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...Victor was as surprised as anyone when Enrico Caruso (in reissues) proved to be the company's No. 2 bestselling classical artist last year (No. 1: Mario Lanza). Quickly recovering from its surprise, Victor has reached into the treasury for more. In one LP, labeled Caruso In Opera and Song, the great tenor can be heard in ten arias, including familiar ones from Il Trovatore, Tosca and La Boheme. Famous Duets includes Caruso and Alma Gluck in La Traviata, and Caruso and Geraldine Farrar in the soaring first-act duet of Madame Butterfly. The quality of recording varies, since...
...Victor; 10 LP singles). The third installment of a big selection of vintage jazz, reissued on LP, often in recordings that sound better than the originals (less surface noise, etc.). Titles of individual records: Benny Goodman Trio (Clarinetist Goodman, Pianist Teddy Wilson, Drummer Gene Krupa); Lionel Hampton; Earl Hines-Bitty Eckstine; Metronome All-Star Bands; Sidney Bechet; Jelly-Roll Morton; McKinney's Cotton Pickers; Great Trumpet Artists (Louis Armstrong, Bunny Berigan, Roy Eldridge, Bix Beiderbecke, Bunk Johnson, Dizzy Gillespie); Great Tenor Sax Artists (Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, Bud Freeman, Illinois Jacquet, Ben Webster, Charlie Ventura); Artie Shaw Favorites...
This Is Jazz (Muggsy Spanier; Circle, 2 sides LP). More honky-tonk classics, as recorded from radio broadcasts. Among Cornettist Spanier's helpers are Pianist Joe Sullivan, Trombonist George Brunis, Drummer Baby Dodds. Among the best numbers: A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Muskrat Ramble, Jada...
Fats Waller Favorites (James P. Johnson; Decca, 2 sides LP). Among Waller's favorites: Ain't Misbehamn', I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter, I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling, Honeysuckle Rose-all played with light fingers and breezy ideas by the man who taught Waller himself...
Kings and Queens of Boogie-Woogle (Decca, 2 sides LP). Digging deep for a classic collection of boogie, Decca offers Pianists Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, Meade "Lux" Lewis, Dot Rice, Cleo Brown, Honey Hill. Outstanding: Lewis' Yancey Special, Johnson's Kaycee on My Mind...