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...long been looking hungrily at records. The business was a jungle full of small fry (some 230 manufacturers), lorded over by Victor. Decca and Columbia. The fry was numerous enough and appetizing enough to make Leo's mouth water. With 5,000,000 record-players (including 500,000 jukeboxes) in use throughout the U.S., the industry sold 287 million records in 1946, expects to do nearly twice as well...
Jazz Concert at Eddie Condon's (Decca, 8 sides) New 52nd Street Jazz (Victor, 8 sides). Condon's old guard (Max Kaminsky, Billy Butterfield, Pee Wee Russell and others) doggedly play The Sheik of Araby, Atlanta Blues, etc., Chicago style, circa 1928. The initiated will prefer it to Dizzy Gillespie's "bebopping" in the 52nd Street album...
September Song; Just a Gigolo (Joe Mooney Quartet, Decca, 2 sides). The first record by the quietly unorthodox new jazz group which became an instant success in Manhattan (TIME...
Stravinsky: Petrouchka (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ernest Ansermet conducting; Decca Record Co., Ltd., 10 sides). One of the first of English Decca's FFRR (Full Frequency Range Records) albums to be distributed in the U.S. Its reproduction is brilliant...
Khachaturian: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Moura Lympany with the London Symphony Orchestra; Decca, 8 sides). A flashy piece by Russia's No. 3 composer (after Prokofiev and Shostakovich), also FFRR...