Haggart, Robert Sherwood

▪ 1999

      American jazz bassist, arranger, and bandleader who performed and cocomposed such hit songs as "Big Noise from Winnetka," "What's New," and "South Rampart Street Parade" for Bob Crosby's 1930s swing band; he then recorded with leading traditional jazz, swing, and bop musicians before forming a popular 1950s Dixieland band with trumpeter Yank Lawson. Haggart and Lawson then led the World's Greatest Jazz Band, a swing band that performed (1968-78) Haggart's arrangements at jazz festivals, in clubs, and on records (b. March 13, 1914, New York, N.Y.—d. Dec. 3, 1998, Venice, Fla.).

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