Show Barnet on Goodman back and better By BOB GORDON Benny Goodman pulls into for a four nite stint at the Rainbow beginning next After a week of gushy ballads and moon-June-spoon material by Leighton Noble Freddy Martin rich man's Adolph the Goodman crew will be more than welcome to those interested in the more progressive The King of Swing is now fronting one of the best of his many fine Benny was one of the die-hards that refused to give up his traditional views on swing music in lieu of the progressive This grim determination led Benny to an unprecedented lull in long musical career and he even turned to the unpardonable crime of playing long-hair with several symphony Benny finally got tired of being called a and decided that if music wasn't going to follow as it had done many times m the then he would follow the The new Goodman comes up with a band that is definitely Their first instrumental was a smash and if that biscuit was any indication of the things to then Goodman is still making a game and successful try to hold on to his position up among the Vaughn switches Sarah Vaughn's first waxing on the Columbia You Desire proves to be one of her best vocals in recent The switch to Columbia should be a big step forward in the Vaughn success Her talents were sadly concealed on the label of the limited distribution and sales power of In spite of that fact Esquire picked Sarah as having the talked of voice in Her note-blending style and her unusual range combined with excellent improvisations result in a sincere voice that is destined for even greater popularity under the Columbia The suggestive lyrics of You Desire are only overshadowed by the more highly suggestive of Sarah's voice this fact not withstanding her vocal should make the disc a Another welcome change of labels is that of Charlie who recently switched to Barnet is leading one of today's better bands but for a period that was much too long he and his boys wre blowing their brains out on the Apollo label and were receiving little national recognition for their Barnet's first release on is an instrumental entitled and it makes one wonder why it took a major so long to add the Barnet name to their begins with a Kenton-like introduction and moves right along with better than average solos and a terrific beat backing up the No new info on Kenton No new info on whether or not the Kenton retirement is Stan is vacationing in South America and some of the west coast critics have expressed the belief that he's down there merely to work up some new ideas which he plans to use in a new band this If the Kento-n retirement should prove to be permanent it will involve more than just another instance of a retiring It will mark the end of an An era that saw one man venture forth and attempt to revolutionize conventional American music with a style that he believed coincided with scientific The attempt proved unbelievably successful and the music which at first had many people laughing and sounded like a type of uninhibited jungle music later had those same and a lot of clamoring for more of the Stan worked long and hard to establish his music with the people but he was still dissatisfied and entertained the firm conviction that his music still was not being received as it should be in a concert hall with a crowd of appreciative people listening rather than a smoke-filled ballroom with a bunch of young pseudo-cats you Doc supposedly getting their If Stan does not return to the will have lost a great progressive mind and a man who contributed a great deal toward influencing current trends in modern |