Word: clef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Artistry of Stan Getz (Clef LP). The famed West Coast jazzman and Co. warbling some strangely appealing dissonant counterpoint. Getz's felt-toned tenor sax blends humorously with a valve trombone...
Dizzie Gillespie with Strings (Clef LP). Bop Trumpeter Gillespie, backed by the Paris Opera-Comique Orchestra, plays with appealing simplicity and delivers some startling riffs, but is given a poor recording...
Django Reinhardt (Clef LP). French jazz in the modern manner, played by Paris' late guitar favorite and his combo. Softer in texture and drive than U.S. jazz, the selections still have authentic jazz feeling. Included: a frothy little number called Blues...
Oscar Peterson Collates, No. 2 (Clef LP). Unquenchable Jazz Pianist Peterson plays eight numbers, turns a new facet in every one. In tameless he is a firm-footed bopster a la Lennie Tristano; in Until the Real Thing Comes Along he chuckles along like a latter-day Fats Waller; his How High the Moon is rhythmically soulful, with fistfuls of notes; he toys with I Get a Kick Out of You like a playful kitten...