Word: perfidia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Havana for a Night (Nat Brandywynne, pianist with rhythm accompaniment; Decca; 10 sides). Latin-American album of the month, containing such well-knowns as Vereda Tropical, Aquellos Ojos Verdes, Perfidia...
...Lewis. These records are vastly superior to the ones put out in the older Decca Album . . . Cootie Williams plays trumpet and sings on Benny Goodman's COLUMBIA recording of Let the Door Knob Hitoha. Cootie's vocal is fine, but just try and figure out the lyrics. Reverse is Perfidia, and the arrangement of this tune makes it excellent for dancing. I don't know whether or not these sides were made since Dave Tough joined the Goodman band, but my guess would be that they were, as the rhythm section shows a 100% improvement...
...RECORDS: Hazy and Blue,: a nice job on the Templeton tune by Kay Kyser. Song itself sounds like the concert jazz that was the range in the middle thirties... "Perfidia" by Nana Rodrigo is listed as a bolero, but that's about as far as the boleroness of the thing goes. Sounds vaguely like a foxtrot that was told to go South American, met a rhumba on the way and gave up in the middle... Tiger Rag"--this tune has been torn apart for so many years by so many bands, that any version is apt to sound trite...
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