Word: vanguardism
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...Elliott Doubles in Brass (Vanguard LP). Versatile Jazzman Elliott plays trumpet (sometimes choked with sorrow, sometimes sighing in contentment), the mellophone (an extravert relative of the French horn) and the chilly chimes of the vibraphone. Co-starring on this "Showcase" album: Pianist Ellis Larkins, who has a sophisticated beat all his own and a sweet, gentle way of dandling a tune...
AUNTIE MAME (280 pp.) - Patrick Dennis - Vanguard...
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 4 (Tchaikovsky Quartet; Vanguard). A lovely and often compelling work written in 1949, now on LP for the first time (it was recorded in Russia). The music is not dissonant, but neither is it obviously slanted for mass consumption. Its slow movement is a full-blown melody, its scherzo trips along in anapaestic rhythm, its finale builds a sonorous castle of tone. On the reverse: Shostakovich's Quartet...
Jimmy Rushing Sings the Blues (Vanguard). Blues shouter for Count Basic's great band at the turn of the '40s. Rushing has a couple of men from the Basic gang in the band that backs him. He may not have the sweetest voice in the land, but his cries are uttered with a mastery of inflection that causes lumpy throats...
...these designers are merely the vanguard of a fashion army that is still growing, and is only beginning to fill the American woman's demand for clothes for her casual way of life...