[Dixielandjazz] Re: Trombone/Trumpet (or Cornet)

Bill Haesler bhaesler at bigpond.net.au
Sat Jun 5 10:17:12 PDT 2004


Dear Al,
Regarding your reply to John Farrell:  > There are 78's with Tom Dorsey on
Cornet and Trumpet. <

There certainly are.
Here is a chronological list I prepared for one of my radio programs a few
years back. 
Paul Whiteman Aug 1927
  It WonŒt Be Long Now
Dorsey BrothersΠOrch
   14 Feb 1928 Mary Ann
   14 March 1928 The Yale Blues
   24 April 1928 My Melancholy Baby
   22 May 1928 ThatŒs My Mammy
   22 May 1928 Dixie Dawn
   29 Sept 1928 Round Evening
   29 Sept 1928 Out of the Dawn
Big Aces 29 Sept 1928
  Cherry
Tommy Dorsey 10 Nov 1928
   ItŒs Right Here For You
   Tiger Rag 
Dorsey Bros Orch 21 Nov 1928
   SheŒs Funny That Way
Seger Ellis 10 Dec 1928
   Blue Shadows
Ruth Etting 11 March 1929
  Button Up Your Overcoat/Mean To Me
Cotton Pickers 27 March 1929
   Rampart St Blues
   St Louis Gal    
Tommy Dorsey 23 April 1929
  Daddy, Change Your Mind (3.05)
   You CanŒt Cheat A Cheater
Blind Willie Dunn 30 April 1929
  Jet Black Blues  
  Blue Blood Blues
Cotton Pickers 16 May 1929
   No Parking      
Eddie Lang 22 May 1929
  Bugle Call Rag   
Dorsey Bros Orch 19 June 1929
  Breakaway
Emmett Miller 12 Sept 1929
  The PickaninnieŒs Paradise
Lee Morse 20 Feb 1930
   TainŒt No Sin
Seger Ellis 28 Feb 1930
   Should I?       
Tommy Dorsey Orch 1 June 1939
Back To Back 

Yes! I have 'em all on LP and CD.
In the 'early days' Jimmy Dorsey (and Benny Goodman) made several records
playing cornet, but I can't recall any with Jimmy playing trombone, as you
claim. Do you have the details.
Very kind regards,
Bill.
                   





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