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...Jazz Me Blues; Vol. II (Bix and Tram) contains his most famous solos (Singin' the Blues, I'm Cornin' Virginia) and happy teamwork with Saxophonist Frank Trumbauer; Vol. Ill (Whiteman Days) has appealing solos by Bix and Bing Crosby, buried in a large dose of "symphonic" dross...
...first complete recording of Gershwin's jazz classic reveals that the work does not add up to the sum of its memorable parts. Summertime, I Got Plenty o' Nuttin', It Ain't Necessarily So still sparkle like diamonds, but in an ocean of dross. Recording: excellent...
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross...
...chief magistrate if the state cannot otherwise be preserved," and a Harvard graduation became one of the first sounding boards for the American Revolution. Now, very much as two hundred years ago, a lot of people look to the Harvard Yard on the second Thursday of June. The dross and the libations have been diverted to other days of the year; the original austerity of the exercises remains...
...Western ears, it was the most dissonant thing he had ever written. It was a letter of penitent thanks to the party for "the assistance which it is giving me to correct my mistakes" (TIME, Feb. 23). Wrote he: "The committee decision separates the gold from the dross in the composer's work. However painful this may be for a number of composers, including myself, I welcome the decision...