... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... McJazz Lives On Sandy Brown (One-Up OU 2092) When Sandy Brown died in March this year, British and, indeed, world jazz lost a strikingly gifted and idiosyncratic musician. These tracks, recorded in the late fifties and early sixties by Denis Preston and mainly released on earlier albums, form an excellent tribute to a man who was not only a clarinettist with an instantly recognisable style but ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... John Renbourn and Stefan Grossman (Kicking Mule SNKF 139) Two of our leading guitarists in double harness in a set which shows that although both are associated with what is known as folk, their tastes are much more varied. All the tracks are originals save for Charles Mingus' The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife and some might be surprised and even shocked to find Grossman playing ...

... 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 ...