Jack Lesberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jack Lesberg

American jazz musician

Date of Birth: 14-Feb-1920

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 17-Sep-2005

Profession: jazz musician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Jack Lesberg (February 14, 1920 – September 17, 2005) was a 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, 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His escape was memorialized by fellow bassist Charles Mingus in an unpublished section of Mingus's autobiography Beneath the Underdog; this passage was read by rapper Chuck D.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 Jack spoke of the many bands and performers he worked with and expressed his feelings that he felt blessed to be a musician.



Description	American photographer and journalist
Date of birth/death	28 January 1917	23 April 2006
Location of birth/death	Brooklyn	Great Neck
Work period	1930s date QS:P,+1930-00-00T00:00:00Z/8 , 1940s date QS:P,+1940-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
Work location	New York City, Washington, D.C.
Authority control	: Q622278 VIAF: 113043399 ISNI: 0000 0001 1780 1486 LCCN: n82145642 GND: 123340144 BNF: 17060247k WorldCat