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...Goofed. In Chicago, after a federal agent had spent six months talking bop language to win his confidence before arresting him as a narcotics peddler, Willie Hill, 32, commented: "I'm real down. Here I thought that cat was the coolest. He turned out to be nowhere...
...middle of the road, too. Svend Asmussen and His Unmelancholy Danes contains some swinging close harmony (Yes, Sir, That's My Baby} that goes right back to the Rhythm Boys of early Whiteman days. But Leader Asmussen plays his fiddle like Oldtimer Joe Venuti with a bop goatee, and a fellow named Max Leth dishes up some imaginative vibes and piano...
Whatever Lola Wants (Sarah Vaughan; Mercury). Longtime top Bop Stylist Vaughan gone pop. The song, from Broadway's latest, Damn Yankees (see THEATER), is a fine, cynical tropical slink, and Sarah's husky tone suits it to the floor...
...much violence in a schoolroom in the course of two hours might be a little hard to swallow if the boys were not undeniably credible. But they are. Their bop-talk their clothes, their faces, will be waiting right outside the theatre's entrance when you leave...
...sometimes I get the tingle from schmalz." Occasionally, the tingle is replaced by a cringe. Says Liebman: "I cringe at bad taste, at inept jokes, at sloppiness or any lack of fastidiousness." This season Liebman cringed during rehearsals of his swing production of Pinafore "because it was too bop. We had the contemporary beat but we had lost Gilbert & Sullivan." Once in a while, Liebman tingles but the viewers don't-they dialed away in droves during his 20-minute performance of the New York City Ballet's Filling Station. Since that disaster he has kept the dances...