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Melody-Maker-1955-04 Brie Leap■ In!·. R·ECORD REVOLUTION HERALDED BY EMI 3-D SOUND EDDIE , DEBBIE ARE HERE 3 EMI ~~~ :i1 ~eu~ ~ei:i: o,ratami!p~:C~~d!~:Si have good reasons tor bellevtng that they and the necessary machines for playing them will be on the market by the Autumn (r'epoTU Edgar Jackson) . Thla would be the sreateat development In the home iiramophone ■Ince the flat dtac replaced the phono1rapb cylinder-even more important th&n the LP record. For the 30 <or atereoaonlc, 11 EMI are callln1 It> record ctvu the sramophone the essential feature It baa hitherto lacked-i)t?rapecUve 1D IOUDd. Tr.velln11-• Brlefty, thl1 means that lnltrumenta In a band atand obt from each other tn the aame way aa objects stand out 1n SD pictures. One can tell exactly where each wu placed In relation to the othen. m~~ ~.~:e:~~s!"!1~ .f~~eexc~fcti e~fO~~fJy 0th: direction he wu tat1n1 and whereabout& In the room he ba:::;c~~•\i:: re~c~!ft~om;~\he project. OEC demonstrated lt at the 1953 Rad.lo 11how. But It seems that EMI wlll be the nnt on the market commercially. It w, .. hellO, Young Kenny Ba.ker Unit in it~¥:fl ·' Jazz ·Today' series· Lp~i:~i~:~~ HE drat &Idea featurlnr Brlt:llh J_uz stara ll!lder the new PJe-PolJCoD ~ 1n~l.ouf: A~ T recordlDC tie-up are beln next month. Con1latln1 ot three be ls expected LO &lve coacena LPa and three EPa, they w1ll Kenny Baker and such ce1ebr1Uea ln Pruice ln &,,tember. • u Bruce Turner, Harry Kie Barber and hla laa Band, Vic Alb, Tbomp- 10n and Ottllle Patterson. These and other Jan mualclana have been I -~=-~~!..:'.'.=!::.._.!::C::::::..::~:.:..:~:.__=.:.c..--, &lined to ra:ord for PJe-Poly- MU , BANS FIELDS 3 i;i:~~·:: FROM PALLADIUM i¥~~ij HE MID11tf7 of Labour alld the Musicians' Union have ♦ Back Page, Col. 3 T banned Anjl~ca•• 1"1nc Fields tnatrumental trio . from·-- at the London Palladium. Inlltead, patrons na·nkwartll lad ta I w\¥ii:ee c~.;a.::so'=1 ~~Uted to appear on the same bllt u Dlc~aleoUn• for Ule two we;: c;:c:.: ::tit~ open OWi cl1II . I ,· 11astew.. bu ........,...... , WlllltlH ■II C. Ir ~.-=~':n°.:f."~. ...""' m~~~ o~ ~~ ;.a.: II ff'- . Lost w«k the Mil ,tated that tna thel, own club In lbe w... new • I1ul . .. It WU not r&lainc an obJecU.:n End ~ c1iP:,sf· K the pre- 0 1 0 RIC ~ bu been ~~d~tood~f 8,e ~s:eTrt~ ~ clu: whlcb will meet E allned bY lb:clml'9 Pllma, waa a Variety act In which e,ery TUead.ay fr'OIO I ID 11 p.m.. Lld.. to write and N00l'd mU&lc mlaht not. be the most will p~_l.~ lt&l'I b~ ~:rllkmr~ new important element ~8g~~:na- lb: i!= 8 Page I , Col. 3 Allan Oanle, an>UP. and lll&cllell en. "PIANIST DOUBLING plQ ~ m: Oroui>: CLAVIOLIIE". BII kiad of .. __...,, .. 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" 'lbe Symphony or the Air •· ts the new name tor what was, not so lon1 ago the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo ToacanlnJ. Slnce the orchestra w~ drOPped by NBC ·lb-ba.s struggled to keep alive, mosUy under the culdance of Don Oillls, president of Its parent organJ.aaUon, the Symphony FoundaUon or Amertca. I walked tnto ~e ball Just as the concert waa 1tart.ln1, and wu I.bocked to ae, that It wu two-thlrdl empty, only the top-price box a.eat.a belnr complet.ely tuled Lena Horne. Lenn.le Bayton and many other celebrlUei were ln the boxea. n wU aad to 18 1 ;!~~:.:J~~t~~:!:P~~ 1: ~~~!l~t':!t~e~nce, when, Ju1t la,t Saturday, • i ProbablJ' lb!_ cont.en~ of the ftnt half of the concert, appea1tn1 neither to Jazz tans nor to clu&lcal mule de,"OUtN, ~ ac>meLbl':,1'. to do with IL. 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