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Satchmo at Pasadena (Louis Armstrong and the All Stars; Decca LP). This is the third jumbo-size recording of the old master's popular outfit recorded at a live concert. By no means the best he has done (both Decca and Victor have shown the All Stars in better form), it is the liveliest album of the week. Armstrong's trumpeting is bright and strong, his gravelly voice as ingratiatingly ribald as ever, and the old songs (Stardust, Honeysuckle Rose, etc.) are still good...
...Valencia, voice; Westminster). The guitar is one instrument that sounds better on records than in the concert hall, and flamenco music, with its sensuality and its thumping outbursts, is the guitar's most exciting province. The vocal parts add an Oriental flavor. An Andrés Segovia Recital (Decca) is a more reflective guitar record: the soloist specializes in pure versions of Bach, Schubert and Mendelssohn...
Hooray for Captain Spaulding (Groucho Marx; Decca LP). Six zany songs by the team of Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, best known for such ditties as Three Little Words. Groucho's audible leer, set off by a barbershop quintet, works over Omaha, Nebraska, Dr. Hackenbush and the immortal Show Me a Rose ("Or leave me alone...
...Waited a Little Too Long (Trudy Richards and Artie Shaw; Decca). A high-pressure blues song, a vocal in Ella Fitzgerald style, and a big, swinging band. But if Clarinetist Shaw is aboard at all, he is playing too softly to be heard...
Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F, K. 370 (Harold Gomberg, with members of the Galimar Quartet; Decca). Soloist Gomberg models his phrases with an elegance that would have delighted Mozart himself. The strings are shadowed somewhat, but play well...