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Coleman Hawkins & His All-Stars (Concert Hall LP). Tenorman Hawkins is one of the alltime master hot improvisers, a willy-nilly progenitor of the bellowing excesses that mark today's rock-'n-roll craze (TIME, April 4). This record shows that Hawkins' swooping insinuations, his ever-building arabesques, his brash, driving rhythms have withered little with the years...
Pete Kelly's Blues (Victor & Columbia LPs). Both of these disks offer the same musicians-Clarinetist Matty Matlock and his Jazz Band, including Tenorman Eddie Miller, Guitarist George Van Eps, Drummer Nick Fatool-and eleven of the same tunes from the current movie. Several of the players, once the shock-thatched cream of Chicagoland, are now the cream of Movieland, and their thinning hair is neatly parted...
...present featured attraction at the Savoy is a brand new eight piece outfit fronted by ex-G.I. tenorman Jackie Fields. Jackie will be remembered by the ancients for his work with Newton's old band, which also featured Vic Dickenson and Arthur Herbert. The group is still rough and the style is more jump than jazz, but nevertheless Fields' musical product is far more pleasing than the senile, sterile harmonics of nearly every other night club band in this bailiwick of the Irish and Beacon Hill Puritans...
...Savoy is only twenty minutes or so from Harvard Square, and you really should get down there if you want to hear the closest thing to Coleman Hawkins outside of the Hawk himself. As a matter of fact, I was down there the other night with a tenorman whose opinion I respect tremendously, and after hearing McRae on Body and Soul, he remarked that even Hawkins would have to dig hard to keep up with that kind of jazz. Maybe I'm all wet. Maybe they'll be calling him "Miller's Folly," but I may as well go overboard...
...easily as good, and in most cases better, than almost all the dance orchestras in the Boston area. For smaller dances and parties these bands are easily cut into units. Stan Brown has played many local jobs with small bands, trumpeter Johnny Harlow has led his own outfit, and Tenorman Gene Burgstaller (easily the best jazz musician in the college) can supply anything from a trio...