Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many programs predictably muddled through bloopers born of the green crews' clumsiness and uncertainty. Boom dollies were knocked over; commercials and credits were run twice, or upside down, or not at all; sound faded away or leaked sudden bursts of studio chatter and laughter. A few shows, regularly broadcast live, were replaced by film substitutes. But most programs-and the strike-rolled on as scheduled...
Jazzman Camp wields his gallused, honky-tonk style on an Emory Cook record called The New Clavichord. The old-fashioned clavichord has a gentle tinkle, but partly through the recording technique, Camp gives such numbers as Wing and a Prayer and Cocktails for Two an ice-edged, splintered sound full of white fire and ghostly glimmer. In Slow Slow Blues he etches some wonderfully spidery lines. The sound is not for everybody, but Camp is convinced: "It brings out the contrapuntal lines. It lends itself to blues beautifully...
...theme from Rodolfo's aria, Che gelida manina from La Bohème, develops the second chorus as a Mozart sonatina, cuts loose briefly with a sample of stride harpsichord, returns to Bohème in the coda. The album should send hi-fi bugs skittering, but no sound on it is as fascinating as the musical imagination that puts them together...
...Cooker (Lee Morgan, trumpet; Pepper Adams, baritone sax; Bobby Timmons, piano; Paul Chambers, bass; "Philly" Joe Jones, drums; Blue Note). A talented group cooks up some minor frenzies, e.g., A Night in Tunisia, Heavy Dipper, with unabashed spontaneity and irresistible drive. The prize sound is Gillespie Protégé Morgan's trumpet, which speaks hard and clear even when it is going like sixty...
Great Ideas of Western Mann (Herbie Mann's Californians; Riverside). Flutist Mann abandons his favorite instrument for one of the least likely of solo instruments-the bass clarinet. The fudge-thick sound has a wistful, funky charm, but often Soloist Mann evokes a fat man in a conga line...