Ralph Burns In Percussion

 

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Ralph Burns In Percussion

Stereo Sight And Sound

Warwick Records W 5001

1961

From Billboard - April 10, 1961: Morty Craft's Warwick Records has unveiled a new "Sight And Sound" 5000 series of audio albums with the accent on percussion. Three of the initial seven sets contain a large string complement in center stage abetted by a vast array of percussion. In another case, there is a Ralph Burns big band set, again with the spotlight on percussion.

In other sets we find "The Soul Of Percussion" and "Glenn Miller Meets The Dorsey Brothers," again in the inevitable percussion. All of these have bene obviously well-engineered and there is a great attempt to show movement of instrumentation, as though back and forth across a stage. Sound buffs will find a lot of what they like, and there is much that is danceable, including such wide-ranging items as "Concertos" by the Warwick Symphony and an all modern jazz presentation.

What strikes a reviewer here is the actual value of the use of the overworked word percussion, when in fact a bank of percussion may serve only to introduce an arrangement in the first 10 seconds or so with the scoring then proceeding along more conventional lines, This appears a tendency today in many areas and a firm might be better off taking a less obvious merchandising approach.

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