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Diz Mullins
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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