cia with bassist Dante Martucci and Vol. 6 drummer Al Levitt. South Side Chicago: Although there is good blowing by Oh. Daddy (Johnny Dodds and Tiny JAZZTAPE all four, the anthology is not entirely Parham); Salty Dog (Freddie Kep, Or satisfactory. I question first of all the pard’s Jazz Cardinals); Mama Stayed OU’ THE HI LO’S • PETE DAILY • sense of lumping four guitarists to­ Out (Barrelhouse Five); Careless Love gether instead of aiming at a cohesive, (State Street Ramblers); Jackass Blues lea A MARY LOU WILLIAMS • varied program by one (as in Jimmy (Lovie Austin’s Blues Serenaders); The Raney’s more satisfying session for the Memphis Maybe Man (Doc Cook's Et BUCK CLAYTON • PAUL same label). A second factor is that Dreamland Orchestra) pos‘ foi none of the arrangements are especial­ DEL OI SEVERSON • PETE CANDOLI • ly memora’ble, and in the case where Vol. 7 the most challenging framework was Chicago Style: W NEW ANIMAL CRACKERS needed — the Puma-Garcia sides — the Everybody Loves My Baby (Stomp charts are rathei dull. The two horns, Sina JAZZ BAND • GEORGE LEWIS • Wilson and Schildkraut, are capable, Six) ; Royal Garden Rlues (The Wolv­ hut not outstanding. The rhythm sec­ erines); When My Sugar Walks Down BOB ENEVOLDSEN • DICK tions are very good, especially Wayne’s. the Street (The Wolverines); China Worthwhile mainly for the guitartistry Boy (Charles Pierce Orch.); Friars MARX • LAURINDO ALMEIDA • of all four, and also valuable as a re­ Point Shuffle (Jungle kings); Up the minder that Chuck still has a lot to Country (W ingy Manone) FRANK COMSTOCK • SEXTET say in jazz. Fran Scott’s covet to-warm-your- Vol. B FROM HUNGER • KID ORY • Jiands-over is admittedly a striking Harlem: commercial asset, but is also the reduc- Harlem Strut (James I'. Johnson) LIZZIE MILES • OSCAR MOORE * tio-ad-dadaism of the growing tendency Mama's Got the Blues (Fats Waller); toward covers that have no organic re­ Hock Shop Blues (Cliff Jackson ) : BOB KEENE • HERBIE HARPER • lationship with the music inside. Excel­ Midnight Stomp (Clarence Williams lent notes by Tom Stewart. (ABC-Para­ Orch.) : Rainy Nights (Duke Ellington'« THE INTEGRALS mount 12" IP ABC-109) Washingtonians): Hop Off (Fletcher Send for complete catalog listing Henderson Orch.) 30 JAZZTAPE releases. Many The Riserside History Vol. M not available on records. of Classic Jazz New York Style: RECORI Vol. I INTERNATIONAL. PAC/F/C Sweet Lovin' Mama (Original Mem­ backgrounds : phis Five); Sweet Mau (California JAZZTAPE Royal Drums of the Abatutsi; Aba­ Ramblers); Stampede (Red and Miff’s ^cording corpora'0*4 tutsi Girls' Songs; Lobertina (Belgian Stompers); Eccentric I W ild Bill Davi­ Congo) : Street (ries of Charleston; son); Yank's Blues (Yank Lawson): Shuckin' Sugar (Blind Lemon Jeffer­ Lonesome Road (Muggsy Spanier) ñ58 NORTH VINE HOLLYWOOD 38, CALIF son) ; Cm Going to Heaven If it Takes My Life (Rev. J. M Gates); Slidus Vol. 10 MODERN JAZZ Trombonus (Sodero’s Military Band) : New Orleans Revival: BEGINS ON Ragtime Oriole (Fred Van Fps) Deary Blues (Kid Ory): Make Me The original recording of a Pallet on the Floor (Bunk Johnson); Vol. 2 Careless Love (George Lewi»); Antigua DJANGO Ragtime: Blues (Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Dawn Club Joys by At a Georgia Camp Meeting (Cake­ Band); (Bub Helm); St. James Infirmary (Dixieland Rhythm THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET walk); The Cascades (Scott Joplin); Frog Legs Rag (James Scott); Amer­ Kings) ............ Is available aga n in a 12 Prestige LP with Rating: other sides by this poU-winn ng combo ican Beauty Rag (Joseph Lamb); Per­ ............................. PRESTIGE LP 7057 fect Rag (Jelly Roll Morton); Atlanta “This,” Charles Edward Smith un­ Addit onal sides by the MODERN JAZZ JUAR Rag ((ow Cow Dasenport) derlines in his excellent essay in this TET and the MILT JACKSON QUINTET are package, “is the parent style, root and available on.............................. PRESTIGE LP 7059 Vol. 3 branch.” The essential scope of the L on 1 Forge* The Blues: graphic history herein is self-sounding CONCORDE (MJQ) .............. 12 LP 7005 in the list of titles and artists above. MILT JACKSON QUARTET ........... LP 7003 Titanic Man Blues (Ma Rainey): St. There are five 12" LPs in a sealed, Louis Rlues (Bessie Smith); I've Got handsomely nongansh leatherette al­ December Releases an Prestige the Blues for Rampart Street (Ida bum. Each 12” LP is composed of two Cox) ; Around the Clock Blues (Chip­ MOVING OUT “volumes” (hence the list of 10 vol­ Risin’ High Water Sonny Rollins Groups...... 12 7058 pie Hill): (Blind umes above). By my count, 29 of the MILT Lemon Jeffer«on); Big Rill Blues (Big <50 tracks have not previously been MJQ and Milt Jackson Qrt 70-9 Rill Broonzy) issued on Riverside. Total price is $25, TWO TRUMPETS Vol. i .and the LPs will not be available Donald Byrd/Art Farmer. 7062 singly. GARLAND OF RED New Orleans Style: Red Garland Trio............. 7064 There is no space to point up sides Froggie Moore (King Oliver’s Creole BARBARA LEA that struck me as especially significant, Jazz Band); The Pearb (Jelly Roll with J. Windhurst Quintet..........12 ' I 7065 although I must underline the flower NEW CATALOGUE AVAILABLE Morton); Steady Roll (Jelly Roll Mor­ ton’s Stomp Kings) : Livery Stable Blues vendor in the Charleston street cries (recorded in the early 1900s), the \ Send for FREE Catalogue (New Orleans Rhythm Kings); Blue sermon, the blues volume, and the Grass Blues (Original Memphis Melody surprise of how Duke sounded in 1926. jestige Records, Inr. Boys); Cake Walking Babies from What this collection obviously repre­ 447 WEST 50th ST • NEW YORK 19 Home (Red Onion Jazz Babies) sents is a short but substantial history of pre-swing-era jazz on record. Vol. 3 MAIL ORDER JAZZ Admittedly $25 is heavy money, but Boogie Woogie: TIFTON, GEORGIA I cannot conceive a more important America's Largest Exclusive No. 29 (Wesley Wallace) ; The Fives investment for the young jazz listener. Jan LP Mail Order House (Jimmy Yancey); Blue Boogie (Crip­ The older listener theoretically knows SEND 2S CENTS FOR ple Clarence Ixtfton); Far Ago Blues this material, or most of it; but an COMPLETE LISTING (Meade Lux Ix*wis) ; South Side Shuffle appalling percentage of jazz partisans OF EVERY MODERN (Art Hode«): Line Star Blues (Pete in their teens and early ’20s is remark JAZZ LP AVAILABLE Johnson) ably ignorant of the roots of Bird, 30 Down Beat.