Word: deccas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest factors in keeping her name going have been the two magnificent re-issues in Decca's first Gems of Jazz album, and a fifteen minute Sunday radio program with Lou Holtz that hardly did her justice. With the last now off the air, and all but one of her Columbia records recently cut out, Mildred is represented by only eight Deccas--which the public isn't buying because of the terrible surfaces...
...hasn't Mildred recorded of late? Blame it on her integrity. She'd signed a contract with Decca largely on the strength of her two best-selling Gems of Jazz reissues, made years before for English Parlophone. She'd sung four perennial jazz numbers: "Willow Tree," "Honey-suckle Rose," "Squeeze Me," and "Downhearted Blues." Only Decca now wanted her to sing the latest. Mildred as usual wanted to make her own choices. In an up-and-coming singer it might be foolishness, but in an artist who has been on top for over ten years, who has developed...
Gems of Jazz, Volume 5 (Decca; 10 sides). Latest addition to Decca's excellent historical anthology. Selected tidbits of the best small-scale Chicago and New Orleans style playing by such immortals as Jimmie Noone, Zutty Singleton, Eddie Condon, Jimmy McPartland. Notable items: Liberty Inn Drag and Get Happy, by the orchestra of famed Pianist Art Hodes, who has not made a recording since...
...down to what little has been released lately, it is a pity that Decca, the one company that shows any interest in jazz, has the worst record surfaces. These have been improved lately, but not so that a cactus needle can approach them without a qualm. Decca's new Gams of Jazz, vol. 5, lives up to the standards set by the previous albums, and brings out the first batch of all-improvised jazz in over six months. This time, however, there are no big names like Hawkins, or Berigan. As a matter of fact, it is very probably that...
Jimmy McPartland, trumpeter in the Bix style, you've met before in the Decca Chicago Jazz Album. His two sides here, made four years before the Chicago album, are even better. Jimmie Noone, clarinetist, is known to most people only as the man who taught Benny Goodman how to play. You won't hear much Goodman, how to play. You won't hear much Goodman, but you will hear the best work Noone has ever recorded...