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There isn't much to say about the six sides of blues that Mildred Bailey has made for Vocalion. It seems to me that they are some of the finest jazz ever cut--done with taste, originality and ideas. Instead of shouting them, Mildred sings them in that famous subtle style of hers, and they are definitely tops...
...Trots-of-the-Month, a tuneful bumper crop, were topped by Hang Your Hfcart On a Hickory Limb (Bing Crosby; Decca), Shoemaker's Holiday (Jimmie Lunceford; Vocalion), Sing, My Heart (Will Osborne; Decca...
Vocalist record-of-the-month: Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man (Vocalion), sung with great skill and taste by Nan Wynn, rising Negro chanteuse, and excellently accompanied by Walter Gross's band...
...betray a guy with a perpetual grin, Roy Eldridge. Roy, besides being one of the top swing men in the country, manages to play more fast trumpet than anybody around. To get an idea of why he got the nickname, "Wild Man," listen to "After You've Gone" (Vocalion...
Rock-A-Bye Basie (Count Basie; Vocalion). New theme song of the No. 1 colored hot band...