[78-L] Jack Eizman

[Donna Halper]

I was reading some old newspaper articles about local Boston bandleaders 
from the 78 era, and I found an obit of a bandleader named Jack Eizman. 
Jack (real name: Jacob Eizman) died in 2000, at age 95. The obit said he 
led two big bands, and also played violin and sax. But I cannot find him 
in other articles from the era in which he supposedly worked.  (The obit 
says he worked with Eddie Duchin, Leo Reisman, Larry Green, and it badly 
misspelled Jacques Renard!) I'm wondering if the obit was accurate, or 
family lore, since Renard and Reisman were also bandleaders; perhaps he 
played in their bands, rather than being a bandleader? Anyway, I checked 
various permutations of Eizman, but found very little. Does he ring a 
bell with anyone, or am I just looking in the wrong places?

-- 
Donna L. Halper, PhD
Associate Professor of Communication & Media Studies
Lesley University, Cambridge MA