Bob Harrington was an American

United States

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 jazz

Jazz

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 vibraphonist

Vibraphone

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Harrington was also adept at drum

Drum

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s and piano

Piano

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 in addition to vibraphone. He played with Charlie Barnet

Charlie Barnet

Charles Daly Barnet was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.His major recordings were "Skyliner", "Cherokee", "The Wrong Idea", "Scotch and Soda", "In a Mizz", and "Southland Shuffle".-Early life:...

 in the early 1950s on piano, and worked with both Red Nichols

Red Nichols

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 and Bud Freeman

Bud Freeman

Lawrence "Bud" Freeman was a U.S. jazz musician, bandleader, and composer, known mainly for playing the tenor saxophone, but also able at the clarinet. He had a smooth and full tenor sax style with a heavy robust swing. He was one of the most influential and important jazz tenor saxophonists of...

 that decade as a drummer. On vibraphone, he played with Georgie Auld

Georgie Auld

Georgie Auld was a jazz tenor saxophonist, clarinetist and bandleader.Auld was born John Altwerger in Toronto...

, Buddy DeFranco

Buddy DeFranco

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, Vido Musso

Vido Musso

Vido William Musso was an Italian-born jazz tenor saxophonist, clarinetist and bandleader born in Carini, Sicily, best-known for his many contributions to the big bands of Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Stan Kenton and Woody Herman.His family moved to the United States in...

, Ben Webster

Ben Webster

Benjamin Francis Webster , a.k.a. "The Brute" or "Frog," was an influential American jazz tenor saxophonist. Webster, born in Kansas City, Missouri, was considered one of the three most important "swing tenors" along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young...

, Ann Richards

Ann Richards

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, and Harry Babasin

Harry Babasin

Harry Babasin was an American jazz bassist. His nickname was "The Bear".-Biography:...

's Jazzpickers. He released one solo album

Album

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, Vibraphone Fantasy in Jazz, on Imperial Records

Imperial Records

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in 1957, which is now a collector's item. Harrington recorded into the 1970s, but his date of death is not known.