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Lonesome and Sorry (Bernie Green's Orchestra; Victor). Green, a sort of highbrow Spike Jones, has a lot of fun with tuba solos, banjo, chimes, etc. in a tear-jerking oldtimer.
Classical performances keep Benny fairly occupied nowadays; he solos with symphony orchestras around the country about once every two weeks. But at the drop of a downbeat, Benny still swings back to his first love. "After the concert," he grins, "we may have a little jam session." He dreams, sometimes...
The chorus sang A Lyke-Wake Dirge before, between and after the solos. It was slow music, in close harmony and mildly dissonant, not a dirge of despair but rather "contemplative," as one listener put it. The soprano solo, The Maidens Came, was sparse, austere, reminded some in spirit of...
Dave Brubeck plays in a kind of daze of his own: he can never remember exactly what he did during his finest solos ("When I'm playing my best I never know my fingers are there"). But as a man who is conscious of his subconscious, he has decided...
The BIx Beiderbecke Story (Columbia, 6 sides LP). Third of a series of historical anthologies, this set takes 36 recordings out of the collector's-item class, fixes Cornetist Beiderbecke's halo more firmly in place. Vol. I (Bix and His Gang) finds him at his freest, contains...