Babe Russin
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1911-06-18
- Active to
- 1984-08-04
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Irving "Babe" Russin (June 18, 1911 - August 4, 1984) was a tenor saxophone player. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Russin played with some of the best known jazz bands of the 1930s and 1940s, including Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller. He led his own band briefly in the early 1940s. He solos in the recording the Glenn Miller band made of Jerry Gray's composition, "A String of Pearls" for Bluebird Records in 1941. In 1950, Russin was credited as a musician with the backup band on
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Pittsburgh
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- saxophonist
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- saxophone
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- date of birth
- 1911-06-18
- date of death
- 1984-08-04
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