Stalingrad Front Stalingrad Front The Stalingrad Front was a front, a military unit encompassing several armies, of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War. The name indicated the primary geographical region in which the Front first fought, based on the city of Stalingrad on the Volga River. By order of the "Stavka" on July 12, 1942, Stalingrad Front was formed, under the command of Marshal S.K. Timoshenko, with N.S. Khrushchev as member of the Military Council and Gen. P.I. Bodin as chief of staff. Ostensibly this was simply a renaming of the now-dissolved Southwestern Front, but in fact was
What Now? (album) by Kenny Wheeler. What Now? (album) What Now? is an album by flugelhornist and composer Kenny Wheeler recorded in 2004 and released on the CAM Jazz label in early 2006. The "AllMusic" review by Scott Yanow states "This music generally takes its time yet never becomes sleepy or overly predictable, because the players listen closely to each other and often think as one. Although the program would have benefited from the inclusion of a barnburner for variety, "What Now?" succeeds as both background mood music and a thoughtful set of inventive jazz". On All About Jazz, John Kelman noted "One