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Records take a sharp upturn this week, and are much more interesting than they have been in a long while. Leading the list is Earl Hines' "Rosetta," a piano solo cut a few weeks ago on Bluebird with "Glad Rag Doll" on the other side, a solo that he made for Victor in 1929. As far as I am concerned, this disc settles once and for all who plays the most piano. Up until about two years ago, I' still thought that the "Father" was the top of them all, but after that he didn't do any recording...
While on the subject of piano solos, there was a very good one turned out for Commodore Record Shop by Jesse Stacy, formerly the Goodman piano ace, now with Bob Crosby. Both sides are blues, one quite slow and the other in a faster, more clipped tempo. Slow side, like most of Jesse's blues, is strongly influences by the sort of changes that Bix Beiderbecke used in "In a Mist." The whole side is built up on variations on one or two ideas of this nature. While at times is is genuinely beautiful blues, a great deal...
Other records: Tommy Dorsey's two side version of "Milenburg Joys," made privately some time ago and then released to the public, has some fine clarinet on it by Johnny Mince . . . Woody Herman's "Blues on Parade" okeh, but not as good as had hoped it would be . . . Count Basie's "I Left My Baby" a swell side of blues with Jimmy Rushing doing better singing than he has done for quite some time. Lester Young on sax gives him good backing . . . This new bass player that Duke Ellington found is really sensational. Listen to "Plucked Again" wherein he plays...
...from Broun's genial, hulking mass is six-foot, solid, tweedy Kenneth Crawford) but temperamentally: like Broun, his mind is on the masses, his eyes slant to the Left. One measure of his personal leaning toward Marxism is his book The Pressure Boys, about lobbyists (with many a side crack at publishers and advertisers). In his last sentence, summarizing his beliefs, Crawford writes: "No great progress can be made until the hard-pressed middle classes learn that their destiny is bound up with the welfare of fellow workers at the bottom, not the owners at the top. . . ." In spite...
...opposite side of the chestnut stand is Dr. Abraham Arden Brill, great friend of Dr. Lewis and dean of the orthodox Freudian psychoanalysts. "I have analyzed many novelists and artists," said he last week, "and they have produced their greatest works after treatment...