Word: vocalion
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Cozy is a marvelous drummer, noted especially for his amazingly powerful press roll, that being a steady roll gotten by sticks on a snare drum, with a snap that gives it a swell lift. Listen to records like "Ratamacue" and "Crescendo in Drums" by Cab on Vocalion or "Shufflin' at The Hollywood" (Victor-Lionel Hampden) and you'll get the general idea...
...using for his Victor records really sound like something. If you want to hear fast bass work that will make Bob Haggert (Bob Crosby's band) look to his laurels as king-pin of the broken rhythm stylists, Hinton has a concerto, "Plucking the Bass," released last week on Vocalion, that will really make you sit up and take notice. Barker is the new trumpet man Calloway added only a short while ago and plays much in the manner of Roy Eldridge. Jefferson is the terrific alto man formerly with Fletcher Henderson...
Those of you who are interested in hearing the 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...
...Gone Off the Deep End (Mildred Bailey; Vocalion). Torch-song-of-the-month, Bailey-of-the-month...
...same North Carolina school that Hal Kemp did. In fact, he did arrangements for Kemp for a while, but found that the Goodman-Basic style was more to his liking, and so he started a band on this idea. Results are not bad, the band's first record (Vocalion) "Tea for Two" being well arranged, with some decent solos...