Ed Hubble

Photo: 1995, Don LaVoie

John Edgar Hubble was born in Santa Barbara, CA.  He worked with Bob Wilber, Billy Maxted, Phil Napoleon, Don Ewell, Eddie Condon, James P. Johnson and The Dukes of Dixieland, and made appearances with Dick Wellstood, Kenny Davern, Billy Butterfield, Bobby Hackett, Scott Hamilton, and "Hot Lips" Page. He jobbed around New York with Max Kaminsky and played at Jimmy Ryan's and Eddie Condon's night clubs.

Ed joined The World's Greatest Jazz Band in 1969 with Yank Lawson, Bob Haggart, Ralph Sutton, Bud Freeman, Vic Dickenson, Billy Butterfield and others. He toured Scotland, England, Alaska, South America and Europe, and also played many festivals and clubs in Europe. He joined the Kings of Jazz with Pee Wee Erwin, Kenny Davern, Cliff Leeman, Major Holley and others, and was included in the NYJRC Tribute to Louis Armstrong. He moved to Poughkeepsie, NY with Johnny Windhurst in the mid-70s, then to the upstate New York area for a spell.

He joined the Jim Cullum Jazz Band for a brief period (he appears on the Stomp Off JCJB CD Super Satch), then returned to upstate New York, accepting one-nighters with Doc Cheatham, Ken Peplowski, Joe Muranyi, Red Balaban, Davern, and others.

Ed joined Skip Parsons' River Boat Jazz Band of Albany in March, 1995.