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John Rhea Lawson(born May 3, 1911 in Trenton, Missouri
Trenton, Missouri

Trenton is a city in Grundy County, Missouri, Missouri, United States. The population was 6,216 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Grundy County, Missouri....
; died 1995 in Indianapolis, Indiana
Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis is the Capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. The United States Census estimated the city's population, Indianapolis , Indiana the Unigov, at 795,458 in 2006....
) was a jazz trumpeter known for Dixieland
Dixieland

Dixieland music or sometimes referred to as Hot jazz or New Orleans jazz is a style of jazz which developed in New Orleans, Louisiana at the start of the 20th century, and was spread to Chicago and New York City by New Orleans bands in the 1910s....
 and also some swing music. He was known as "Yank Lawson" for most of his life.

From 1933 to 1935 he worked in Ben Pollack
Ben Pollack

Ben Pollack was a drummer and bandleader from the mid 1920s through the swing music era. His eye for talent led him to either discover or employ, at one time or another, musicians such as Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden, Glenn Miller, Jimmy McPartland and Harry James....
's orchestra and after that became a founding member of the Bob Crosby
Bob Crosby

Bob Crosby was an United States dixieland bandleader and vocalist, best known for his group Crosby and the Bob-Cats.He was the youngest of seven children: five boys, Larry Crosby , Everett , Ted , Bing Crosby and Bob; and two girls, Catherine and Mary Rose ....
 Orchestra. He later worked with Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman

Benjamin David Goodman, was an United States jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing ", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman"....
 and Tommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey

Tommy Dorsey was an United States jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big band era. He was the younger brother of Jimmy Dorsey....
, but also worked with Crosby again in 1941. Later in the 1940s he became a studio musician leading his own Dixieland sessions.






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John Rhea Lawson(born May 3, 1911 in Trenton, Missouri
Trenton, Missouri

Trenton is a city in Grundy County, Missouri, Missouri, United States. The population was 6,216 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Grundy County, Missouri....
; died 1995 in Indianapolis, Indiana
Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis is the Capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. The United States Census estimated the city's population, Indianapolis , Indiana the Unigov, at 795,458 in 2006....
) was a jazz trumpeter known for Dixieland
Dixieland

Dixieland music or sometimes referred to as Hot jazz or New Orleans jazz is a style of jazz which developed in New Orleans, Louisiana at the start of the 20th century, and was spread to Chicago and New York City by New Orleans bands in the 1910s....
 and also some swing music. He was known as "Yank Lawson" for most of his life.

From 1933 to 1935 he worked in Ben Pollack
Ben Pollack

Ben Pollack was a drummer and bandleader from the mid 1920s through the swing music era. His eye for talent led him to either discover or employ, at one time or another, musicians such as Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden, Glenn Miller, Jimmy McPartland and Harry James....
's orchestra and after that became a founding member of the Bob Crosby
Bob Crosby

Bob Crosby was an United States dixieland bandleader and vocalist, best known for his group Crosby and the Bob-Cats.He was the youngest of seven children: five boys, Larry Crosby , Everett , Ted , Bing Crosby and Bob; and two girls, Catherine and Mary Rose ....
 Orchestra. He later worked with Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman

Benjamin David Goodman, was an United States jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing ", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman"....
 and Tommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey

Tommy Dorsey was an United States jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big band era. He was the younger brother of Jimmy Dorsey....
, but also worked with Crosby again in 1941. Later in the 1940s he became a studio musician leading his own Dixieland sessions. In the 1950s he and Bob Haggart
Bob Haggart

Bob Haggart was a dixieland jazz double bass player, composer and arranger. He becamer a founder-member of the Bob Crosby Band . Arranged and part-composed several of the band's big successes....
 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. He remained an important figure in Dixieland music until his death.

He was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1998.

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