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The World's Greatest Jazz Band was an all-star jazz ensemble active from 1968 to 1978. [1]Dick Gibson founded the group at his sixth Jazz Party, an annual event. [1] The group performed mostly Dixieland jazz and recorded extensively. [1]
Yank Crime is the second and final album by the San Diego, California post-hardcore band Drive Like Jehu, released on April 26, 1994, by Interscope Records. It was the band's major-label debut and its artwork was created by singer/guitarist Rick Froberg. The band toured in support of the album but then quietly disbanded the following year as ...
The term Yankee and its contracted form Yank have several interrelated meanings, all referring to people from the United States. Their various meanings depend on the context, and may refer to New Englanders , the Northeastern United States , the Northern United States , or to people from the US in general.
Yank! A WWII Love Story is a 2005 musical with book and lyrics by David Zellnik and music by his brother Joseph. Yank! "tells the story of Stu, a scared Midwestern kid who gets drafted for World War II in 1943, and becomes a photographer for Yank Magazine, the journal 'for and by the servicemen.' Yank! has a score that pays homage to the 1940s ...
Yank is a shortened form of Yankee, a slang term for US citizens. Yank or Yanks may also refer to: Sports teams. Boston Yanks, a National Football League team from ...
Yank Rachell (born James A. Rachel; March 16, 1910 – April 9, 1997) [1] [2] [3] was an American country blues musician who has been called an "elder statesman of the blues". [ 2 ] [ 4 ] His career as a performer spanned nearly seventy years, from the late 1920s to the 1990s.
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 ]
Yank is a nickname for: Yank Adams (1847–1923), American professional carom billiards player specializing in finger billiards Yank Azman (born 1947), Canadian television and movie actor