Results for "Sam Trippe"

Sam Trippe

Sam Trippe's Short, Tragic Career

May 15, 2018

Painfully little is known about trumpeter Sam Trippe's career. Based on my research last night, Trippe was born in 1923 and grew up near Rochester, N.Y. He married in 1945 and lived with his wife, Dorothy, in the village of Endicott, N.Y. According to a 1946 ad in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Trippe played jam ...

Explosion!

By Sam Trippe

Label: Americatone
Released: 2001
Track listing: Dress Blues, Grumpy, Bella's Back in Town, Larry Finley's Stomp, You Got to My Head, Ride Around the Block, How High the Moon, It's a Wonderful World, Wail Street.

Sam Trippe and His Jazz Orchestra: Explosion!

by Jack Bowers
June 1, 2001

This reissue on Americatone by Sam Trippe's orchestra was recorded more than forty years ago, shortly before Trippe and his wife, Dorothy, were killed in an auto accident, which accounts for its LP—like 30:40 playing time. Trippe's ensemble was modeled closely on that of Woody Herman—not a bad model at all—and Trippe was convinced he had ...