DOWN BEAT NEWS-FEATURES Chicago, April 18, 1 DOWN BEAT PREDICTS I Woody Insures Dolores Hawkins Will Score With 'Rocks In My Bed' New York—There's an Okeh recording slated to hit the*’ rm market and the disc jockey fraternity on April 15 that's going pei to shove shapely Dolores Hawkins right into the big time. Discovery Label mu The recording is of one of the rare ditties which had both nd muMe written by Duke Back In Business Ellington. blues of the early 4Os called Rocks ure Chub will stay awhile thia time. Real of the lineup defunct Signature label. One of sides would be put back on the comprise* Bill Perkins, Dick Hafer, and Amo Marsh, tenors, and Sam these was a romping rundown of market immediately. The rest of Staff, baritone: Don Fagerquist, Johnny Howell, Roy Caton, and Jack the oldie, Sing You Sinners. the catalog, he said, would be Skarda, trumpets; Carl Fontana, , and jack Green, trom­ fortunately, the record firm sifted, and only the strong sale­ bones; Nat Pierce, piano: , drums, and Dolly Huston, vo­ too rundown to capitalize on the able items retained in the listings. cals. They open April 7 at the Statler hotel in Manhattan. trade stir the slicing made and The new Discovery group has Dolores’ career remained in the also started recording. First artist constant show business rut. to be set was Art Pepper, who cut Burns Writes, Dolore» Hawkins ’ four sides with his new quartet. Dizzy Signs Seat Sold Records Suite The Signature recording did With Atlantic New York—Ralph Bums’ Free bring her firmly to the attention Forms, described as “a suite of of her agency, GAC, and one of Birdland Kicks Off New York—Just before leaving modern sounds” and played by a its night club-theater agents in for France, Dizzy Gillespie signed 15-piece orchestra conducted by particular, Don Seat. Seat was with Atlantic records and cut his Burns, has been set for release completely sold on the girl’s po­ BashesSunday Band first date for the label, using Joe this month in the Norman Grani tential and proceeded to beat his Carroll and the small combo. series on Mercury. brains in to keep her rolling. Some New York—The “jazz laboratory" band experiment, started Dee Gee records, the company The orchestra includes Lee Koniti months ago he successfully nego­ Dizzy founded last year, will re­ on alto saxophone, plus French tiated a recording contract for a few months ago at the Kavakos Club in Washington by disc jockey Willis Conover, has spread to New York. Mort Lewis, main active. Dave Usher of Detroit, horn, strings and rhythm. The Dolores with Danny Kessler, re­ Dizzy's partner in the venture, is suite is composed of eight tone cording topper of the Okeh label, former Kenton press agent, is now presenting a series of in charge. poems. apd this move appears to have been bashes at Birdland with a 20-piece the ahe which will turn the bread- I orchestra. Like Conover’s presenta­ and-water into'strawberry short­ tions, the sessions are held every BopkReview cake (Lindy of course). ! Sunday afternoon and are open —Buteina*~ fli st ehort for Okeh i to the public. was to dub in a vocal part on the Personnel fp&tfie first date, held ■mash hit recording of Hain__ i bone Marqb.—'included Al Porcino, ?. '"Bobby Styles, Howard Reich, Al Want To Learn To Sing? PUN" her firs .xjlo pe trumpets; Eddie Bert, slicing coupling Ooh-H ee VV. Love Harry Di Vito, Miff Sines, Vern Me Long. The release of the lat­ Friley, Bart Varsalona, trombones; ter disc was the cue for Seat Vinny Dean, Hal McKusick, altos; Jo's Book Not Much Help to take a leave of absence from Stan Getz, Eddie Wasserman, ten­ his GAC desk to go out on the ors; Danny Bank, baritone; George By LEONARD FEATHER ♦------— road with Dolores to start spread­ Wallington, piano; Chuck Wayne, New York—There have been many books on the subject ing wax propaganda via the disc guitar; Ed Shaughnessy, drums; of popular singing (Miriam Spier's was one of the lietter ef­ jockey route. Artie's Book । Clyde Lombardi, bass. forts), but all of them are up against the same insoluble Now comes Rocks in My Bea. It Objective of the sessions, states produces a new Dolores Hawkins. problem. They >imply aren't worth writing. Jo Stafford's Lewis, is threefold: to give musi­ Out In May She has opened her pipes wide cians a chance to blow, give ar­ Easy Lessons in Singing, whicli even and developed a shout style akin rangers a band they can write for with widely spread lines of lype Seven of the 10 tiny chapters New York—Publication date of to the Kay Starr and Johnnie Ray without commercial restrictions, and numerous illustrations only deal with answers to questions sup- Artie Shaw’s book, The Troubh schools. And the female power­ stretches to 28 pages of actual posedly asked of the authoress. with Cinderella, has now been se: house style has box office ear­ and give the Birdland public a chance to hear a big band “with­ text, suffers seriously from this One of them is: by Farrar, Straus & Young for marks all over it. She made the handicap. To be completely honest “Dear Miss Stafford: I have been May. etching with vocal support from out French horns and a lot of handclapping.” about the business of becoming a told I constantly sing off key. What Artie recently moved into towr the Four Lads and musical back­ successful pop vocalist, one would can 1 do?” ground is effectively filled in by Arrangements are being contrib­ from his upstate farm in order ti have to start with an admission The answer to this is clearly: concentrate on proofreading of the the Wild Bill Davis Trio. uted by Boyd Raeburn, George that this talent just can’t be ac­ Russell, Tiny Kahn, , “Marry a rich man or take up volume. quired. stenography,” but Jo goes into a Johnny Mandel, and Educate your ear, says Jo. Don’t After its appearance on th« others. short treatise on proper exhala­ market, he will return to Englanc sing sharp or flat. Have good dic­ tion. Perhaps I am being unduly tion. Don’t get too near to or too to make a documentary film for* cynical, but it seems that anyone which he contracted during his Gene Krupa Trio far from the microphone. Don’t smart enough to be interested in dress sloppily. visit last fall. He also told thi developing the qualities that make Beat he would like to write hú Reunited, With Neal, Frances Voice Bom a Jo Stafford will be smart enough next book in Great Britain anc It would only be carrying the to know the limitations of the bene­ may stay there a year. reductio ad absurdum a little fur­ fits to be found in reading the answers to dumb questions of this He has no plans for musica ther to add a chapter about not Ventura Featured type. activity of any kind. New York — Gene Krupa and Ork Hits The standing on your head, not sing­ ing in a different key from the Sorry, Jo, but this book just Charlie Ventura, who played an hasn’t got it—not even with the engagement together at Charlie’s band (unless Stan Kenton’s ar­ foreword by Deems Taylor. It does, New Jersey club two months ago, ranger asked you to) and spitting however, have one very admirable Road May 15 out the chewing gum before you Same Auld Story: were reunited shortly after Gene quality. It contains a number of completed his big-band stint at the start your chorus. New York—The Neal Hefti- highly attractive photographs of Paramount. They will definitely re­ The fact is that perhaps 19 out Jo Stafford. Maybe the two pic­ main together as a trio, with Ted­ Frances Wayne orchestra will hit of 20 top singers in the country It s George Again the road on May 15 and will go tures on page nine, in which she dy Napoleon on piano. Group will today (and by top singers I mean is learning to breathe correctly, Los Angeles—Georgie Auld, wht be billed as the Gene Krupa Trio into rehearsal during the first or the Bing Crosbys, Johnnie Rays, second week of April. The hus­ will alone be worth the dollar to gave up the music business in dis­ featuring Ventura. and all present or potential vocal gust last year and soon found h< band-wife band, bred in the Coral millionaires) reached the heights some potential customers, Jo, any The Krupa-Ventura association time you want to breathe like that could make more loot selling paint goes back to the mid-40s, when recording studios for the past six with little or no tuition—and this, months, will be handed an all-out in public, you can be sure of an is back again. Charlie first rose to prominence we suspect, includes Miss Stafford eager audience. promotional effort, aimed mainly herself. Because his Coral records, fea­ as a featured soloist in Gene’s turing his tenor sax solos with a big band. Ventura later embarked at deejays, which will be coopera­ A successful voice is born, not tively worked out by the label; the made. Its qualities can be improved vocal group backing, proved to lx on a short lived big band venture the most successful commercial of his own. Heftis’ agency, MCA; and personal or brought out by a few in-person manager Sid Fields. lessons with vocal coaches or by Cab To Canada discs of his career, Georgie’s re­ Gene recently obtained a release turn to the bandstand was virtu­ from MCA. the agency that guided The band will be a 13-piece unit careful study of records, but little Chicago—Cab Calloway, back in him through his bandleading years. featuring five brass, four reeds and or nothing can be gained from an this country again and working ally wished on him against his will. He has signed a new term deal four rhythm. Neal and Frances, in examination of the truisms and with a five-piece unit, opens April He is now reported to be ready with Joe Glaser’s Associated Book­ addition, will carry a male vocal platitudes to be found in a text­ 4 for 10 days at the Rancho Don for booking with a quintet under ing Corp. trio, The Cavaliers. book of this kind. Carlos in Winnipeg. Associated Booking Corp, guidance.