack." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 15 September 2024.
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