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- Leonard "Red" Balaban (December 22, 1929 - December 29, 2013) was an American jazz tubist and sousaphonist. He also played banjo, stand-up bass, slide trombone, ukulele and rhythm guitar. Balaban resided as an adult in the Florida panhandle, where he worked as a farmer and played in regional ensembles from the 1950s. He held a regular gig from 1966 at the Dixieland jazz club Your Father's Mustache in New York City. He is the son of Barney Balaban, former president of Paramount Pictures. His sister is actress and author Judy Balaban and his brother is film producer and director Burt Balaban. He is of Jewish descent. He worked extensively as a sideman, for musicians such as Wild Bill Davison, Eddie Condon, Gene Krupa, Dick Wellstood, and Kenny Davern. He opened the third incarnation of Eddie Condon's Jazz club on W. 54th Street after arranging permission for using Eddie's name from Condon's widow. He co-led the house band with Ed Polcer from 1975, with whom he later shared ownership of the club. Other noted musicians in this outfit included Vic Dickenson, Warren Vache, and Connie Kay. The club closed in the mid-1980s. Balaban died at the age of 84 on December 29, 2013, after a brief illness. He was living with his wife of 62 years, Maxine, or Micki as she is called, at their lakefront home in West Haven, Connecticut. (en)
- Leonard "Red" Balaban (22 december 1922) is een Amerikaanse jazz-tubaïst, -sousafonist en -gitarist. Balaban, een zoon van , voormalig directeur van Paramount Pictures, was vanaf 1952 veehouder. Vanaf 1966 speelde hij in de dixieland-club Your Father's Moustache in New York. Hij werkte als sideman van Wild Bill Davison, Eddie Condon, Gene Krupa, en . In 1975 opende hij met instemming van zijn vriend Condon in New York een derde "Eddie Condon's"-club en werd hier de leider van de huisband, Balaban & the Cats. In die groep hebben onder meer , Warren Vaché en Connie Kay gespeeld. De club sloot de deuren in het midden van de jaren tachtig, maar Balaban bleef ook daarna als muzikant actief. (nl)
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- Leonard "Red" Balaban (22 december 1922) is een Amerikaanse jazz-tubaïst, -sousafonist en -gitarist. Balaban, een zoon van , voormalig directeur van Paramount Pictures, was vanaf 1952 veehouder. Vanaf 1966 speelde hij in de dixieland-club Your Father's Moustache in New York. Hij werkte als sideman van Wild Bill Davison, Eddie Condon, Gene Krupa, en . In 1975 opende hij met instemming van zijn vriend Condon in New York een derde "Eddie Condon's"-club en werd hier de leider van de huisband, Balaban & the Cats. In die groep hebben onder meer , Warren Vaché en Connie Kay gespeeld. De club sloot de deuren in het midden van de jaren tachtig, maar Balaban bleef ook daarna als muzikant actief. (nl)
- Leonard "Red" Balaban (December 22, 1929 - December 29, 2013) was an American jazz tubist and sousaphonist. He also played banjo, stand-up bass, slide trombone, ukulele and rhythm guitar. Balaban resided as an adult in the Florida panhandle, where he worked as a farmer and played in regional ensembles from the 1950s. He held a regular gig from 1966 at the Dixieland jazz club Your Father's Mustache in New York City. He is the son of Barney Balaban, former president of Paramount Pictures. His sister is actress and author Judy Balaban and his brother is film producer and director Burt Balaban. He is of Jewish descent. (en)
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