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for You, and Dinah, along with the rela- trouble. Arranger seems tively dismal Georgia on My Minci and happier when he is reflecting Wilbur De /HI-FI NOTES Bessie Couldn't Help lt. Paris than in trying to revive Crosby ÁZZ Four of these five discs are an invalu- items (Skater's Waltz, Surokey ,\fart). , INC. from able supplement to the Columbia set. Gene Bolen plays some pleasant low - For those who do not have the Colum- register clarinet in an orchestration of Producers of Wang Nang Blues based on the De CONTEMPORARV RECORDS bias, any one of the Odeons- starting COOD TIME with the Hot Fives and Hot Sevens -be- Paris version of The Pearls. The main CR SERIES grace of the group, however, is RECORDS longs in a balanced iazz collection. saving REM (Society for Forgotten Jackie Coons, who hulls and puffs an Mu.i4) STERRO RECORDS Louis Armstrong and : elegantly bumptious mellophone. "Porgy and Bess." Verve 4011/12, has an exciting Wizard of the Rag- new album -music from "SOME $11.96 (two LI'). Eubie Blake: "The and Bess and Louis Armstrong and Piano." 20th- Century Fox 3003, LIKE IT HOT " Prohibition Era Porgy time - Ella Fitzgerald seem to have been made $3.98 (LP). tunes featured in. Billy Wilder's smash film starring Marilyn for each other. For both Armstrong and Blake was one of the great pianists of the Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Miss Fitzgerald, the Gershwin score pro- era; and later, in partnership Lemmon.. vides the most felicitous material either with Noble Sissle, a successful song The stars of Barney's album has had in a long time. This is certainly writer and vaudevillian. At seventy -five, are , - more in Miss Fitzgerald' line than Cole he is remarkably nimble -fingered as he CR's newest exclusive recording Porter, Rodgers and flart, or Irving Ber- romps through a set of hues taken from in artist on alto, tenor and clarinet; lin, and she responds to it warily and both these backgrounds. Sissle joins the sensational young trumpeter readily. Armstrong, for his part, plays and vocally a few times; on some selections , who just joined Shelly sings with an entluisiasm and an inven- Buster Bailey's jaunty clarinet is added and Manne & His Men; pianist Jim- tive vitality rare in most of lois recent to the rhythm accompaniment, mie Rowles and bassist Monty work (to find out bow well he can still throughout the disc a happy spirit reigns, Budwig. Tunes are a delight in play his trumpet when he wants to, the heightened by Blake's unaffected shouts modern jazz. reference point is his bristling opening of joy and encouragement. We're proud of and solo on It Ain't Necessarily Si, ). his winning an Academy Award Unlike the other jazz versions of Porgy Ruby Braff: "You're Getting to Be a Oscar for scoring GIGI. André's and Bess that have tumbled onto the Habit with Me." Stcre -O -Craft 507, jazz version merits some sort of market lately, there is little overt effort S5.98 (SD). an award too for being one of the to translate the Gershwin songs into jazz One of Braff's finest collections, a group happiest in the "Broadway Goes terms it this collection. Russell Garcia of very easy, relaxed, rhythmic perform- to Jazz" series on Contemporary. has written and conducted arrangements ances in which Ruby is an unending joy. Most everyone has the jazz MY that ate appropriate to the tunes, and the There are samples of the artistry with FAIR LADY album played by jazz interpretation -which is definitely which he flows effortlessly through the André and Shelly Manne -it's present -emerges in the natural course of lower register, the little runs and accents been on best -seller charts for over events from the way Armstrong and Miss that accumulate casually into his pat- two years! Their versions of Fitzgerald sing and play even in basically terns, his clean selective mobility at fast LI'L ABNER and PAL JOEY are nonjazz surroundings. It is an unusually tempos, his sly humorous use of

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