Biography
Sandy Block
Real name: Sidney Sanford Block
American jazz bassist, born 16 January 1917 in Cleveland, died October 1985.Worked in the big bands of Alvino Rey 1940-1941, Tommy Dorsey 1943-1947, 1950, and Jerry Wald 1944.
Recorded with Charlie Shavers 1945, Sy Oliver 1951, 1958, Louis Armstrong 1951, 1953, 1957, Ella Fitzgerald 1951-1953, 1955, Jimmy McPartland 1955-1957, and Joe Williams 1965.