Alois Maxwell Hirt Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Al Hirt (November 7, 1922 – April 27, 1999) was an American trumpeter and bandleader. He is best remembered for his million-selling recordings of "Java" and the accompanying album Honey in the Horn (1963), and for the theme song to The Green Hornet. His nicknames included "Jumbo" and "The Round Mound of Sound". Hirt was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in November 2009.
Induced into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2009.
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One of the most popular instrumental performers of the Rock Era (1955 - present), he had a string of best-selling albums for RCA Victor during the 1960s, including: "Honey in the Horn," "Al Hirt at the Mardi Gras," "Our Man in New Orleans," "Sugar Lips," "That Honey Horn Sound," "Cotton Candy," "Live at Carnegie Hall," "Music to Watch Girls By," "Sugar Lips," "The Horn Meets 'The Hornet,'" "'Pops' Goes the Trumpet" (with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops), and, perhaps inevitably, "The Best of Al Hirt."
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Trumpet player.
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Hirt had 21 Grammy nominations in a career spanning more than 50 years, winning in 1964 for best non-jazz instrumental for "Java."
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Had a popular jazz club in the french quarter (Bourbon Street) of New Orleans up to 1983.
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His most successful albums were 'Greatest Horn', "He's the King" and 'Bourbon Street'.
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