Word: lp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Satchmo at Pasadena (Louis Armstrong and the All Stars; Decca LP). This is the third jumbo-size recording of the old master's popular outfit recorded at a live concert. By no means the best he has done (both Decca and Victor have shown the All Stars in better form), it is the liveliest album of the week. Armstrong's trumpeting is bright and strong, his gravelly voice as ingratiatingly ribald as ever, and the old songs (Stardust, Honeysuckle Rose, etc.) are still good...
...Nineties (Helen Traubel; Victor LP). Wagnerian Soprano Traubel has a big reputation, a big voice. She scales the voice down pretty far for the old pulse-bumpers like A Bird in a Gilded Cage, My Mother Was a Lady, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee. The job could have been done with more authority by somebody closer to the idiom...
Phonograph fans with a taste for Russian music have had a wide choice of domestic recordings, but until recently the supply of original Soviet performances was meager. When LP came along, some small companies dubbed from older Soviet records despite the fuzzy sounds that resulted. Quality recordings had to be made from Soviet master disks or tapes, and many of those are controlled by Manhattan's Leeds Music Corp...
Debussy: Pelléas and Melisande (Suzanne Danco, Pierre Mollet, Heinz Rehfuss; L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Ernest Ansermet; London, eight sides LP). Maeterlinck's fairy tale floating along the stream of Debussy's consciousness. The voices of the principals are all excellent and so is their French diction; Ansermet's subtle direction could scarcely be bettered...
...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...