Muggsy Spanier
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American musician (1901-1967)
Film & TV
Known for
- Here Comes the Band — Band Member (uncredited)1935
- Is Everybody Happy? — Muggsy Spanier1929
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1901-11-09
- Active to
- 1967-02-12
dixielandjazz
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Francis Joseph Julian "Muggsy" Spanier (November 9, 1901 – February 12, 1967) was a prominent cornet player based in Chicago. He was renowned as the best trumpet/cornet player in Chicago until Bix Beiderbecke entered the scene. Muggsy led several traditional, "hot" jazz bands, most notably Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtime Band (which did not, in fact, play ragtime but, rather, "hot jazz" that would now be called Dixieland). This band set the style for all later attempts to play traditional jazz w
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Place of death
- Sausalito
- Occupation
- trumpeter
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- trumpet
- Record label
- Mercury Records
- Image
- Muggsy Spanier Nick's New York 1946-.jpg
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- Muggsy Spanier
- date of birth
- 1906-11-09
- date of death
- 1967-02-12
- start of work period
- 1921-00-00
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