[Dixielandjazz] "Living in a great big Way - Tommy Dorsey

[Roger Wade]

Hi Steve and Ron (and listmates),

I have always enjoyed Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven sides.  I think  
he plays a great jazz trombone, with both technique and imagination,  
especially on the sides with hot trumpeter Yank Lawson.

Roger Wade
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On Jan 4, 2006, at 5:10 PM, Steve barbone wrote:

> "Ron L'Herault" <lherault at bu.edu>
>
>> Levinson was on CBS Sunday Morning this past week and stated that  
>> Dorsey was
>> not a jazz player.  How the heck can this guy have written a good  
>> book about
>> TD and come away with that impression.  Did he never listen to any  
>> of the
>> recordings Dorsey was on before the 40s  era big bands?  Even in  
>> the big
>> band setting, TD was a jazzy, swinging trombonist.  Sheesh.
>
> Hi Ron:
>
> I think the below view is what Levinson espouses. Most of the Dorsey
> biographies have similar versions of this which is from another of his
> biographers.
>