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Curtis Fuller: Motor City Messenger
by Russ Musto
The most recorded jazz trombonist of his lifetime, Curtis Fuller's illustrious career spans six decades and includes tenures with many of the greatest names in this music. Born Dec. 15th, 1934 in Detroit, Fuller was orphaned at an early age, but found family in the close-knit jazz community of the musically fertile Motor City. He first ...
The Essential Frank Sinatra with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
By Tommy Dorsey
Label: RCA Records
Released: 2005
Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way
by Florence Wetzel
Peter J. LevinsonTommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big WayDa Capo Press352 pagesISBN: 0306811111 Tommy Dorsey is certainly one of jazz' most picturesque characters, and this new biography does a marvelous job of bringing the trombonist to life. Dorsey (1905-1956) was in ...
Tommy Dorsey: "Marie"
by David Rickert
Brotherly Love It all started, or rather ended, with a tempo change. The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra broke up when Tommy Dorsey abruptly walked off the stage during an engagement at the Glen Island Casino after an argument over the tempo of a tune. However, the seeds of discord had been planted long ago. The Dorsey Brothers, ...
March / June 1940 Broadcasts to South America
By Tommy Dorsey
Label: Soundcraft
Released: 2001
Track listing: Introduction / Dark Eyes; March of the Toys; I
Buddy Childers
by Robert Spencer
The Big Band sound of legend, the Big Band sound of Duke and Basie and the Thundering Herd, the Big Wide Enormous Fat Sound, is alive and well. The Big Band sound is alive and well and living in the horn of Buddy Childers. Mr. Marion Childers turned 75 on February 12, and from ...
