Sleeve Notes: ST. LOUIS BLUES, the motion picture, is a new notch on Eartha Kitt’s achievement tree – her first Hollywood dramatic part. ST. LOUIS BLUES, the record album, scales a new promontory in her variegated recording career, presenting primarily … Continued
Sleeve Notes: This album sets a new standard in sensitive, subdued listening, by a master of the most unusual in musical enjoyment, Jackie Gleason. The magical Gleason touch that translated images into sound in “Oooo!” and “Velvet Brass” is vibrantly … Continued
Sleeve Notes: CHOPIN: LES SYLPHIDES In 1894 Glazunov published an orchestral suite entitled “Chopiniana,” consisting of orchestrations of four piano pieces by Chopin. At the start of the new century the choreographer Michael Fokine (1880-1942) decided to use this suite … Continued
Sleeve Notes: THE lovely music of Hawaii makes you want to do MORE than just listen! It’s an invitation to try your hand (and the rest of you) at the art of fluent motion—THE HULA —interpretive dancing at its most … Continued
Sleeve Notes: The satin-smooth Shearing sound has never been so expressive of its creator’s unique versatility as it is in this album. Augmented by rich instrumental backgrounds, here is an inspiring variety of distinctive moods: the subdued, lyrical rendering of … Continued
Sleeve Notes: On sait, par les précédents disques que nous avons consacré à la Cha-Cha-Cha (Barclay – 6. 82014 82015 et 820161), avec quelle rapidité cette danse, née depuis peu dans Ille de Cuba, a conquis les suffrages du monde. … Continued
Sleeve Notes: With his first latin-styled album, Latin Escapade, George Shearing demonstrated the new excitement and color his Quintet and deft piano stylings give to South American rhythms. In Latin Lace, Shearing’s piano, leading the way for the Quintet and … Continued
Sleeve Notes: “The Roaring Twenties” . . . the most hysterical and frantic era of American life came right after the stern and cruel years of World War I. The crisis was over . . . we had won . … Continued
Sleeve Notes: If it’s jazz you’re after—that is, the listening and dancing kind—you’ll go a long way before hearing anything as truly great as this superb Hi-Fidelity recording by Charlie Ventura and his quintet. Here you have in Ventura a … Continued
Sleeve Notes: Scheherazade, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff (1844-1908) is a sea haunted work that has never failed to exercise its magic from the time it was composed, in 1888, to to-day. It is an extraordinarily strong and beautiful composition portraying with … Continued