Bill Rank

Bill Rank
Birth name	Bill Rank
Born	June 8, 1904
Origin	Lafayette, Indiana
Died	May 20, 1979 (aged 74)
Genres	Jazz
Instruments	trombone
Associated acts	Jean Goldkette

Bill Rank (June 8, 1904 – May 20, 1979) was an American jazz trombonist.

Born in Lafayette, Indiana, he was best known for his work in the Jean Goldkette orchestra of the late 1920s alongside Bix Beiderbecke in small groups and with Paul Whiteman until 1938.

He was a member of the WLW radio staff orchestra in Cincinnati from 1942 to 1947 and led a local Dixieland group called the Over The Hill Gang. Rank also recorded and performed with Dick Sudhalter.

Select discography

As bandleader

• Bix's Gang Lives (Fat Cat's Jazz)

With Bix Beiderbecke

• At the Jazz Band Ball (Okeh Records)
• Goose Pimples (Okeh Records)
• Jazz Me Blues (Okeh Records)
• Louisiana (Okeh Records)
• Margie (Okeh Records)
• Ol' Man River (Okeh Records)
• Rhythm King (Okeh Records)
• Royal Garden Blues (Okeh Records)
• Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down (Okeh Records)
• Somebody Stole My Gal (Okeh Records)
• Sorry (Okeh Records)
• Thou Swell (Okeh Records)
• Wa-Da-Da (Everybody's Doin' It Now) (Okeh Records)