You hardly ever see this odd looking mute used. It was called a solotone and is available today as a cleartone mute. You can still buy one but a trombone player will rarely ever use it. That mute and Tommy playing extremely high gives it that haunting quality. When heard on record or over the radio I'm sure many listeners back then wondered - what kind of instrument is that? Imagine when you could walk into a club, everyone dressed to the nines and hear music like this? It really happened. There was such a time. Not just a Hollywood movie. Big bands were crisscrossing the US and playing nightly. And people dressed up to go to baseball games - look at the photographs.
I was just thinking - do I need to mention "extremely high" - I was referring to pitch - like the upper stratospheric limits of the tenor trombone. TD loved that range as if to offer a challenge to anyone who wanted to imitate his sound. That challenge is still out there - try it while making it sound smooth and easy. There are always different trends in vibrato and that sweet style is currently out of fashion but Tommy is admired today and always will be by players. It doesn't matter if you play in a band, a studio, or a symphonic orchestra.
Interestingly enough, my great uncle Robert Bob Cusumano is one of the trumpet players on the original recording. He also played on Rose Marie and was one of the trumpters on Buglers Holiday by Leroy Anderson. He also was the lead trumpet for the theme for Death Valley Days TV shows. I think he might be next to Bunny but not 100% sure.
@@kristyskirt9015 The piece is called Song of India and was actually written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov from his opera called Sadko which premiered in Moscow in 1898. That is where the haunting melody comes from but of course Nik the Russian didn’t swing it!
One of the greatest tracking shots ever, even for Warner Brothers, finishing with the sweeping pan timed precisely to the puff of smoke from the tuxedo dude.
You can almost tell at 2:15 the one bartender glances up at the band then walks toward the other bartender (his pal) and says "Ziggy" as his pal looks up with a glorious smile of enjoyment.
My dad loved this music. He was in his teens and 20’s in its heyday, and we were blessed that he introduced it to us. I would love to go back in a Time Machine to one of those clubs. But I would outlaw cigarettes ;)!
circular breathing isn't necessary on India...I've been playing the Dorsey book for 50 years and a Solotone allows me to conserve and focus my breath..it isn't that difficult when you've got trombone lungs
Hermosa melodia me encanta que recuerdo tan lindo con quien llegue a bailar estos bailes tan elegantes gracias y felicidades por la persona que subió este video
Amazing bit of direction and cinematography as our attention is taken from the outside marquis to following two patrons into the establishment then panning a number of other customers until as our attention is piqued we finally see the mighty Dorsey organization in top form performing one of their major hits that brought them fame and fortune.
The bullhides and bullhorns and the men wearing their hats at table make it clear you are in the Far West. The music is splended. The time between the two great wars, especially before September, 1939 is a romantic time in America. I know a lot of people were still trying to recover from the great economic depression, so it wasn't so rosy for them; but the economy was recovering, the nation was at peace, and people like Dorsey were making the fine music of the swing era. Americans who were fighting the second European war (later Word War) in the century and their families surely looked back on the days of peace and economic recovery with nostalgia.
I play this with "Last of the Summer Wind", a Bolton UK based dance band (average age 80 years), We play this proper music for our own enjoyment. I use an identical tube mute with my Benge trombone.
Probably the apex of the American civilization - as a people we truly had our act together. And the look on drummer Buddy Rich's face says he knows it.
+lcs1956 Can't agree enough. Culturally, we were ripe in the 40's I was born in the mid 60's and I've seen nothing but constant societal upheaval and turmoil.
I'm guessing this is from a little seen movie he was in, "Las Vegas Nights" due to the customers wearing cowboy hats. This picture also marked the film debut of Frank Sinatra, who sang with the band. I really loved how Tommy and his guys were given this naturalistic presentation, giving you a real idea of what it was like to go see and hear the Dorsey orchestra back in the day.
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Peter Farrar: Tommy Dorsey's jazzy version of one of the most beautiful music classics in the world, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Song Of India," was brutally decimated by Tommy Dorsey's murderous execution of classical music of Rimsky-Kosakov. Yet, RU-vid opens viewer's comments on this r idiculous jazzy version, & bocks the outstanding & incomparable recordings by Annunzio Mantovani & Percy Faith's orchestras, that raised this most beautiful & classical music, Rimsky-Korsakov's "Song Of India," to supreme heavenly heights. This injustice by YT is beyound all comprehension. Words of disgust by Peter E. Farrar.
TOMMY DORSEY WAS A GREAT TROMBONIST BUT SORTA NOT A JAZZ PLAYER, MORE OF A MELODY MAN ON A VERY TOUGH INSTRUMENT. JACK TEAGARDEN OR J.J.JOHNSON WERE JAZZ PLAYERS.
Tommy happened to be an excellent jazz trombonist! He chose to play the sweet style that he originated...but he could stand toe to toe with any trombonist on ANY type of playing...and everyone knew that...with the possible exception of you....if you doubt that, listen to some of the 'Clambake 7'.....
In the original studio recording of Song of India, yes. A lot of these movie songs are "lip-synced" with the original recording used in the sound track, and it shows when you watch closely. This one, though, doesn't look like one of those, unless Tommy Dorsey is a sync magician with the trombone slide. And Berigan was long gone from TD's band by 1941. IMDb's full cast lists the clarinetist (Johnny Mince) and the drummer (Buddy Rich), but no Bunny. I'm just guessing, though. I wondered, too.
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9 dislikes....now let me see...........I'm trying to picture these 9 people..........oh, I know; disgruntled, no friends, short, loin-challenged, lost to mediocre 2018 so-called pop, partially deaf, no girl/boy friends, phone fiddlers........nothing a good analyst couldn't sort out.
+Martin Boyer . Dear Martin, Hello from Brazil! I believe in recarnation too, and I believe that I lived in those days too, and with others gerat leaders of big bands such as Glenn Miller, Harry James, Benny Goodman.This kind of music is great , yesterdey, today and tomorrow.God bless you
I have the same belief ..... I believe I was a soldier in London before D day . I have danced to this in some club in London during WW II ... I I first heard it when I was 10 ... and I went into a kind of trance and I get a warm feeling when hear it Can't explain it any other way ....
Well, I hate to be "a party pooper".... but Buddy Rich, though talented, was NEVER my favorite! He just couldn't keep his mouth shut at times----look how he ruined one of Artie Shaw's recordings of Carioca. He was so noisy that the music couldn't be heard!
