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Bob Harrington

Bob Harrington

American jazz musician

This article is about the American jazz musician. For the evangelist, see Bob Harrington (preacher).

Robert Maxon Harrington (January 30, 1912, in Marshfield, Wisconsin – August 20, 1983, in Kona, Hawaii)[1][2] was an American jazz vibraphonist.

Harrington was also adept at drums and piano in addition to vibraphone. He played with Charlie Barnet in the early 1950s on piano, and worked with both Red Nichols and Bud Freeman that decade as a drummer. On vibraphone, he played with Georgie Auld, Buddy DeFranco, Vido Musso, Ben Webster, Ann Richards, and Harry Babasin's Jazzpickers. He released one solo album, Vibraphone Fantasy in Jazz, on Imperial Records in 1957, which is now a collector's item.

Discography

As leader

  • For Moderns Only with the Jazzpickers (Mercury/EmArcy, 1957)
  • Vibraphone Fantasy in Jazz with Bob Harrington (Imperial, 1957)
  • Jazz a La Carte (Crown, 1963)
  • Leachery without Treachery with the Dirty Old Men (Nocturne, 1969)

As sideman

References

  1. [1]
    "Index for Wisconsin ASCAP Members 1948-1980". FolkLib Index. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  2. [2]
    "Obituary, Robert Maxon Harrington". Hawaii Tribune-Herald. 1983-09-02. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
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