Modern Screen (Jul-Dec 1945)

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I •„•-** « * ***** » 9*«ve « ft • e 8 a*-,*^* » a « * s>*~-.. * « « % a * • * »■ BY LEONARD FEATHER ■ Hello again! Well, it isn't getting any easier, this job of picking out the music of the month on records, and the stories behind it, because every month there are more new record companies by the dozen. Anyway, why not tear out that record listing you'll find at the end of this feature and tote it Leonard F., Phil ("My Dreams Are Getting Better") Moore at Cafe Soc. Uptown. 16 around when you're making your next batch of purchases? You'll find it's a terrific help in making you hep. . . . But now to get going, here are twenty new records with plenty on the ball, plus a little background data on each: I SURRENDER DEAR (Benny Carter— Capitol) — Benny Carter is a jazz genius who had to go abroad to be appreciated, back in 1936. He was working with a band in France, when I got him to come over to England and be staff manager for the BBC dance orchestra. Once f supervised a recording session in Holland, in the Hague, with Benny and Coleman Hawkins who'd come on from Rotterdam where he was playing at the time. A long way from 52nd Street, but the stuff survived. One of the numbers from that session, "Pardon Me, Pretty Baby," is in one of the Decca "Gems of Jazz" albums. As for this new "I Surrender, Dear," Benny does a beautiful trumpet solo on it. then, on the other side — "Malibu" — does an equally beautiful alto sax job. He composes, too. Such things as "Rainbow Rhapsody" (Glenn Miller recorded this), "CowCow Boogie", and his own lovely theme, "Melancholy Lullaby." MEL'S IDEA (Herbie Savoy) — Herbie Fields, the only white man currently working with a famous colored band (Lionel Hampton's) has done this one up hot, and you won't want to miss it. Herbie 's recordings (Continued on page 18) Fields