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...bloom amid the weeds, with the Louis Armstrong Earl Hines album perhaps the best of a satisfying list including a couple of old Teddy Wilsons and Decca's third Gems of Jazz set, which may have escaped someone's notice over the summer. Victor has been producing a Duke Ellington coupling every week or two. 'Twas said Ben Webster's Kansas City tenor sax wouldn't fit in with the highly sophisticated Ellington arrangements, but Duke is building backgrounds for Ben to improvise against, and on "Just a-Settin' and a-Rockin'." Ben takes off to his heart...
...Piano (Victor album). Four of the best-"Duke" Ellington, "Fats" Waller, Earl Hines, "Jelly Roll" Morton-display their celebrated styles, mostly in new versions of staples like Solitude and Dear Old Southland...
...Soon (Duke Ellington; Decca). Vocal by honey-voiced Mildred Bailey, with Herman Chittison and Dave Barbour accompanying on the piano and guitar...
...term "swing" has a hard job ahead of him in deciding what he shall include in his definition of the word. For clearly there is plenty of open ground between the swing which is linked with sway by S. Kaye and that swing which, according to Duke Ellington, "It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got." There will certainly be more potential readers who have danced to the strains of Kaye and others of his ilk than have heard much of the Duke's music. Hence it might be argued that I should play down...
Last week CBS gave listeners a chance to hear some of the superb talent that few advertisers dare to sponsor. From Montreal came the rich voice of Marian Anderson, from Hollywood the mean rhythms of Duke Ellington, from Manhattan one of the jaunty routines of the world's No. i tap dancer, Bill Robinson. Among others who crowded a lively hour were Trumpeter Louis Armstrong, Actor Canada Lee (see p. 76), Violinist Eddie South. Of all the performers only three had sponsored berths in radio: Eddie Anderson, the Rochester of the Jack Benny show, Band Leader John Kirby...