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...with a firm control of the band. This achievement, no small one in the jazz world, is a direct result of more than 50 years' professional experience playing with some of the biggest names from the swing era and beyond, including the likes of Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, and Woody Herman...
Bellson's drum-set was only the first of many brushes with percussive innovation. Swing bandleader Tommy Dorsey created a revolving platform for Bellson so that audiences could see the action from the drummer's point of view. Bellson went on to dazzle audiences with an awesome technical dexterity, making the highlight of many concerts his virtuosic solos...
...example, George Thow '29, a classical trumpeter who would later play with the likes of Jimmy Dorsey and Lawrence Welk, marched alongside Scott Burbank '29. Burbank had the rare ability to play two trumpets at once...
...crisply told detail. The young singer goes on the road as part of a quartet put together by Major Bowes; picks up work in a club where he has to wheel his own piano accompanist around the room; is discovered by bandleader Harry James but soon jumps to Tommy Dorsey's orchestra, where he becomes a star...
...could bestow: pop-idol celebrity, money, movie-star wives, near veneration for his instrumental virtuosity. Why did he suddenly walk away from it all? In 1954, after two high-flying decades at the head of ensembles as popular as -- and often more innovative than -- Glenn Miller's, Tommy Dorsey's and Benny Goodman's, after a succession of hits (Begin the Beguine, Frenesi) that sold millions of records around the world, Shaw, then 44, packed up his clarinet and quit the music business...