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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nonetheless, Columbia's ten-volume Prades Festival set (20 sides LP) makes record history. The performances were tape-recorded in a schoolhouse near the acoustically unsuitable Perpignan Cathedral, where the public performances were given. Although still not acoustically perfect (the piano sounds are particularly dull), the sum is a magnificent monument to Bach...
...Send Someone to Me, When It's Christmas on the Range, Blue Christmas (Billy Eckstine), etc., as well as the perennial White Christmas. One to avoid: Boogie Woogie Santa Claus. A good one, particularly for youngsters: The Twelve Days of Christmas (Tom Glazer; Young People's Records, LP). For large & small Jimmy Durante admirers, there was Christmas Comes But Once a Year, with Frosty the Snow Man on the other side (M-G-M). For croon fans who can't get along for a day without their favorite, there was even A Crosby Christmas (the Crosby Family...
Jazz: Volumes I & II (Folkways Records; 4 sides LP). An interesting anthology, compiled mostly from old records, which traces the long journey of jazz, both hot and blue, from contemporary (i.e., U.S.) origins. It includes such rare and worthwhile items as the Negro sermon (with accompanying chanting) Dry Bones; the wordless wonders of Dark Was the Night, intoned by "spiritual" singer Blind Willie Johnson; Black Snake Moan, moaned by Blind Lemon Jefferson (Lead Belly's teacher); performances by such favorites as Bessie Smith, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Jimmy Yancey and Louis Armstrong...
...Spots (Decca; 2 sides LP). Good for a mellow and nostalgic 20 minutes with oldies such as If I Didn't Care, Maybe, I'll Never Smile Again, Until the Real Thing Comes Along...
Last week, with the test records rerecorded by Columbia (4 sides LP), jazz fans could stomp to the music of the landmark night nearly 13 years ago when Manhattan's dignified Carnegie Hall rocked to the first "swing" concert in its history (TIME, Jan. 24, 1938). Columbia, confident that the title will be self-explanatory, has called the recording The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert...