| Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal,
November 16, 1999 Peter J. Levinson's "Trumpet Blues," the biography of Harry James, goes a long way toward setting the record straight....he supplies ample evidence that Harry James was a staggeringly gifted trumpeter whose taste for sweet pop tunes like "You Made Me Love You" was more than offset by the ferocity with which he tore into such hard-charging jazz originals as "Life Goes to a Party" or "Friar Rock". read more |