Blues; Gone With The Wind: Four On Six & the difference between pianLstic facility consummate technical case and an irresis- 4 others. Riverside RLP 12-320 $4.98 and ttlusic. For a clear contrast hctycen iiIsle beat. 'Through the yens, his concep- Interest: Excellent ¡an a pianist and .musician, listen to Oscar tion has des eloped and he no longer just Performance: Spirited Peterson play a tune and then to Bill runs through chord changes as if jazz were Recording; Good Evans' version of the same sung. N. H. a giant playground slide. Sonny has be- \Ir. Montgomery, who disdains the slse of gun to amplify Isis story, and it's a power- G DIXIE IN HI SOCIETY-BAR- a pick and instead plucks the guitar fully emotional one, as these performances NEY RICHARDS AND HAS REBELS. Oh, strings with his fingers, is the most exciting cleanly indicate, N. N. Lady he Good; Just In Time; The Bfue jazz performer on this instrument since Room,: Thou Swell & 8 others. Mercury SR 60185 the clays of the late Charlie Christian with $4.98; Mono MG 20508 $3.98 A SPREADIN' JOY - BOB WILBER the Benny Corirllnan band. 1-Tc has a great QUINTET/SEPTET PLAYS THE MUSIC sense Of fors», and bullets excitingly to elf- Interest: Sociologiéal OF SIDNEY BECHET. Blackstick; Blue Ho- nsaxes that are logical and forceful; he Performance: Detached rizon; Ghost Of The Blues: Little Creole Recording: has a hard swinging style ithat could man- Good Lullaby & 7 others. Classic C J5 $4.98 Stereo Directionality: Good spread age to make a foot sleep in mud keep Interest: Fascinating Stereo Depth: Good experiment unpinñ. And he has ;r free floe' of ideas Performance: Devoted that are fascinating. Here he is heard with As a stereo recording of a small combo, Recording: Very good good. if not wildly outstanding. accom- this is quite well done with a natural dis- Mr. 1Vilhcr is a young musician Who paniment designed to show his talents oil position of all the elements but ts'itlh started in jazz as a proiegé of the late to best advantage. Whether on halGIds or enough "ping gong" to remind you it's Sidney ihecht's and who studied soprano blties and stomps, Wes Montgomery in ob- still stereo. The trouble, hon'ci'cs, is in saxophone with licchct for some time. viously floe new star of die guitar. His the music. If this is 'Dixieland jazz at Here he has taken a group of Bcchet: work is of sufficient stature to transcend some high level of performance, then this compositions and plays them with t'he as- all jazz styles and hind appreciation front style of music surely requites no proficien- listancc of Vic Dickenson on trombone. fans of all divisions of jazz. Il. J. G. cy, un feeling and no gift. IL J. G. plus trumpet, guitar, piano, bass and drums. The result is really charming,. The A A THE INCREDIBLE JAZZ GUITAR A THE SONNY SIDE OF STÍTT. Sonny tunes. ill the first place, arc all good ones. Stitt (alto and tenor saxophones), Jimmy OF WES MONTGOMERY. Wes Montgom- and set oral have a haunting blues quo;city. Jones (piano). Aaron Bell (bass), Charlie ery (guitar), Tommy Flanagan (piano), Percy 1'he players :u -c all, with the Persip (drums). Skylark; Old Fashioned Blues; exception of Heath (bass), Albert Heath (drums). Aire - the pianist, first-rate soloists in their own gin: West Coast Blues; Gone With The I Never knes' & 6 others. Roulette 2240 $3.98 right_ and they lit together quite well het e. Wind & 5 others. Riverside 1169 $5,98; Interest: Solid modern jazz Mono 12-320 $4.98 The idea was to play !lechci`s tunes but Performance: Assured not to imitate fleshes. Since Wither has Interest: Over-rafed Recording: Fair also studied with modern jazzmen. the se- Performance: Competent swings, Recording: Good Sonny Stitt has become the acknowledged sltlt is :1n interesting ;11111111 that Stereo 'Directionafilty: Adequate leader of the direct -from -Charlie l'arker has good solos. is well recorded and shine.: Stereo Depth: OK school of plat ing. He has also developed wills genuine devotion to the memory of On tile basis of his two albums so fair, I his own commanding voice anti plat's with the late Sidney flechct. R. J. G. cannot agree with the critical hosannas for guitar ist \fotitflontety. 1 -le may be 'the best thing to happen to the guitar since Charlie Christian" in his inperson appear- ances, hut he hoso't merle it vet on records. This one is belies- than his first, which should have been scrapped. He is certain- ly skilled technically and plays with emo- tional power and a fine beat, but there is little that is particularly memorable in RA MSEY LEWIS TRIO his conception and sometimes, as in Grins 11'i7lt The Wind, he can roc downright dull. Afontgouncry gets line support. Per- haps Riverside might try rccordiug him on location in a chili. N. 1-1,

FIORELLO v THE OSCAR PETER- SON TRIO with Oscar Peterson (piano), Ray Brown (bass), Ed Thigpen (drums). Little Tin Box: Politics And Poker: Unfair & 6 others, Verve MG VS 6134 $5.98 Interest: Slim Performance: Glib _3a Recording: Good Stereo Directionality; Very good Stereo Depth: OK Vet another Oscar Peterson jazz version of a ltsoadway score, The .(errs' Bock -Sheldon Harnifk music fix' this surpritic Broadway hit is considerably less gripping instru- THEIR NEW mentally than in the running context of "'T' the musical. When the rather nominal I.: - RGO able hasie nature if the score is combined with Peterson's plodding conception, the result is hardly a record that will endure into the fall. Peterson's colleagues arc excellent- especially Ray Brown who is powerfully also available recorded on this set bid dries not get in stereo enough solo space. Peterson has mastered she piano without learning notch abort ARGO RECORDS 212O S. MiCHIGAN, CHICAGO AUGUST 1'960 63