Word: lp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Musicians-as musicians-will little note nor long remember Columbia's LP Album No. ML 4975. It will neither change the hit-parade standings nor set hi-finatics atweeting and awoofing. For the most part Marlene Dietrich at the Cafe de Paris is little more than a collection of musical memories, taped directly from the floor amid the tinkle and clatter of a London nightclub performance almost a year ago, and sung, not always on key, by a middle-aged entertainer who has been around for some time. Yet, here, in the familiar laryngitic murmur of a voice...
Other new pop records: Brubeck Time (Columbia LP). The Dave Brubeck Quartet in a rare, formal studio recording. Saxophonist Paul Desmond is in top form in the tender Audrey, and Pianist Brubeck delivers an angry, driving solo in Stomping for Mili,* while that fine rhythm section sizzles in the background...
Herbie Mann (Bethlehem LP). A good cool flute is rare, but Flutist Mann plays one with a light, swinging accompaniment (drums, bass, guitar...
Moans & Blues (Lizzie Miles; Cook LP). Some authentic rhythm-and-blues singing fresh from a New Orleans nightspot. Chanter Miles, sixtyish, sounds like a little girl in Lazy River, and at least half her age in Ain't Gonna Give You None of My Jelly Roll (". . . Pas un petit morceau de mon gateau" she chortles in the second chorus). Best item: Plain Ole Blues, a cumulative band number to which the irrepressible Lizzie adds a polytonal obbligato...
...Octet (Lennie Niehaus; Contemporary LP). Some entrancing counterpoint, arranged by West Coast Alto Saxophonist Niehaus...