Jack Lesberg
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Jack Lesberg (February 14, 1920 - September 17, 2005) was a jazz double-bassist.
He performed with many famous jazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan, and Benny Goodman.
Lesberg had the misfortune of playing in the Cocoanut Grove on the night in 1942 when 492 people lost their lives in a fire. His escape was memorialized by fellow bassist Charles Mingus in an unpublished section of Mingus's autobiography "Beneath the Underdog"; this passage was read by rapper Chuck D. on the Mingus tribute album "Weird Nightmare". According to Mingus's telling, Lesberg used his double bass to "make a door" inside the club which aided in his escape.
