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Sam Trippe
Sam Trippe and His Jazz Orchestra: Explosion!
by Jack Bowers
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 LPlike 30:40 playing time. Trippe's ensemble was modeled closely on that of Woody Hermannot a bad model at alland Trippe was convinced he had one of the world's greatest big bands. While that's hard to affirmas Art Blakey once said, it's impossible to measure talenthe had a very ...
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
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 sessions with drummer Jimmy Antonelli at the Casablanca on Endicott's Main Street. According to the Binghamton Press in Binghamton, N.Y., Trippe's family name was ...
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