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Muggsy Spanier (Francis Joseph Spanier) was born on 9 November, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, US, is an American jazz cornetist. Discover Muggsy Spanier's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?
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Francis Joseph Spanier |
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Musician |
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61 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Scorpio |
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9 November, 1906 |
Birthday |
9 November |
Birthplace |
Chicago, Illinois, US |
Date of death |
1967 |
Died Place |
Sausalito, California, US |
Nationality |
United States
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Muggsy Spanier Net Worth
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Francis Joseph "Muggsy" Spanier (November 9, 1901 – February 12, 1967) was an American jazz cornetist based in Chicago.
He was a member of the Bucktown Five, pioneers of the "Chicago style" that straddled traditional Dixieland jazz and swing.
Spanier was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
In the early 1920s, he played with the Bucktown Five.
At thirteen, he began playing the cornet and played with Elmer Schoebel in 1921.
He borrowed the sobriquet of "Muggsy" from John "Muggsy" McGraw, the manager of the New York Giants baseball team.
After an illness, he assembled the eight-man group Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtime Band.
The Ragtime Band's theme tune was "Relaxin' at the Touro", composed by Spanier and Joe Bushkin, named for Touro Infirmary, the New Orleans hospital where Spanier had been treated for a perforated ulcer early in 1938.
At the point of death, he was saved by Dr. Alton Ochsner who drained the fluid and eased his weakened breathing.
One of Spanier's Dixieland numbers is a song he composed entitled, "Oh Doctor Ochsner."
"Relaxin' at the Touro" is a fairly straightforward 12-bar blues, with a piano introduction and coda by Joe Bushkin.
The pianist recalled, many years later: "When I finally joined Muggsy in Chicago (having left Bunny Berigan's failing big band) we met to talk it over at the Three Deuces, where Art Tatum was appearing."
Muggsy was now playing opposite Fats Waller at the Sherman hotel and we worked out a kind of stage show for the two bands.
Muggsy was a man of great integrity.
"We played a blues in C and I made up a little intro. After that I was listed as the co-composer of 'Relaxin' at the Touro'".
In 1939, the band recorded several sessions of Dixieland standards for Bluebird Records, that were later called The Great Sixteen and influenced a Dixieland revival.
The band's members included George Brunies (later Brunis - trombone and vocals), Rod Cless (clarinet), George Zack or Joe Bushkin (piano), Ray McKinstry, Nick Ciazza or Bernie Billings (tenor sax), and Bob Casey (bass).
His other most important ventures were the quartet he co-led with Sidney Bechet (the 'Big Four') in 1940.
From 1940 until 1941 he played with Bob Crosby.
In the 1950s, he moved to the West Coast and joined Earl Hines's band from 1957 until 1959.
In 1950, in Chicago, Spanier's second marriage was to Ruth Gries O’Connell.
When Spanier was performing at a concert in Chicago in 1956, Buddy Charles was performing at the nearby Black Orchid nightclub.
Spanier was heard to exclaim "that's my boy."
After touring Europe, he retired in 1964.
Muggsy Spanier died in Sausalito, California, in February 1967, after years of ill health.
He became the stepfather of her sons, Hollywood film writer and director Tom Gries (died 1977) and Charles Joseph Gries, later professionally known as Buddy Charles, a pop and jazz vocalist and pianist in Chicago.