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...Victor; 10 LP singles). The third installment of a big selection of vintage jazz, reissued on LP, often in recordings that sound better than the originals (less surface noise, etc.). Titles of individual records: Benny Goodman Trio (Clarinetist Goodman, Pianist Teddy Wilson, Drummer Gene Krupa); Lionel Hampton; Earl Hines-Bitty Eckstine; Metronome All-Star Bands; Sidney Bechet; Jelly-Roll Morton; McKinney's Cotton Pickers; Great Trumpet Artists (Louis Armstrong, Bunny Berigan, Roy Eldridge, Bix Beiderbecke, Bunk Johnson, Dizzy Gillespie); Great Tenor Sax Artists (Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, Bud Freeman, Illinois Jacquet, Ben Webster, Charlie Ventura); Artie Shaw Favorites...
Benny Goodman and His Orchestra (Columbia, 6 sides). Welcome reissues of Goodman work when the clarinetist and his band were turning out the best in swing. Best arrangement: The Hour of Parting...
...Jazz Clarinetist Milton ("Mezz") Mezzrovv also crossed the line from white to black. Arrested by New York police for marijuana peddling, Mezzrow, whose parents were Russian Jews, asked to be confined with Negro inmates on Riker's Island. Later he wrote: "Some of the finest, most high-spirited guys of the [Negro] race landed in jail because of their conditions of life . . . I made up my mind to do something drastic. Just as we were having our pictures took for the rogues' gallery, along came Mr. Slattery, the deputy . . . 'Mr. Slattery,' I said...
When she saw Bandleader Artie Shaw in a Hollywood nightclub, she was smitten at once. At that time, the only book she had ever read was Gone With the Wind. Clarinetist Shaw (an alumnus of the New Haven High School and Manhattan's lower East Side) was not satisfied with being just a bandleader ("jitterbugs are morons"), but fancied himself as a serious musician and all-round intellectual. After he married Ava, in 1945, he set out to educate...
Mozart's tuneful Clarinet Quintet opened the program. In his divertimenti, symphonies, and particularly in this quintet, one is well aware of Mozart's skill in exploiting the distinctive tone of the woodwinds. The clarinet's warm timbre is well suited to this warm music. Clarinetist Aaron Johnson, '49, turned in a fine performance. His intonation was consistently good, and he was not at all bothered by the many big skips, including the double octaves. The rest of the ensemble, violinists Barbara Sorenson and Earl Ravenal, violist Vernon Head, and cellist Joan Brockway provided an unobtrusive accompaniment. Their tone, although...