Word: stardusts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those of you who are interested in hearing the difference between good hot style with technique and good sweet style with technique might well compare Tommy Dorsey's record of "Stardust" (Victor) and Jack Jenny's new Vocalion platter of the same. Jenny is a studio musician who has been playing around New York for years, making some swell records with such groups as the Red Norvo Octet and later, with the Paul Whiteman recording groups...
...Stardust" starts out on excellent ideas--distinctly unusual since even the purists usually give the public the benefit of a "straight" melody first chorus. But while his ideas are startling and beautifully executed, they never withdraw from the velvety tone of the Dorsey type--a criticism from the standpoint of pure hot, but also a destruction of the argument that good hot men can't play suavely for public consumption...