High Fidelity Magazine September 1958

plays vibraphone. With the help of tenor Modern Jazz Quartet and the Oscar about to play with taste and imagina- saxophonist Billy Mitchell and a rhythm Peterson Trio al the Opera House tion is quickly dispelled by the injection section, they have produced one masterful VERVE 8264/8267; 8209. $4.98 each. of the blatant furor that has become syn- blues performance, Flow Long Blues, onymous with JATP. In this current col- which starts off way, way down and sus- Norman GranBz's report on his 1957 JATP lection, a brief change of pace is pro - tains this mood miraculously for nine clambake was recorded, according to the vided by the presence of the Modern minutes. There are four other in and -out disc titles and to Cranz s liner notes, at Jazz. Quartet, while the JATP All Stars selections which are enlivened by the un- the Chicago Civic Opera House. Accord- actually play a warm, pulsing slow blues accustomed appearance of Jackson as pi- ing to one of Granz's spoken announce- with genuine feeling until Illinois Jacquet anist and guitarist. In both roles he plays ments and to a vocalize(' interpolation by pulls everything apart with his usual dis- in a light but still blues- haunted manner. Ella Fitzgerald, at least part of the re- torted windup. Ella Fitzgerald sings one cording was done in Los Angeles (it was side of ballads and one side of uptempo Grant who recorded a Count Basie con- scat with the enthusiastic ease that is.her JAZZ AT THE PHILHARMONIC: Ella cert in Stockholm and released it under hallmark, but the only exciting Fitzgerald at the Opera Bouse; Sian genuinely the title, "Basic in London" ). 13ut wheth- moments in the set arc provided by J. J. Getz and J. J. Johnson at the Opera er it is Chicago or Los Angeles, 1957 or Johnson and Stan Getz, who tear through House; Coleman Hawkins and Roy El- 1954, the Sturm und Drang of the JATP a pair of selections with irresistible gusto. dridge ai the Opera House; The JATP is all pretty much of a piece. Almost ev- Johnson, for once, puts his fidgety trom- All Stars at the Opera House; The ery promising suggestion that someone is bone exercises aside and plays in a lusty, virile fashion that is a heartening revela- tion of his capabilities.

JAZZ PIANO INTERNATIONAL ATE.ANTJC 1287. $4.98. T!e rrei8 Three pianists -Derck Smith of England, FULL COLOR FIDELITY René Urtreger of France, and Dick Katz of the United States -are sponsored by John Lewis in recordings Lewis super- 11/kill/S a vised. All three share a common bland- are ness in medium -to -Fast tempos but settle warmly into a slow, blues -shadowed groove. Both Smith and Katz show dis- tinct signs of Lewis' influence at a slow tempo, an influence only glancingly pres- ieelaIiû# ïn ent in Urtreger, who has a pleasant, an- gular approach quite his own. These are capable performances by three pianists who are, as Lewis notes, "ready."

SOPP FRED KATZ AND HIS MUSIC: Soul-0 Cello Exciting music captured with the utmost of i)Fx :CA 0202. $3.98. engineering imagination makes each of these By his own account, Katz's interest in albums a "must" for discriminating listeners. jazz is peripheral so it is not surprising

ABC 246 and ABIS 246* that the jazz elements in this dise arc also EYDIE IN LOVE EYDIE GORME "Also available on STEREO RECORDS! peripheral and come mostly from John Pisan( s guitar. Katz, a cellist, is a ven- turesome iconoclast whose frequently 7::': P::P.:12E -_a_ piquant ideas receive less than adequate exposure when they are released as part of a jazz series, as this disc is.

WYNTON KELLY RtvEnstnE 12 -254. $4.98.

Kelly was the pianist in Dizzy Gillespie 's big hand and has provided oases in the bleaker stretches of several recorded

ABCS 242 (Stereo only) "blowing" sessions. Heading a quartet on ABC 239 and ABCS 239 * ABC 243 and ABCS 243*, one side of a on THE PARADE FIELD SABICAS (GYPSY FLAMENCO) DRINKING this disc, trio the other, SONGS AROUND THE WORLD he THE BLAZERS proves to be fully capable of filling an LP on his own. His playing has much of BAWDY BARRACKS BALLADS that direct, strongly rhythmic, and com- numicative quality with which Erroll Canner is blessed in quantity. The mixture .ash of vitality and delicacy in Kelly's work shows up hest in the trio selections on which he does not have to compete with Philly Joe Jones's drumming.

ELLIS LARKINS: The Solt Touch DECCA 9265. $3.98.

ABC 232 and ABCS 232* ABC 245 and ABCS 2454E Larkins is an almost instinctive accom- THE AXIDENTAIS WITH BAWDY BARRACKS BALLADS ABC 244 and ABCS 244* panist and even when he is not actually THE KAI WINDING TROMBONES 111E FOUR SERGEANTS JOHNNY NASN working behind a vocalist he plays with

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