Big Noise from Winnetka - Haggart Bob/ Nick Fatool 1986

During the 1986 Cork Festival in Ireland we see and hear a performance of Bob Haggart's famous classic Big Noise from Winnetka. Originally played by Bob and drummer Ray Bauduc we see here a drummer of equal quality and fame, Nick Fatool!
Bob Haggart grew up in Douglaston, Long Island. He began lessons on guitar as a teenager, and also dabbled in piano and trumpet before switching to double bass at 17, an instrument on which he was self-taught. He played in a number of local dance bands before emerging to national prominence in his first major job with the Bob Crosby Band.
The band allowed him to develop his reputation not only as a bass player, but also as an arranger and composer, and if "The Big Noise from Winnetka" is the most feted of his creations, his clever arrangements were central to the band's sophisticated Dixieland-based sound.
Haggart also worked extensively in television, including writing advertising jingles, but always in tandem with performing. He first worked with trumpeter Yank Lawson in the Crosby band, and they co-led the Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band between more commercial studio engagements in the Fifties, before co-founding the rather grandly named World's Greatest Jazz Band in 1968, a group which become something of a figurehead for the traditional jazz movement which blossomed in its wake.

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