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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
This Is Jazz (Muggsy Spanier; Circle, 2 sides LP). More honky-tonk classics, as recorded from radio broadcasts. Among Cornettist Spanier's helpers are Pianist Joe Sullivan, Trombonist George Brunis, Drummer Baby Dodds. Among the best numbers: A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Muskrat Ramble, Jada...
Fats Waller Favorites (James P. Johnson; Decca, 2 sides LP). Among Waller's favorites: Ain't Misbehamn', I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter, I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling, Honeysuckle Rose-all played with light fingers and breezy ideas by the man who taught Waller himself...
Kings and Queens of Boogie-Woogle (Decca, 2 sides LP). Digging deep for a classic collection of boogie, Decca offers Pianists Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, Meade "Lux" Lewis, Dot Rice, Cleo Brown, Honey Hill. Outstanding: Lewis' Yancey Special, Johnson's Kaycee on My Mind...
Milhaud: La Création du Monde (the Columbia Chamber Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). Composer Milhaud made two trips to the U.S. in the early '20s, and went back to Paris jumping with jazz. In this score for a Ballet Négre (1923), he proves that he caught the inflection better than many a serious U.S. composer has yet. The performance (with Benny Goodman taking the solo clarinet part) is in the groove. Recording: good...