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...interesting to compare these records with the later performances by some of the players. Bunny Berigan, in particular, must be pretty envious when he listens to his work with Mildred Bailey, Bud Freeman's Windy City Five, and his own pickup band, playing with a power and assurance which he seems to have lost. Records like "Chicken Waffles" and "The Buzzard" show the way he played before he began to spend all his time groping about his shaky upper register for the edification of the assembled jitterbugs. All of which shows what years of constantly playing down to the crowd...
...made in this country several years ago for release in England. Consequently, most of them will be quite welcome to collectors now. Included in the album are two of Mildred Bailey's best couplings: Honeysuckle Rose and Willow Tree, Squeeze Me and Downhearted Blues. These four sides feature Bunny Berigan, Johnny Hodges, and Teddy Wilson...
...orchestra: Swingtime in the Rockies and I've Found a New Baby; Down South Camp Meeting; Sometimes I'm Happy and King Porter (Bunny Berigan featured on both sides); Bugle Call Rag (with some terrific Goodman clarinet); Roll 'Em (arranged by Mary Lou Williams, one of the first boogie-woogie orchestrations). By the trio: Body and Soul (with one of Teddy Wilson's best choruses); China Boy. By the Quartet: Sweet Georgia Brown...
...this one . . . "Peggy" by McKinney's Cotton Pickers--a good example of the playing of the band which introduced powerful ensemble work to jazz . . . "New Orleans Twist"--even though the arrangement is swiped from "Black Magic" which he did for Casa Loma (Brunswick), the trumpet playing of Bunny Berigan and Wingy Mannone makes this Gene Gifford worth getting...
Despite storms and other annoying little devices, Lowell House swears that Bunny Berigan and band are going to be at their dance tonight. Latest reports had Chairman Ash Campbell moaning about some spruce trees which had to be skied up to the dining hall, he having blithely persuaded the arborist to "deliver" them on Thursday, instead of Wednesday afternoon; but he promises that all will be snug and cozy, with Mr. Berigan pledged to soft and danceable tempos...