... The Other Side (Making Waves SPIN 123); Feel Somethng Drawing Me On Sweet Honey in the Rock (Making Waves SPIN 124) Most of the stuff that is calling itself soul music pales into insignificance by the side of these two albums by the world's best female acapella group. For this is real soul, founded on the great black gospel tradition of America's southern states, which in itself has more than ...

... Sturm Und Drang/ Brighton Beach Scumbags RIVERSIDE STUDIOS Phil Gibby BERKOFF returns with a double bill which offers all the usual vitriol and above average amounts of sensitivity. The opening piece, Sturm Und Drang, covers much the same ground as the earlier Decadence, but it's more of a postscript than a carbon copy. BerkofT teams up with Timothy Walker an excellent combination to waltz ...

... Blue Skies - Kiri Te Kanawa (Decca KTKT1) Kiri Te Kanawa began her career in light entertainment, which makes this album rather different from those in the current vogue of opera singers pretending they can sing popular music. The New Zealand diva still retains a lot of pop style and indeed uses a completely different voice concentrating on the l\m I VI VV J Wllb VII U H IUIK V* UA% lower ...

... GALINA PANOV will now make her first appearance in this country with the London Festi val Ballet in Rudolf Nureyev's new production of Sleeping Beauty. She will dance two performances on April 25 and 26 and will be partnered by Nur- eyev on both occasions. The Panovs will make their first London appearance together on May 1. ...

... The Goof us Five 1925-1926 Parlo- phone PMC 7183 A genuine taste of the New York jazz age and a generous helping of the style of one of the remarkable little bands of the twenties, built around the bass sax playing of Adrian Rollini, who developed this ponderous instrument both as a rhythmic pulse and for fleet solo work. The other notable soloist on this eighteen-track album is trumpet ...

... Original Dixieland Jazz Band. World Records SH 221 A different type of music-making, a quintet of players who injected the spirit of the new jazz into a warweary London in 1919. Their initial engagement here was for the revue Joy Bells at the London Hippodrome and their overnight success aroused the star's jealousy. As he was George Robey. an established favourite with the public, the pro ...

... DISC DATA Greatest Hits -Steely Dan (ABC ABCD6I6) An excellent two-record compilation of what can now be seen as one of the most significant bands of the present decade, built around the very considerable songwriting and vocal abilities of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. Judged in total, one can appreciate the careful merging of influences to produce something individual in rock and also ...

... DISC DATA Thomas and the King (That's Entertainment TERB 1009) This musical, seen for only a few performances at Her Majesty's in 1975, lays some claim to being the biggest disaster since Wild Grows the Heather. But unlike that show it has moments of magnificence. Though our chief memory of it is probably Tim Good-child's superb settings and costumes this album confirms that it had a con ...

... Memory Serves Material (Celluloid ILPS 9693) One of the most interesting New York groups, Material is a loose collaboration, varying in size and line-up, of musicians attempting to blend rock with the avant garde end of jazz. On balance, rock, with its heavy and consistent rhythmic patterns, probably comes out on top but the album could not fail to have much that is of musical merit with ...

... ON THE RECORD Flying Home The Squadronaires (Decca RLF 19) The Squadronaires really did transform the face of British dance music, moving away from the sleek Ambrose sound (though nine of them came from that orchestra) to big band American swing, based less on Benny Goodman than, as Vic Bellerby sagely points out, Jimmy Lunceford. It was certainly a magnificent unit, with its ace soloists ...

... The Last LP John Spencer's Louts (Beggar's Banquet BEGA 3) It is to be hoped that the title of this album is not to be believed, because Spencer, a somewhat eccentric graduate of the folk scene, mainly at the Half Moon, Putney, is a remarkably facile songwriter and performer, seemingly able to find himself in any style, from rockabilly to country to satirical rock. His equally versatile ...

... Disc Data Latin Delights (Verve 2352139) Probably the greatest collection ever of those bossa nova tunes that burst upon our consciousness in the mid-sixties and are still among the happiest, most romantic pieces of listening today. The seventeen tracks feature all the best songs in this idiom and theartists include Stan Oetz, Charlie Byrd, Cal Tjader, Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, ...