Harry Gibson

Harry "The Hipster" Gibson (June 27, 1915 – May 3, 1991) was a jazz pianist, singer and songwriter.

Gibson played New York style Stride piano and boogie woogie while singing in a wild, unrestrained style. His music career began in the late 1920s, when as the young Harry Raab, his birth name, he played stride piano in Dixieland jazz bands in Harlem. He continued to perform there throughout the 1930s, adding the barrelhouse boogie of the time to his repertoire, and was discovered by Fats Waller in 1939 and brought down to mid-town Manhattan, where he made a splash and changed his surname to Gibson. Between 1939 and 1945, he played at various Manhattan jazz clubs on 52nd Street ("Swing Street"), most notably the Three Deuces, run by Irving Alexander, and Leon and Eddies, run by Leon Enkin and Eddie Davis.

Career

Harry Gibson (Australian footballer)

Harry Gibson (27 December 1878 – 12 August 1921) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He died in a car accident at the age of 42.

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Harry Gibson (footballer)

Harold Thomas "Harry" Gibson was an English professional football left back who played in the Football League for Clapton Orient.

Personal life

Gibson fought with the 17th (Service) and 21st (Service) Battalions of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) for the majority of the First World War, rising to the rank of sergeant. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 1st (Service) Battalion of the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry on 27 August 1918.

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