Down Bea NEW YORK JAZZNOTES: Count Basie and Tony Bennett tut an LP together during floor shows at the Casino in NEW' Philadelphia. The live set will be issued by Columbia . . . Publicist Joyce Ackers reports she has re-united • Youi , Lee Konitz, and Warne Marsh. With • AD bass and drums, the group may work together, possibly at the Half-Note ... John LaPorta's • New quartet cut an LP lor Everest. La­ Porta also recorded the solo clarinet • Kans part in Everest's LP version of Stra­ vinsky’s Ebony Concerto, originally • MG; written for the band, of which LaPorta was a mem­ ber . . . has written a national anthem for Nigeria. It will Teens I lx* introduced when the nation be­ Marsl comes independent of Britain in His k 1960 . . . Maynard Ferguson’s band played a breakfast dance in Harlem, Dizzy Gillespie fest swinging reviving an old tradition. The affair was staged by the Birdland Boys, a social club, and is first in a series to The ] be held at the Renaissance. Doors o,>ened at midnight, aration and festivities calmed down around 8 a.m. festival, W. C. Handy was installed in the Beale Street Hall ing. Brc of Fame at Memphis . . . Swedish jazz pianist Bengt 428 tee Hallberg is set to come to the U. S. to play through- area wh out the nation and record for Co­ 19 youtl lumbia . . . Joe Wilder cut an LP sequent for Columbia, with a small group done wi . . . RCA Victor plans to issue a set J. Will of 16 Jelly Roll Morton perform­ in the 1 ances on an LP, and another set by tern; an Artie Shaw, culled from the 1938-39 dren’s s period . . . Trumpeter Bill Berry Assisi left the Herb Pomeroy band to open als and his own studio in Cincinnati . . . peter L< uniformity Friends of the late Manie Sacks will John L stage a TV spectacular Jan. 20 on eludes r Frank Sinatra NBC to benefit the Emanuel Sacks at Farr Foundation. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, represer Dinah Shore, Kay Starr, Edgar Bergen, Perry Como, rial by Rosemary Clooney, Sid Caesar, and many more will and Joi headline. Victor may do an LP of the show . . . Big ard jaz. wahoo over the Lambert-Hendricks-Ross version of bands a L’il Darlin’ in their new Roulette LP, Sing Along With will re[ OF CUT Basie. Composer Neal Hefti says lyrics are unauthor- age,” Bi ized, the other side says they were thing ol commissioned . . . Horace Silver The I leaves for Europe with his group in port bo Symmetricut Reeds are cut for February, lor three weeks of con­ music ( membei uniform perfection. Busy musicians certs and a week at St. Germaine... Atlantic has a set coming cut in networl appreciate the "custom-made” 1957 at Music Inn, and featuring with G Pee Wee Russell, Jimmy Giuffre, quality of every Symmetricut Reed Upcc I Connie Kay, Percy Heath, Ray “The < ...itsnever-failing dependability, fi Brown, Oscar Pettiford, and many said Bn more. Also a multi-track set by girls hi easy response and finer tone. Giuffre featuring the Four Brothers Count Basie most h sound, and the Giuffre Three’s farewell LP, with Bob band, t Brookmeyer and Jim Hall playing Western Suite and I think Topsy, among others . . . John Lewis will cut an At­ though lantic LP with a 14 piece brass band . . . Milt Jackson who au will do an Atlantic set with flutists Jaspar and Frank Brow (Continued on page 48) auditio