Les Elgart

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United States

Active from

1917

Active to

1995

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Listeners

9,292

Total plays

57,222

Les Elgart (August 3, 1917, New Haven, Connecticut-July 29, 1995, Dallas, Texas) was an American swing jazz bandleader and trumpeter. Lester E. (Les) Elgart began playing trumpet as a teenager, and by age 20 had landed professional gigs. In the 1940s he played in bands led by Raymond Scott, Charlie Spivak, and Harry James, and occasionally found himself in bands alongside brother Larry. Together they put together their own Les & Larry Elgart Ensemble in 1945, hiring Nelson Riddle, Ralph Flanaga

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Diversity of the Human Intestinal Microbial Flora

   · 2005 · cited 6,575x

2. STARD 2015: an updated list of essential items for reporting diagnostic accuracy studies

   · 2015 · cited 2,757x

3. The NURBS Book

   · 1997 · cited 2,742x

4. The performance of tests of publication bias and other sample size effects in systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy was assessed

   · 2005 · cited 2,548x

5. STARD 2015 guidelines for reporting diagnostic accuracy studies: explanation and elaboration

   · 2016 · cited 2,216x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

New Haven

Place of death

Dallas

Occupation

jazz musician

Genre

jazz

Instrument

trumpet

Record label

Philips Records

Image

Bandleader Les Elgart.jpg

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