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...reissue of Dickie Wells Blues, cut a few years ago in Europe. It's just a slow blues from bone solo with rhythm backing, but Dickie has a wealth of ideas, and plays with great feeling. Reverse is Bill Coleman Blues, with Coleman on the trumpet backed by guitarist Django Reinhardt. Trumpet is muted all the way through, and the music is at once restrained in attack yet powerful in beat(despite the one-man rhythm section). . . Glenn Miller's Song of the Volga Boatmen (BLUEBIRD) is probably going to be a terrific hit in juke-box circles...