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Les Elgart
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American swing jazz bandleader and trumpeter (1917-1995)
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1917
- Active to
- 1995
Discography
- The Band with that Sound1960
- Greatest Hits1997
- Misty2013
- Strike Up the Band2024
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- Listeners
- 9,292
- Total plays
- 57,222
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Les Elgart (August 3, 1917, New Haven, Connecticut-July 29, 1995, Dallas, Texas) was an American swing jazz bandleader and trumpeter. Lester E. (Les) Elgart began playing trumpet as a teenager, and by age 20 had landed professional gigs. In the 1940s he played in bands led by Raymond Scott, Charlie Spivak, and Harry James, and occasionally found himself in bands alongside brother Larry. Together they put together their own Les & Larry Elgart Ensemble in 1945, hiring Nelson Riddle, Ralph Flanaga
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Diversity of the Human Intestinal Microbial Flora
· 2005 · cited 6,575x
- STARD 2015: an updated list of essential items for reporting diagnostic accuracy studies
· 2015 · cited 2,757x
- The NURBS Book
· 1997 · cited 2,742x
- The performance of tests of publication bias and other sample size effects in systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy was assessed
· 2005 · cited 2,548x
- STARD 2015 guidelines for reporting diagnostic accuracy studies: explanation and elaboration
· 2016 · cited 2,216x
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