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...recording dates, and contributor to this column, has made arrangements to do a series of "Jazzmen" programs every Thursday night at 9 o'clock over the Crimson Network. For the next three weeks, starting this Thursday, S/Sgt. Avakian will discuss the Chicago Jazz Album which he did for Decca three years ago, taking it session by session, and showing the development of the musicians, styles, and numbers involved. Recorded music is entirely different from live music, and with a man like George Avakian running things, the "Jazzmen" series should prove just as exciting, in its own way, as the Lowell...
...band. She wrote most of its arrangements, and many of them (Roll 'em, Froggy Bottom, etc.) are classics among jazz players. One week she got down 15 scores and, all told, she provided the Clouds of Joy with 200. With them she has made dozens of Decca records...
Cracks were opening this week in A.F. of M. Boss Petrillo's dam against phonograph recording (TIME, June 22, 1942). Decca records tried a new wrinkle. Decca's idea was to have vocal soloists accompanied, not by the usual dance band, but by an all-vocal (hence nonunion) ensemble. Decca issued two trial records by Vocalist Dick Haymes with singing support: It Can't Be Wrong and In My Arms; You'll Never Know and Wait For Me Mary. Columbia, working on a similar plan, was about to release two orchestra-less Sinatra recordings...
Other albums, the Decca Chicago Album, and the Bud Freeman album of the old Wolverine numbers of Bix Beiderbecke, are living proofs of the non-existence of true Chicago style since its decline at the beginning of the thirties. The present-day Chicagoans, Bud Freeman, Jimmy McPartland, Eddie Condon, Pee-wee Russell, Joe Sullivan, George Wettling, and all the rest have stuck together, but their music is not a style...
Then again, the Brunswick records are twenty five cents more cache, and the surfaces are the same miserable Decca surfaces. In addition, three titles are duplicated in the two albums though the performances are different: "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo," "The Mooche," and "Mood Indigo," The first two should be in every collection because of Bubber Miley's fabulous growl trumpet...