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Billy Ainsworth and the Bands

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Marc Myers
Jun 29, 2018
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For a brief moment in the late 1940s, trombonist Tommy Dorsey led a hip bop-hued big band. The orchestra's personnel included Charlie Shavers, Chuck Peterson, Vernon Arslan and Jack Dougherty (tp); Nick DiMaio and Dick Noel (tb); Billy Ainsworth (cl,as); Sid Cooper (as); Boomie Richman and Babe Fresk (ts); Marty Berman (bar); Paul Smith (p); Sam Herman …

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