Word: guarneri
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Italian-born Vittorio Sacconi regularly overhauls Joseph Szigeti's Guarneri and Yehudi Menuhin's Strad; Jascha Heifetz takes his violins to Mischa Yurkevitch when in New York, to A. Koodlach in Los Angeles...
...muted trumpet chorus in the Cootie Williams tradition. The boys wind up with a lot of whacky riffs which give Shaw opportunity to show a little technique if nothing else. Reverse is called When the Quail Come Back to San Quentin, and Scarlatti would have appreciated what harpsichordist Johnny Guarneri does to some of his own ideas (VICTOR)...Benny Goodman's latest twelve inch recording, Superman, is another elaborate Eddie Sauter orchestration, and features Cootie Williams pyrotechnics all the way through. There's also some tenor sax by Georgie Auld, who gets the same dirty tone out of his horn...
...squeak his way through two twelve inch sides of what VICTOR is trying to pass off as being worth two twelve-inch sides. Miscarriage is titled Concerto for Clarinet, which you might have heard in "Second Chorus." However, there's some very fine boogie-woogie piano by Johnny Guarneri, who shows the influence of Albert Ammons. Also, Nick Fatool's drums and Billy Butterfield's trumpet save the coupling from being a total loss. . . . Record of the week: As Long As I Live, by the Benny Goodman Sextet (COLUMBIA). Benny picks a fine tune in the first place, and plays...
...loss is Goodman's gain, but I can't see Cootie with anyone but the Duke...Record of the week is Special Delivery Stomp by Artie Shaw's Gramercy Five (VICTOR). Featured is Billy Butterfield, whose muted trumpet beats Muggsy at his own game. Also heard are Johnny Guarneri, playing a harpsichord (!),, and Nick Fatool, whose drumming is reminiscent of Krupa at his best. Whole record jumps like hell. Reverse in Keepin' Myself For You, and makes good dancing...Count Basic cuts two sides of fast blues entitled The World Is Mad (OKEH), and stars the tenor sax of Lester...