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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Debussy: Rhapsody for Clarinet (Benny Goodman with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, conducted by John Barbirolli; Columbia; 2 sides; $1). Clarinetist Goodman tootles iridescent Debussy with proper subtlety, but the recording is poor...
...riff number entitled Alreet, a phrase currently popular with the Lindy's set. Mediocre arrangement is saved by Krupa's background drumming and more of Anita O'Day's vocal (OKEH) . . . Half the Count Basie rhythm section (Jo Jones and the Count himself) are featured with the Benny Goodman sextet on I've Found A New Baby. Jones' drumming is superb, and well supported by Artic Bernstein on string bass. The reverse, Breakfast Feud, contains some tenor sax which shows Georgie Auld to be improving by leaps and bounds. There are few white tenor sax which shows Georgie Auld...
...stuck away down low? Which way does a young girl turn when her arms both yearn and her lips both burn with a well-known glow? Ah, lackaday, how do I say to you which way they go? This week Composer Bennett performs a clarinet concerto dedicated to Benny Goodman, who once played under him in a theatre orchestra. Next week: repetition of an earlier "music-box opera," based on the ballad Clementine. The week after: a musical setting of a letter from an angry radio listener, and (not by Mr. Bennett) a 45-second song based on a phrase...
Your favorite jazz clarinetist must be either Benny Goodman or Artie Shaw, and don't let anybody tell you different. After all, they're big-time band leaders. Benny is the King of Swing, as everyone knows, and Artie Shaw plays high notes and was married to Lana Turner. You have no other choice. Edmond Hall is a rather unassuming colored musician who has been playing around for some time now, with a lot of bands you hear uptown, like Claude Hopkins and Billy Hioks. These days Hall is working with Red Allen's band down at Cafe Society...
...Williams, Eddie Dougherty); Pete Johnson and Joe Turner on Roll 'Em Pete; and the two-sided Boogie-Woogie Prayer, featuring Johnson, Ammons, and Meade Lux Lewis. These records are vastly superior to the ones put out in the older Decca Album . . . Cootie Williams plays trumpet and sings on Benny Goodman's COLUMBIA recording of Let the Door Knob Hitoha. Cootie's vocal is fine, but just try and figure out the lyrics. Reverse is Perfidia, and the arrangement of this tune makes it excellent for dancing. I don't know whether or not these sides were made since Dave Tough...