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 His escape was memorialized by fellow bassist Charles Mingus in an unpublished section of Mingus's autobiography Beneath the Underdog; this passage was read by rapper Chuck D. on the Mingus tribute album, Weird Nightmare.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
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | BS-073671 | 10-in. | 4/1/1942 | Pennsylvania polka | André Musette Orchestra | Instrumental ensemble | instrumentalist, string bass | |
Victor | E0FB-3282 | 10-in. | 2/23/1950 | Chug-a-lug | Continental Capers ; Merrie Musette Orchestra | Instrumental ensemble, with vocal ensemble | instrumentalist, string bass | |
Victor | E0VB-3283 | 10-in. | 2/23/1950 | The Chalet in the valley | Continental Capers ; Merrie Musette Orchestra | Instrumental ensemble, with vocal ensemble | instrumentalist, string bass | |
Victor | E1VB-2966 | 10-in. | 8/10/1951 | I remember when | Eddie Fisher | Male vocal solo, with orchestra and vocal sensemble | instrumentalist, string bass | |
Victor | D5VB-0620 | 10-in. | 9/20/1945 | Homesick-that's all | Russ Case ; Murphy Sisters | Female vocal group, with jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, string bass | |
Victor | D5VB-0621 | 10-in. | 9/20/1945 | Will the angels play their harps for me? (A beggar's lament) | Russ Case ; Murphy Sisters | Female vocal group, with jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, string bass | |
Victor | D7VB-2659 | 10-in. | 12/11/1947 | April in Paris | Coleman Hawkins Orchestra | Instrumental ensemble | instrumentalist, string bass | |
Victor | D7VB-2660 | 10-in. | 12/11/1947 | How strange | Coleman Hawkins Orchestra | Instrumental ensemble | instrumentalist, string bass | |
Victor | D7VB-2661 | 10-in. | 12/11/1947 | Half step down, please | Coleman Hawkins Orchestra | Instrumental ensemble | instrumentalist, string bass | |
Decca | 72933 | 10-in. | 6/14/1945 | Lady be good-1 | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | ||
Decca | 72934 | 10-in. | 6/14/1945 | Swanee-2 | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | ||
Decca | 73480 | 3/27/1946 | Farewell blues | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 73481 | 3/27/1946 | Improvisation for march of time | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 73482 | 3/27/1946 | She's funny that way-1 | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 73483 | 3/27/1946 | Stars fell on Alabama | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 73646 | 7/17/1946 | Some sunny day | Eddie Condon Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
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 | |||
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 | |||
Decca | 87963 | 5/8/1954 | Swing that music | Billy Butterfield Jazz Band | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 87964 | 5/8/1954 | The only man blues | Billy Butterfield Jazz Band | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 87965 | 5/8/1954 | That's a plenty | Billy Butterfield Jazz Band | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 87966 | 5/8/1954 | Long gone | Billy Butterfield Jazz Band | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 87967 | 5/8/1954 | I can't get started | Billy Butterfield Jazz Band | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 87968 | 5/8/1954 | When the Saints go marching | Billy Butterfield Jazz Band ; Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 87969 | 5/8/1954 | Blues | Billy Butterfield Jazz Band ; Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 87970 | 5/8/1954 | Basin Street blues | Billy Butterfield Jazz Band | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 87971 | 5/8/1954 | Lover-1 | Billy Butterfield Jazz Band ; Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 87972 | 5/8/1954 | At sundown-2 | Billy Butterfield Jazz Band ; Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 87973 | 5/8/1954 | St. James infirmary-3 | Billy Butterfield Jazz Band ; Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 87974 | 5/8/1954 | Whistling cow blues-4 | Billy Butterfield Jazz Band ; Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 87975 | 5/8/1954 | Big town boogie-5 | Billy Butterfield Jazz Band ; Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 87976 | 5/8/1954 | South Rampart Street parade | Billy Butterfield Jazz Band ; Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 111948 | 3/22/1962 | Jazz me blues | Henry Jerome Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 111949 | 3/22/1962 | Basin Street blues | Henry Jerome Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | 111950 | 3/22/1962 | I'm confessin' | Henry Jerome Orchestra | instrumentalist, string bass | |||
Decca | N 2703 | 10-in. | 9/29/1944 | Black and blue | Max Kaminsky and his Band | instrumentalist, string bass | ||
Decca | N 2704 | 10-in. | 9/29/1944 | [Unknown title(s)] | Max Kaminsky and his Band | instrumentalist, string bass | ||
Decca | N 2705 | 10-in. | 9/29/1944 | Wrap your troubles in dreams | Max Kaminsky and his Band | instrumentalist, string bass | ||
Decca | N 2706 | 10-in. | 9/29/1944 | Dippermouth blues | Max Kaminsky and his Band | instrumentalist, string bass | ||
Decca | N 2706[a] | 10-in. | 9/29/1944 | Black and blue | Max Kaminsky and his Band | instrumentalist, string bass | ||
Decca | N 2708 | 10-in. | 9/29/1944 | Old fashioned love | Max Kaminsky and his Band | instrumentalist, string bass | ||
Decca | N 2708[a] | 10-in. | 9/29/1944 | Jazz me blues | Max Kaminsky and his Band | instrumentalist, string bass | ||
Decca | N 2710 | 10-in. | 9/29/1944 | Someday sweetheart | Max Kaminsky and his Band | instrumentalist, string bass | ||
Decca | N 2710[a] | 10-in. | 9/29/1944 | Home | Max Kaminsky and his Band | instrumentalist, string bass |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Lesberg, Jack," accessed April 25, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/205783.
Lesberg, Jack. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/205783.
"Lesberg, Jack." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 25 April 2024.
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