Ford Leary with Larry Clinton & His Orchestra

With a name that sounds like an abbreviated aversion to a brand of automobile, Ford Leary had a short musical career which began in the mid- '30s in New York City and ended in the late '40s at Bellevue Hospital. He is in fact the only trombonist of note to have died while under admission to that infamous institution, although listeners who dislike the trombone no doubt wish all the people that played the horn could get locked up in there. Leary was admitted to Bellevue in 1949 after having been in rotten physical shape for a long period of time. At least two years were spent a...