Charlie Shavers: Blue Stompin'

It's fun measuring jazz trumpeters on the heat scale. Imagine Chat Baker and Bix Beiderbecke all the way over on the cool left end and guys like Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw on the other end. You can almost plot all trumpeters along this line. In the case of Charlie Shavers, I'd put him to the right of center—just to left of Harry James and Fats Navar…