and his erstwhile producer, Orrin Keepnews. the entire album. and even that is padded with Nothing weighty. But it all rings true, and it applause and introductions. Coryell is not an­ swings. There's some effective Latinate stom­ nounced in the introductions and plays on ping /Gunky, Caller), an excellent minor only three tunes though given featured billing. blues I Lela), a suite whose parts don't make a / Had is credited to Vinson though it is Big whole in the classical sense but are all good Bill Broonzy's tune. blowing pieces. and good improvisation Considering all this. there is still some fine throughout. music here. Straiyht is played at a fast shuffie I have serious reservations about Didn't and Vinson displays his attractive alto style We? as a composition (possibly influenced by which combines the graceful fluidity of the its depressingly silly lyrics), let alone as a jazz boppers with the firm tonic resolve of the best vehicle. Nothing that happens to it here blues players. Cleanhead opens with a strain changes my mind. But there's a good ballad from Parker's Mood. Whouses performance in Inner Peace, the last section The album was recorded at the Montreux CarlThompson strings? of the suite, Lytle achieving a sensitivity of Festival, and as noted before there is much Jim Hall touch his work has often lacked. ya-hoo applause. Still, most of the audience Toots Thielemans Nunn's organ playing is crisp and unclut­ didn't understand the lyric content of Vin­ George Barnes tered. Spinozza's solos are few, but impres­ son's blues. There is an interesting slip during Barry Galbraith sive for his command of the guitar. Conga the verse with the Presidential reference in / Allen Hanlon drums, as always, are conga drums. Ron Car­ Had that would have cracked up a Regal Rick Derringer ter, as always. is magnificent. -ramsey Theater audience, but it made no impression Bob Rose on this group oflisteners. Charlie Brown Bob Cranshaw The recorded sound is quite satisfactory Gerry Jemmott and the rhythm section, especially Creque, is Bill Crow a groove throughout. - porter Chet Amsterdam PRETTYPURDIE RussellGeorge STAND BY ME (WHATCHA SEE IS WATCHA Bob Daugherty GET)-Mega M51-5001: Stand By Me; Modern Victor Gaskin Jive; Spanish Harlem; Artificialness; Never Can Say Goodbye; Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get; It's CHARLESWILLIAMS Too Late; Funky Mozart; You've Got A Friend. Personnel: Snooky Young, Gerald Thomas, TREES AND GRASS AND THINGS - Main­ trumpets; Seldon Powell, Lou Delgatto, Don Ash­ stream MRL 345: Trees and Grass and Things; worth, Billy Mitchell, Warren Daniels, reeds; Har­ Chop! Chop!; Crack/in' Bread; Exactly Like You; irtarl'lb~old Wheeler, piano, electric piano; Neal Rosen­ Booger Bear; Moving Up; Song From the Old garden, harpsichord, tambourine; Chuck Rainey, Country. Distributed by $itri'!,9f bass; Cornell Dupree, Billy Nichols, guitars; Pur­ Personnel: Williams, alto sax; David (Bubba) Thompson-Frutkin Guitar Studios die, drums, vocal (track 1, 7); Norman Pride Brooks, tenor sax; Don Pullen, organ, piano; 756 7th Avenue New York, N. Y. 10019 bongos, conga; Tasha Thomas, Carl Hall, Norma Cornell Dupree. guitar; Jimmy Lewis, bass; Wil­ Jenkins, Hilda Harris, vocals; Gil Scott-Heron, liam Curtis, drums; MontegoJoe, congas. ;:::======::;-1narration. (track 4 only). Rating: *** LOUIS, LADY AND THE BLUES Rating: ***** This is pleasant. unpretentious music in an 3 Great LPs of Historic Jazz The thrust of the musical mainstream of r&b flavored goodtime bag. rather more re­ 0 TLP 101 - Louis Armstrong; Great today is overwhelmingly rhythmic. That's no laxed and easygoing than customary for this Early Vocals (1929-34) Young Satchmo secret. of course. but when you think about it, genre. singing his classics: Bessie Couldn't Help only the beboppers insisted on melodic in­ Williams is a finished altoist whose pretty, It, I'm Confessin ', Star Dust, Black and vention as the most important attribute of Blue, 8 others. somewhat thin tone bespeaks his affection for D TLP 102 - Billie Holiday; Rare style. Because of the tremendous amount of Benny Carter. Tenorist Brooks. more robust. West Coast Recordings. Lady Day at her rhythmic vitality in soul music, this is a great makes a good frontline partner for the lead­ greatest in a 1946 San Francisco concert, time to be a drummer. er - he, too, is basically mainstream oriented and other long-lost recordings. Includes Purdie is the architect of a goodly part of and much into Ben Webster. The Man I Love, Strange Fruit, Body our standard soul rhythms and easily the most Don Pullen's straight-ahead work here (he and Soul, Billie's Blues. influential drummer of his generation. The did much of the writing and is well featured) is D TLP 103 - Great Blues of the 30's album shows off his style to perfection. and 40's. 12 of the best by Page, Waller, a far cry from his avant garde collaborations Bailey, Rushing, Washington, Pleasant Apart from the first track. where Purdie with Milford Graves. Joe, Wini Beatty, Wynonie Harris, indulges his vocal proclivities, everything is Excepting the jaunty. catchy title tune, the others. together. Much of the credit for the success originals sound quite familiar and are mostly Check the records you want and mail must go to Harold Wheeler, who arranged and this coupon with $5 .50 for eact1 LP to blues. Guitarist Dupree gets off some clean. Tulip Records, P.O. Box 6277, San conducted the session. A masterful job. economically constructed solo work. The Francisco, Calif. 94101. Calif. residents Dupree and Powell are the principal add 5 1'2% sales tax. rhythm playing is steady. soloists. Each knows today's idiom and Du­ This album won't do anyone any harm, but pree is as down a guitar player as there is out unless you are heavily into this kind of music there. or in the market for a pleasant dance record. Somebody· Recommended to all soul music en- it's hardly a must. - moryenstern has to be thusiasts. -porter

first! EDDIE"CLEANHEAD" VINSON blues 'n' folk (we were, YOU CAN'T MAKE LOVE ALONE-Mega M31-1012: Straight No Chaser; Cleanhead Blues; and we are.) You Can't Make Love Alone; I Had A Dream; Person To Person. Personnel: Vinson. alto sax, vocal; Neal Recent Chicago Blues Recordings: Creque. piano; Larry Coryell. Cornell Dupree, Muddy Waters 'Li,•e" At Mister Kelly·.1. guitars; Chuck Rainey. bass; Pretty Purdie, Chess 50012 drums. Rating ***½ Rating: ****½ Poor Cleanhead! As great a hluesman as he Hound Dog Taylor, Hound Doy Taylor and is and as strongly as he pe1i'orms on this the House Rockers. Alligator 470 I 10710 Crai9head • Houaton, T•. 77025 album. he is the victim of sloppy production. Write for free literature. Rating; * * * ½ There is barely 23 minutes of playing time on Homesick James Williamson, The Country 26 □ down beat