ure to hear the even and steady work of Joe Newman-Sir Charles Thompson and Roy Eldridge were starred. Smoke and BASICALLY SWING—American Recording So­ Pen/d Best. ciety G-447: Close Quarters; Jose Beguines; Blue Scuttlebutt are Grammercy Five sides, the There and on Love, the juxtaposition of For Slim; Tke Sleeper; Bop This; Ok Joel former with Butterfield, Johnnv Guarnieri Memories Of Yon; For Tke Ears. Scott .md Pee Wee Russell decidedly dram­ et al: the latter with Rov. Dodo Marmarosa, The first four tracks are by a Newman atizes the way the former can force him- Barney Kessel, among members. An excel­ group, including Franks Foster and Wess, «lf and even ailed emotion, and Russell, lent buy at Camden's $1.98 tag. Matthew (Jee, Eddie Jones, and Osie John­ for all his twists and tangents, knows how son, 'I'he other side is by I hompson, with to lei it happen. Cootie William—Kev Stewart Benny Powell, Newman, Pete Brown Gene THE BIG CHALLENGE—American Recording Otherwise, a nearly brilliant Pettiford Ramey, and others. Substantial swing, culled Society G-448: I'm Beginning To See The Light; solo doesn't salvage a sloppy anti cliche- from early Vanguard records. Good sound. Do Nothing Till You Hear Prom Me; Alphonse And Gaston; I Got A Right To Sing The Blues; ridden Leaps Nor does very good Knepper (D.C.) Walkin' My Baby Back Home; U ken Your Lover do that for Lover Man, nor very good Artie Shaw Flanagan and good Hawkins for Ornithol­ THE GREAT ARTIE SHAW—Camden CAL- ogy. 465: / Can't Get Started; Scuttlebutt; A Room Jazztonc. An excellent investment for mem­ Wilk A View; Blues In Tke Nigkt; Rosalie; A bers of the mail-order society. Also on The implication in the notes that noth­ Foggy Day; Wkat Is Tkere To Say; My Heart hand are Coleman Hawkins, Bud Freeman, ing much happened on the street until Stood Still; Smoke Gets In Your Eyes; Tke Man Lawrence Brown, J. C. Higginlxnham. Hank 1912 and that the practice of writing new A cross-cut of Shavian bands and groups Jones, Billy Bauer, Milt Hinton, and Gus lines on old chord structures began with covering 19.38 to 1945. and including bands Johnson. Hawkins is excellent on this set. bop both are arguable, to say the least. in which Hot l ips Page, Billy Butterfield, (D.C.) And as long as we are being so scholarly AKEY about the lunes, Benny Harris' point of • 1595 departure for Ornithology was Parkers solo on The Jumpin’ Blues—so there. (MAV.) Miet Davi* ank Jone*, Fhe tunet: by LEONARD FEATHER J, Autumn the Dark. / Jazz Authority, Columnist for Down Beat nonball. tal Author of Encyclopedia of Jazz Series . 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