... DISC DATA The Great British Dance Bands Play the Music of Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr (World Records SH 340) From the mid-thirties up to the outbreak of World War II, Kennedy and Carr reigned supreme among British songwriters. They surely caught every mood as it came along hillbilly, nostalgia, patriotic, cheer-up and chin-up, with here and there a touch of the exotic. Superb professionals, ...

... Royal Ballet Of Flanders SADLER'S WELLS THE ROYAL BALLET of Flanders, in their first nroeramme at Sadler's Wells, prove that the dilemma facing ballet today is not one of good dancers but of inspired choreographers. The company is strong in all departments, with excellent principals in Stefan Schuller. Tom Van Cauwenberg. Vivien Loeber. Patricia Carey and others, a neat, good- looking corps ...

... Capturing the feeling of 'All That Jazz' DISC DATA All That Jazz (Casablanca NBLP 7198) For once, a Film soundtrack album that captures almost precisely the feeling of the movie, a combined paean of praise and horror story about the highs, lows and neuroses of Broadway. The musical hero is Ralph Burns, whose initial impact with the 1946 Woody Herman Orchestra has ened out to place him in ...

... Ballet Rambert OXFORD NEW WHAT STRUCK me most forcibly about the programme by Ballet Ramben at Oxford's New Theatre was the excellence of the dancers, who attacked gamely but gracefully, found their way easily through pyrotechnics, and characterised with a simple directness--always sensed, often understated. The placing of Christopher Bruce's newish Preludes and Seng'\next to Richard Alston's ...

... The Great British Dance Bands Play Cole Porter (World Records SHB 66) A marvellous double album which not only features 40 of Cole Porter's best songs but is virtually a history of 17 years of British dance music, from the Jack Hylton Orchestra of 1927 to the Geraldo outfit of 1 944. It all goes to show, in case anyone has forgotten, that dance bands did not live entirely off the output of Tin ...

... DISC DATA Paris--Supertramp (A&M AMLM66702) There does not seem to be much reason for the issue of this double album, for all the tracks are familiar to Super-tramp devotees. But what sounds like 50 million Frenchmen can't be wrong. (Producers, Peter Henderson and Russel Pope). The European Tour John Col- trane (Pablo 2308 222) There is a little bit of mystery about these four tracks, in that ...

... DISC DATA Sydney Kyte and his Piccadilly Hotel Orchestra (World Reccords SH 387) It is nice to see one of the less-remembered pre-war dance bands represented in the Retrospect series. Sydney Kyte, violinist and deputy leader of the Savoy Orpheans, moved to the Piccadilly Hotel as bandleader in 1931 and these 16 tracks, originally on the Regal label, were made during his first two years there. ...

... Post-war musical wave DISC DATA Vocal Gems from Oklahoma!, Annie Get Your Gun and Carousel (World Records SH 393) Pleasant reminders of the first ever wave of post-war American musicals, sung by the artists who brought them to London -- Howard Keel, Betty Jane Watson, Dorothea Macfarland and Walter Donahue (Oklahoma!); Bill Johnson and Dolores Gray (Annie Get Your Gun); and Stephen ...

... Magic Patti Boulaye (Celebrity ACLP010) A selection of quality songs from the beauteous Miss Boulaye, assisted by the orchestra and arrangements of Les Reed, who slips six of his own songs into the album. (Producer, Chris Harding). Could I Have Thi Dance Frank Chacksfleld (Daman DS 042) Having made strict tempo records with many other types of combination, the Dansan label now does the trick ...

... Splendid stuff by Sandy Sandy Wilson Thanks the Ladies (Overtures OVER 1001) It has taken some time for this to find its way on to disc, for it was recorded at the Players in 1972. Nevertheless, it is worth the wait, for it is a reminder that Wilson, best known for The Boy Friend, is one of the best lyricists we possess, following broadly in the tradition of Coward but having more bite ...

... 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 ...

... DISC DATA Rock! Rock! Rock 'n' Roll!-Marty Wilde (Philips 6381 048) There is a tendency to regard Marty Wilde as a tame British copyist of the American rock 'n' roll greats, but this German reissue, available through Import Music Service, proves that although most of his numbers were cover versions, Marty's own delivery of them compares well with the originals. These tracks, made between 1959 ...