Word: soloings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a scoreless first period, the Big Green sextet, paced by speedy Captain Dan Sullivan, manufactured five goals, four of them within eight minutes. In this canto, the Crimson defensemen were caught flat-footed on several occasions, twice permitting Sullivan to chalk up solo tallies while a mate was serving penalty time...
...Swing Stuff" is a clarinet concerto written by Robert McBride, who also does the solo clarinet work. The point is that the thing is supposed to be an approximation of swing, only being arranged. I have always thought that writing solos takes something away--and here is the proof...
...heat," "bite" that makes good swing thrilling is completely lacking here. McBride's solo work is interesting technically, but adds up to some strings of spaghetti as far as getting any, idea of swing across. A written solo is so polished that it loses the life which is the essence of swing. It's too full of notes--if you don't believe it, listen to this record, and then to some of the old Goodman Trio records or Irving Fazola's doings with Bob Crosby...
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...