Al Hirt
b. Alois Maxwell Hart, 7 November 1922, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, d. 27 April 1999, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. After studying classical music at the Cincinnati Conservatory in the early 40s, trumpeter Hirt divided his professional career between symphony orchestras and dance bands and still found time to play dixieland jazz in New Orleans clubs. Hirt worked as a bugler during World War II, and following his discharge he played with bands led by Tommy Dorsey, Ray McKinley and Horace Heidt. Clarinettist Pete Fountain was a sideman, and occasional leader, in one of the first bands Hirt formed on his return to New Orleans. He first recorded as a leader for the Southland label in 1955, but in 1958 signed a career-boosting contract with the Audio Fidelity label.
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Albums
- (2001) Greatest Hits
- (2001) Pete Fountain Presents The Best Of Dixieland: Al Hirt
- (2000) Al Hirt at the Mardi Gras
- (2000) Al Hirt - Greatest Hits Series
- (2000) Music To Watch Girls By
- (1999) Honey In The Horn and Our Man in New Orleans
- (1997) The Al Hirt Collection Featuring Beauty And The Beard With Ann-Margret
- (1996) Brassman's Holiday
- (1996) Live on Bourbon Street
- (1995) Dixieland's Greatest Hits
- (1989) All Time Greatest Hits
Top Tracks
- Java
- Cotton Candy
- When the Saints Go Marching In
- Green Hornet Theme
- Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
Related Artists
- Louis Armstrong
- Pete Fountain
- Preservation Hall Jazz Band
- The Dukes of Dixieland
- Sidney Bechet
- Al Hirt, Pete Fountain
- Original Dixieland Jazz Band
- Dr. Henry Levine's Barefoot Dixieland Philharmonic
- Jelly Roll Morton's New Orleans Jazzmen
- Jelly Roll Morton's Jazz Band
- Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feetwarmers
- Matty Matlock & His Dixie Men
- Ory's Creole Jazz Band
- Tommy Ladnier and his Orchestra
- Paul Howard's Quality Serenaders
- Sidney Bechet Trio
- The New Orleans Feetwarmers
- Sidney Bechet's One Man Band
- Ory's Sunshine Orchestra
- Jimmy Noone
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