John Rhea "Yank" Lawson (May 3, 1911 – February 18, 1995)[1] was an American jazz trumpeter known for Dixieland and swing music.
Born John Lausen in 1911,[2] from 1933 to 1935 he worked in Ben Pollack's orchestra and after that became a founding member of the Bob Crosby Orchestra.
[3] Later in the 1940s he became a studio musician leading his own Dixieland sessions.
[3] In the 1950s he and Bob Haggart created the Lawson-Haggart band and they worked together in 1968 to form the World's Greatest Jazz Band, a Dixieland group which performed for the next ten years.
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