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...Harlow's ('41) imitation of Bix Beiderbecke at the Sanders Theater Tuesday evening was very well done. Considering the handicaps under which the band was working, the evening was a success . . . Harry James starts half way through "One O'Clock Jump," and ends up playing "Two O'Clock Jump" (Brunswick). The brass section plays too softly. Just a bit louder, and one could do away with the chapel bell . . . Asked Joe Jones, Count Basie's drummer, the other day how he could stand playing the pop tunes that all bands must. Reply was "Ah just leans back and Ah thinks...
...leaves the company, taking with him Tommy Dorsey, Art Shaw, Larry Clinton, Sammy Kaye, and Dick Todd to form a new record company to be known as Discs Incorporated. General feeling in the industry is that this will seriously impair the Victor line, observes pointing to the atrophy of Brunswick records after Jack Kapp left in 1934, taking Guy Lombardo, Casa Loma, the Dorsey brothers, and other along to form Decca Records...
Many feel also that the new line will fail because the bands involved are at or past their peak, and all new material has been pretty well sewed up by Decca and the rejuvenated Columbia Broadcasting Co.-Brunswick outfit. Signs of the intense competition brewing can be seen in the plans of the latter to keep its thirty-five cent Vocalion line, drop the price of Brunswick labels to fifty cents, and put the Columbia classical series out at seventy-five cents. Looks as though the record public is going to be able to just sit around and have better...
...Scott's compositions. The second, done in boogie-woogie tempo is better, but shows that Teddy Wilson can't play this style . . . To find why many musicians like Red Norvo's band, listen to "I Get Along Without You Very. Well" (Vocation) . . . Teddy Wilson's "More Than You Know" (Brunswick) with Billie Holiday vocal and Benny Carter alto sax has that proper feeling that goes into a real swing record . . . Made three days before she started to sing regularly with the band, Helen O'Connell's first record with Jimmy Dorsey (Decca) "Romance Runs In The Family," is an excellent...
...Heart Belongs To Daddy (Mary Martin; Brunswick). The ingenue discovery of the Broadway season sings, while Eddy Duchin's band plays, a good Cole Porter tune from Leave...