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

[Mike]

    I think that Dorsey really was a jazz trombonist like the others you 
mentioned. His style was different.
  Just like Teagarden's style was different from Kid Ory's and Miff 
Mole's was
  different from J.J Johnson's. There isn't a right or wrong jazz improv 
solo. You say what you have to say and if people like it good, if not 
then oh well. He was an excellent phraser as you previous said and often 
played like a vocalist would sing.



> Perhaps a view that there are "jazz musicians" and there are "musicians who
> also play jazz". Dorsey falls into the latter category if one agrees with
> that line of reasoning. Simply stated, if Dorsey was not much of a jazz
> improviser, some are reluctant to call him a "Jazz Musician".
> 
> Maybe splitting hairs, but I agree with Levinson that Dorsey was not a jazz
> trombonist in the sense that e.g. Ory, Teagarden, Mole, J.J. Johnson, Cutty
> Cutshall, Kai Winding, Curtis Fuller and all of the others were/are.