DOWN BEAT December 29. 1954

Rhythm & Blues Notes Hot & Cold Lombardo Sets 2 New York — Several men of ... । — By Ruth Cage the music business were com­ TV Film Series Those who seem to be impressed by the increased use of menting on the short duration of fame for many of the young 0 the Latin beat in r&b tunes have rather lost sight of the pop record artists who seem to New York—Guy Lombardo has long-standing precedent for such mixing. (The original ver­ break for a hit but suddenly embarked on a television produc­ sion of St. Louis Blues, for in-*" slip back into hoping again. tion enterprise. A series of 39 films, stance, has smack in the middle He’s had hit records with his “As a matter of fact,” calmly entitled Guy Lombardo and His 0 some pretty definite Castilian own crew (like 815 Stomp, That’s observed Abe Turchen, Woody Royal Canadians, is being produced grai notes.) the Groovy Thing, Flamingo, and Herman’s manager, “I knew a by Guy Lombardo Films in New les i It seems better to consider this Temptation) yet his big writing singer who was hot in Pittsburgh York at the Biltmore studios. cactu the completion of a circle, not a successes have been hits for others. last Friday at 3:30.” In addition to the complete ag­ sente new tangent. Let Me Off Uptown got the Gene gregation of Lombardo regulars, chani Much grew up in New Or­ Krupa treatment, Brooklyn Boogie a guest vocalist will be used in almo leans, where the Spanish and was a romp for , and each weekly episode. The guests French had combined to produce Alvino Rey recorded his Major and will include: Fran Warren, Sunny Th an old-world atmosphere in the new the Minor, which, incidentally, be­ Birdland Hits Gale, the Fontane Sisters, Karen pickt world. The sounds that came from came a movie title with Bostic mu­ Chandler, Judy Lynn, Mary Mayo, with the Spanish side of the city’s fam­ sic in the film’s background. Betty Reilly, Toni Arden, Betty mud Plays Major Clubs Fifth Birthday Jane Watson, Eleanor Russell, Eu­ ily fit into the jazz patterns across Earl Bostic town with ease. Bostic has played many major New York—The Birdland anni­ genie Baird, and many others. Farther Back clubs, making one of his greatest days at Harlem’s Savoy ballroom versary show (marking the start hits recently at Broadway’s Basin . . . The Midnighters finally have of the club’s sixth season) opens Levy that gets under way Feb. 11. If one wished to follow influ­ Street. No matter what's in the made it to the New York scene. Dec. 16 co-starring Count Basie As of present plans, Basie, Sarah, ences even farther back, there offing though, he picks six weeks They’ve got a Dec. 13 date with and George Shearing. On opening and Shearing will headline the could be found a common ancestor out of the year for vacation. Come Todd Rhodes at the Apollo . . . night, Sarah Vaughan will also show in addition to Errol Garner. for both jazz and the Spanish beat. mid-December, he’ll begin this Hal Singer has added something appear, held over for that evening Lester Young and Jimmy Rushing The Africa’ influenct was felt in year’s respite. to his four-man aggregation—an from her previous Nov. 18-Dec. 15 will probably also appear as added No holiday rest is in sight, organ. Singer himself will play it booking. attractions with the Basie band. though, for Cootie Williams. He’ll . . . Published rumors to the con­ This same triple bill will serve as The tour is scheduled to last 8H At any rate, today’s versions of leave the Dinah Washini trary, Tiny Bradshaw is still very a prelude to the national jazz tour weeks, with cities visited as far rhythm and of blues demonstrate ing r&b package to spen* much alive. produced by Birdland’s Morris west as St. Louis. this return to earlier influences. It’s not just the mambo tempo either that’s getting the interest. La Verne Baker’s Tweedie Dee, for need instance, has a decided samba ahar rhythm. Tito Puente recently put it migl very simply: Tl “Any person, I think, who digs beco jazz, will dig the mambo.” and In the mambo-style sweepstakes, repli Earl Bostic’s Mambo Lino is tak­ ing pretty big strides. Bostic is a long-on-talent fellow whose work nm< has been characterized by versatil­ calle ity ever since the days he made music as a youngster. He was a U clarinetist with Tulsa’s Booker T. sert* Washington high school band and that alto saxman with the Boy Scouts. age ia g After high school, Bostic moved to Omaha for a year at Creighton If university. He kept doubling—toot­ nenl ing daytunes for the ROTC band you university, where he was again a T military bandman and out in the moa eity of a jazzman. He thro then migrated to New York and unti rot work as a sideman with Ed- com nr Hayes, Don Redman, Cab Cal­ ever loway, and others. proc In 1939, Bostic decided he’d rath­ oept er be fronting his own crew. The T band he put together moved into Harlem’s Small’s Paradise and stayed there four years. Six months with the late and two yean with followed. Then Bostic, in 1945, again formed his own band. SONGWRITERS KI Top to bottom : MARVIN LONG in Mam sMsvttra WARD SILLA WAY CHUCK EVANS WORLD'S GREATEST MUSIC WEEKLY (UM Salo—100,000 a Wook) MELODY MAKER (London. England] LAST MINUTV NIWS. «>d«iv« FOR THE WARING AM MAH. 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