Word: lp
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With an Esoteric Records release, The Duse of Song (2 sides LP), out this month, younger opera lovers can hear the voice their elders have been talking about. Even though Esoteric has re-recorded its nine arias (including the Vissi d'Arte from Tosca) from 32-year-old cylinders, and Claudia Muzio's luscious voice is heard through a fog of needle scratch, her tones are full, even and velvety from top to bottom...
...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...
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...