Weiss played bass for most of the very best white jazz music artists from the ’30s and ’40s, including trumpeters Louis Prima, Bunny Berigan, and Wingy Manone; clarinetist Artie Shaw; trombonist Tommy Dorsey; saxophonist Charlie Barnet; and — maybe especially — Benny Goodman. In his youngsters, Weiss performed violin, clarinet, …
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