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Blues on the River (Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band; Decca LP). Trumpeter Yank Lawson and Bass Fiddler Bob Haggart, onetime nerve centers of Bob Crosby's Bobcats, take their outfit on a music ride down the Mississippi (from Davenport, Iowa to New Orleans) in the grand old style...
Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Victoria de los Angeles, Nicola Monti, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni; Milan Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Tullio Serafin; Victor, 3 LPs). A fine performance and elegant recorded sound make this the first fully satisfactory LP of The Barber. De los Angeles' voice, while not so flexible as Pons's in her heyday, is brilliant and accurate in coloratura passages. Monti is a lyrical and affecting tenor, and Rossi-Lemeni's bass is almost too sumptuous for his tomfoolery as Basilio...
Jean Ritchie Sings (Elektra LP). Kentucky's Jean Ritchie sings with sweet clarity and mountain-folk feeling old songs traditional in her area. Among her best: Hush, Little Baby, The Cuckoo, Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair...
...Sleep Can Wait. Last June he walked into the Haig stony-broke. Somebody lent him a horn, and he began sitting in on jam sessions. Within a month he was leading the sessions and drawing customers. Pacific Jazz Records recorded an LP of the quartet playing a few jazz standards and some of Gerry's own compositions, e.g., Soft Shoe, Nights at the Turntable. The Haig put Gerry in headline position at $200 a week...
City of Glass (Stan Kenton; Capitol LP). Somebody obviously threw a stone at this musical city; it is full of prismatic rubble and glittering shards of sound. But its four movements are among the best of Kenton's symphonic experiments, frequently stimulating (some of them closely related to such modern symphonists as Roger Sessions), and played with a virtuosity that a symphony orchestra might envy...