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Jack Jenney: Star Dust
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
After Hoagy Carmichael recorded his hypnotic Star Dust in October 1927 and May 1928, the song caught on and began to be cut almost monthly in studios by jazz artists such as Louis Armstrong in 1931 and Art Tatum in 1934. As a result, the sheer number of Star Dusts makes it tough to name a definitive version. Certainly Clifford Brown's with strings is up there. So is John Coltrane's, Jimmie Lunceford's, Ben Webster's and Sonny Stitt's. But perhaps my ...
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