[Dixielandjazz] Tommy Dorsey on Trumpet

Jim Hillesheim jwh66047 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 19 08:15:19 PST 2010


A marvelous two pages. Thanks for bringing them to our attention.
Jim 
Lawrence, Kansas
On Dec 19, 2010, at 9:37 AM, Stephen G Barbone wrote:

> Regarding a Clambake Seven record with Tommy Dorsey on trumpet, Sudhalter had this to say on page 363 of his book, "LOST CHORDS".
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> "On the strength of these late '20s trumpet solos it seems regrettable that Dorsey all but forsook the instrument, at least on records, in the following decade. Now and then, late in a ballroom date, he'd borrow Bunny Berrigans's (or Pee Wee Erwin's, or Ziggy Ellman's 	horn and knock off a chorus or two. But with the exception  of one 1937 Clambake Seven title and "Back to Back" in 1939, he never recorded on trumpet again."
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> Bill Haesler, Marvin Ipswitch and other interested folks who have the book will enjoy what Sudhalter had to say about TD and the trumpet on pages 362 and 363.
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> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
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