Word: kostalonetz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combination of the seventh column and a blessed event at the Trojan Horse's have made your reviewer feel very sheepish this morning. For it is only by some foul treachery that Andre Kostalonetz's first records for the new Green Seal Columbia could have turned out as badly as they...
...Kostalonetz has always been one of my idols and I hoped that his first records in a long while (of "Selections from Porgy and Best," "Claire De Lune," and "Pavane" by Ravel) would he up to the standard he has set on his radio program. Kosty has always had the most brilliant of the big "symphonic" Jazz bands and usually makes Mr. Whiteman look sick...
This time however, his arrangements lacked their usual sparkle. For once, you didn't have to play them over and over again to catch stray and subtle instrumental ideas. The records were pompous and grandiose, and suffered from all the bad taste of meaningless slowing of tempos, etc. that Kostalonetz usually avoids...
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