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Roland Bernard "Bunny" Berigan (November 2, 1908 – June 2, 1942) was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader who rose to fame during the swing era. His career and influence were shortened by alcoholism, and ended with his early demise at the age of 33 from cirrhosis .
28 févr. 2021 · Tragedy of the Berigan Orchestra. When a deadly hurricane unexpectedly struck New England in September 1938, Bunny was rehearsing his orchestra on the Roof Garden venue at the top of Boston’s Ritz Carlton Hotel.
20 mai 2022 · As we approach the 80th anniversary of Bunny Berigan’s tragic death, I have been thinking about what Bunny was doing in the weeks just before his passing. This post will summarize the events that led to his death at age 33 on June 2, 1942.
Rowland Bernard Berigan, dit Bunny Berigan, est un trompettiste et chanteur de jazz, né le 2 novembre 1908 à Hilbert et mort le 2 juin 1942 à New York.
28 oct. 2017 · But by 1942 Berigan was dead, his liver ravaged by cirrhosis, the victim of stunningly heavy drinking. Three-quarters of a century later, very few Americans remember Bunny Berigan, but for a while before most of us were born, he could do no wrong. Even Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong thought as much. Berigan at age 21.
20 févr. 2018 · Berigan led moderately successful big bands from the fall of 1940 into early 1942, and was on the comeback trail when his health declined alarmingly. On April 20, 1942, while on tour, Berigan was hospitalized with pneumonia in Allegheny General Hospital Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania until May 8.
5 oct. 2016 · The fact that he died when he was thirty-three years old (from cirrhosis of the liver), only five years after he began to lead his own band, is the largest reason why he is not better known to the general public today. There are many other smaller reasons.
