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Brahms: Second Sonata in E Flat for Clarinet and Piano (Benny Goodman and Nadia Reisenberg; Columbia, 6 sides). Brahms at his banal worst; Goodman at his technical best...
From his appearance one would hardly guess that Edmond Hall has been playing jazz clarinet as long as anyone in the business and can remember when the Methusalah of the trumpet, Bunk Johnson, was still a youngster. As a matter of fact, he says, Bunk wasn't one of the big boys even in the days when he still had his own teeth. Buddy Petit, Freddy Keppard and Joe Oliver were the real trumpet kings...
...Eldridge, who makes his trumpet sound like a clarinet, and Trummy Young, whose trombone sounds like a trumpet, should provide interesting music from a technical point of view...
Their style is a draggy, lush melodic line trimmed with Elliot's piano solos. For sugar-spinning, the band has a symphonic wind section (bassoon, oboe, French horn, English horn and clarinet) which Elliot calls a Woodwindtette. Says he: "We're trying to get more classical sounds. That way we get a sort of purple mood. Overseas the kids loved wild razzmatazz. But now they're back, they want sweet music. They just want to put their arm around their gal friend and romance slowly. Let's not kid ourselves, that's why they like...
Featured on tonight's broadcast will be the Brahms Clarinet Sonata, Opus 120, No. 1, and Schumann's Fantasie-stuck No. 3 for clarinet and piano. Lee will accompany Archie Johnson '50, clarinetist...