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...This is a mother who, in Vassa, Mike Bartlett’s acidly comic version of Gorky’s 1910 play Vassa Zheleznova at the Almeida, brutally bullies one son and belittles another as she fights with grim determination...
...A rollicking cover of Fats Waller’s “Viper’s Drag” is an early highlight, Ellington’s dignified “Come Sunday” features spiritual Charles Lloyd sax while “Danza, Op. 33” features a full orchestra....
...Butler, Bernstein & the Hot Nine Viper’s Drag (Impulse)...
...Bechet recorded sweet-toned, somewhat jaunty dance music with the Noble Sissle Orchestra, although authentic jazz subtleties and insidious rhythms returned when he used his own band to record “Viper Mad”...
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