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...somehow there's nothing particularly inspiring. Good for dancing, though...Goodman's new outfit will start a flock of one-nighters about Nov. 10. He'll be within driving distance and probably worth going to see. A not-so-wild rumor says Cootie Williams will be with him. Ellington's loss is Goodman's gain, but I can't see Cootie with anyone but the Duke...Record of the week is Special Delivery Stomp by Artie Shaw's Gramercy Five (VICTOR). Featured is Billy Butterfield, whose muted trumpet beats Muggsy at his own game. Also heard are Johnny Guarneri, playing...
...comes from Eugene Cedric's tenor sax, on My Mommie Sent Me To The Store, a BLUEBIRD recording by Fats Waller. . . . Charlie Barnet's arrangement of Night and Day (BLUEBIRD), gives new life to the old tune. The reverse, Wild Mab of the Fish Pond, features some very super-Ellington orchestration. . . . Latest on the New Goodman band: Earl Hines on piano. Keep you fingers crossed
...WILKINS-ELLINGTON Vancouver...
...Detroit, soft-spoken Negro Bandleader Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington announced that after five years he had finished composing Boola, a three-hour opera on "the authentic history of the American Negro.'' Said Ellington, "You can't play swing forever...
Constantly goading Baiter to put a sting into his punches is hard-boiled Neal Ivey of Philadelphia's Ivey & Ellington, which handles the Phillies account. Ivey, who signed up Baiter for Phillies, wires complaints when Baiter sounds soft. Sample of the stuff Ivey likes to hear: "How does horse racing get away with it? ... A horse comes in . . . among the also-rans in one race and in the very next he finishes so far ahead that he's through taking his shower before the place pony can even stagger home. Or vice versa. At least vice...