Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...together without the slightest pains taken either in actual recording or in subsequent manufacture. Nothing indicates that the engineers who made the recording attended any rehearsals or had done any experimenting beforehand. The result of bad placing of the microphone is that only the orchestra records well, while the vocal parts are always confused and unclear. The soloists sound as though coming out of a distant fog, and are often completely drowned out by the orchestra. The chorus similarly, when it sings softly, becomes only an indistinct blur; when it opens up the stops, it creates a great huge blaze...
There has been a new movement among Freshmen in recent weeks--one might almost say an unprecedented movement. It is all the result of the food served at the Union, which has brought loud complaints, both intestinal and vocal, from its victims. Too often do diners have their choice of stews, hashes and other slyly-titled ramifications of once-new food. An impromptu committee of disgruntled Freshmen is now investigating the matter, bent upon some solution...
...Hawk is playing a lot of tenor these days any you don't want to miss him ... Record of the week: Jelly Jelly, a slow blues by Earl Hines. Soloists include the Father opening up with some elaborate piano, one of his best recent recorded solos; and a vocal backed by guitar fillins which give the chorus a pleasantly simple contrapuntal quality. Everybody comes in for the finish, and it's stuff like this which makes sissies out of the white bands (BLUEBIRD)... Billie Holiday and Benny Carter get together on two old numbers: Loveless Love and St. Louis Blues...
...come a long way. As a piano prodigy in Denver, he made money for music lessons by selling magazines on street corners, picking berries at 2? a quart. In high school, young McArthur played the typewriter; his virtuoso prestissimo won him the Colorado championship. Then he turned accompanist and vocal coach, for Ginger Rogers and Ethel Merman as well as for concert artists like John Charles Thomas, Gladys Swarthout and, finally, Soprano Flagstad...
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. Record of the week is a fast blues duet by Ray McKinley (drums and vocal) and Freddie Slack (piano). It's called Southpaw Serenade, and gives the two musicians an opportunity to get out of the Will Bradley rut and really play some jazz. Freddie Slack's boogie-woogie shows the strong influence of Albert Ammons, plus an amazing talent for employing highly original bass figures. Top honors, however, go to McKinley's vocal. For a change he sings authentic blues, with a dirty old rasp in his voice which is pleasant to hear after...