... things and lacking them, really lacking everything. Here is no lyric emotion because that depends on the speaking of the verse, and the speaking of the verse throughout the performance is utterly without vocal rhythm and music. And, well balanced as the ...

... and highly individual ways with love and crime, are moving, exasperating, funny or repellent and always vitally human. They speak with naturalness and behave often fantastically, but never unbelievably. They are characters in every sense of the word. I ...

... Such sweet thunder, to wit but this is the first time lie lias launched a frontal attack on another man's music. Ducally speaking, the main change from his other suites is that there are fewer mood passages, unless the intriguing Chinoi serie qualifies ...

... the modern school, and a very different idea of what constitutes an arrangement for jazz band and soloists. Jon Hendricks speaks two introductions on this album, but I prefer him as a singer in A Good Gil-together (LAE12231). There is a refreshing funky ...

... justify its place in my shelves. For sheer impact of music you should hear an important record by Duke Ellington, Historically speak ing (PMClll(i), reissued as a result of the transfer of the Bethlehem catalogue rights in England. These twelve titles, recorded ...

... subjects of at least three different recordings, but he still has fresh thoughts about them. The Jazz Gallery is, strictly speaking, a new series of Philips EPs, featuring their top artists. Duke is featured in one (BBE12304) which revives pieces he recorded ...

... bandleaders (SKL4090), in which he reminisces about their music, their styles, and the individual sounds they produced. It speaks well for his versatile band and arranging staff that 12 widely differing approaches to big band swing are effectively and ...

... of his titles to the Coast, to Kent and to Pastoral, he is not an abstract impressionist but a pure painter whose paint speaks for itself. I have left far less room than it deserves for the show of recent pictures by the Indian artist, Avinash Chandra ...

... thing is going to happen in the world of jazz? The mass of small clubs which now feature jazz as their musical enter tainment speak for the home following; the stream of trans atlantic visitors confirms, in part, the public's willingness to patronize concerts ...

... the general editorship of K. R. Greenfield are responsible for this wide-ranging review in which the facts are allowed to speak for themselves. For the reader there is the fascinating exercise ot considering what might have been. Ann Welch and Gabor Denes ...

... pangs will be relieved. I have just read a book which proves this point amply, and very funnily, which is why I am able to speak with such authority. BE GUIDED BY ME (Michael Joseph. 15s.) has been written by M. Guy Abecassis and crisply translated from ...

... in fact a far from dead sport, and there are many more men practising it, women, too, than catch the public eye. Generally speaking, the ex- perienced falconer is a little reluct ant to encourage others to take up j the recreation, partly because he knows ...