Mortimer G. "Morty" Corb (April 10, 1917 – January 13, 1996) was an American jazz

Jazz

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 double-bassist.

Corb had a long career as a jazz musician, playing with Gus Bivona

Gus Bivona

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, Pete Fountain

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, Ella Fitzgerald

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, Nat King Cole

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, Pearl Bailey

Pearl Bailey

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, Louis Armstrong

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, Claude Thornhill

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, Jess Stacy

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, Kid Ory

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, Jack Teagarden

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, and Benny Goodman

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, as well as performing for four years on Bob Crosby

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's television program. He also did extended work as a session musician

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 in studios, and though he did little of this after the 1950s, he appears on some 300 recordings. He worked in bands in Disneyland after moving to California

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 in 1947, and recorded his only album as a leader, Strictly from Dixie, in 1957.

Corb was fascinated by Halloween

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 and, from 1973, decked his house out with detailed, elaborate decorations. He incorporated some of what he had learned about special effects from the Disney studios, and continued to construct ever more ornate designs each year up until his death of a brain aneurysm in 1996.