Jack Cressey

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Jack Cressey

sax, ob, b, 1902-1988 US
Musician of Pop and Soundtrack
A.k.a. John G. Cressy.

American jazz reed musician (clarinet, alto sax, tenor sax, baritone sax, bass saxes and oboe). Born : August 09, 1902 in Beverly, Massachusetts. Died : October 14, 1988 in Cheshire, Connecticut. Worked in "Frank E. Ward's Band" (early 1920s), Sylvester Ahola, "Paul Specht's Band" (1926), again with S. Ahola, after with Charlie Spivak, Phil Wall, Ernie Warren, Lou Calabrese, "CBS band", "Paul Whiteman Orchestra" (from May 1938 to August 1938), played also with Billie Holiday and recorded with "Russ Case's Band".

Instruments

Saxophone
Oboe
Bass

Genres

Pop
Soundtrack
Jazz
Classical
Children's Music

Plays With

Toots Camarata And His Orchestra

Band Members

External Links

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To all the music fans that are contributing on Discogs, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia. Thanks to Franz Flückiger for providing Storygram used to visualize band membership.

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