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NEWS AND REW RELEASES. The Count's latest: Blues featuring Lester Young's tenor sax pyrotechnics, a vocal by Jimmy Rushing, and an Earl Warren alto chorus backed by clean muted brass. Reverse, The Apple Jump, is graced by a very delicate Basic piano solo (OKEH) ... Best Five O'clock Whistle of the week is by Will Bradley (COLUMBIA). Ray McKinley and Doc Goldberg scat their way through the novelty vocal, and Bradley takes a swell trombone ride with a tom-tom backing... Johnny Hodges steals the show on Duke Ellington's Warm Valley (VICTOR), a slow, dreamy tune, arrangement...
...Guarneri, playing a harpsichord (!),, and Nick Fatool, whose drumming is reminiscent of Krupa at his best. Whole record jumps like hell. Reverse in Keepin' Myself For You, and makes good dancing...Count Basic cuts two sides of fast blues entitled The World Is Mad (OKEH), and stars the tenor sax of Lester Young, who plays some almost unbelievable jazz. Jo Jones and the rhythm section are exceptionally good...Harlan Leonard and his Kansas City Rockets show a lot of clean ensemble polish on A-La-Bridges (OKEH), a slow tune featuring a long tenor chorus. It's typical colored orchestration...
...issued an album of Count Basie piano, accompanied by Freddie Green, Joe Jones, and Walter Page. Just the thing for those who want to dig a rhythm section that doesn't have to sweat in order to swing. . . . Best solo of the week comes from Eugene Cedric's tenor sax, on My Mommie Sent Me To The Store, a BLUEBIRD recording by Fats Waller. . . . Charlie Barnet's arrangement of Night and Day (BLUEBIRD), gives new life to the old tune. The reverse, Wild Mab of the Fish Pond, features some very super-Ellington orchestration. . . . Latest on the New Goodman band...
Charlie Barnet is scheduled to do six twelve inch sides on Otto Cesana's "Symphony in Swing"--the longest jazz yet recorded . . . Bob Crosby's band gets some punch it has long needed with Doc Rando going in at third sax and Hank D'Amico going in shortly at lead. This will give the band three great clarinetists: D'Amico in the New York style and Rando and Fazola in the New Orleans style . . . Eddla Durham is starting a band--big news since he was responsible for much of the Lunceford-Basie-Savit success...
While I don't like Harry James' hot trumpeting, it must be admitted that his playing on "Flight of the Bumble Bee" is excellent technically speaking. The record compares favorably with an earlier one by Jimmy Dorsey in which Jimmy displayed his ability on sax for two choruses. Only quibble with the James version is that parts of it are swiped from the Dorsey--and we still don't think swingin' the classics--even something as dinner-musically as the "Bee'--is worthwhile...