Ted Heath Plays Tadd Dameron

The U.S. had Glenn Miller and Stan Kenton. The U.K. had Ted Heath, who combined both sounds. Born in 1902, Heath played trombone in jazz bands from the 1920s through the mid-1940s, when he formed his own big band on D-Day in 1944. Inspired by Miller's Army Air Force Band, with its precision and dramatic moodiness, Heath grew in popularity after the war,…