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...barrel phrases was a hitherto obscure drummer named Lindley Armstrong ("Spike") Jones. Jones, whose band, The City Slickers, first recorded Der Fuehrer's Face, found himself suddenly thrust up among the top U.S. bandleaders. Until then "Spike" had been modestly playing what he calls "society music" (jazzed up Chopin and Debussy) at Los Angeles' Jonathan Club. Now he is being fought over by several Hollywood studios, is already signed up for a Warner Brothers musical called Thank Your Lucky Star. Says "Spike" of this sudden burst of popularity: "Gee, the prices are getting so high I have...
...shapely brown shoulders and a round, roguish face, framed in a triangle of white light, showed above the grand piano's shining ebony. From the keyboard Chopin's Minute Waltz flowed fleetly, ripplingly. For a while it surged along according to Chopin. Then watchers saw an impish flicker of a smile, an insinuating movement of a shoulder. Came the first suggestion of a hot lick; another, and another. Then Hazel Scott began to "break it down," and was off in a wild mélange of pianistics, sweet, hot, Beethoven and Count Basic...
...Chopin: Fifteen Waltzes (Alexander Brailowsky, pianist; Victor; 14 sides). Russian-born Brailowsky, who has given marathon performances of every note of Chopin's 169 pieces, plays these nervous, undanceable dances with great dash and glitter...
...Chopin: Twelve Etudes, Opus 25 (Edward Kilenyi, pianist; Columbia; 6 sides). The famed Winter Wind, and other studies in their first complete edition, played fleetly, skin-deeply by a handsome young man who has yet to fulfill early promises...
Artur Rubinstein looks mild but he at tacks the piano with the gusto of a man who says: "I prefer to die younger than to sniff around living." In London in 1937 he recorded the 56 Chopin mazurkas at one continuous sitting. A prodigious talker, he smokes fine cigars, was for years a lady-killing bachelor ("I am 99% interested in women"). Rubinstein's bachelorhood ended nine years ago when he married Nela Mlynarski, a Lithuanian. Before she was born her father had conducted at a War saw concert whose soloist was 15-year-old Artur Rubinstein...