Word: lp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crazy and Cool (Victor LP). An anthology of bop that contains minor frenzies by Dizzie Gillespie, Charlie Parker, the Metronome All Stars, and a strangely old-fashioned item by Gene Krupa's band. Worth the price of admission: 30 startling seconds by Charlie Ventura's virtuoso vocalists...
...Ewell (Windin' Ball LP). Piano solos patterned after New Orleans' late King Oliver and played in the high honky-tonk tradition; such tunes as Weather Bird Rag and New Orleans Stomp sound almost like the real thing. The third Ewell LP by a young Chicago label...
Speed the Parting Guest (Cook LP...
Woody Herman at Carnegie Hall, 1946 (MGM, LP). Fifteen rowdy and tender numbers played by one of the swingingest bands of all. Herman's 1946 "Herd," for all its size and precision, sounds as flexible as a small jam band...
...Orleans (Jo Stafford & Frankie Laine; Columbia LP). Two favorite singers blend their talents for a reminiscence of New Orleans. The Stafford-Laine city is a place of chimney sweeps (Raminay!), gastronomy (Jambalaya), and nostalgia (Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, etc.). Some of the backgrounds give a jazzlike lift to the proceedings...