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Muggsy Spanier
Chicago, United States • 1901-11-09 – 1967-02-12
Muggsy Spanier is credited on 594 releases across 134 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
594
Pressings credited
134
Albums
8
Decades active
12
In collections
Biography
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.
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Credited work
594 releases · 134 albums · active 1950–2025
- Other credits · 721
- Performance · 346
Studios: Town Hall, New York · Shrine Auditorium · Club Hangover, San Francisco · WOR Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
From Avenue A To The Great White Way: Yiddish And American Popular Songs From 1914-1950
2002
All Of Me
1995
The Guitarists
1980
Giants Of Jazz: Sidney Bechet
1980
That's Jazz
1980
Bix Beiderbecke And The Chicago Cornets
1974
1924-1928
1973
In The Groove With The Kings Of Swing
1967
Muggsy, Tesch And The Chicagoans
1953
Dixieland Classics
The Best Of Dixieland
Jam Session
Jazz History 10 LPs
1980
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Sidney Bechet
- Eddie Condon
- Muggsy Spanier And His Dixieland Band
- Muggsy Spanier And His Ragtime Band
- Muggsy Spanier's Ragtime Band
- Pee Wee Russell
- Muggsy Spanier And His Orchestra
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