Word: disks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chet Baker (Pacific Jazz LP). Young (24) Baker, of California's cool school, is popping out like the measles. One record, Chet Baker Ensemble, features furious, close work by a small group; they play mostly original exercises with such titles as Ergo, Bockhanal and Pro Defunctus. Another disk, Chet Baker Sings, has eight old standards, e.g., But Not for Me, The Thrill Is Gone, I Get Along Without You Very Well, Look for the Silver Lining, crooned by Baker in a light, untrained voice that nevertheless has a moving quality. His soft, appealing trumpet is heard...
Some 374 U.S. radio stations now broadcast special programs to sell to Negroes. Some employ Negro disk jockeys to chat about Negro social life and play records (mostly jazz, spirituals and blues) that Negro fans request...
Away from the path of totality, the sun will seem to shine almost as brightly as usual, but if it is looked at through a dense filter (smoked glass or an overexposed photographic negative), it will show a bite taken out of its disk. At St. Louis the moon will cover a maximum 85% of the sun's surface, at New York 74%, at Columbia, S.C. 65%. Total time between the beginning and the end of the unusual show will be about two hours...
...cakes and expanded the record department. As they found need for more room, the brothers set up separate Super Music City stores (three of them by now). When they did not have the right records to sell in their stores, they set up their own recording firm, Super Disk (which now releases through M-G-M Records), and their own record warehouse for jukebox operators, Super One-Stop Record Service. In 1949 they set up their own booking service, Super Attractions, and a year later went in for staging their own shows...
...audiences for records by making music "painless." Among his other recent projects: a series of almost featureless "mood music" (TIME, Feb. 22), e.g., "Music to Read By," "Music to Help You Sleep," and a 2 min. 52 sec. orchestral condensation of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata for the disk-jockey trade. Such popularizations, some serious musicians feel, kill not only the pain but the music...