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...Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. The best news for swing fans since that occasion is Columbia's new album: Jazz Concert No. 2-a transcription of 37 tunes performed by Goodman and his gang on radio programs in 1937-38. The gang is all there-Gene Krupa on the drums, Harry James on the trumpet, Teddy Wilson at the piano, and Goodman, of course, on the clarinet. Fully warmed up and stimulated by cheering jitterbugs, they play with a brashness rarely caught on records. Among the best numbers: Bugle Call Rag, Shine, Time on My Hands...
...brass gongs. At the foot of the temple steps, two men sat and fluttered butterfly fingers against tubular drums. The music of a Balinese gamelan can clang steel-hard or chime gold-soft, Manhattanites discovered -and the rhythm was as exact and exciting as a drum solo by Gene Krupa...
...Benny Goodman Trio (Columbia LP). The King of Swing gets together for the first time in 13 years with Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa to help out his old arranger, ailing Fletcher Henderson. The ensemble sounds surprisingly spry, playing such old favorites as Body and Soul, After You've Gone, Honeysuckle Rose...
...Victor; 10 LP singles). The third installment of a big selection of vintage jazz, reissued on LP, often in recordings that sound better than the originals (less surface noise, etc.). Titles of individual records: Benny Goodman Trio (Clarinetist Goodman, Pianist Teddy Wilson, Drummer Gene Krupa); Lionel Hampton; Earl Hines-Bitty Eckstine; Metronome All-Star Bands; Sidney Bechet; Jelly-Roll Morton; McKinney's Cotton Pickers; Great Trumpet Artists (Louis Armstrong, Bunny Berigan, Roy Eldridge, Bix Beiderbecke, Bunk Johnson, Dizzy Gillespie); Great Tenor Sax Artists (Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, Bud Freeman, Illinois Jacquet, Ben Webster, Charlie Ventura); Artie Shaw Favorites...
...thing," says Benny, "it would take a little digging to find a band like that today. To get Harry James you'd have to call him from Hollywood. Gene Krupa used to make our tops-$165 a week. Now he has his own band. Remember Gordon Griffin, our third trumpet man? . . . We used to throw him a bone once in a while; now he's probably making $600 a week. Another thing: in those days jazz was not a big business like it is today. You never really had a manager in those days. Today you have...