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Those of you who are interested in hearing the difference between good hot style with technique and good sweet style with technique might well compare Tommy Dorsey's record of "Stardust" (Victor) and Jack Jenny's new Vocalion platter of the same. Jenny is a studio musician who has been playing around New York for years, making some swell records with such groups as the Red Norvo Octet and later, with the Paul Whiteman recording groups...
...Stardust" starts out on excellent ideas--distinctly unusual since even the purists usually give the public the benefit of a "straight" melody first chorus. But while his ideas are startling and beautifully executed, they never withdraw from the velvety tone of the Dorsey type--a criticism from the standpoint of pure hot, but also a destruction of the argument that good hot men can't play suavely for public consumption...
...Sometimes I'm Happy," done for Benny Goodman, is considered to be one of the five greatest arrangements ever written and Henderson himself says that he never expects to write another sax chorus such as is contained in this record. He claims that he wrote the equally famous "Stardust" arrangement for Goodman while lying flat on his back from an automobile accident and that Goodman told him to go get cracked up again, in order to get more of the same...
...some very fine records lately, among them a solo by Jess Stacy, who gets all to few opportunities to show what excellent piano he can play. Also recommended highly is "Body and Soul" with Chu Berry (tenor sax) and Roy Eldridge (trumpet). Only trouble with the record is that "Stardust," on the other side, has some of the worst recording this reviewer has ever heard. The turn-table on the recorder was varying so badly when the record was made that it changes key about every thirty seconds ... Listen to the first chorus of Art Shaw's "Rose Room...
...stage revue, "Stardust Revue of 1937" introduces a number of starlets under the tutelage of Benny Davis. Among the many acts are several tap dancers, a pair of comedians, a baritone some roller skaters, and a cornet player...