talent scout. Gladys Hampton, Lionel’s wife, and Elizabeth Cobb helped manage the band and Cobb’s mother did the tailoring.” Having grown weary of the mobstyle management of the Hampton’s, while missing the family oriented band he found in Milt Larkin, “Cobb left Hampton in 1947 and formed his own combo. Cobb was immediately signed by Ben Bartz of Universal Attractions for management and booking. With Ben’s direction, Cobb performed and toured extensively through 1949, Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. “http://www.tshaonline. org/handbook/online/articles/CC/fcobs.html
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because of Hershel Evans. Illinois
“You see Hamp’s a tenor freak
▲ Arnett Cobb and Walter Buchanan (bass), Apollo Theatre, New York, N.Y., August 1947
Jacquet was an alto player, he put him on tenor.” –A. C. 21