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Lennie Niehaus, Vol. Ill (Contemporary LP). A distinctive-sounding octet, identifiable by its deep-pile texture, its gentle but unmistakable swing, the oddball humor of its sudden pauses and the curious mutter of its counterpoint...
Schubert. Brahms and Strauss songs, sung by Soprano Kirsten Flagstad (Victor) ; Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, played by members of the Vienna Octet (London) ; Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, narrated by 13-year-old Brandon (Member of the Wedding) de Wilde...
musical ears last week: Swing King Benny Goodman, who was doing a Series of weekend stands in Manhattan's Basin Street nightclub. Playing in an octet (including Trumpeter Ruby Braff, Trombonist Urbie Green. Tenor Saxman Paul Quinichette), Clarinetist Goodman occasionally seemed to be dreaming of other years, other sounds-and the jampacked crowd included many greying swing cats who could dream with him. But his playing revealed none of the tenseness that took him out of his ill-fated tour with Louis Armstrong (TIME, April 27, 1953), and little of the formality of his concert appearances with symphony orchestras...
...Octet (Lennie Niehaus; Contemporary LP). Some entrancing counterpoint, arranged by West Coast Alto Saxophonist Niehaus...
...must stick to her (bells, to ringers, are always female) without interruption. Under these conditions, the best that, has been done so far is 21,600 changes (time: 12 hrs. 56 min.), rung in 1950 by a Cheshire team, and it was this mark that last week's octet at Loughborough set out to better. †More complicated arrangements have more romantic names, e.g., Grandsire Triples, London Surprise, Woodbine, Kent Treble Bob Major, Canterbury Pleasure...