Word: lp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Philharmonic-Symphony in Fireworks, Ode, Norwegian Moods and Circus Polka, plays piano for Violinist Joseph Szigeti in Russian Maiden's Song, leads the Woody Herman Orchestra in Ebony Concerto. With the exception of Fireworks, Composer Stravinsky is represented by inconsequential pieces, but the disk (2 sides LP) will be a valuable, though perhaps dusty, collector's item. Recording: fair...
Josephine Baker (Columbia; 2 sides LP). A cross section of the French songs that made the daughter of a St. Louis washerwoman the toast of Paris, including J'ai Deux Amours, C'est Lui, La, Petite Tonkinoise...
...Lombardo Souvenirs (Decca; 2 sides LP). Old favorites (Confessing Soon, Somebody Loves Me) reduced to the elemental Lombardo formula that after 25 years keeps right on making fox trots and waltzes painless for U.S. dancers...
Commodore issued a characteristic Sutton set (2 sides LP) ranging from the gentle syncopation of four seldom-heard Beiderbecke piano transcriptions to the solid honkytonk bounce of Three Little Words. Columbia followed up a Sutton record issued in its Piano Moods series last fall with Sutton playing eight Fats Waller tunes (2 sides LP) as they had not been played since the late great Negro pianist bubbled through them himself...
Walton: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Jascha Heifetz, the Philharmonia Orchestra, William Walton conducting; RCA Victor, 1 side LP). Heifetz fiddles with love and care through a piece that is splashy with romance. Recording: excellent...