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Lyrics by Ira Gershwin (Nancy Walker, Louise Carlyle, David Craig; Walden LP). A fetching collection of ten off-beat tunes with lyrics ranging from innocence to sophistication. Only three are by Ira's brother George; the others are by Vernon Duke, Kurt Weill, Aaron Copland, Jerome Kern, Arthur Schwartz...
...Curiosity Shop (Victor LP). Stagy old recordings, dating from 1911 to 1929, that should bring mist to many an eye. Among the performers: Maurice Chevalier (Valentine), Helen ("boo-boop-a-doop") Kane (I Have to Have You), Marlene Dietrich (Falling in Love Again), Fanny Brice (My Man), Gloria Swanson (Love). Added features: monologues by Will Rogers, De Wolf Hopper and John Barrymore...
Broadway's Best (Jo Stafford; Columbia LP). Several of these eight songs deserve to be ranked with the "best," e.g., Embraceable You, Night and Day, Come Rain or Come Shine, but not even Jo's pretty voice is appealing enough to survive the grief-stricken tempos...
Bunk Johnson (Columbia LP). The last professional engagement played by the late New Orleans trumpeter, who once showed some hot licks to a kid cor-nettist named Louis Armstrong. With six longtime jazzmen of Bunk's own choosing, he plays a free & easy program of twelve tunes, e.g., Chloe, Some of These Days, Out of Nowhere, in his simple but highly polished style. There are a few quaint runs and riffs straight out of turn-of-the-century New Orleans, but every number has the glow of on-the-spot invention...
From Barrelhouse to Bop (John Mehegan, piano; Perspective LP). An illustrated lecture on the history of jazz, rather self-consciously narrated but well played by Juilliard's professor of jazz piano. His performance manages some close approximations of such jazz stylists as Jelly Roll Morton, Pinetop Smith, Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson, George Shearing and others...