... The Fifth Dimension (ABC ABCL 5135) This looks like a conscious attempt on the part of the Fifth Dimension to get back to the roots of their music, but one has the feeling that they are too late, despite the fact that they have always been a superb vocal group. Like it or not, they are probably stuck in the Las Vegas groove now, which is no bad thing for Las Vegas. Dance Craze Johnny Howard ...

... 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, ...

... Record reviews Solo Sue Glover (DJM DJLPS 469) It is right and proper that our talented session singers should be given the chance to make albums of their own, but the trouble is that they are so professional in a variety of styles they can seldom achieve a style to themselves. Sue Glover has written a high proportion of the songs on the LP but none is espe cially memorable. (Producer, John ...

... New theatre centre Steven Berkoff, whose London heatre Group have been per forming at the Greenwich Theatre, has discovered a building in Isling ton which could solve some ofNorth London's theatre problems. In Al- r meida Street, not far from the King's Head, it is Georgian and in very good condition and even used for a short while as a music-hall in the 1840s. There is a basement and another ...

... Isn't It Romantic? Pasadena Roof Orchestra (Transatlantic TRA 335) An almost imperceptible shift in direction for the PRO here, with songs from the thirties rather than the twenties, greater warmth from singer John Pazz Parry, a few personnel changes, a greater overall polish in the production and backing vocals from the Chickadees and the Bowles Brothers. (Producer, Ritchie Gold). The First ...

... Dudley Moore at the Wavendon Festival (Black Lion BLP 12151). As Alun Morgan writes in his sleeve note. Dudley Moore's success as a comedian is inclined to make us forget his real ability as a jazz pianist, especially in those items with a Latin American flavour. There are some Moore originals in this crisp, witty and melodic collec tion, in which bassist Pete Morgan and drummer Chris Karan ...

... Works, Vol 1 Emerson, Lake and Palmer (Atlantic K80009) A double album which could have been a monstrous ego trip but fortunately isn't, in that it shows the very real talents of three diversified musicians who are to a certain extent victims of their overblown, over-theatrical approach to rock. Only side 4 has them all together on this occasion, featuring Copland s Fanfare for the Common ...

... Hazy, Crazy and Blue Humphrey Lvtteiton (Black Uon BLP 12160) An album which shows that Humph, though now an elder statesman of jazz, is still not averse to a spot of experimentation, whether it be in the Triple Exposure suite, the movements of which give the LP its name, or his Blues in Bolero, or in his revival the Paseo sound. Creole-cum-Ca- ribbean, which he first featured in the ...

... DISC DATA COUSIN JOE. the veteran blues man from New Orleans, will be celebrating his 70th birthday on December 20 in Europe, which he visited for the first time in 1964 He is doing a number of British dates during the tour, mainly in colleges. but he is at the 100 Club, Oxford Street, on December 12 Jim Simpson of Big Bear Records, Birmingham, who represents Cousin Joe here, has fust ...

... Maybe It's Lost Lesley Duncan (GM GML 1019) Only the fact that she prefers a quiet domestic life and makes few live appearances has prevented Lesley Duncan from receiving the acclaim given to some of the highly touted American lady singer- songwriters. This album shows her gentle, romantic style in a selection of tuneful songs. (Producer, Jimmy Horowitz). Love is the Key Edward Woodward ...

... Coppelia THEATRE NORTHERN BALLET FOR AN all-too-short season in the Opera Theatre of the Royal Northern College of Music as a prelude to a two-months' tour, the Northern Ballet Theatre presented an entirely new production of Coppelia. And no happier choice for a Christmas production could have been made than the delightfully col ourful story of the mad inventor and his doll. Directed by ...

... DISC DATA The Floral Dance Brighouse Rastrick Band (Logo LOGO 1001). The new and possibly more acceptable face of brass band music, with the well-known Northern precision applied to modern numbers and sparked by a drummer who has learned his stuff listening to the big swing bands rather than the military variety. Brass bands doing pieces? like Shaft is a bit like an elephant dancing the ...