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...Lamp is Low (Mildred Bailey; Vocalion), another tuneful theft from the semi-classics-this time from Ravel's solemn Pavan for a Dead Princess. Tommy Dorsey has made a dancier version for Victor...
Lunceford, in the opinion of most musicians, ranks with Red Norvo and Jimmy Dorsey as having one of the best all around bands in the country. His band is deservedly noted for the manner in which they play their tunes--great precision and timing, but still maintaining a solid Kansas City swing. Most unusual feature of the band is the rhythm in which they play a great many of their slow selections--a type of bounce style that never is as tiring as the Goodman four-four "smack." As to what bounce is, combine the sensations of riding over...
...shop in New York City. Come, gentlemen, a little reciprocal trade between Harvard, what? Fuller knows his stuff about records, and from what I can hear about the trips he has been making he has a lot of good rare stock on hand . . . Helen O'Connell, Jimmy Dorsey's singer, goes to RKO in Hollywood at the end of the year...
...trumpet, listen to some of his vocals--things like "Nobody Knows De Trouble I've Seen" (Decca)--and despite the complete absence of anything even resembling the usual human singing voice, you'll get an idea of simplicity and sincere, deep emotion that'll make the Clinton-Shaw-Dorsey school of riffing look extremely sick...
...Jimmy Dorsey; Decca). For the hot library, especially notable for a fine trombone obbligato (by Bobby Byrne) behind the concluding solo...