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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cool (the bands of Jimmy McPartland and Dizzie Gillespie; M-G-M album). Four tunes played in strenuous alternation by Trumpeter McPartland's hot Dixielanders and Gillespie's bopsters. The predictable upshot: the cool school does best with the harmonic complexities of How High the Moon, the Dixielanders with the basic chords of Indiana. But both manage to give the oldtime Muskrat Ramble a fine bounce...
...Album (Sun. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Robert Newton, Myron McCormick and Melville Cooper in Mr. Glencannon Takes All, directed by Sir Cedric Hardwicke...
...Album (Sun. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Paul Douglas in Justice. Beginning a new dramatic series...
...rest of the cast that the show is playing to standing room, sold out for the next 5 weeks and orders have been taken for as far ahead as New Year's Eve. Decca Records is snowed under with 100,000 advance orders for the Wonderful Town album-a bigger advance sale than was chalked up by the hit albums of Oklahoma!, Carousel Guys and Dolls, or The King...
...show that jazz can be a two-way street, RCA Victor has now imported some from Italy, Sweden and England to launch a new album series, Around the World in Jazz (3 LPs). As might be expected, the Roman New Orleans Jazz Band sticks to Dixieland, noodles around happily with such authentic material as Muskrat Ramble, St. James Infirmary and Tin Roof Blues. Stockholm's Arne Domnerus and Orchestra take a page out of Charlie Parker's bop book. Two English bands play in the old razzle-dazzle style of Ted Lewis. Chief merit of all three importations...