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...guitar-player. Hereafter, he will enhance it as a versatile entertainer. To pick my favorite cut on this album would be absolutely impossible. The title song and "Jugband Song" show off Bromberg's sense of humor both in performing and writing. Some Irish fiddle tunes and "Sugar in the Gourd" give him a chance to display his guitar and mandolin-playing talents. His "Tennessee Waltz" is as kind to the old standard as any singer's rendition could be, and his version of "Mr. Bojangles"--half-singing, half-storytelling--is the first genuinely moving version of this ballad...
...perfectly rendered fifties version of Erroll Garner's "Misty." Slightly electrified, the song was a magnificent example of transplanted, uptempo, fifties nightclub jazz. The bass line walked brilliantly and the piano fills and the piano solo could've come from the late show at Birdland. And Van's gourd, subtle vocal would have made King Cote proud...
...apostate pitcher. He has also shown enterprise in covering late-evening feature stories. The WABC drama and film critic, however, is a lightweight named John Schubeck, who gets regularly outclassed by WNBC's Edwin Newman. Television being television, Schubeck is aided by his looks: "Women lose their gourd over John," explains Primo...
...keel." From the Biblical injunction, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," it is only a short and negotiable step to an old saying of the Nandi tribe in East Africa: "A goat's hide buys a goat's hide and a gourd a gourd...
After this version was published in England last fall (TIME, Nov. 3), Graves was attacked not only for trying to break the spell of the famed passages ("A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou" became "one mancel loaf, a haunch of mutton and a gourd of wine set for us two alone"), but also for making some scholarly blunders of his own. L. P. Elwell-Sutton, an Orientalist at Edinburgh University, maintained that the manuscript used by Ali-Shah and Graves was "a clumsy forgery." Replied Graves: "Howling nonsense." The quarrel may never be resolved, since Graves...