Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are four jazz bands, a string quartet, several piano teams, and specialists on the guitar, accordion, cello, and violin. Also available are several vocalists and a vocal quartet...
NEWS AND REW RELEASES. The Count's latest: Blues featuring Lester Young's tenor sax pyrotechnics, a vocal by Jimmy Rushing, and an Earl Warren alto chorus backed by clean muted brass. Reverse, The Apple Jump, is graced by a very delicate Basic piano solo (OKEH) ... Best Five O'clock Whistle of the week is by Will Bradley (COLUMBIA). Ray McKinley and Doc Goldberg scat their way through the novelty vocal, and Bradley takes a swell trombone ride with a tom-tom backing... Johnny Hodges steals the show on Duke Ellington's Warm Valley (VICTOR), a slow, dreamy tune, arrangement...
...with MCA. Right now the Count is on the road with Benny . . . Record of the week: Wings Over Manbattan by Charles Barnet (BLUEBIRD), and "atmosphere" tune on the line of Rhapsody in Blue. Very imaginative arranging of sophisticated melodic patterns built around the 32 bar theme. . . For a girl vocal trio that really swings (Andrews Sisters please note), listen to the Dandridge Sisters with Jinunie Lunceford on Red Wagon and You Ain't Nowhere (COLUMBIA). Trio and orchestra work together smoothly in two fine novelty tunes. . . Frog voiced, one-armed jive artist Wingy Mannone cuts two sides of terrific undisciplined...
When the speakers had finished, their vocal supporter, who looked as though he ought to be a senator of the downeast type, rose to his feet and delivered a short but fervid address which started as a paean of praise for Wendell Willkie and ended as a denunciation of modern youth and Harvard in particular
...fast jump, with a gang of good choruses. . . . Will Bradley has finally turned out his firs fizzle, Scrub Me Mama, an attempt to recapture the success of Beat Me Daddy. However, he makes up for it with Scramble Two, a clean job on a fine arrangement, featuring a wacky vocal break by Ray McKinley and family (COLUMBIA). . . . DECCA has issued an album of Count Basie piano, accompanied by Freddie Green, Joe Jones, and Walter Page. Just the thing for those who want to dig a rhythm section that doesn't have to sweat in order to swing. . . . Best solo...