Word: ellington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sioux Sue. Both are original compositions by Ray, and show the fine melodic sense that produced Cherokee ... Ray McKinley's fireworks take the spotlight on Will Bradley's Lonesome Road (COLUMBIA). If you like flash drums you can't go wrong on this ... Latest Columbia reissues feature a Duke Ellington album, which includes classics like Drop Me Off At Harlem and Lazy Rhapsody, plus an article on the Duke by John Hammond, who is billed as "America's Greatest Jazz Authority." They're wrong, he's the second greatest. I'm the greatest ... Bela Bartok's Contrasts For Violin, Piano...
...vocals with some fine muted trombone. Also heard are Charlie Christians, Benny Goodman's electric guitar technician, and Edmond Hall, one of the most unappreciated clarinetists in the business. Record is ideal for both dancers and jazz fiends ... Lexa Egon May (a woman) tells us all about Duke Ellington in a letter to the current Down Beat ... "Ellington music is an unearthly melodiousness, full of poignancy and melancholy, wailing of unfulfilled longings, futile suspirations, fugitive ecstacies, insuperable barriers, self-conscious revolt and perilous triumphs, rising to a crescendo of delirious abandon, then diminishing to a wistful despondency, whispering...
...delicate Basic piano solo (OKEH) ... Best Five O'clock Whistle of the week is by Will Bradley (COLUMBIA). Ray McKinley and Doc Goldberg scat their way through the novelty vocal, and Bradley takes a swell trombone ride with a tom-tom backing... Johnny Hodges steals the show on Duke Ellington's Warm Valley (VICTOR), a slow, dreamy tune, arrangement of which is remarkably unpretentious. Reverse, The Flaming Sword, says "fox-trot" on the label, but just try dancing to it, and the elaborate rhythmic patterns will have you giving out on the old one-two-three-kick... Lionel Hampton...
...think Barnet has shown any bad taste whatsoever in basting his style on the Duke's. True, his recordings of Ellington tunes are inferior, as most imitations are; but they're far from being "cheap and disgusting." Barnet has a more-than-adequate swing band whose reed and brass sections are clean and well-balanced, and whose rhythm section can really jump when it wants. There's nothing in the Barnet make-up that would cause him to harm the music created by a man whose work he has always admired and respected. Don't worry, Charlie knows what constitutes...
...irreparable injury to the cause of reputable, heartfelt jazz." This is all based on the fact that Charlie Barnet "has had the colossal bad taste to ape the one inimitable band around today and the result is something cheap and disgusting." Needless to-say, the "inimitable band" is Duke Ellington...