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8. 1941 HOT BOX-NEWS DOWN BEAT ticular lune. Thr famous Diuy Gillespie sp- News From Overseas There was one collector who pears on record« aa ««brie!. John had accumulated over three hun­ Birks, B. Bopatda anti both Benny dred versions of St Louis Blues (Goodman and Md Powell have Thru French ’Review' The latter is a tune that allows been listed aa Shoe>lma Joe Jaekson. for a lot of hunting as probably Returning to older records we every known instrument down to find an interesting coupling by New York—(Copies of the Review of the Hot Clubs GEORGj. the musuMl ,aw has bee i u ied to Emmett Miller and His Georgia play St Louis. Others collect High Crackers on Okeh 41135 Tako France running from February through October have just Society, a tune with compara­ Your Tomorrows (401116) and reuch«*d Beal offices. We thought you might Ite interested in Jazz discophiles in the past tively few versions. For instance, Dusky Stevedore (401117). These some of ihe printers' ink «pilled over jazz en franrais. have been too active collecting Ray Orow of Chicago recently sides were made close to the time From French lndo-( hina, HCF Oliver, Bix and Armstrong items located a recording of High So­ the Frankie Trumbauer Okehs of eorre-pondent report« that in (ho­ eluded several months ago; to worry about label mistakes ciety by Prince’s Military Band the same tunes made lm there is a Chinese orchestra Trumpets: Louis Armstrong and peculiarities of certain rec­ on the old Columbia A 1038. Tram's Dusky Stevedore to mas­ There are quite a few mistakes which is “tre. hot”, while other- three to <-ne over Tommy Ladnier ords that make them real, rare ter number 400990 while Take and Cootie Williams . Trom­ collectors items. The -’amp col­ being made on current jass record Your Tomorrows number labels. In tp.Jl. album A-l Boogie hsnd' featuring accordions (un- bones Dicky Wells two to one lector will pop his cork if he 401133. The former issued on doubledly Joe Mooney’• brother). over J. C. Higginbotham and ■ omps jpot a stamp with un in­ Woogie by Bob Mosely record num- Okeh 41100 while the latter came From Spain, there is nothing Tricky 8am Nanton . Clari­ finitesimal error visible only by out on Okeh 41145. Miller the "particularly palpitating” to re­ nets: Sid Bechet nip and tuck magnifying glass. In fact, col­ ano solo by Mosely. detuoUr it is singer has a definite hill billy port The Swiss column mutters with Barney Bigard with Noone lecting labels (could be as fas­ an instrumental with a blues singer style but the accompanying band about the lack of knowledge of and Mezzrow following. Good­ cinating as stamps or match ond a re-bop tramp«« nnd sax. The sound modern for the time of re­ jazz and complains bitterly about man was a bad sixth . Altos cases with all the different types tunes are Bobbie’s Boogie (S1129) cording. In fact, the Cracker French radio as being especially Hodges by a good deal over Car- over a thirty year period) has and Beggin’ The Blues (S1128). instrumentation ounds like the backward Holland is talking ter and Smitl Tenors: The been frowned upon as to auto­ Harry Lim, Keynote record­ Trumbauer outfit to such an about Leslie Hutchinson's band same for Hawkins over Chu Berry graph collecting by the (yed-in- ing supervisor admits Coleman extent that is probably imitative. while Czechoslovakia is agog over and Gene Sedric . Plano: Fats the wool discophile. The music Hawkins’ version of Night and Warren Plath of Oak Park has the eight brass, five sax, and four Waller -vay over Hines and Basie is the thing. Day on Keynote 611 is not that several of the Emmett Miller rhythm of Ladislaw Habart. Guitar: Teddy Bunn, Casey, Juki in eaae there are M>mr who tune at all but an improvisa­ Georgia Cracker j >bs where the Italy's report is that jazz there and Oscar Moore . Bass: Jim­ might beeoine fawinated by the tion on My Gal Sal. There is also instruments are puzzling. Is generally still lamentable be­ my Blanton, followed by Pops coil«-rting principle and subsequent­ Howard McGhee’s Mop-Mop on TA« Jam Appreciation Society hi cause the musicians’ taste indi­ Foster and Kirby . Drums: ly derive an appreciation of Jara Philo 118 which turns out to be England annountes a triple ertisi cates their lack of experience. Zutty Singleton by a nose over musie from their activity Id us a slow tune instead of the riff ty. A bi-monthly magazine railed Chick Webb and Cozy Cole . mention a few peeuliaritir. taken opus. It is not at all uncommon Jan edited by BiU Kinnell end Sing« rs: Bessie Smith. Ella Fitz­ at random. We are quite familiar for the artist or the tune to be Jernes Asmen, a new discography Hugues Panassie writes a rave gerald, and Billie Holiday for the with the collector who picks out a disguised on the label. Coleman Recorded Jain by Frit S. Tonks, •bout Count Basie and a long gals and Louis Armstrong and favorite tune and i-ndcavor« to ole Hawkins recorded Body and Soul and a new collector’s label Jam on article extolling Carter, Hodges, Jimmy Rushing for the men . tain every recording of that par­ on Apollo 751 as Rainbow Mist. vinylite. and Smith as the great altoists, Arrangers: Duke, Sy Oliver, and and quotes Jimmy Dorsey to sup­ Count Basie . Fave Orchestra: port nis views. Duke two to one over Basie and In a rave writeup about Dizzy Lunceford. Gillespie, his small band is com­ French section of the poll pared to the famed Armstrong found two results of interest to Hot Five nf the twenties, while Americans: Philippe Brun topped Charles Delaunay in another ar­ the well-known-to-GIs. Aime ticle says that the earlier hot Barelli on trumpet while Hubert Rostaing beat out Andre Ekyan as opposed “to the Intellectual on clarinet. Ekyan is the alto music” of prt sent day musicians. man on the Coleman Hawkins He very carefully adds however all-star sides released here on that merits of both are con­ Victor. GUITAR MICROPHONE siderable and decries cultism He adds in an article written after Sensible Writing his recent trip to the States that Interesting paragraph for those no critic in the States hai writ­ who remember the hair-splitting ten a serious work of criticism purism of Huguen Panassie’s jazz comparable to the work done by tomes 13 in the April issue Panassie “Amateurs, critics, musicians Panassie state- in an article on who read me, believe me, like Goodman that while BG techni­ modern jazz over old jazz or vice­ cally and mechanically is su­ versa, that's your right. But drop preme, his music comes from the these oppositions, these absurd Ingers, not the head or heart, condemnations (referring to the and gets real salty with him for moldy fig arguments). Recognize having taken Cootie Williams musical beauty wherever it may away from Duke Ellington in be found. There is not jazz nor IMO. swing, there are not advanced Somebody else add.- that pres­ musicians and reactionaries, ent day jazz harmony is at about there are only inspired musi­ the stage of development classi­ cians or mediocre ones, only cal music reached 40 years ago. good and bad jazz.” HCF Poll Resalto This is some of the most sensi­ DB readers now voting in the ble writing yet heard from 1946 poll will be interested in the France or anywhere else for that results of the HCF’s poll, con- matter. —mix Spot vanaugb g at Bo­ n signed ew Tom Satisfied Sidemen ggs-ABC slated to vens hM PRICES ino) art Model FHCB *27.50 d Pratt (with rohunt control) Model FHB 822.00 y Bullet! ( without wohunc control) MORE BRILLIANT AND BALANCED TONES with Finger-tip Control Wonder fai, nerer-before imagined oat reproducing pick noises. 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