Bob Astor
Bob Astor (born Robert E. Dade, October 5, 1915, New Orleans) was an American jazz and dance bandleader and songwriter, principally active in the 1940s. Astor led groups in New Orleans and east Texas before moving to the Los Angeles area at the end of the 1930s. He put together a new ensemble in 1940 in Hermosa Beach, which was, according to big band historian Leo Walker, "perhaps the first West Coast band to feature black musicians".
Bob Astor
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- 1915. · New Orleans.
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- United States.
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- musician and bandleader.
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Bob Astor (born 1915) is an American musician and bandleader.
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