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Planist Freddy Slack, besides doing arrangements and fumadiddling around with various of the boogie-woogie passages, is playing more plane than I have never heard him to before, and with the really terrific clarinet and trumpet takeoff men in the band, sole ideas are pretty well taken care...
Schumann: Symphony No. I ("Spring") (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor: 8 sides). Opening with a trumpet call like a daffodil, this romantic work unfolds exuberantly. Best recording to date...
...tremendous controversy has been going on for years among record collectors as to whether the famous Bix Beiderbecke, trumpet player extraordinary and kingpin of jazz history, played on this record. Since a very Bixian horn is to be heard on the record and since Bix was a good friend of Carmichael's, it was thought he was in the band. This has lately been conclusively disproved and Gennett 6311 can now claim fame only as being the first recording of "Stardust" not as a repository for one of Bix's superlative solos...
Unfortunately, Glenn's record doesn't fit as well as it might. While beautifully arranged, with good sax and trumpet solos, and obviously painstaking rehearsal, the rendition is completely dead and lifeless. The reason is quite simple: Glenn Miler has an eight man brass section and a five man sax section. To provide life for a band that size would require a rhythm section of geniuses--and Glenn's rhythm men are just competent musicians, no more...
...brass ensemble of Artie Shaw. He plays strictly out of this world stuff. It is RELAXED and SINCERE. And that's what jazz needs, relaxation and sincerity. Artie informs me by telegram that Louis Armstrong may soon add depth to the orchestra by taking the second chair in the trumpet section...