(Classic Jazz) The World's Greatest Jazz Band Of Yank Lawson And Bob Haggart - 1985, FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

The World's Greatest Jazz Band was formed in the late 1960s by two co-leaders, trumpeter Yank Lawson and bassist Bob Haggart. Although Lawson and Haggart are on this budget LP (along with clarinetist Bill Stegmeyer, tenor saxophonist Bud Freeman, pianist Lou Stein and drummer Cliff Leeman), this is not the WGJB, despite the title. For this interesting effort, Lawson and Haggart perform ten songs having something to do with the Old West, including "South of the Border," "Wagon Wheels," "I'm an Old Cowhand" and "The Yellow Rose of Texas." Fortunately, the songs they picked tend to have worthwhile chord changes suitable for Dixieland, and the overall effect is a lighthearted and generally swinging date.
~Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Band:
Yank Lawson (trumpet)
Billy Butterfield (trumpet)
Lou McGarity (trombone)
Carl Fontana (trombone)
Bob Wilber (saxophone)
Bud Freeman (saxophone)
Clancy Hayes (banjo)
Ralph Sutton (piano)
Bob Haggart (bass)
Morey Feld (drums)
The World's Greatest Jazz Band was an all-star jazz ensemble active from 1968 to 1978.
Dick Gibson founded the group at his sixth Jazz Party, an annual event. The group performed mostly Dixieland jazz and recorded extensively. It was co-led by Yank Lawson and Bob Haggart, and did early jazz standards alongside contemporaneous pop songs done in a Dixieland style.[1] Though the group disbanded in 1978, the name was revived several times by Lawson and Haggart for limited engagements.

Yank Lawson
John Rhea "Yank" Lawson was born in Trenton, Missouri in 1911. His original instruments were the saxophone and piano, but he switched to the trumpet in his teens. He played with bands at the University of Missouri, then gigged around Shreveport, La. Then from 1933-34 he worked with Ben Pollock, and then with Will Osborne in 1935.
Yank was a founding member of the Bob Crosby Band in 1935. From 1938-9 he worked with Tommy Dorsey and with Benny Goodman in 1942. He had a prolific free-lance recording career in New York in the 40's and 50's. Together with Bob Haggart, he led a recording band which made several LP's in the 50's. He toured with his own band in 1962, worked with Peanuts Hucko at Condon's, and took part in numerous Crosby Band reunions. Yank co-led the Lawson-Haggart Band in Europe and continued playing well into the 90's. We lost Yank in 1995.
My father's association with Yank went back to the 1930's during Yank's days with the Crosby Band. He befriended Mom & Dad, who would burn up a lot of telephone time with him conversing and playing records over the phone. After the war, Yank was willing to set Dad up in the music business by providing valuable contacts, but Dad took a job in Venezuela working for Nelson Rockefeller instead.
I met Yank when I first went to New York. Yank took me with him to his gig on the Tonight Show, where I also got to meet Doc Severinsen, Sarah Vaughn, and Clark Terry. On another trip to New York (about '64 or so), Yank took me to a Jean Goldkette re-creation recording session he was on. Dad and I also visited Yank at his home in Massapequa, NY, where I met Bud Freeman (who was staying with him at the time).
I consider Yank to be one of the all-time greatest lead trumpet players, with his hot, driving, highly individual (yet simple) style. I spent a week in DC at Blues Alley, sitting at Yank's feet and listening to him, learning how to play melody.
Yank's first appearance at the Landing was in 1968 in conjunction with the first World Series of Jazz concert put on by Dad and me in San Antonio at the Theater for the Performing Arts (now the Lilla Cockrell Theater). This concert was conceived as a Battle of the Bands between the World's Greatest Jazz Band (we wanted to keep them honest) and our band. The World's Greatest was Yank, Billy Butterfield, Bob Haggart, Bob Wilber, Bud Freeman, Lou McGarrity, Carl Fontana, Ralph Sutton, and Gus Johnson. Our band had Ernie Caceres and Rich Matteson as "secret weapons."
This concert and the huge pre-concert jam sessions at the Landing proved to be so successful (it sold out) that we decided to do it again in 1971. We used the same lineup except instead of Ernie and Rich, we had Emilio Caceres, Haggart, Bobby Hackett, and Butterfield and they had Eddie Hubbell and Vic Dickenson on trombones.
In 1973, Yank called from a gig in Acapulco, Mexico when he heard that Dad was sick. Somehow, the whole band managed to get out of the next gig in Ohio and most of them (Yank, Bud, Ralph, Gus, Wilber, and Haggart) at their own expense flew to San Antonio. We all spent a day and evening with Dad, talking about old times. Afterward, we all went downtown and had a private, long-running jam session at the Landing. Attendance was by invitation only. Afterwards, we stayed up all night talking, eating great Mexican food, and playing.
Bob Haggart
Robert Sherwood Haggart (March 13, 1914 in New York City; died December 2, 1998 in Venice, Florida) was a dixieland jazz double bass player, composer and arranger.
Haggart was a founder-member of the Bob Crosby Band (1935), arranging and part-composing several of the band's big successes, including "What's New?", "South Rampart Street Parade", "My Inspiration", and "Big Noise from Winnetka".
He remained with the band until 1942. He then worked as a studio musician in New York and recorded with Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. During the 1950s, Haggart organised, with Yank Lawson, a regular series of small band recordings and also arranged many of the tunes for Louis Armstrong's 1956-7 four-volume LP recreation set.
Bob Crosby also used this ensemble as the core of many groups, including the band that recorded Haggart's arrangement of Porgy and Bess (1958). During the late 1960s he played frequently in bands organised by Bob Crosby.
He co-led, with Yank Lawson, The World's Greatest Jazz Band (1968-1978). From 1978 until shortly before his death, Haggart worked with own groups or as a free-lance musician in several jazz groups and toured all over the world. He wrote a tutor for double bass which has become a standard text.

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