Effective period / Period of releases: 1963

American clarinetist and dixieland and swing bandleader.
Born c.1933.
Stan graduated from Princeton in 1955. As a freshman, Rubin joined the marching band on the clarinet. After being cut from Freshman Basketball, Rubin formed a Dixieland band called Stan Rubin and his Tigertown Five in 1952, a dixieland swing band composed of other Princeton students.
While he was writing his senior thesis, he was playing a sold-out show at Carnegie Hall. Invited to perform at a party at the Cherry Hill Inn in New Jersey, Rubin danced with actress Grace Kelly. That led him to be the only American jazz band to play her “wedding of the century” in Monaco. Prince Rainier insisted that band members appear not in tuxedos, but in their orange-and-black blazers, leading the Tigertown Five to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show and had every society bride in the country clamoring to have the group play at their wedding, too.
After graduation Rubin formed a larger swing band with the Tigertown Five as the center. In the larger format he expanded his repertoire to include swing era tunes and popular Broadway tunes arranged for stage band. While managing the swing band he completed Fordham Law School.
Rubin then concentrated on his career in music and was a dedicated entertainer for the college and social dance scene. He kept his focus on the Dixieland and swing jazz styles even when the taste in popular music in the 1960's shifted to rock-and-roll and rhythm and blues. He continued to play into the 2010's and beyond.