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Died. John C. Crockett, 88, trumpet-voiced reading clerk of the U.S. Senate for 40 years (until he retired in 1947); in Washington, D.C. Onetime Iowa farm boy and stock-company actor, big, rawboned "Uncle John" was said to be able to read faster than any man in decades of Senate history. Knowing when to skip or when to pause during controversial parts of a bill so that a Senator could break in, Crockett could riffle through bills at the rate of 60 pages in 20 minutes (his record: 300 bills in less than two hours). To keep his voice...
Glory Alley (M-G-M). A couple of shots of Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong as a fight trainer playing a trained trumpet almost make this little New Orleans melodrama worth the trouble. Also involved in the proceedings: a cocky prizefighter (Ralph Meeker) who quits the ring because of a mental block, but then proves himself a hero in Korea; a ballet dancer (Leslie Caron) who hoofs in a honky-tonk to support her blind father (Kurt Kasznar). Pretty Leslie (An American in Paris) Caron, playing a Belgian girl in America, is on her toes in a couple of dance numbers...
Classics in Jazz (Capitol, 18 sides, LP). Well-picked samples of the wide variety of jazz styles of the past half-dozen years. The nine platters: Piano Stylists, Sax Stylists, Dixieland Stylists, Trumpet Stylists, The Modern Idiom, Small Combos, Coleman Hawkins, Woody Herman, Bobby Sherwood...
Jeannine (Louis Armstrong and Gordon Jenkins' Orchestra; Decca). An oldtimer, given a Hollywood nightmare of swooping strings, burning trumpet and gravel-voiced singing. Indian Love Call, on the other side, is even more unbelievable...
...Adagio and Presto for Three Violins, Trumpet, and Piano, by Yehudi Wyner 1G, brought the chamber music portion of the program to a close. The unique combination of instruments results in some fascinating sonorities, and there are many passages of great rhythmic originality. But even with the composer at the piano, the performance seemed to lack drive, polish, and rhythmic precision...