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...Lunceford record is blues with soup-and-fish on--a majestic, almost top-heavy, arrangement smoothly played with the firm rhythmic background characteristic of this band. The result is satisfactory, but the lyrics aren't given the rich, vibrant interpretation they get from Al Morgan these spring evenings down at the Savoy, where Sabby Lewis's boys often play over their heads backing him up. That authentic, low-down atmosphere of the blues loses itself in the dressiness of the performance...
Moonlight Cocktail (Glenn Miller; Bluebird; Bing Crosby; Decca). Smoothest dance version, best vocal, of the rollingly rhythmic song now at the top in sheet-music sales...
...comedy diving act was originally scheduled, but this had to be cancelled because the participants were drafted. The program will include rhythmic swimming and waltzing by the Water Ballet...
George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" is first of all an exceptionally poignant story set to some of the finest music America has produced. Such famous songs as "Summertime" and the rhythmic death chants admirably depict the spirit of America's most colorful minority, the Negro. The love story of the lame beggar, Porgy, and his sultry Bess is the main theme, which is surrounded with the life in Catfish Row, its joys and sorrows, its day to day gayety and the sudden tragedies springing from a storm at sea or a crap-game brawl. In the first scene...
...Bess, both from the original production, give outstanding performances. Duncan's rendition of "I've Got Plenty of Nuttin" is especially fine. Harriet Jackson who sings "Summer-time" is a stunning Negress with a beautiful voice and a fine presence. The entire cast played with the ease and rhythmic grace that is so typically Negro and the staging of the show is very fine especially in the love duet and the group scenes...