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...American Hot Jazz." It features some of the musicians chosen by the Esquire people, including Mr. Feather, for their 1946 Gold Awards. There are four twelve-inch sides, three of which represent the not quite successful efforts of such noteworthies as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Red Norvo to turn a trio of Feather's weird compositions into memorable music...
Uptown local to 52nd Street, where Billy Holiday and Red Norvo are featured at the Downbeat, the Onyx has Lips Page and Stuff Smith, and the Eddie Heyward band alternates with Slam Stewart and Johnny Guarnieni at the Three Deuces, and of course Art Hodes with Mezzrow and Danny "Sister Kate" Alvin at Jimmy Ryan's ... Art says the Jazz Record is new in the black and continues to be the best magazine in the field ... We agree ... Ran into George Lugg and Vic Dickerson who is still with Eddie Heyward...
Nonsense ! Mildred Bailey . . . was a bigger name in those eight years than she ever had been before. With Husband Red Norvo she led one of the first great bands of the so-called swing era. She made many very successful recordings for the Vocalion, Columbia and Decca labels. She sang on such "obscure" radio shows as the Camel Caravan, with such "obscure" bands as Bob Crosby...
Altogether Mildred made at least fifty Vocalions and Brunswicks, nearly every one a gem. On Brunswick she sang the better songs of the day with husband Red Norvo's baud. It was on Vocalion, though, that Mildred really cut loose and made an epic series of records. She had everything her own way. She sang old songs, new ones, anything good. For accompaniment she got the best musicians available. Some of them, like Teddy Wilson, Artic Shaw, Chu Berry are well known; others, like Hank d'Amico, Chris Griffin are not. But the most ignominious musician on her dates complemented...
...Chicago musicians, last week to spend a few days up here away from the frenzy of collective improvisation that goes on there nightly . . . Listen to Ruby Smith's Decca record of "Harlem Gin Blues" for a little uninhibited vocal ribaldry . . . Columbia expects to issue some records by Red Norvo's band, which was heard in Boston some weeks ago, with Mildred Bailey singing the refrains as of yore...