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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permanent monument to swing" is RCA Victor's phrase for its latest jazz album, A Symposium of Swing. Its four twelve-inch discs contain selections by four swing bands: Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, "Fats" Waller, Bunny Berigan. Familiar to fans who have listened to the four in their native haunts, on the air or on records, the selections are characteristic but, to experts, not the top choices. Best disc: Benny Goodman's Sing, Sing, Sing, a free fantasia in swing, based on the tune Christopher Columbus, with Drummer Gene Krupa battering out an expert tympanic melody...
...three big U. S. phonograph record manufacturers (RCA Manufacturing Co., Decca, American Record Corp.) have been doing a steadily improving business since the abysmal days of 1933. Last week three small record companies were making good news for U. S. disc-dilettanti. Founded by earnest amateurs of music, all were operating in Manhattan, all on smallish budgets. For their material, all had gone into the byways of classical music, in some cases with such gratifying results that the big recording companies were following their lead...
Musicraft has its own small studio in Manhattan, like the other small firms farms out the pressing of its discs. Its artists include the Perole Quartet, Harpsichordists Ralph Kirkpatrick & Dr. Ernst Victor Wolff and (for future releases) Pianist Kathleen Long, able Britisher who is known among disc-collectors for her Mozart, and who made her U. S. concert debut in Manhattan last fortnight...
...three disc manufacturers of the U. S.* agreed with the A. F. of M. on a closed shop for musicians in the record industry. The manufacturers have already established in court their right as patent owners to determine how their discs may be used commercially. There was thus little sign of legal squalls ahead when the A. F. of M. last week got the manufacturers to agree that so far as coin machines are concerned, discs may not be used in any place which has ever employed musicians, or any place to which admission is charged. This restriction, however...
...Society's first reissue, out this week, is Three Blind Mice played by the Chicago Loopers, a disc full of the sad harmonics and eccentric lyrical twists characteristic of the great Chicago-style. Such masters as Beiderbecke, Frankie Trumbauer (saxophone), Carl Kress (guitar), and Don Murray (clarinet) formed the band. On the two sides of the record, the masters take turns showing what they can do with variations on the common mouse theme...