Word: styles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill Whitcraft on piano, Johnny Harlow (trumpet), Hal Jacobs on clarinet, George Olson on drums, and Mike Siegel on tenor sax manage to turn out some solos that are good enough for anybody's wing. Stan does the sweet vocals, and odes a good imitation of the Jack Leonard style of singing. Fem vocalist Dorothy Sinatra, sister of Harry James'vocalist, does even better...
Best point about the band though is the easy style with which it swings, its excellent special arrangements, and best of all, the fine dance tempos that it plays. This is nothing short of rank plugging. As a matter of fact, the proceedings paragraphs should have "advt." written after them. But it's about time that something good at Harvard got a little publicity...
...began to enlarge his arranging staff, adding Sy Oliver and one other, making four full-time men working for him, the largest staff in the country. But the catch is that Sy Oliver formerly played trumpet for Jimmy Luncefor, and is an arranger in the best Kanas City powerhouse style. More than this, Oliver specializes in a very different Casa Loma type of technical arrangement that demands a well-kuit band...
Thus we have Tommy Dorsey who never made a colored swing style record, who lately has been doing either very feeble Dixieland or even more feeble sweet music trying to do one of the famous Lunceford arrangements...
Instead of the alternate power and bounce-lightly that Lunsford uses, you have a white band playing a colored-style arrangement without anything behind it. The record strikes one as being slightly bewildered, as though the boys in Tommy's band just couldn't make the shift fast enough...