The World’s Greatest Jazz Band

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. Though the group disbanded in 1978, the name was revived several times by Lawson and Haggart for limited engagements.

Members

 * Billy Butterfield
 * Cutty Cutshall
 * Vic Dickenson
 * Morey Feld
 * Carl Fontana
 * Bud Freeman
 * Dick Gibson
 * Bob Haggart
 * Scott Hamilton
 * Clancy Hayes
 * Eddie Hubble
 * Peanuts Hucko
 * Keith Ingham
 * Gus Johnson
 * Al Klink
 * Yank Lawson
 * Cliff Leeman
 * George Masso
 * Lou McGarity
 * Johnny Mince
 * Bob Miller
 * Eddie Miller
 * Joe Muranyi
 * Bobby Rosengarden
 * Sonny Russo
 * Carrie Smith
 * Maxine Sullivan
 * Ralph Sutton
 * Dick Wellstood
 * Bob Wilber
 * Roger Kellaway

Discography

 * World's Greatest Jazz Band of Yank Lawson and Bob Haggart (1968)
 * Extra! (1968)
 * Live (1970)
 * What's New (1970)
 * Live at Roosevelt Grill (1970)
 * Century Plaza (1972)
 * Hark the Herald Angels Swing (1972)
 * At Massey Hall (1972)
 * Plays Duke Ellington (1973)
 * Plays Eddie Barefield (1974)
 * Plays Cole Porter (1974)
 * On Tour, Vol. 1 (1975)
 * On Tour, Vol. 2 (1975)
 * Plays Rogers and Hart (1975)
 * Plays George Gershwin (1977)