[Dixielandjazz] Blind Willie Dunn's Gin Bottle Four

[Steven Holzer]

Don Mopsick wrote:
> Query posted on Facebook by Dave Bock:
>
> I'm still looking for more opinions or information. I think Brian Rust
> credits King Oliver as the cornet player on Jet Black Blues by Blind Willie
> Dunn's Gin Bottle Four recorded for Okeh in April 1929. I believe the cornet
> player is Tommy Dorsey. You can hear the recording here:
> http://www.redhotjazz.com/Songs/Lang/jetblack.ram 
>
> For a recording of Tommy Dorsey playing cornet, check out Tiger Rag here:
> http://www.redhotjazz.com/tommy.html
>
> What do you think?? King Oliver or Tommy Dorsey??
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I recall a discussion of this in Record Research magazine many years 
ago. One of the correspondents reported that Tommy Dorsey acknowledged 
being the trumpet on the Gin Bottle Four records.

Steve Holzer