Performance · Other credits

Yank Lawson

Trenton, United States

Yank Lawson is credited on 451 releases across 149 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2017 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

View as artist →

Start your shelf →Open in app

451

Pressings credited

149

Albums

7

Decades active

20

In collections

Biography

John Rhea "Yank" Lawson (May 3, 1911 – February 18, 1995) was an American jazz trumpeter known for Dixieland and swing music. Born John Lausen in 1911, from 1933 to 1935 he worked in Ben Pollack's orchestra and after that became a founding member of the Bob Crosby Orchestra. He later worked with Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey, but also worked with Crosby again in 1941–42. Later in the 1940s he became a studio musician leading his own Dixieland sessions. In the 1950s he and Bob Haggart created the Lawson-Haggart band and they worked together in 1968 to form the World's Greatest Jazz Band, a Dixieland group which performed for the next ten years.

Bio from Wikipedia

Credited work

451 releases · 149 albums · active 1950–2017

  • Performance · 540
  • Other credits · 27

Studios: Rainbow Grill (2) · Annex Studios, Hollywood · Webster Hall · The Atlantic Club, Stockholm, Sweden

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

Around the web

See who really made the music.

Gatefold maps every producer, engineer, and player across your shelf — the credits no one else surfaces.

Start your shelf →

Free forever. Works with 10 records or 10,000.