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...Shank & Three Trombones (Pacific Jazz LP). Further adventures of West Coast jazzmen in their new instrumental colors. This one features plush sounds that should please even the cats who do not quite dig Saxophonist Shank. Titles: Valve in Head, Cool Fool, Wailing Vessel...
Jazz For People Who Hate Jazz (Victor LP). A perfectly respectable collection except for its repellent title and patronizing program notes. Includes vintage performances by Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Bunny Berigan, Count Basic...
Miss Teddi King (Storyville LP). A new jazz singer is news, and this news is good. Songstress King has a smoky-sounding voice that conveys much of jazz music's indescribable wistfulness, the birthright of Billie Holiday. Ella Fitzgerald & Co. Among her eight tunes: I Saw Stars, Love Is Here to Stay...
After three weeks of confusion, brought on when RCA Victor chopped its LP prices by about a third (TIME, Jan. 10), the record industry has settled into a recognizable pattern. Six important labels (Capitol, Columbia, Decca, London, Mercury, MGM) are meeting Victor's prices of $3.98 a 12-inch disk, with exceptions for complete operas and other particularly expensive performances. Angel, Westminster, Vox and Cook all claim special qualities for their recordings, are hewing to the original $5.95 price line. Others have agreed on a $4.98 "suggested" price. Manhattan's Sam Goody's, the major record discount...
Mozart: Oboe Concerto in C (Mitchell Miller; Saidenberg Little Symphony conducted by Daniel Saidenberg; Columbia, 1 LP). This disk is recommended as an antidote for aches and pains caused by some of Hitmaker Mitch Miller's pop creations (he is a Columbia Records executive as well as an oboist). Miller's oboe tone is sweet, his technique impeccable. In the plaintive slow movement, his sense of graceful phrasing makes Mozart sing...