·, ments vary in quality but more often ■ .... ■ I • ■• ~---• ■ ■■■■- -range Th ·t· · · fl d s~ch an environment, demonstrates that . h not are good. e wn mg 1s m uence his famed energy is only one aspect of a ,ian modern r&b, but the ideas derived complete musical profile. · y it are generally employed tastefully. There are delights on every track ~o: Russell and Livingston Playground (though I feel that Lol'ely Woman is an · ho forcefully building scores, and there interesting failure-with the stress on in­ ave · · f t · n· I is some nice wntmg or s nngs on is wp teresting) and not once do singer or instru­ School. mentalists fall back on cliches or licks. Lateef's tenor solos are forceful and One could cit~ things to hear on every tune, fairly meaty, though simpler than usual. b~t these will fall on the listening ear His best tenor work occurs on Sun, re- without such aid. Let me just add that I orded with his regular group (Lawson, found Boy particularly delightful-for the McBee, and Brooks). Here ~ateef dis­ piano solos preceding and following the plays a big, warm tone and bm_lds calmly vocal _(~atz's touch is a thing of beauty), and intelligently. He also contributes sen­ the smgmg, and the lyrics, adapting I sitive, clean flute playing elsewhere on the Want A Little Girl to a woman's point of LP. . . . fl db . view so aptly and charmingly ... the verb Gale, a solid mus1c1an m uence y Jazz, "cook", especially taking on a new mean­ r&b and psychedelic rock, takes very nice ing. solos on Russell and Winchester, making But you must hear for yourself. What a The "old" Ella Fitzgerald had good use of wa-wa effects during his spot contrast this alubm is to most of the the greatest vocal instrument in on the latter selection. "product" that passes through our hands ! Winchester, incidentally, seems to beat and in and out our ears these days! A pop music. We all accepted that the marks of a Temptations' record, Run­ happy combination of talent, craft, taste fact, then kind of forgot it. The away Child, Running Wild, which was pro­ and care, this little gem may not win a ~ Ella still has that voice. But duced, appropriately enough, by Motown. Grammy or make the charts, but if you now, she's surrounded it with to­ Wa-wa guitar work and the cry, "I want like good music, it will surely win a per­ my ma-ma" are heard on both selections. manent place in your affections. day's pop sound - recorded in The underappreciated Lawson takes a -Morgenstern London pop-rock super-ses­ good, harmonically interesting solo on Sun. sions that made headlines. -Pekar Songs by The Beatles and like Snoozer Quinn ------that. If there's one album Ella THE LEGENDARY SNOOZER QUINN-Fae Cat's Jazz FCJ 104: Nobody's Sweetbeart; Georgi,, will be remembe•ed for, this is On My Mi1U[/S111oke Gets In Your Eyes; Singh,' Helen Merrill-Dick Katz •-----■ the Blues (2 takes); You Took Atlva11t,1ge Of Me; it. ELLA is now on REPRISE al- A SHADE OF DIFFERENCE-Milestone MSP S11oozer's lf/a1Uleri11gs;S11oozer's Tele/1bo11e Blues; 9019: Lonely IV oman; While We're Young; Clarinet Marmal,ule; Out of Nou·bere; After bums and tapes - where she Never Will I Marry; A Lady Must Live; I Should You',,, Go11e; Lover, Come Back To Me/Ou tbe Care; Looking l'or a Boy (I IV ant A Little Girl); Alamo; My Mela11cboly Baby. belongs. Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most; My Personnel: John'!y Wigfls, cornet (cracks I, 3, @ · Funny Valentine; Lover Come Back To Me; 4, 8, 10, 12); Quinn, gu11ar. ii Where Do Y 011 Go? Collective personnel: Thad Jones, cornet, flue­ Rating:***** gelhorn; Gary Bartz, alto saxophone ( track l Edwin McIntosh Quinn is a legend come only); Hubert Laws, flute, Katz, piano, arranger; t Jim Hall, guitar; Ron Carter or Richard Davis to life in this album. He seemed born to (track l only), bass; Elvin Jones, drums. music-his was a musical family-and had . Rating:***** learned something of the mandolin and Take a fine singer and a cadre of bril­ violin before settling upon the guitar in j liant musicians; select 10 superior songs, 1913-at the age of seven. In a few years deploy your ensemble in varied and stimu­ he was playing professionally, and hit the i( Jating combinations; devise arrangements road at 17 with a band led by drummer j that challenge and inspire the performers Jack Willrich, which at one time included !{ -and handle with love and care. What do Jack and Charlie Teagarden. He was job­ you get? A superb album of which all in- bing in New Orleans when Bix Beider­ volved can well be proud. becke and Frank Trumbauer arranged for fi Pianist-arranger-producer Dick Katz has him to join the Paul Whiteman band i; · come up with a more than fitting sequel to (earlier in the '20s, he worked in Shreve­ ~ his first collaboration with Miss Merrill, port with the even more legendary Peck i The Feeling Is Mutual (Milestone MSP Kelly, the Texas pianist wh~, at his own j, 90003; *****). insistence, went a lifetime without record­ The singer's voice is not big or dramatic, ing). but she knows exactly what to do with it, I am indebted to annotator Al Rose and she is a musici;n with taste sensi- for these biographical details-so little is - tivity, and intelligence. No histrioni~s here, known about Quinn that almost any scrap t no self-indulgence, no meretriciousness. of information is welcome. He tells us · , Not many singers could do what Miss that these recordings were made on John­ 11 1st IN PERCUSSION • Merrill does with Alec Wilder's lovely ny Wiggs' home equipment at the hospital ~; While We're Young, backed only by Hall, where Quinn was convalescing "in the Exclusive from England. 1; Carter, and Elvin's brushes, find so much early '50s" (he died in 1952). The two The best sound you've ever r,: new to say in Funny Valentine ( with Car­ had played together in Kelly's band, and heard from the best outfits G~ ter's bass alone), or stand up to the de­ remained friends over the years. Thank you'll ever play. Worth mands of the unique arranoement on the goodness for that recorder, for there is ~ O looking out for. :(.l A precious little of Quinn's work to be heard seldom-heard Rodgers and Hart gem, Send 1 0c. 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