[Dixielandjazz] Tom Dorsey, trumpet

[Bill Haesler]

Dear Anton,
Your comment <Unless I'm way-off and he played trumpet on some of his swing era sessions> is spot on.
The answer to my question is "Back To Back" by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, recorded in New York for Victor on 1 June 1939.

I'm also inclined to accept that Tommy Dorsey is the straight-ahead trumpet player on Charles "Buddy" Rogers 27 Feb 1930 recording of "I'd Like To Be A Bee In Your Boudoir". It is certainly Jimmy Dorsey on clarinet.

The possibility that Dorsey is the trumpet player on the Annette Hanshaw session of 21 Oct 1930 ("Yes Indeedy/He Do/Now I Know") is more of a probability. It is certainly brash enough to be him on "Yes Indeedy". I have never heard "Now I Know" and do not think that it has been reissued.

<Also, it's and it's claimed that he plays both trumpet and trombone on the the Dorsey Bros session of 14 Mar 1934.>
There are various discographal opinions regarding Tommy Dorsey (trumpet) on this session. He solos on trombone on the first tune of the session, but the several trumpet solos are by Bunny Berigan.
TB may have augmented the ensembles with trumpet, but who can tell?

As you know, Tommy and his kid brother, Jimmy, played tpt before taking up their chosen instruments. Tommy‘s trumpet style usuallywas brash, inaccurate at times but, for me, it was nearly always hot. 

For your information here is my summary of 'Tommy Dorsey Trumpet on Record'.

1.	Paul Whiteman Orch	"It Won‘t Be Long Now"	Aug 1927
	Dorsey Brothers‘ Orch
2.	"Mary Ann"			14 Feb 1928 
3.	"The Yale Blues"		14 March 1928  
4.	"My Melancholy Baby"	24 April 1928 				
5.	"That‘s My Mammy"		22 May 1928  
6.	"Dixie Dawn"			22 May 1928  						
7.	"Round Evening"		29 Sept 1928  
8.	"Out of the Dawn" 		29 Sept 1928 				 
9.	Big Aces "Cherry" 		29 Sept 1928 
	Tommy Dorsey 	 10 Nov 1928
10.	"It‘s Right Here For You" 						
11.	"Tiger Rag" 
12.	Dorsey Bros Orch "She‘s Funny That Way"	  21 Nov 1928
13.	Seger Ellis  "Blue Shadows"  10 Dec 1928
	Ruth Etting  11 March 1929
14.	"Button Up Your Overcoat"
15.	"Mean To Me"	
	Cotton Pickers 	27 March 1929
16.	"Rampart St Blues"							 
17.	"St Louis Gal" 								 
	Tommy Dorsey  23 April 1929
18.	"Daddy, Change Your Mind" 
19.	"You Can‘t Cheat A Cheater" 					 
	Blind Willie Dunn  30 April 1929
20.	"Jet Black Blues"								 
21.	"Blue Blood Blues" 
22.	Cotton Pickers "No Parking"  16 May 1929
23.	Eddie Lang "Bugle Call Rag"  22 May 1929									 
24.	Dorsey Bros Orch (The Travellers) "Breakaway"	19 June 1929
25.	Emmett Miller "The Pickaninnie‘s Paradise"		12 Sept 1929
26.	Lee Morse "Tain‘t No Sin"	20 Feb 1930
27.	Seger Ellis "Should I?"	28 Feb 1930 
28.	Tommy Dorsey Orch "Back To Back"	 1 June 1939

You can add the Buddy Roger' record.

Very kind regards,
Bill.