Spanier performing at Nick's Tavern, New York, c. June 1946
Background information
Birth name
Francis Joseph Spanier
Born
(1901-11-09)November 9, 1901 Chicago, Illinois, US
Died
February 12, 1967(1967-02-12) (aged 65) Sausalito, California, US
Genres
Jazz, Dixieland
Occupation(s)
Musician
Instrument(s)
Cornet, trumpet
Years active
1921–1964
Labels
Bluebird, Mercury, RCA
Musical artist
Francis Joseph "Muggsy" Spanier (November 9, 1901 – February 12, 1967)[1] was an American jazz cornetist based in Chicago. He was a member of the Bucktown Five, pioneers of the "Chicago style" that straddled traditional Dixieland jazz and swing.
^Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 373. ISBN 0-85112-580-8.
Francis Joseph "Muggsy" Spanier (November 9, 1901 – February 12, 1967) was an American jazz cornetist based in Chicago. He was a member of the Bucktown...
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Chicago, Illinois. His mother, Ruth, later remarried to jazz musician MuggsySpanier, who became stepfather to Ruth's sons.[full citation needed] Educated...
Blues") and fourteen ("Mood Indigo"), which were written by Fats Waller, MuggsySpanier and Duke Ellington, respectively. The score for this movie was the last...
He worked with Sidney Bechet, Kid Ory, George Lewis, George Brunis, MuggsySpanier, and Bunk Johnson. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Ewell played with Bill...
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various times Ray Bauduc, Yank Lawson, Billy Butterfield, Charlie Spivak, MuggsySpanier, Irving Fazola, Nappy Lamare, Jack Sperling, Joe Sullivan, Jess Stacy...
worked in bands led by Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Dorsey, Red Norvo, and MuggsySpanier. In High Society, a 1956 film, Deems performs a drum solo during a scene...
session musician in the 1950s, including with Kid Ory, Flip Phillips, MuggsySpanier, and Bob Scobey. He joined Earl Hines's ensemble in San Francisco, touring...
1936–39 707 Eddie South 1923–37 708 Stéphane Grappelli 1935–40 709 MuggsySpanier 1939–42 710 Mills Blue Rhythm Band 1934–36 711 James P. Johnson 1938–42...
Reweliotty et son Orchestre: Bechet-Souvenirs", 1951 "Sidney Bechet, MuggsySpanier: Jam Session", 1952 "Sidney Bechet", 1952 "Port of Harlem Six", 1952...
Edmond Hall, Hot Lips Page, Pee Wee Russell, Willie "The Lion" Smith, MuggsySpanier, Art Tatum, Fats Waller, Lee Wiley, and Lester Young. Gabler arranged...
he recorded V-Disc sides with MuggsySpanier and the V-Disc All Stars. His composition "Pee Wee Speaks" with Spanier was released as a V-Disc, as Navy...
cornetist. He emerged in the 1920s through his work playing alongside MuggsySpanier and Frank Teschemacher in a cover band where they played the music of...
to the sound of Chicagoans such as Jimmy McPartland, Eddie Condon, MuggsySpanier, and Bud Freeman. The rhythm sections of these bands substitute the...
DECCA 2398B MuggsySpanier Ragtime Band (1939), 043894-2 BLUEBIRD 10532 Sidney Bechet with Claude Luter (1949), BLUENOTE BN568 MuggsySpanier and His Ragtime...
cello and guitar. In 1929, Lang left the group, and Gene Krupa joined; MuggsySpanier, Coleman Hawkins, and Eddie Condon would all play in the ensemble in...
players in New Orleans and Chicago, including Tommy Ladnier, Paul Mares, MuggsySpanier, Johnny Wiggs, Frank Guarente and, the most famous of all, Armstrong...
Pee Wee Russell. In 1931, the group recorded with McKenzie, Hawkins, MuggsySpanier, and Jimmy Dorsey. The last recordings to bear the Mound City name,...
a Dixieland jazz ensemble known as The Six in 1953, and worked with MuggsySpanier in the 1960s, playing in Ohio and Connecticut. He also worked with the...
performed in Goodman's Carnegie Hall concert in 1938. Sidney Bechet and MuggsySpanier recorded a definitive version March 28, 1940. 1922 – "Farewell Blues"...
capacity until 1947. Among those it recorded were Pee Wee Russell, MuggsySpanier, Sandy Williams, J.C. Higginbotham, Trummy Young, Sidney Bechet, Rex...
Chico Marx, but he was at his best with bands led by Eddie Condon, MuggsySpanier, and himself. In these small bands, Wettling demonstrated the arts of...
Lewis, Eddie Condon, Phil Napoleon, Papa Celestin, Alphonse Picou, MuggsySpanier, Sharkey Bonano, and others. Kubrick married his high-school sweetheart...
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