Trigger Alpert

A traditional jazz bassist and bandleader, Trigger Alpert issued one album on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Riverside%22">Riverside</a> in 1956 titled Trigger Happy! It had an all-star lineup with <a href="spotify:artist:3wtfcI8iPGKBmnalt0013v">Tony Scott</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1pwr5rTWLVfqhvHfB7Reap">Zoot Sims</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4yPUoMbYxVJ6XNJWZVJV7Y">Al Cohn</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4Dpnb9p4xJbO0PcQ93vfY0">Joe Wilder</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1QTyeOWOgAXxQQf32kPLAL">Urbie Green</a>, and Ed Shaugnessy joining Alpert. Alpert studied music at Indiana University in the late '30s, then played with <a href="spotify:artist:35hCHSRgl0dhCYfgGb4bwV">Alvino Rey</a> in New York during 1940; he toured and recorded with <a href="spotify:artist:2aAHdB5HweT3mFcRzm0swc">Glenn Miller</a> in the early '40s. Alpert worked briefly with <a href="spotify:artist:7e9843xr17L5hRYAti3dtG">Tex Beneke</a> and did a radio program with <a href="spotify:artist:1pBuKaLHJlIlqYxQQaflve">Benny Goodman</a>. He later recorded with <a href="spotify:artist:3x4RlqxSWh3pyAI89UCJcn">Bud Freeman</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5V0MlUE1Bft0mbLlND7FJz">Ella Fitzgerald</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0u61vtGdkaLTguZ5mVxLjK">Muggsy Spanier</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4RvXA7BDgqNgGDjsSSJnPc">Roy Eldridge</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:19eLuQmk9aCobbVDHc6eek">Louis Armstrong</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1UQnOfa4xodvnWg6TntMMa">Ray McKinley</a>, and Bernie Leighton in 1945 and 1946. He worked with <a href="spotify:artist:1Mxqyy3pSjf8kZZL4QVxS0">Frank Sinatra</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2KSxJY1WxGGVYSmoM0N54P">Woody Herman</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:6E3mhys1viRwohc0EOqFOS">Jerry Jerome</a> in 1946 and 1947, and had recording sessions with <a href="spotify:artist:5wam12nGWDBIrLDV78TNSF">Artie Shaw</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0JM134st8VY7Ld9T2wQiH0">Coleman Hawkins</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0AYRx10oasRjBrIGSC7B2c">the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3oSDwkoxvCDQLcPYebh8R7">Mundell Lowe</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3GR38LTiPd7t2yXyRrQvAP">Don Elliott</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2YODXXiVE8ABc0TfihLOFj">Gene Krupa</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:1pVtwG5Up1OZOEpSHJ4AAs">Buddy Rich</a> from 1950-1962. During that time, he also worked for CBS. Alpert left the music business in 1970, becoming a photographer. ~ Ron Wynn, Rovi