Word: swells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Night Music (by Clifford Odets; produced by The Group Theatre). Clifford Odets, of all people, has suddenly decided that life's a pretty swell thing. He used to be grimly up on the barricades; in Night Music he gaily rides a carrousel. He used to pump lead into Old Glory; in Night Music he almost gets round to waving her. His tortured characters used to writhe-extremely vocally-in their separate hells; in Night Music, Boy Meets Girl and ends up clasping her in his arms...
...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...
...gouty Sir Thomas Beecham. So steely brilliant and ballistically precise was his performance of Tschaikowsky's B Flat Minor Concerto that Manhattan critics hailed him as "the most successful artist to appear before the American public in a decade." For Pianist Horowitz that success was the first swell of a long crescendo. He was soon one of the biggest box-office draws in U. S. music...
...version of "Milenburg Joys," made privately some time ago and then released to the public, has some fine clarinet on it by Johnny Mince . . . Woody Herman's "Blues on Parade" okeh, but not as good as had hoped it would be . . . Count Basie's "I Left My Baby" a swell side of blues with Jimmy Rushing doing better singing than he has done for quite some time. Lester Young on sax gives him good backing . . . This new bass player that Duke Ellington found is really sensational. Listen to "Plucked Again" wherein he plays a duet with the Duke...
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...