Word: lp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...band has new put this Album on one LP record, and it sounds better then ever. The original 1946 version was on Shellac, it was re-pressed two years later on Vinylite; the new LP combines the performance of the former with the sparkle of the latter, all on one nice big convenient disk...
Sarah Vaughan (Columbia LP). One of the reigning queens of jazz, using all of her old tricks and some new ones on eight standards, including East of the Sun, Mean to Me and It Might as Well Be Spring...
Sonny Stiff and Bud Powell, Stan Getz, Lee Konitz and Lennie Tristano (New Jazz LP). These three 10-in. LP records contain the last beads on the lunatic fringe of "cool" jazz. At times the music of these small combos is as weird as a hashish dream or as annoying as fingernails on a blackboard, but they occasionally manage (when the piano rides above the saxophones) some pleasant, if disorganized, sounds...
Beethoven: Serenade, Op. 25 (John Wummer, flute; Alexander Schneider, violin; Milton Katims, viola; Columbia 2 sides LP). An early, infectiously light-hearted work for an unusual assortment of instruments; the players here make it sound good. Recording: excellent...
Bowles: Concerto for Two Pianos, Winds and Percussion (Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale, pianists, with winds and percussion conducted by Daniel Saiden-berg; Columbia, i side LP). Novelist (The Sheltering Sky) and Composer (incidental music for Broadway's The Glass Menagerie, Twelfth Night) Paul Bowles has here thought up some novel noises which are barely incidental to music. Recording: good...