RATING—
THE RECORDS
Frank Marshall Davis, for ANP)
MARY LOU’S SOLOS
Mary Lou William*, tops
among keyboard queens, has just
had tvw> piano solo records re
leased on Decca with drums and
string accompaniment. Titles are
THE PEARLS and THE ROCKS,
and MR. FREDDIE BLUES with
SWEET (PATOOTIE) PETU
NIA. Af'V'r listening to some of !
Miss Williams’ thrilling work ’
with Andy Kirk’s band, these
disc" are in the main disappoint
ing.
On just two sides, “The Rocks” i
and “Sweet Petunia,” does Miss
Williams show flashes of the bril
liancy that has made her inter
nationally renowned in hot jazz
circles. On these tunes she em
ploy” characteristic chord em
phasis, offbeat timing and
phraseology, butt then only in
spots. For the most part she
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seems to be experimenting and
not too successfully, with a new
technique. These sides might do
credit to a lesser ivory-plunker,
but they are not consistently
worthy of an artist of Miss Wil
liam$’ ability.
Coleman Hawkins also falls
down in his latest effort® with
Lionel Hampton and an all-star
band on V.ctor’s ONE SWEET
LETTER FROM YOU. His tenor
sax sounds rough and his idea*
second-rate. Th;re are a dozen
tenormen who could “carve” the
great Hawk on this. But the rest
of the side and of the companion
EARLY SESSION HOP, are
good elnough. Benny Goodman’s
Columbia version of “One Sweet
Letter” is far superior, with
saxophone choir and rhythm at
their relaxed best behind Benny’s
rousing clarinet, and of course
Ijouise Tobin tums in a much
better vocal than Hampton on
this waxing. But I don’t care at
all for CATTERBRAIN, the
Goodman doubling.
Jimmie Lunceford has a new
peilorn ance on Vocalion of his
famous WHITE HEAT, and it is
really great. While in the killer
dille.1 style at breakneck spred,
evesy instrument blends perfectly
and at no time does the piece
run away from tha players. The
other side is YOU CAN FOOL
SOME OF THE PEOPLE, like
wise well done. If you like your
drums heard instead of felt, bend
an ear to (Joe Daniel*’ SOLITUDE
on Decca. This English band
turns in one of its best jobs on
this. Coupled is BLUE RHYTHM
OF THE BLUES, not nearly so
successful. On the sentimental
sido i: Erskine Hawkins’ RE
HEARSAL IN LOVE which i*
fine for that type of music. But
deliver me from the loud and
boring SATAN DOES THE
RHUMBA on the other side of
this Bluebird.
You know in advance that any
thing written by Slim Gaifciard
will have crazy words. So be pre
pared for two sides of vocal nut
tiness on A-WELL-A-TAKE-UM
A-JOE and CHICKEN RHYTHM
on Vocalion by his Flat Foot
Floogee boys. I like the good,
[ jumpy rhythm dished out and the
disc ought to go big among jit
terbugs. One of the loveliest
pairing of the season is by Glenn
Miller on Bluebird. His BLESS
YOU and SPEAKING OF HEA
VEN blends rhythm and melody
in perfect proportions. The Ray
mond jScott Quintet, specialists
in descriptive jazz, offer NEW
YEAR’S EVE IN A HAUNTED
HOUSE and THE GIRL WITH
THE LIGHT BLUE HAIR or
Columbia. This is the foremost
Scott double in many imoons with
lots of drive, power and humor
ous touches.
ON BALLIN’ THE JACK, A1
Nicholos, plays the bsst clarinet
he has waxed on the special Blue
bird series of New Orleans jazz
by Jelly Roll Morton. But both
this and the coompanion, DON’T
YOU LEAVE ME HERE, suffer
from the absence of Sidney
Bechet. Another double bullseye
for Harry James is scored with
M Y BUDDY and WILLOW
WF'EP FOR ME on Columbia.
The James trumpet is in good
taste and flashy, while the whole
band, is solid. Decca presents a
new hot unit of violin, clarinet,
guitait and bass in the A1 Duffy
F’our swinging two Italian tunes,
LA SPAGNOLA and FUNICULI
FUNICULA. There are better
musicians abroad in the land but
their enthusiasm and novelty
should put these boys across.
Of real interest is Charlie Bar
net's Bluebird of THE DUKE’S
IDEA and THE COUNT’S IDEA
describing the two leading hot
bands. The Ellington imitation is
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especially successful, rendered in*
a slow mood with typical Elling
ton sax and brass work. The
Lasie take-off, a stomp, does not
get across nearly so well. Bar
ney’s tenor sax differs too greatly
from that of Lester Young and
the Count’s rhythm section deffies
duplication. There’s a lot of happy
jive and whistling by Bill Dar
nell in Red Nichols’ version of
the rapidly rising tune, YOU’RE
THE GREATEST DISCOVERY i
on Bluebird. The coupling is I
LIVE AGAIN.
ON RACE LISTS
Releases from the “race lists”
have b en piling up. Included art
a couple of interesting reissues.
One i8 LAWD LAWD and IN A
CORNER by Cecil Scott. Made in
tho days of scat singing, and
tuba, both sides back punch and j
sound, gutty swing with a gor
geous bass sax. Another reissue
is on Decca by Igiy Robinson’s
Windy City Five. Titles are “A”
MINOR STOMP and SUN
SHINE. The first is good stomp
stuff with an alto sax that sounds
a bit off key but is nevertheless
well played.
Best of the new Pace blues are
GET YOUR ROW OUT and UN
DER EYED WOMAN by Roose
velt Sykes on Decca and this is
real lowdown stuff; A WORKING
MAN’S BLUES and EASY WAY
BLUES by Peetie Wheatstraw on
Dooca, some more genuine goods;
FAN IT BOOGIE WOOGIE and
DON’T PAN ME, a Decca by
Frankie Jaxon with good swing;
MARKED WOMAN and YOU
AIN’T HAD NO BLUES, also a
Decca by the satisfying Blue Bar
k r with Buster Bailey and Char
ley Shavers in the supporting
band, and SEND ME AN ANGEL
DOWN plus DO YOU CALL
THAT RIGHT, a Vocalion by
Roosevelt Scott with barrelhouse
piano and vocal bass. Other race
i>eleases include the Deccas of
DON’T YOU KNOW and LI’L
LIZA JANE, by Ollia Shepard;
I’M BLOWING MY TOP and
RAILROAD BLUES by Skeets
Tolbert, and the Vocalion of
WHEN MY LOVE HAS COME
DOWN and YOU CAN’T WIN
IN HERE, by the Harlem' Ham
Fats.
IN BRIEFER MENTION
ARE YOU HAVIN’ ANY FUN
and SOMETHING I DREAMED
LAST NIGHT; WAIKIKI and
GOODNIGHT MY BEAUTIFUL,
both on Columbia by Ella Logan
in characteristic vein.
INDIAN SUMMER and A
UOVER JS BLUE, a WautVul
popular coupling by Tommy Dor
j sey on Victor; TEA FOR TWO
! and THE LAST SESSION, an
1 unimpressive delbut on Sonny
Burke on Vocalion; CHICO’S
LOVE SONG and I LOVE TO
SING THE WORDS WHILE i
WE’RE DANCING, pretty fair1
swing by Leg Brown on Bluebird;
AT LEAST YOU COULD SAY
HELLO and STOP KICKING MY
HEART AROUND, popular1 num
bers by Jack Teagarden on Col
umbia, and A TABLE IN A
CORNER and CAN I HELP IT,
well played tunes by Larry
Clinton on Victor.
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GAINES CASE BESTIRS
SOUTHERN WHITE UNI.
—
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 30 (C—The
decision of the U. S. Supreme
Court in the Gaines case last
December has kept presidents and
trustees of the State universities
in the deep South in a dither,
ever since that time. Edwin
Camp, writing in the New York
Times, reports that they are still
engaged in a serious struggle
with their problem. He reveals
that “three Negroes who sought
to matriculate at the University |
of Georgia” while in Tennessee
demand admission for post grad
uate work, two into the law
school of the State University,
Decision on the applications is
being delayed while the commit
tee, headed by Harmon W. Cald
well, president of the University
of Georgia, prepared a report to
bemade to the Southern Univer
sity Conference.” Mr Camp
quotes President Caldwell as say
ing that he did not think it
‘‘feasible” to admit Negroes to
Southern institutions “just now”
and proposed as a practical solu
tion the setting up of regional
universities bo which all the
States embraced would contribute
funds. If the Supreme Court
does not approve of that plan,
two other possible solutions are
available, said Mr. Caldwell:
“(1, Expansio nof Negro State
Colleges to provide for adequate
instructions in law, medicine,
ministiy, social work and such
other subjects.
“(2) Financial aid to privately
owned Negro colleges to accom
plish the same purpose.”
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