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...bucolic settings and conversed in polished verses. In Auden's eclogue, three men and a woman fall into a wartime conversation-in nine-syllable lines-in a Manhattan bar. They are: Quant, a sardonic shipping clerk; Malin, a medical intelligence officer in the Canadian Air Force; Rosetta, a department store buyer; Emble, a good-looking young naval officer. It is All Souls' Night...
...rich in its detailing of a significant life, and of the remarkable people who surrounded and shaped it, that it is unlikely that a more valuable work on Yeats will ever be written, and impossible that one will be written without using Mr. Hone's volume as its Rosetta Stone...
Just a Closer Walk with Thee (Sister Rosetta Tharpe; Decca). More blues -and religious at that. Sung by a vibrant Negro of the nightclubs, onetime Holy Roller church singer...
Records take a sharp upturn this week, and are much more interesting than they have been in a long while. Leading the list is Earl Hines' "Rosetta," a piano solo cut a few weeks ago on Bluebird with "Glad Rag Doll" on the other side, a solo that he made for Victor in 1929. As far as I am concerned, this disc settles once and for all who plays the most piano. Up until about two years ago, I' still thought that the "Father" was the top of them all, but after that he didn't do any recording...
Earl Hines has a good one in "Riff Medley" due to the short but swell plano solo. Look out for this week's Victor release of his "Rosetta" as a piano....On the same disc is a solo that he cut ten years ago for Victor that was never released. Ought to be worth listening to....Jimmy Lunceford's stuff has suffered lately from bad recording, his platter of "Liza" being a good example...