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The World's Greatest Jazz Band was an all-star jazz ensemble active from 1968 to 1978.[1]

Dick Gibson founded the group at his sixth Jazz Party, an annual event.[1] The group performed mostly Dixieland jazz and recorded extensively.[1] It was co-led by Yank Lawson and Bob Haggart,[1] and did early jazz standards alongside contemporaneous pop songs done in a Dixieland style.[2] Though the group disbanded in 1978, the name was revived several times by Lawson and Haggart for limited engagements.

Members

Discography

• Extra! (Project 3 Total Sound, 1969)
• The World's Greatest Jazzband of Yank Lawson and Bob Haggart (Project 3 Total Sound, 1969)
• Live at the Roosevelt Grill (Atlantic, 1970)
• The World's Greatest Jazzband (Atlantic, 1971)
• What's New? (Atlantic, 1971)
• Hark the Herald Angels Swing (World Jazz, 1972)
• In Concert: Vol. 1 Massey Hall (World Jazz, 1973)
• Good News with Teresa Brewer (Signature, 1973)
• Plays Cole Porter (World Jazz, 1975)
• Plays Rodgers & Hart (World Jazz, 1976)
• Plays Duke Ellington (World Jazz, 1976)
• In Concert (Recorded Live at the Lawrenceville School) (Flying Dutchman, 1976)
• On Tour (World Jazz, 1976)
• On Tour Vol. 1 and 2 (World Jazz, 1977)
• Plays George Gershwin (World Jazz, 1977)
• On Tour II with Maxine Sullivan (World Jazz, 1977)[3]

References

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