Granz Tells Story Of Tour; Lauds European Jazz Fans French Noisiest— Swedes, Belgians Hippest: Norman CHICAGO, JUNE 4, 1952 (Ed. Note: The following i» an account of Jau At The Philhar ■nonic's lour of Europe as related by J A rp’s impresario. Nornian Spinning With Web Grana.) For many years. I'd thought of taking JATP to Europe. We had had feelers from Eu- A Tribute To A Musician mpeatt promoters since 1948, but, mainly because of financial reason». 1 wa» unable to take the »how over. In fact, in 1950 1 went With Guts—Barclay Allen to Europe determined tu promote JATP there myself, but I was un­ By HAL WEBMAN able lo do it; I tried again in 1951, but the difficulties connected It’s often been said that show business has no soul, and with foreign exchange were just though it has been said, it can never be verified that it has too great. no heart. There have been myriad instances of show business Finally, 1 thought I’d try one courage like that of Jane Froman, whose heroic attributes more time, 1952. I had several let­ currently being shown ters from European promoters, and the country i to begin with. It's all about a mu­ in almost every instance, except­ flicker called With A Song In My sician who ran into some real bad ing one—Nils Hellstrom — there Heart. But examples like this one luck. His name, Barclay Allen. was only lukewarm interest. This is a curious fact about European have become public property, sort Bud Accide nt of living specimens that the show promoters: they evince little, if will always go on no matter what. Alien, about two and a half years any, interest via correspondence, It’s a far more heart-warming ago, was in a serious auto accident. but once you’re actually in Europe, thing to me to hear about the help­ Just before the accident, he had then they al) have big eyes to pro­ ing hand of show business being formed his own band after spend­ mote you. Once we got to Europe NAT AND ED—CBS* Toast of thr Town played host to Nat Cole again lent to comparatively anonymous ing some time as Freddy Martin’s and broke it up in Scandinavia, really. Seen here with Nat is the popular syndicated columnist Ed members of the clan who are in pianist. He also had just done his we were deluged with offers. illivim, uho originated thr program several years ago and built it into great need. That’s part of the first few sides under a fresh Capi­ ir of TV's biggest Sunday attractions. reason why this is being written tol recording contract. Al) this be­ came totally inconsequential when I took in the group; Ella Fitz­ the doctors reported that Allen gerald, Oscar Peterson, Flip Phil­ stood less than ■ 50-50 chance of lips, Lester Y»ung, Roy Eldridge, surviving the accident. Irving Ashby, Ray Brown, Hank Jones, and Max Roach. With the ¡riderella Shaw Bares Soul Displaying a powerful will to exception of Roy, none had ever live, Allen was able to hold onto played all of Europe. Max had life itself, though he wound up been to Paris, Ella. Ray, Hank, totally paralyzed below his hips. and Ashby to England, bat only Provocative Autobiography Even at that point, show business Roy had played all of the conti­ began to rally to the musician’s nent and Scandinavia, —. By LEONARD FEATHER aid. What little money Allen did We left from Idlewild Airport How dreary to be somebody! have was spent rapidly in hospitals. March The trip very Hou public, like a frog Former boss Martin sparked a smooth and uneventful, To tell your name the livelong day The Wildest! money-raising campaign that was that Oscar and Flip between thtm. To an admiring bog! Chicago — The Blue Note’» (Turn tu Page 13) These lines, by Emily Dickinson, are used by Artie Shaw new »how starting May 30 ha* 1» introduce a chapter in his first book (The Trouble With ill lli< element» lo qualify a» Cinderella—Farrar, Straus & Young Inc., $3.75). Perhaps what might truly be called a Previn Discharged they shed a little light on the reason for his virtual abandon- “wild hill.” Columbia May vent of the music business and his Bill of fare tommeming on decision to treat the admiring bog it pauses often for philosophical that date will ron*i«t of Wild Bill Davi»* Trio and the Wild Back With MGM to his first literary effort. and psychological excursions. Get Third Herd There will be many verbal bat The trouble with the Cinderella Bill Da«i«on combo. Hollywood—Andre Previn, young legend concept for living. Or how wild can you get? ties concerning Artie's intentions MGMusic director, released New York — Woody Herman’s is taking up the typewriter, his Artie argues, is that nobody really from the Army and is back at the Third Herd will be roaring for a ability as a writer, the validity of lives happily ever after. studio. His first assignment is as new wax label shortly. At press his thesis and the size of his ego. “I’ve gone through the Cinder­ music director on Small Town Girl, ella business myself,” he says, time, it appeared that Woody would Vo matter what answers are found starring Jane Powell. return to Columbia Outsiders in for these questions, one fact is in- (Turn tu Page 13) Previn is also known foi his the running were Decca and Mer­ taputable: for the first time in Cafe Rouge Is modern jazz pian<< via Victor Rec­ cury. It’s a certainty that Woody the history of jazz, or of the dance ords. will leave MGM. hand business, someone who has lived the business and been a major Bands Lose It creative figure in it has personally Shutting Down documented his experiences at book length, without a ghost writer and At The Astor without any pulled punches. For Summer For this reason .tlone, the Artie New York — The Hotel Aator’s Shaw book is the most significant Roof here, for many years noted New York—The Hotel Statler’s • f its kind since the beginning of as a plum summer location for the Cafe Rouge, one of the two major business' we know leading name bands, will go oaty name band locations in this city A and in many ways the most this summer. (the othei is the Hotel Roosevelt Jolson, Recruits For The Army jrovocative. The Roof will go completely Grill, which is the almost perma­ D< scribed on the dust jacket as country style with the Grand Ole nent home for Guy Lombardo), At the rare age of 23, Eddie Fisher, Pfc., U.S. Army, is probably- sn “outline of identity,” it is es- Opry company slated to spend the will close down its operatioi. for doing the most upstanding job of transmitting general good will for ■ntially an autobiography, though entire season atop the Astor. the summer in the middle of June. that branch of the Armed Forces that any individual in the services This marks the first extended has been able to turn in since the Korean emergency began. shutdown of the room since it Eddie, ■ most lovable youngster, 4; Down Beat’s Five Star Discs opened late '30s. Paul after going through three months induction, have kept his name very following records, representing the cream of the past two Neighbors, playing his first east­ of basic training like any other much alive with the general public. ern engagement, currently is work­ He has had a succession of hits, »eeks crop, received five stars in the record review section of this Army draftee, has been working in ing the room, nnd Elliot Lawrence behalf of the Army recruiting de­ each of which lends just that much ktue (see pog* 10). will wind up the season there. partment for the past nine months more credence to his value as a re­ POPULAR The will reopen in Sep­ or so. The Army did well by capi­ cruiter for the Army. tember and already has set Jimmy talizing on the youngster’s fast­ Eddie has about a year to go in LOUIS ARMSTRONG Kiss Of Fire (Decca 28177.) Dorsey, Ray Anthony and Ralpi growing popularity in the younger the service. When he gets • ut, he Nat cole Somewhere Along The Way (Capitol 2069.) Flanagan for fall dates. sets, for his work in getting volun will very quickly be ■ most- FERRY COMO Why C l You Leave Me? (Victor 20-4687.) teers for the services has proved demanded property. There are KL MARTINO fruitful. those in the business who are com­ Here In My Heart (BBS 101.) Eddie is constantly on the go for pletely convinced that the singer is IO STAFFORD Raminay (Columbia 39725.) the Army. He’s on the road much a Jolson in embryo. No question Lay STARR .. I Waited A Little Too Long (Capitol 2062.) of the time, working from a Wash- that though he is in the service, New York — Liza Morrow, for­ Fisher is “in” in his show business RHYTHM AND DLUES mer BG thrush, has been signed made into a disc jockey, under to a term recording contract by which cloak he is selling the Army Credit this to a talent whose When Tht Swallows Come Back To Capis­ King Records. She already has weekly on a coast-to-coast hookup. forte is a handsome blend of humil­ WE DOMINOES trano (Federal 12059.) cut her first session for the firm; He does numerous other Army ity and sincerity. That’s What You're Domg To Mt- (Federal the records are due shortly. Liza broadcasts and shows. The cover picture was taken dur­ has been a house -inger at WNEW Meanwhile Eddie’» recordings, a ing a broadcast of the service radio 12059.) here for the past few months. flock of which were made before his show, Armed Forces Review. DOWN BEAT NEWS-FEATURES Chicago, June I, |q Swingin The Golden Gate What, Again? Hollywood — Charlie Barnet, who wax signed to open May 6 Shearing Does SRO, But with a sextet at the Royal Room here, longtime Dixie stronghold, will be back in the big band field again (17 men) with a A Disc Slip Is Showing date at Balboa's Rendezvous ballroom July 4-5. He’ll follow “I By RALPH J. GLEASON with a coast-to-coast tour. musi San Francisco—During the last two weeks of April, the Mort Ruby, who will manage Tl native Sons of the Golden U est stormed the Black Haw k Barnet, says “I'm going to put Charlie back on top among the ao e to stop, look and listen to the bop, jokes and standards of the great itands. where he belongs.” George Shearing Quintet. There were lines outside the club Barnet was strictly a big even during week night*. Business ♦------bandsman until he broke up his was so good the proprietors could ness hasn't known for a long, long large crew in the fall of 1949 hardly believe it. At the last show time. The Shearing sound today is to go into the booking business. on a Friday night, the house was as good as it ever was, this group After that venture was out, he “R< loaded. And all this with a buck sounds exactly (to the ordinary began a succession of combos for i door charge. man’s ear) like his others, but the and big bands that left even his Anuí Coining as it did, right on the question is—“What are you going closest followers confused. fresh heels of a miserable two weeks in to do for an encore?" ir a Sacramento, it proved the Shear­ •y. ing group is every bit as good a draw in a big city without the well Down Beat Prediction known sidemen, as it is with them. Ande This is some solace to George who An was considerably upset over the his fl Sacramento fiasco. leene He is also upset over another Marterie Boasts The Best I Di< thing, as well he might be. The to wo Shearing records are not selling. tee. 1 Even in a town like this where the Fort combo is doing capacity business, Midwest Band In Years teadi their presence doesn’t hypo the to W disc sales any appreciable amount By JACK TRACY been George is quite frankly looking for Chicago—Ralph Marterie headed east after his two-week Staff something as a solution. date at Melody Mill ballroom here and began a series of one- Piano With String»? niters that will wind up at Frank Dailey's Meadowbrook on An Mleai There is a strong possibility that May 27 and the Paramount theater stage on June 18. he may record a batch of numbers He left well-equipped to do a ♦ _ . . .------;—“------of th featuring his piano with a string great job at both places, sporting Ralph has worked long and hard KISS OF FIRE administered by Georgia Gibbs via Mprcury Record work on this band and has finally pieced has turned out to be a major hit for the songstress, who has beti lot ' background in an effort to produce the best dance band to come out of tonta something more interesting for the the midwest in many years. Though together a group of sidemen who around on records for several years but has never before had a sella still a bit rough (the one-niters can play anything at first sight, of these proportions. Musi record market. the < And this brings up the question, should erase that quickly), the swing collectively, and make an ex­ band’s class and ability stood out, cellent onstand appearance. JTOU1 “What’s the matter with the Shear­ when ing records?” The answer, really, and it shouldn’t take much more Marterie’s trumpet, the band’s is nothing at all. The last one, than the eastern swing to establish ensemble sound, the fine, modern- tinged book, and a dancqable beat way Swedish Pastry and Thine Alone it in the top brackets and solidify SONGS FOR SALE “but would have been sensational if it the excellent impression made by on all types of tunes gives this the band’s Mercury releases. band a luster and sheen that spell ■USK were the first disc by George. As ■anj it is, coming after dozens of bop- Marterie is a standout trumpeter success. ♦ ♦ Starring ♦ & in the best Spivak-James tradition, Prediction: The end of 1952 will •true and-standard sandwiches.-the diae came hardly made a nibble. That’s the with gorgeous tone and find Marterie and Billy May own- virtue and the curse of such a straightforward, lyrical style. He’s ing the two hottest new bands of BU8ÌI at his best on ballads like Tenderly, the year. STEVE ALLEN can tell it right away but the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, and trouble ia, can you tell which num- My Silent Love, as the reeds afford «tudi a warm carpet for him to walk on. The capricious nature that distributes talents so indiscriminate^ the i plays particularly puzzling tricks when she bestows the various form1 It isn’t anything that show busi- Good Jazz, Too Lero; Sonny Burke of musical ability. for h Up-tempos like Perdido and The man to whom music is foreign might suppose that the prob ipeci Stompin’ at the Savoy are sprink­ lent is of exceedingly slight proportions—either one has musical abilit. led liberally throughout the big Backs Peggy or one has not. In Teddy Wilson book and get played rockingly, to Even a momentary analysis of the issue, however, leads to the reali­ tided obvious of the the delight younger Hollywood—Sonny Burke, signed zation that “musical ability” is ■ term that covers an extremely wid non dancers. Excellent jazz is played as music director for the Peggy area. Some people exhibit musical ability that is creative. Others pos •rra> Travels Again by trumpeter Corny Panico and Lee CBShow with its move here sess ability represented chiefly by mechanical mastery of an instru­ chest tenorist Kenny Mann, with the New York—Teddy Wilson ended from New York, has assembled an ment. Still others may be gifted with a fantastic sort of auditor; Fiedl rhythm section a tightly-knit unit unusual (by radio standards) band his long association with WNEW perception that enables them to listen to a symphony orchestra con Sarv pushing it all on. to back the singer which will be posed of 65 pieces and concentrate at will on one after another o It May 1 to go on the road for the Marterie has also added a new marked with the Latin-American first time in years. the instruments. rteer singer, who joined the band with flavor Sonny developed for the big To Read or Not to Read •popi The veteran swing .pianist had the Melody Mill date. She’s Nancy band he fronts on occasional dance been a daily feature on the New There are talented singers who read music very haltingly and in­ And« Thomas, a tall, attractive redhead dates here. ferior singers who learn to sight-read in a matter of weeks. Thert bran< York indie radio station for most who sings quite infectiously on up­ Format and personnel: Pete Can- are vocalists who have the organic equipment to make a very pleasant plete of the tune since he joined it in tempos, falters slightly on the bal­ doli, trumpet; Ray Heath, trom­ sound and yet lack the personality without which their tonal ability ind 1947. lads, but who will become a valu­ bone; Clint Neagley, alto & doubles; is useless. There are others able to make only a patently inferior sound, So 1 Teddy has temporarily assembled able asset to the band when she Ham Russum, tenor & doubles; Bob a quartet including Harold Baker who can nevertheless create in the minds of their listeners the im­ origi picks up a little more polish and Lawson, baritone; Jimmy Rowles, pression that their singing is highly praiseworthy. •t hi on trumpet. He played his first stage presence. piano; Tommy Romersa, drums; date last week at the Rendezvous Another fascinating fact about the phenomenon of musical ability ancei Occasionally she is effectively Iggy Shevak, bass; Mike Pacheco, is that rarely does an individual manifest it excellently in more thai in Philadelphia and opens May 19 abetted by just the rhythm section bongos; Corky Hale, harp. (See at the Colonial Tavern in Toronto. one way. Thus the great conductor is usually not the great composer. and a flock of the sidemen singing. Girls in Jazz, this issue). The composer is usually not the great instrumentalist. In Writers Needn’t Play 4er« As applied to the field of popular music this means that what u for i usually thought of as “musical ability” (the ability to play an instru his Paul Got Lobster, Put Crimp ment well, or to understand the mechanics of music), is not necessary band at all to the composer. Irving Berlin’s piano technique is artistically It atrocious, but he has been for many years our most productive com lie, T. M. BEG. U.S. BATENT OFFICE poser. Nor must it be supposed that he is an exception. Sam Coslow, VOL It, NO. II JUNE 4. 1452 Published bi-weekly by Down Beat, Inc. In My Shrimp, Hollers Pollack who wrote Sing You Sinners, Cocktails for Two; Peter De Rose, com­ Harold English. President and Publisher poser of Deep Purple, Wagon Wheels; Jimmy Van Heusen, who wrote Hollywood—Ben Pollack, veteran such successes as Imagination, Heaven Can Wait, It Can Happen to Executive and Publication Office jazz man now operating the asserted part in the writing of You and Swinging on a Star; and Johnny Green, writer of Out of No­ He 2001 Calumet Avenue Streetcombers, Sunset Strip eat­ Shrimp Boats. H said: where, I Want to Be Loved, Body and Soul, and many other standards, here, Chicago 16. III. Victory 2-0310 ery, has filed suit for $200,000 are all pianists of decidedly limited talent. Their lack of instrumental ‘1 Got Witnesses’ medi against Paul Mason Howard, Paul artistry has in no way affected their prodigious creative output. A< HAL WEBMAN. Editor “Paul (Mason Howard) never Editorial Office Weston and Walt Disney Music One-Finger Sunny- teric Co., Inc., based on the claim that denied that he used the music intei 122 East 42nd Street So unnecessary is instrumental ability to the tunesmith that a con­ he wrote the music used by How­ from my song for Shrimp Boats siderable number of popular composers possess not one whit of it. here Now York 17, N. Y. ard and Weston for the song and a few months ago he promised pre® Lexington 2-4563 Sunny Skylar, writer of Waitin’ for the Train to Come In, A Little Bit Shrimp Boats. to make a settlement with me but South of North Carolina and Besame Mucho, has laboriously taught In According to the complaint on never made good on it. I’m pre­ himself to play piano with one finger in order to demonstrate to an morn $11 thrw ywn ie sdvancs. Add $1 p*r file in Federal Court here, Pollack pared to bring any number of wit­ arranger the melodies that are in his head. that yssr to thss« price« for foreign subscrip­ tion«. Special school, library rate« $4 a contends that he originated • the nesses into court — mostly musi­ When one realizes that a melody must, after all, be created psy­ stud year. Change of addreu notice mutt reach mqjody (the lyrics do not figure cians who know this was my mel­ chically before it can be written on paper, sung or played, it is not was u« before date effective. Sand old address in the case) back in 1936, calling ody—to substantiate my claims.” too surprising that a composer need not be an instrumentalist. Once In with your new. Duplicate copies cannot be semi sent and post office will not forward copies. it his Cajun Song and taught it Mason could not be reached for the song is thought of, it doesn’t matter who does the job of trans­ Circulation Dept., 2001 Calumet Ave., Chi­ to Howard, zither player and folk comment. At the time Shrimp lating it into tangible form. (tho cago 14, Illinois. Printed in U.S.A. Entered music singer with whom he was Boats, a major hit of 1951 on the Perhaps even more surprising is the reverse side of the coin; just line- as second class matter October 4, ItW at due« tho post office ia Chicago, Illinois, under acquainted at that time. strength of the Jo Stafford—Paul as most composers are poor instrumentalists, so most instrumentalists the act of March 1, IT*». Ie-entered as Pollack, who is represented by Weston Columbia recording, be- are poor composers. One might suppose that men with such extrava­ aver second class matter February 2S. IMB. attorneys Samuel Arkoff and Ger­ came popular, Howard said that gant talents as Harry James, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey or Art Gi Copyright. 1452 by Down leaf. Inc. Trede- here marir registered U. S. Patent Office 1444. ald Kales, said that he was quite the music was derived from a mel­ Tatum would be fairly bursting with creative melody impressions, but Oe tele every other Wednesday. sure Weston was unaware of his ody several hundred years old. such, mysteriously enough, is rarely the case. why Jun 4,1952 NEWS-FEATURES DOWN BEAT 3

Dick Rodgers Is The Greatest, Declares Air Blindfold Frances Er Neal New York — The Blindfold Test, which has been a popular Are On Road Down Beal feature for the past IS months, will take on an added New York — The Neal Hefti Capt. Leroy BlueTango Anderson, USA Frances Wayne band is on its format May 26. On that date at midnight way. After u week of bieak-in By HAL WEBMAN George Hamilton (x>mbs, who dates around New York, Neal went westward for ten days aid returns "Richard Rodgers is the greatest man on the American conducts WJZ’s nightly chatter Paid But Idle, ■how from the Sherbrooke Park to make his first Coral sides fea­ music scene!" Avenue Restaurant, will present turing the -rgamzed band, May This was the declaration of Capt. Leroy Anderson, himself n radio version of the feature, 27, followed by an appearance with Ironard Feather, originator May 29 with the whoh band an no composing slouch having accrued such credits as the cur- Nero Fiddles, the TV show Star of the Family. mt hit. Blue Tango, und Sync« •A.------of the test, in charge. prominence by employing jiop song Instead of a single interviewee Personnel comprises Julie Hoch­ gated Clock. Fiddle Faddle, Plink man, Spots Esposito, Dennis Roche, Plank Plunk, Jazz Pizzicato, Jant exploitation tactics with his far Burns, Quits there will be a panel of expert* I nore refined, instrumental writ­ discuMing each record, includ­ trumpets; Lee Gifford, Sonny Tru Legato, Sertnata, and Sleigh Ride Hollywood—Paul (Hot Canary) itt, trombones; Benn} Amerino, Al tmonv some 10Red Mitchell are on Staff, G-2. not. Wald currently is rounding up actually is the composer. His im Nero has recorded his unit for guitar and bass. Movie Deal provisations amount to the actual Rhythm Records with Chico Alva­ the men for his new band and will In addition, Decca has signed go into rehearsal shortly after Anderson, who expects to get his composition of jazz pieces. Not be­ rez, trumpet; Dick Kenney, trom­ the group to a two-year recording «lease from the service at the end ing a performer, 1 just can’t be­ bone; Bud Shank, alto; Bob Coop­ presstime. His first record, under pact and will start cutting the first of the year, is looking forward to, come interested in jazz.” er, tenor; Bart Calderell, bari­ a new Decca deal, is due out mo­ sides for an LP shortly. mentarily. Wald’s first wax pact Reports that Farlow was leaving Record working in Hollywood on the RKO tone; Don Trennor, piano; Tony lot The studio has completed a Rizzi, guitar; Stan Fletcher, string with a big band, years ago, was the group were completely un­ I it sell« tentative arrangement with Mills bas>i A tuba; Billy Wilson, drums. with the same label. founded, says Red. Music, Anderson’s publisher, for Teagarden Set the composer to write the back­ ground score for at least one film when he gets his discharge. In Movie Role “I also would like to do a Broad­ way show,” stated the composer, Hollywood—Jack Teagarden lias Strictly Ad Lib “but it would have to be a dramatic called off his tour to take a band­ lender role in the forthcoming musical. You know, just like a good NEW YORK Gene Krupa Trio guested on the Milton Berle TV many others, I am somewhat stage Shane Tors production tentatively show May 13 .. . Columbia Record’s Jim Conkling •truck and if the right vehicle titled The Glass Wall. Story deals Jose Ferrer played host to Woody Herman and wife Donna King back from aerial South Amer­ came along, I would love to write with a European refugee’s search bandsmen, wives and/or gals, a couple of matinees ican jaunt . . . Earl Holt, former Krupa and Beneke music for it.” for a musician and fellow-refugee ago for a performance of his production of The trombonist, running a mink farm near Salt Lake in the United States. Many scenes Shrike. This was in exchange for some musical City . . . Alex Alstons, who wrote Synr ’"'»ny, Sonata Munir Secondary will be shot in New York niteries. assistance Ferrer was able to cull from the Herd’s A Harvard graduate, Anderson and My Concerto, forming hie own" Prc-recording of music sequence« midst. . . Barbara Nelson had been secretary to John Hall (ex Sammy Kaye and jimmy Doisey) •tudied organ und double-bass, but is to start around May 23. Leith Dick Linke, Capitol Records promotion exec here. mina tel the music studies were secondary. will manage . . . Ned Williams, former Beat editor, is fon» Stevens is the over-all music di­ She heard Buddy Morrow was looking for a ¿mger, doing a public relations job for ths TV producers Leroy's schooling was preparation rector on the picture. submitted a recording aa an audition. Dick no for him to become u school teacher, of Chicago . . . Pia Beck, one of the Netherlands' tie pro! Teagarden recently took over the longer has a occntary, and Buddy has Barbara outstanding pop and jazz pianists, visiting New •penalizing in Scandinavian Ian music assignment on KTLA’s Dix­ as his vocalist. Dick now is looking for a secretary il abilit guages. York . . . Bernie Leighton replaced Skiteh Hender­ ie Showboat series, replacing Nap­ who will take an oath that she does not sing. son on the Garroway show when Skiteh joined wife In 1935, the good Captain de­ py Lamare’e combo. he real) cided to turn to music as a profes- Faye Emerson in Europe. ely wid» Veteran piano duo Bartleil and Robertson •ion and went to work as an were signed to an MGM recording contract. ers pos erranger for the Boston Pops Or­ CHICAGO instru- Valdes Slated For . . . Movie beauty Rhonda Fleming i* turning chestra, whose conductor, Arthur wax talent under the aegis of the Columbia Kirby Stone's quintet, the Broadway Open House auditor; Fiedler, he had befriended in his boys, took over the Preview handstand on May 14 ra com Harvard days. label. . . . William Morris, Jr., resigned a« for Iwo weeks with options. Upstairs in the Omai Frisco's Fairmont president of the agency which bears his father's ither o It was Fiedler, in 1936, who room the agile pianistics of Chamaco and his band San Francisco—Miguehtu Valdes name. Abe Lastfogel ia expected to take the iteered Anderson into the field of rein* in title a* well as in faett Morris will provide rhumba rhythms. . . Georg Brunis came “pops” composition. Fiedler showed opens June 10 at the Fairmont back to town and rejoined Johnny Lane’s crew at and in Anderson where thia particular Hotel's Venetian Room to bring i-ontinur a* a director of the firm. . . . Johnnie the 1111 club last week. His last stretch there went i. Thert brand of composing hail been com­ names back to that spot for the Ray, who broke the Copacabana nitery’s box office record his first week there, topping Mar­ on for months. . . Excellent recent bill at the Capi­ pleasant pletely brushed off in this country first time in exactly a year. tol had the Three Peppers and the fine Cecil Young I ability Last name attraction at the tin and Lewis’ 373,000 by 82,000, broke his end hut the field was wide open. own record suereMivelv in the second and third quartet, from up Seattle way. r sound, So Anderson began to write his hotel was the Jimmy Dorsey band. the in»- originals and had the Boston Popr Since that ill-fated venture, the week*. Georgie Auld’* quintet and Anita O’Day •t his disposal for initial perform­ hotel room has been using local Discers are senoiuly disturbed by station (backed by Roy Kral) closing at the Blue Note ability ances. groups with Ernie Heckescher’s WNEW’s considering to drop all mention of record May 30. . . Danny Thoma* bombed st the ire thaï band holding the stand since last labeh on the air. The station is the pace-setter for Chicago theater. . . Ahmad Jamal’s Three Publiohrr’a Role fall. Valdes will be in the spot un m poser. a good many independent radio outlets th-ruout the Strings continue to play in quite wonderful In addition to composition, An­ til September 14. He has played nation. . . The Weidler Brothers, each of the thret fashion at the Pershing lounge, (rum whence derson orchestrates his work'i both the location several times to good also emanates the »plendid Sid (The Real) for special arrangements and for reception. a formtr name band reedman, have been doing well uhat i as a caft act. They changed the name to the Wilder McCoy disc jockey *how. . . The new Red Saun­ instru- bis music publisher’s symphonic The Mark Hopkins is still plan­ ders release on Okeh. Zek'l, leh’l, looks like band series. ning to bring names to Nob Hill Brothers and just snared a Capitol Records' con­ ‘cessa rj tract. . . Freddy Slack returned to the Capitol another winner for the redhead, who jurt isticallj It was his publisher, Mill- Mu­ in June but the bookings are not clicked with Hambone, . . Danny Alvin’s Dixie­ tic, which brought Anderson into yet set. label; he’U add vocalizing to his 88-ing for the ve coin­ new platters. landers "till held over at Helsing’s, ditto for Cos low Miff Mole at Jazz Ltd. And Cy Touff** trio at »e, com- Mercury Records acquired its third domestic sym the Spotlite. Touff still has Red Uonberg. Is Sex On Its Way Out? phony orchestra. The Eastman Rochtster Symphony drums, and Billy Green, piano. ppen tv orchestra joins the Minneapolis and the Chicago ot No­ The Jay Burkhart big band is back tn action Hollywood An early trend in the development of TV music shows on the label. . . Decca prexy Milton Rackmil is

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ingly riiylhmed worthy moment" to G C.’s art began to seem more TCazIKOVSKTi Th. Maath». • A aifty eosaawreial Idea that geta bat aowhore Th!« Roosiaa Potty»glri calen­ like good wine gone flat. I’m beginning lu think that persistent Of. "Za ere. CaalU Mwlaa dar of piano piece« baa alee aalen tuaea, but they aren’t «tacked-up enough CaaM, piaaa • arch. •van for piano-onm-chamber oreh blow-up«. UItra»brilliant recording doosn*t rhythmic scheme* such as used here loo often sound their beet on COLUMBIA ML4MT, IS*. atone for the lachrymose seatimentality and lack of truly seatful vitality in

If first hearing and lend lo grow tiresome on repetition, no matter both Gould*« lackadaUical «coring and performance«. how ingenious they may be . • . Another case in point is Milhaud’s saucy evocation u< the “jazz age’’ in Paris, circa 1919, Englished STANDARD WARHORSES as The Nothing-Doing Bar instead of the literal Bullock on the Roof. Unfortunately, it too is available only in a linrd-boiled phono­ BA(M: “B.yJ la.l aai.l," • T^e eolleetlon*« title is pbenlly pretentious, the playing Indefatigably po* graphing (cut, at that), this one by butcher-boy Mitropoulos, Co­ .al. S. E. Fawar B>azs argaa PerUniMM deatrian, but the richly sonorous Symphony Hall organ is magnificently cap­ lumbia ML-2032 . . . My guess is that both these works are miscast, np’ui, Opp • I wouldn't have thought Firkusny*s bold style particularly Seh uber tian, but profited by a tip at the Audio Fair last fall to try a Heath medley on SB • 141 (eampleial. Badal! if not as poetic aa Aitken or as expansive a« Schnabel, be brings lilting aest London PB 374 as one of the best r on-classical recordings for wide- nAa*y. piaaa. and lyric warmth, as well as liquid dexterity, to the 1st integral LP*ing of range sound-system d< monstrations, What he playh certainly ain’t jazz, COLUMBIA ML4S2?, IS*. Rsvor4i»| all B little gents of Schubert's most expresalve melodism. at least to thes- cuuliflowered ears, but it sure is first-rate pop-ork ROMANTIC lAVOBlTI* (Um, • After ceveral disc-dates as Mrc. Chasina ia two-plaae werka. Him Keans playing, recorded with tops in cleanliness, punch, and presence. His cv-,!-. Daba. - ala.). Caa F«rformiB r» luey-stonec alone ia a batch of the most haekaeyed showpieces, creditably re­ Maaw Kaaaa, piaaa. burnishing them to some ef their original glitter. She has bright recording, pieces I use most are Roumanian Roundabout and Cuban Crescendo on MEBCUBY MC1011S, IS*. ■t-nnflBt deft virtuosity, «wect expressivenaaa everything but depth. side 2. If you haven’t heard ’em, they won’t hurt your ears at all. TAUBU FAVORITES (Laaaaa. ♦ ♦♦♦ • Fatso Lanxa ns well afford to buy this disc and te devote prayerful study Incidentally, my «erious jazz-listening day* are so back-dated, 1 alla TaaallL ala.). Rlahard P«rfer»M«e to the voice-control and masterful personality-projection revealed oven In thee« have a lough lime digging up IP’s in this field that are suitably Taubar, aaaar * arab. . ancient Odeon recordings of the incomparable Tauber!an tranemutationa ef impressive (recording-technique-wise) for knock-’em-over audio DRCri DL9S97. IS*. »muntlaz such base salon eras aa the Rokoko Ltesbesliod into pure aonal gold. system display* ... Tops for me is the Ellington foursome of well named “masterpieces’* on Columbia MI>4 118. Bui after that I'm RARE VINTAGES «cratching around—if jazz can be stretched lo include them—with Les Paul’s New Sounds, Ray Anthony’s Arthur Murray Farorite Fox BACHI Caaiaiu S* aad «S. • TE» *»l»iM’. vai* >■ .mo.tli.r ih.« hi. bmm. Mn, n Orcb * Oaaaa. Wagaer'» har|wl

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Charlie Ventura says—“King Super-20 Tenors up«, and Altos are the finest saxophones ever made! Charlie Ventura is personally managed by lor- on'f They have such wonderful tone ... so big Don Palmer and is booked exclusively by and mellow in the low register... so clear and Associated Booking Corp., Joe Glaser, Presi­ Jerald olyum brilliant in the high.” dent, 745 Fifth Avenue. New York. ■8, thr . And r-and- ret. So i post- worlds fih^ ity on incom- Pvafouianal mvslcioas look te King for batter lartrunKn»». 7he H. N. WHITE Co. 5225 SUPERIOR AVE., CLEVELAND 3, OHIO DOWN BEAT CLASSICS—NEWS Chicago, June 4, 1951 Lazy Listeners Dark Horse Shows Top Form Bill Steinberg’s one conductorial dark horae I’ve been keenly aware of for some yean now, aa he worked his way slowly up from tin Louse Up Live Buffalo-Muaicraft dirt track and around the concerto-accompanying circuit for RCA Victoria stable. There’s promise of real speed hera I sez, and one of these days he’ll prove a sensational sleeper. AM then the time came when he headed for the Pittsburgh tracks aad Musical Kicks got measured for Capitol’s colon. And now he’s away, valiantly carry­ ing a fantastic overweight—for the cruel handicapitolers have saddled (Jumped from Page 4) him with top loads in Beethoven’s "Pastorale” (S8159) and Schubert's mote in his own ears, a kind of "Unfinished” (along with the Schubert Second on S8162). •oral astigmatism. It results from Even his most hopeful backers can’t dream of an outright win over his sound-system’s individual con­ such formidable opposition as Toscanini, Scherchen, and Walter in the stellation of distortions, which Beethoven Sixth race, or over Krips, Beecham, and Toscanini in the through long familiarity has come Schubertian stakes. to be accepted as a despotic quality But our pick shows mighty fine form at that. He’s got wonderful criterion. And it not only makes drive in the "Pastorale” (he almost succeeds in convincing me that for fortuitous and usually quite after all this may be more than a sound-effects background for a bogus standards of tonal values, it Disney de-sexed centaurian film caper) and while Krips remains un­ also strongly encourages the lazy, beatable for a romantically songful “Unfinished,” Steinberg reminds timid, inhibited listener’s innate us that this jaded work still has some true vitality left in it. instinct to escape from reality. Forgetting about mythically definitive “best” versions, both these The Hi-Fi Boys are well worth hearing and having—primarily for Steinberg himself, but also for some first-rate Pittsburgh playing and powerful FDS re­ Wall, we ta-li boys have been cording. But I plug especially for the Schubert disc, for it includes the «rymg in tne wilderness lor some wonderfully brash and zestful 2nd Symphony. And here Steinbere mars now and at la»1 our evan­ hits the wire with his nearest competitor (a clumsily running Mundi gelical enorts are beginning to at­ in RCA Victor silks) lengths behind. tract a few true as wen as many potential converts. It s our ciauu uno me contemporary prevalence MELODY MAKER POLL was won again thia year by Ted Heath, the of nun-luientng, ot ‘‘tin’ ears, and Britiah trombonist who rose to become leader of the country’s No. 1 general unresponsiveness to tne orchestra. Readers of the British weekly are no lesa enthused about pnysical aspects of music is due Ted than the Beat’s reviewers, who reported on his London LP recently. Let George Do It, Not Feodor to long years of unwitting addic­ Heath's records draw some laudatory remarks from Rob Darrell in Big-bassed George London has been drawing such rave stage notices tion to tne juiceiess “mellowness Classieadenaas on page 4. and knocking my disc-overy colleagues into such a dither, that I and windy “Doom” of shoddily couldn’t wait to bend my ears to his first important solo release, the counterfeit musical tones. (And it’s foolish to worry about getting Russian and French operatic scenes on Columbia MI 4489. But even do.n blame th-* juke boxes alone— more natural sound reproduction with his Bronko Nagurski tones crashing through my ear-drums’ first toe many live performances have —there won’t be any sound except Mildred line of defense, my tailbacking mind wandered off in an ancient mem- eome to imitate the juke boxes as an intellectual concept. The cat ry of an (Okeh, was it?) platter by one Jack Purvis, yclept Copyin' and any self-respecting juke box will follow its grin into limbo and Memorial Louis. Purvis, as best I remember, wasn’t bad, but he certainly was wouldnt be caught dead in the never will come back. no Armstrong. And London, with all his incredible gifts, just ain't company of the phono-radios in New York—In the April 18 Beat, reviewing a tribute to Mil­ and never will be a Chaliapin. aotue of our best homes!) But don’t bet on that! A bunch dred Bailey released on a Decca That’s hardly to his discredit. The number of other non-Chaliapina, Millions of otherwise reasonably like non-Ai-mstrongs, is staggering. On his own, George has an un­ sensible people, listening to a Sun­ of us can't be snaken in our be­ LP after the singer's death, our day Philharmonic broadcast, say, lief that this cat has several lives record review department com­ mistakably great voice, superb in its potentialities, impressive even in mented: “Too bad Columbia its present stage of control-development. It’s a joy to hear in splendid on midget radios (with the volume yet to go. We are confident that fumbled the ball on a memorial LP’ing and it’s worthily accompanied by a better-than-usual sounding and “tone” controls all the way a Gresham’s law for sound is the down, of course), nourish the in­ reverse of that for money: that album.’* Metopera orchestra under Morel (Massenet Don Quichotte death scene Turns out it was the Beat and Act V air from Paladilhe’» Patrie) and Adler (Borodin’s Prines fantile delusion that just because the listener who just once hears they can recognise instruments music both produced and repro­ that fumbled. Columbia was al­ Igor No Sleep air and Do Not Weep from Rubinstein’s Demon). and compositions, they are truly duced with gleamingly clean bril­ ready engaged on a Bailey me­ But the unforgettable Feodor did these in his own inimitable way liance and sonorously spacious morial project so big that the years ago—and that was enough. I don’t blame his idolater for learn­ hearing the orchestra and the mu­ research anti re-recording work ing those unique performances by heart. . . What I can’t condone is sic. Little they ever know about “presence” never again will permit involved made it impossible to his unwillingness to forget Chaliapin’s inexcusable (even for him) seal hearing, let alone feeling mu- Confederate notes to be palmed off on his ears. release so soon. mannerisms and quirks—including the senseless trick of singing both George Avakian is now com- the Don’s and Sancho parts in the Massenet ... his unwillingness to Meanwhile, we, at least, relish Sleting plans for a Mildred tailor these roles to his own shape and personality. Be, and sing for, Blissfully ooawaro a< aD they’re above all music that has guts ailey Memorial series that will yourself, boy! In your next Yecord. at least, let George--not Feodor— mtoaing, as far as hoMBt physi- as well as soul. We echo the San­ encompass four 12-inch LP discs. do it! eaRy preaant aatuMl to oanceraed, tayana paean to sound’s vindi­ they*™ like a multitude of Alices cating its natural function of made in the 1930a by Mildred, in their own dream wonderlands “sweeping through the body and many of them with Red Norvo, —firmly believing they flee a Ches­ making felt there its kinetic and will be included in the art. hire Cat (no hep-cat, he!) before potential stress.” We want our them . . . when all they actually truly sounded music to hit us and perceive is no more than the hit us hard. Whatever the shrink­ Spotlight on BILL JENNINGS evanescent pussy’s identifiable but ing Milquetoasts may protest NYC Conservatory quite disembodied grin! about a symphony orchestra’s Now, sweet or wry, a faceless being too big for a living room, grin isn’t much fun or very desir­ we’ll bring it right in and live Sets Annual Bash able company. Such music-lovers with it. New York—The New York Mu­ must be moronic indeed to be satis­ "Wallpaper” music has its place, sic Center Conservatory will hold fied by ao tenuous and remote a but render unto Musak the things its third annual Town Hall con­ relationahip (it certainly can’t be that are Musak’s! The “essence” cert June 11 at 8:30 p.m. relied any kind of contact) with or disembodied grin of music may The program, which will be held their beloved. satisfy the prissy Alices of this as a benefit for the Damon Run­ Yet do they find genuine aatis- world. . . . But any true soundman yon Memorial Fund, will comprise faction in just being tone-teased? wants his musical experience to be selections by a concert band, a glee The way the “high-fidelity" audio electrifying, not passive ... no club and several name guests, with ernre ia flourishing and mushroom­ box-top cardboard facsimile, but the second half of the show dedi­ ing lately may hint that in the the real McCoy—tonal presence cated to a capsule history of jazz, reproduction of recorded music— and reality that’s round, firm, and from Dixieland to bop. if not of radio broadcasts—there fully packed. The Beat's Leonard Feather will are plenty of Oliver Twists who emcee the jazz portion of the show. ore learning to demand “More!” Turn up the volume, Wilbur! I Deejay Ted Brown of WMGM will wanna hear more! be the other emcee. Of course, if the Huxleyish Brave Neu Worlds and Orwellian l»84’s are reliably prophetic, every­ body’ll get lesa, not more. Even the Cherny Cat’s grin will vanish too. TVll gobble up music and your eyes will relieve your ears from doing any work at all. It may SCHOOL of PERCUSSION even eome to pass that the com­ ing age of literacy will include The Cradle of Celebrated Drummers’* Bill JMRings, on« of tho nation's only throe loft-handed guitar* musical notation . . . and musical SCHOOL STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONALS iatfl, turns his guitar upside-down to record such delicacies as “Satur- “performances” will be limited to th* page-turning of a televised l’'”* eÙ*', L “^ool b*nd or orchestra, or a wall salaried position in day Night Fish Fry.” Now ■core that the “listening" public atop flight dance, radio, television, theetre or concert orchestre—no metter playing up-ended but great must read mentally. which you choose—tho Knepp School can help you ettein your goel in the guitar with the Bill Davis If that’s to be the grim prospect. shortest length of time. Trio, Jennings — a former The finest professionel teaching staff in Hie country, coupled with over twenty Louis Jordan and Stuff Smith T?*™ °* “*'Bg tho most modern, practical methods, assures you man — really appreciates his of the treining necessary to roach your goal. The Knepp School specielhes in Gretsch Synchromatic Guitar •IE Ulani STUM MW TIE ell Drenches of percussion, pieno, voice, theory, end ell orchesfrel instruments. with Miracle Neck: “Fastest, easiest-playing guitar I’ve ever AP W ?..***" SCHOOL OF PERCUSSION CAN YOU MAMS THIS CHORD? handled.” Write today for KRUPA. CHARLIf VENTURA. RELEASE This can be a tough stretch even for a FOR J Kfanbeil HoM. IM S. Wobosh Chicoge 4. III. CHiCKI regulation. right-handed guitarist. But more facta about thia aensa- WESTERN STYLE $1.04 VETERAN'S I ^«rested I": left-handed Bill Jennings reaches it with tional Gretsch innovation — Accordion ease on his dim. dim GrtUeK MirucU TRAINING 1 E Private Lanosi Piano N*ck. Fingers seem to grow longer, liter­ plua the Gretech Guitar Guide, I □ Percussion ally fly. Try thia chord on your own youra FREE. Addreaa: Dept ACT ’ NAME guitar now — then visit your gretsch 1 : ADDRESS dealer and try It on the new ~GnUek DB-652, The Fred. Gretech Mirada N*ck Guitar. You’ll he amased NOW! ! cin HATE Mfg. Co., 60 Broadway, Brook­ lyn 11, New York. igo, June 4, 1952 NEWS —FEATURES wm By John Hammond nly aware from the impanyiag peed * eper. And Ever «ince the death of the big band business, the trade rack* and despite their many virtues. The itiy c arry- papers have periodically announced a premature resurrection. public is responding by buying th« re saddled First it was Flanagan who had produced thr miracle; then Quinichette discs in greater quan­ Schubert’s Anthony, Billy May, and finally the new Woody Herman Herd. tity. The answer for Basie ought Despite the fanfare, big bands are still scuffling, while the singing to be obvious: form a small group wm over stylists and small jair group* continue to bring in the dollar* at thr box of topflight soloists who can com­ ter in the plement his own unique virtues as ini in the office and on record*. Of ill th«* large group» playing in the East today, there are two with leader and pianist. After all these real musical excitement: Woody Herman and Count Baaie. Woody has years in the busine’i, it should be wonderful cleai to him that he and the big r me that band arrangers are natural ene ind for a ly recorded and his payroll remain. at its present level. The future of able to infuse into the tawdriest of mie , and that he ha, been defeated nains on- Basie is more of a question, since ballads. Woody’s arrangers seem by them far too long. r reminds the problems confronting the all­ to reserve their talents for the Bush kin for Kicks Negro band have standard and jump numbers, for­ While the spotlight is being fo­ nth these greater than they are right now. getting that the larger percent of cussed on the big bands, it is a g himself, the band’s broadcasts must neces­ quartet headed by little Joey Bush­ I FDS m- There has been so much ink splashed about the revitalized Herd sarily belong to the plug songs. kin that is providing the greatest eludes the Despite these minor reservations, musical thrill in New York. After Steinhere that the following comments may seem unduly reserved. this is n really first rate ensemble experimenting with innumerable Great Bones band. It has excitement, showman­ sidemen, Joi ha.' come up with at LUCKY ON WAX lately 1. Don Cornell, The trombone section is one of ship, fine intonation, and the most nearly a perfect nmall group as can director Norman Leyden. Don'» reeent achievements have included two the greatest in jazz history, and important quality of all: enthusi­ be found today. He rescued Milton record* of hit proportions, I’ll Valk Alone and I'm Youri. certainly the finest to to heard to asm. Hotel Statler in Nev York Hinton from 13 years of obscurity day. It toasts two t uperlutive solo­ has been excellent, and if Mitch as bass man with Cab Calloway, ists: Ur by Green und Carl Fontana, Miller can capture the sound of whisk« d Buck Clayton away from who play with fasti and real imag­ the band in the forthcoming Colum­ the Dixirlanders, And provided Jo ination, while brother Jack Green, bia records, box offices should be Jones with the necessary security ge notices n fine improviser in his own right, jumping throughout the country. return him the title of r, that I remains discreetly in the back­ Not Enough Basic “world’s gn atest drummer.” The lease, the ground. But th« trumpets are pal­ Count Basie’s band is .mother music these fear guys produce ev­ But even lid, having neither the drive nor matter. Here is a group abounding ery night at the Embers has th« urns’ first soloists to compete with the ’tones. in good soloists like Paul Quinich- quality of give and take which con­ lent mem- Woody, as always, it an ingrati­ ette, Henry Coker, Joe Newman, sistently eludes even the greatest •t Copyin' ating leader who still lacks the and Marshall Royal, plus * drive of big bands. The surroundings umly was spark to ignite the band musically. which Woody’s will probably never don’t r*«m to matter; for these just ain’t His vocals and solos «are ever achieve. It is unquestionably his men stimulate each other to such pleasant, but it is obvious that one most musicu postwar group, but a degree that oven the drunkest haliapins, must look to the sidemen for ex­ it is still li far cry from the hun­ and squarest of audiences are in­ citement. It is, however, always a gry bunch of Kansas Citians that fected by the excitement. The question as to how much a band revolutionized the business in the cheers and shouts after every num­ i splendid can transcend its leader’s capabili­ Thirties. ber are something that has been sounding ties, and this may be a factor lim­ There is almost unlimited brass missing from business nth scene iting the Herd’s ultimate box office power, a questionable asset except many, many years. One can only i’s Prince appeal. in the larger auditoriums. Like hop«* that the group will become Weak Pope Woody, Basil has all but deserted permanent, and that no amount of :ablc way Then* is one serious shortcoming top, which should increase the size prejudice televiaion for learn- which can be easily and quickly of his potential audience. But the films can induce Joe to change a ondone it corrected. Commercial tunes are band is not the best showcase for single member. for him) played drably and without nspira- what should be its greatest feature No Prejudices ging hoth tion, even tl Dolly Huston’s —the Count’s own playing. Either Some evidence of Bushkin’s com­ ngness to vocals are expert. There is none of from lack of assurance or personal mercial appeal can be gleaned from sing for, the life which Benny Goodman was frustration, he fails to impose his in incident which just occurred -at- Feodnr— own personality on the outfit, which the Embers. Columbia Pictures has means that it becomes another loud, shot a film short at the dub, using PIANO TUNING PAYS driving band. It may be the great­ the quartet as the musical feature, Learn this Independent Profession est large jazz group in the country, and also as a background to Doro­ but it cannot realize its potential thy Louden, a commercial singer. ______XIHÛML______without exploiting its leader’s ca­ George Barnes on guitar and Pea­ pacity for musical innuendo and nuts Hucko were added for the understatement. occasion, making it an equally mixed band. It was only a few Recently the Count made some months ago that the same producer, records With his own sideman. the Harry Foster, did a film at Eddie wonderful Paul Quinichette, on Condon’s Club, at which time they which he is featured alternately on attempted to replace Edmond Hall pian<> and Hammond organ. He is with a white musician. But at th« nothing less than superlative in Embers there wasn’t even a sug­ the first two side* to be released: gestion of changing a single man. Siqwl und I’ll Alwayt Hi in Love It is quite possible that Local 802’s With You, in which he provides the militant stand in the former inci­ spark for the five man group. At dent may have been a .-ontributing the i ame time, he and the big band factor, but the real credit must go made some records for the »ame to the musical and commercial po­ company (Mercury) which fail to tency of Bushkin capture his elusive personality, Cugat Set For The LA. Statler Hollywood- -Xaviei Cugat, who O/ÍS recently broke off his long asso­ ciation with MCA, has been set by Lew A Leslie Grade, Ltd., locallv represented by Henry Dunn For All Band Instruments and Gordon, an opening band Used by the internationally famous hotel, formal opening of which is I Cities Service* band of America! expected to take place around I guifar- Sept. 15. I “Satur- Hostelry's elaborately appointed y.” Now ind now available to help you. supper room, which will mark ad­ it great SLUING Get faster, lighter valve, slide dition of another keyspot to local 11 Davis and key notion on your instru­ night life scene, will also have an m ic ice skating show and other enter­ former ' *G ments. See your 1 ivrite dealer 1 for "Band of America” oil today. tainment. iff Smith Cugat nosed out Guy Iximbxrdo iates his 0. K COHH LTD., «»»■■.ry a and Rush Morgan, who had been e Guitar running neck and neck for the “Fastest, honor (and big money) of open­ I’ve ever ing the new room. day for is sensii- WON*T SUM FRETTED INSTRUMENT NEWS ation — AT ALL LEADING FAST. PUNT A MAGAZIN* KM GUP AIUTI ir Guide, •.TIOH IAN JOI ITS aa« MAMOOUNim ■ : Dept. MUSIC VNmCMMM A PIECI OF MUSIC IN IVitV »SOI Gretsch m oxiont r, Brook- STORES NEWS-FEATURES

(Jumped from Page S) on May 19, marking Teddy’s first club date fa dee jay Daddie-0 Day lie takes an all-star benefit Boston ;n a long while; . . Erroll Garner has a package to Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium on relatively new clause in his contract which reads, May 23. “It ia understood and agreed that the operator u HOLLYWOOD to furnish a baby grand piano properly tunel and in good working order.” After his recent Hi-Hat horla Pandit, the be-'turbaned Hindu whose Ham­ appearance here, Oscar Peterson firmly intenda tn sur mond organ technique won him a feminine i ollowing have a similar clause inserted in all his future pacta greater than Liberace’s, follows the latter’s lead with concert dates, starting at the Long SAN FRANCISCO Beach (Calif.) auditorium May 23. Pandit, who Eddy Howard, in town in April to visit his ailing droppei off his daily TV series on KECA-TV here mother, made a few diac jockey appearances as well to develop a new one-hour weekly show (it will under the aegis of Tony Valerio of Melody Sales ... probably be telefilmed) U managed by Lou Snader’s Paul Naden, young cometiat from Boston, organized Telescriptions, Inc. . . . Meredith Willson coming a dixieland band to play a scries of May dates at home to Hollywood for the summer and starting a the Emporium, local department store. Group in­ new Music Room (ionr Frizzell did several one-nightera for Longhorn Joe (she’ll do a total of 40 numbers) for Standard & Co. during April in San Pablo, Sacramento and mo Radio. Standard also has signed Billy May. other Northern California spots ... Cal Tjader lead­ MGM’a Johnny Green heads for Europe toon ing the band for the Sunday afternoon jam eiisiom with producer Arthur Freed, where Freed plans at the Black Hawk and Chuck Travis taking over to do a ballet picture, Invitation to the Dance for the off-night. Spot continues with Ben Light fol­ . . . Benny Carter put together a solid combo lowed by Dave Brubeck. Latter played one-nighten fat a music sequence (visual and sound) in all the way up the Valley pnor to his May 4 concert Turning The Tables-III 20th’s forthcoming Clash by Night (Linda Dar. ncU, Gary Merriu). He had Jerry Wiggins, with the Krupa Trio in Berkley. Brubeck, incident­ piano; Ben Webster and Bumps Myers on ten­ ally, ia being wooed by various record firms as hu one; Keg Johnson, trombone; George Jenkins, Fantasy contract runs out this year. The Vernon Alley Quartet and the Cal Tjader drums: Charlie Drayton, base; Ulyeses Livings­ trio did a Sunday afternoon eonerrt in Vallejo The Lounsbury Tale: From ton, guitar. Latter present on soundtrack only. May 4 for Sy Symond», KVO> jock. Cal used Benny’s quintet, eurrenl at Sardi’s with some of Jack Weeks, ban, and Johnny Marabuta, piano the same boys, looks like a long hold-over. There’s warfare among the westerners in these Vernon and Cal continue in their Fack’a book­ here paru. Jimmy Wakely raided Spade Cooley’s ing until the end of June . . - Local Herman Hot Clarinet To Hit Discs fans are in an uproar becauae NBC» outlet here. band and rustled three of hit ace sidemen, taking By AUNT ENNA steel guitar ttar Noel Boggs and two of Cooley’s KNBC, » not carrying the remotes from the top hand> from his fiddle section—Billy Wright and Statler Hotel . . . The Piano Parade package it Chicago—Tire belief, widely-held, that “anyone can be a definitely out as far aa the Bay Area is con­ disc jockey,” is substantially supported by the multitude of Billy Hill . . . Ozzu Nelson took over the bator on his radio tenet with the departure of Billy May. cerned and may not hit the roaat at all becauae ex-carnival pitchmen, untrained blatter boys who “know Lot of kids around today who probably don’t recall of low guarantees . . . Nancy Andrew», freah somebody,” runmng-off-at-the-mouth salesmen, and misfits that Ozzie was a very .tuccessful bandleader in hit from Cafe Society in New York, opened at thr who flunked radio schools now* pre-Hollywood days. Chi Chi . . . The piano team of Art McRae and crowding the airways. where he worked at WHAS, the BOSTON Al Arriola left the It Club for a date al Msnnd Thus it’s always refreshing to 1CBS outlet. For a year he did the rell’» in Honolulu. Kentucky Calls America platter The Hi-Hat has largely taken the jazz play from The Downtown Theater where Kenton and Frankie run into someone whi is eminently Storyville for the month of May. Stun Getz, Tiny qualified to be a deejay and who show, from midnight to 6 a.m., and Laine drew good houses last year it now for strip­ had a huge Lrterership. »b the sta­ Kahn and Al Haig pened then* hi April 28 and pers only . - Pianist Emit Lewis took a band to believe»- the position carries a re­ on May 5 Dizzy Gillespie returned. The new Jump­ sponsibility to the listeners as well tici was one of the few clear chan­ Portland late tn April to back Pie Wee Crayton at ing with Symphony Sid package arrived on May 12 as to the sponsor. nels broadcasting all night during the Club De Lisa for two weeks. It featured Teddy with Miles DnviF J J. Johnson, Milt Jackson and Such a person is Chicago’s Jim wartime. Edwards, tenor; Frank Butler, drums and Skippy Eddie Davis. Teddy Wilson opened with u combo Warren, bate. Lounsbury, who not only has a Night Watchman thorough background in radio that iactades aewacasting, covering He moved to WIND in '49 and sports «vents, and regular an- soon thereafter took over the mid­ Frank To Play Stans Big Biz hstymg chorea, but possesses a night to 6 Night Watch show, Announce bachelors degree in music, was which became justly noted as the The opening of tuaml’ • »"-icing musician, and is 'only nightly local record show that Cues Repeat Mt at all bashful ibo'it playing intelligently interlaced good jazz with good pops. 1st Chi Nitery Chicago — Stan Kenton, who DRUM CITY jau records on a show. broke any and all records for Yet, almost strangely, he is one Since Lounsbury has shifted to Hollywood headquarters strictly a daytime schedule, how­ Chicago — Frank Sinatra will gross take at the Blue Note in of the most pular and potent make his first Chicago nitery ap­ two April wreka, will return to I.A.M.D. record-selling ree in town. ever, hi has regretfully had to cut down on jazz, play more popr, and pearance when he opens at the that club on Aug. 29 for another Watch for future And he h no de'iuaions of Chez Paree on June 5. in the midst pair. grandeur. II doesn’t drive a become more of a »talesman It’s in announcements line with the station’s policy to of national convention time, Band did two one-niters here in leopard-lined Cadillac, isn’t noted Sinatra is off on a string of club the month following the Blue Note sa an eccintric, doesa t refer to play the records people are buying ¿124 Santa Monica Blvd. —a policy which took it out of the and theater appearances this sum­ stint, at the southside Grove ball­ •reryone whose tecord he plays as mer before returning to TV in the room and the Aragon. Stan is be­ GR. 5002 “my good friend,” doesn’t predict weak sister class and made it the -trongest local independent, with fall. It’s rumorvi 1 hat the net will ing picked up by NBC for regular Hollywood 38, Calif. that just about every aide he plays pair him with Milton Berle next weekly remotes is going to be a hit, then make 24 hours of airtime sold each day, and has the rest of the city’s sta season, in addition to some 15- known that claim when one of rninute shots of his own. them happen» to get ucky and tions busily compiling surveys and isn’t on the payroll of a record swinging into the same groove. company. Antes Straight Perfect Fit Lounsbury is not content to ride Terry Scores In nith winners, however. He was the who is admirably equipped to spin first spinner in the area to go out records and talk about them, and on thi limb for the Ames Brothers’ Philly Blue Note who does an excellent job at it. Rag Mop and the Four Aces' Tell Philadelphia — Terry Gibbs’ re­ The careful manner in which lie Me Why, to name a couple. He cent two-weeker at the Blue Nott goes about Kx work ia probably played them hard and wa? a big in Philadelphia was lo successful MICROPHONES FOR STRINGED INSTRUMENTS beat illustrated by big iujy 8 to factor in their successes. that the young Beat vibes poll S am. show, though he’s on the Yet you’ll also hear Shearing and winner has already been invited air four hours a day. Seg is called Armstrong, Ellington and Kenton back. Chicago’s Top Tunes, and prepara­ on his »howr Which seems to us The management of the spot has tions involve callnr about 10 rec­ a pretty intelligent way to compro- signed a contract with Gibbs that ord shops each day (out of a work­ tnise between hia own dis -iminat- will bring him to the Blue Note ing list of 60) to find what five ing taste, station policy, and pub­ for a total of 16 weeks during the rides are selling best Much mon- lic demand, yet remain just about next year. accurate than the “I’ll say it’s a the most-listened-to disc jockey in Terry is currently at the Rhythm ^GERTIP hit and make it one” approach. Room in New York. Tasty Mixture The five top aides an mixed with special» and biscuits on their way up, winch nw Jun a chance to cpNTgQj play a tasty jazz item or three. TRADE MARK He was almost strictly a jazz jock when going to Drake univer­ ’’The Nation's No. I Trumpet sity and working at a Des Moines atatior in >943 And he was dso Mayor," including the entire * jazz clarinetist, working with a band that included prese nt Kenton Made for all trombonist Bob Fitzpatrick. b> 194^ he moved to Louisville, brass instrumants »UOFHOMEggÄ^^ VEBSITT OF MIAMI. ninni; A»d tieni new Meo Md at the <»i»»n 1702 WAlNE ST TOLE 00 9 OHIO CHARLES COUM JTuDIOS By VINCENT J ABATC CHORDS—DISCORDS Chords And Discords Seal Deal Seals Wingys Deal ib date u ner has a Hollywuod, Calif. hich reads, To the Editors: operator u I wish that you will get me Dedicated To Darrell Deejay's Problem tun. i a>ir Straight with that lowsy bokking New York City Alliance, Ohio mt Hi-Hat agency business that 1 went into Tu the Editor To the Editors: intends to sometime ago. I am all thru. With 1 wish to congratulate you on ture parta The new era at Down Beat is that. Man 1 never had so many acquiring R. D. Darrell as your a solid achievement. The May 7th headaches in all my natural life classical review editor. There la issue contained more information Man man every where I go musi­ nobody better in the business or end comment than anything J have I his ailing cians and all kinds of acts crowd more competent to do the job. read in some time. With Yaleman ces us we. sm for bookings. They were wait­ This interests me very y Sales... Hammond providing excellent ing in line when 1 open up. Man much despite the fact that I per­ views on tne music picture; with . organized sw caí wanted me to book i sea' sonally am not very much inter­ y date« at Hen toff giving Blesh the shivers; act. Thats the end. The thing I ested in or conversant with jazz and with Len feathering every­ Group in­ want straight is that to tell the music. ion, piano; one’s musical nest, things are in­ night club owners. That I diden’t It seems to me that your typical deed looking up. put the horn down. I was just jazs enthusiasts would not be too The two stories which particu­ • . . Lefty doing this or the side. To catch up much interested in s classical reper­ ighorn Jo« larly interested me were tne ones with my alimoney! Thats seven toire, but or course, I admit that on Dave Garroway and Bill Ran­ mento and months pass due. I may be all wet on this and that jader lead dle. There was a certain similarity m si isiom i am going lo the caynon today on the contrary, there may be a which immediately struck me . . very intense in this type aking over wher 1 ran all those bookers in. interest in Garroway’s “I’m not dong all of music. I only have a tiny doubt Light fol- And take ’em out so I hoy can live the things I wsnt to do either,’’ again. I booked a thousand acts as to just how effective this columr. and in Randle’s “I didn’t care what GORDON JENKINS SIGNED a new five-year agreement with Decca le-nighten will be amongst the publie it F 4 concert and musicians. And I only collected it was. I wanted to make hits.’” recently, thus «tilling rumor* that hr might follow hi« good friend Dave 310.00 plus loosing 50 nights sleep. reaches. I must say that I admire Both of these cases seem to Kapp lo Victor. Seen with him, in the usual order, are Mike Conner, * incident- you for the attempt, however. rms as his Never no more will I book an act point up the same thing: What is public relation« chief; Milton Rackmil, president, and Leonard Schnei­ or a band. Nobody wants lo pay. Henry L. Gage a serious lover of good music der, executive vice-president nf Decca. Jenkin« ia currently featured on 1 Tjader No wonder all the agents are Vice-President (classics or jazz) to do when he TV’» Royal Showcase. Vallejo broke. I am tareing down all my Westminster Recording Co., Ine. is confronted with the inevitable drapes, telephones, carpets, 500 choice of compromising his per­ Both of these men come from '.al med New York City photos of all kinds of acts. And sonal tastes to suit the unknown solid musical backgrounds. Both of i, piano. To the Editors: put them in my dog house >ut in quantity called the public? them know good music. They both ’• book. Bob Darrell is doing an occasionally DO try to do some­ aiready compromised to the extent Herman the vslley. So if anybody else cellent job for you. Both < 4>mprnmi*ed thing worthwhile: Randle by play­ of pushing Jimmy Wakely to the let berv, wants to get booked go and see him, he has a few bones he’ll give I think it will certainly stim- Both these men have compro­ ing more jazz on his afternoon show limit ■om thr ulate n much broader readership than the article gave him credit Right now, I’m wondering. Can rkagr i« mis'd: Garroway to the extent of for Down Beat and you are to participating in that Easter Sun­ for (this observation made from there really be a peihonal double it con. Please inform the night club be congratulated on jour efforts owners that I nm available with day TV fiasco, and in playing the a weeks’ casual listening to standard? What to do? Any sug­ became in the classical record field. WERE); and Garroway by slip­ gestions gratefully accepted! «, fresh the finest six piece band that I must flagrant cxample^ if the cur- Alan Kayes ret hit crop on hi« early morning ping in the Red Norvo group on Donald Williamson 1 at thr ever had in my life. And I am Commercial Manager ready for any club. TV *how. and Randle to the extent his A.M. radio program. But es­ WFAH Rae and Red Seal Records sentially, the compromise conti- Maund- Wingy Manono indicated in the article. RCA Victor The point is this: how can a P. S. There is about ten night Personally I onrrrnrd id Frankie elub owners who owe me commis­ New York City normally intelligent and sincere St. Gall, Switzerland for strip- sions and if they still don’t can’t To the Editors: individual say things <>n the air main reason for wondering To the Editors: a band pay me. At least they can give me The new Beat is great. Darrell about records he personally dis­ about these things is that they Since the end of the war we had 'ray ton at a job and I’ll be glad to work it knows the classical record business likes that will be acceptable tn the often concern me personally. Im the opportunity to hear a lot of red Teddy out thoroughly and, what is more, he people listening? What shall he also 19 (as Randle was when he well-known American Jazs musi­ can write. say: “Here’s a lousy side. I’m just td Skippt started); I seriously like good cians such as Duke Ellington, Nat David J. Oppenheim playing it tn buy myself u Jaguar jazz; I have been doing both jazz Cole, BG, JATP. As they brought DIÜ YOU KNOW that Peggy Music Director like Bill Randle's?" The problem and pop -hows for several years; over their original formations, all Lee’s origins) Masterworks is more intricate than it seemp at I too want my share of the loot; performances have been staged to Jean Egstrom? Columbia Records, Inc. first glance. our entire satisfaction _ On the other hand, quite a num­ ber of American soloists visited our concert hall«, accompanied by European musicians, generally French, selected in Paris So, Sid­ ney Bechet, Bill Coleman and Don Byas, Buck Clayton, Wallace Bishop, Dizzy Gillespie formed their orchestra with French muei- Those concerts were by far un­ Blvd. der the level of the above-men- tined All-American shows. Failure On April 4, 1952, Gillespie played a concert in Zurich. Swit­ zerland with Don Byns and four Frenchmen This performance turned out to be a complete failure as everything buunded completely amateur-like. Diz was so embar­ rassed that he couldn’t do his ac­ tual best Why couldn’t it be possible to and 4 out of 5 Big have u selection of English or Scandinavian musicians, who’d be up to the task, such as Johnny Name Drummers Buy Dankworth. Ralph Sha« on, Ted Heath, Vic Lewis, Reinhold Svens­ son, Simon Brehm, Arne Dom- nerua, Putte Wickman; or, if it had to be France. Aimé Barelli, Michel de Villers etc? SLINGERLAND Jazz in Europe has to face a lot of difficulties, and if agents .n Europe proceed to release other performances under similar condi­ RADIO KINGS tions, it wouldn’t help at all to raise the standard of jazz music on our continent. Francis Burger Hans E. Tschudy

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Teresa Brewer Perry Como OU Man Mota ***** Why Did You Lame M«.* I Beeped When I Shoulda Bopped **** LosMMNne, Thafs AU Jazz Me Bluet Perry puts muscle behind his reading Jo: Copenhagen of Leave, a ballad described as “a big go * Grizzly Bear song” in music circles, and his effort with When Tho Train Came In should be rewarded handsomely. The Can­ Dori (tredwaii RagiatM'Mi V. S. FatMt A Man Wrote A Song onsburg barber reverts to his more famili­ *fast You’ve Got Me Crying Again ar subdued, relaxed style in reviving the Album rating: ★★* charming oldie on tne reverse. Mitch Eight of Miss Brewer’s less important Ayres backs tastefully. (Victor 20-4687.) RECORD REVIEWS single releases have been reissued, ap­ Records in the popular and rhythm-and-blues sections are reviewed parently with an eye out for the thrush’s Alan Dean Sn admirers. Mose, Blues, Copenhagen, and ★♦* ★ You’ll Never Be Mine less and rated in terms of broad general appeal. Records in the jazz section Bear are done with a studio-bred Dixie­ ★*★ Do You Care aero: are reviewed and rated in terms of their musical merit. land combo. (London APB1006.) prop Records in the popular and rhythm-and-blues sections of interest from Mine may be the side that will put Alan aimp die musical standpoint are marked with a sharp (|), or, if exceptionally Nat Brooks over the top into the big time. Aid«! by tome a vocal group and Leroy Holmes’ good ar- chan interesting, a double sharp (if). ** Number Mambo rangement, with George Barnes’ guitar Ratings A Mambo Bluet featured on the ad-lib verses, he makes a The “Number Song,” as it is subtitled, powerful thing out of this minor-key folk ★★★★* Excellent, ★★★★ Very Good, ★★★ Good, ★★ Fair, ★ Poor. gets a good mambo beat while creat­ song adaptation. Care is a finely sung re­ ing suspense with innumerable numerals. vival of the 1940 hit. (MGM 11226.) *A songs’ popularity, they provided a stimu­ (Turns out, as if you hadn’t guessed, that Ct lating contrast with the other versions the number was 69.) Reverse is a fair in­ Fontane Sisters ridg POPULAR around. Linked into one disc, some months strumental with a solovox solo, according ** / Grabbed For The Engine tor, after the demise of the tunes as short­ to the label. Sounds like a flute. (Rain­ ** When I Dream of J *Record ia thia section are reviewed lived hits, they show up their weaknesses. bow 173.) year Grabbed is one of those fast-stepping feat and rated in term* of broad general In particular, the band backing is al­ appeal. If they are of interest from Mindy Carson novelties with a whole flock of lyrics. orga most without exception stiff, stodgy and Mildly entertaining, though the accom­ ator the musical standpoint, they are marked unimaginative. with a sharp *),( or, if exceptionally *** Come Out, Come, Out Wherever You paniment is a little skimpy. Dream is an will interesting, a double sharp (ff). However, Louis injects enough vocal Are Arthur Altman-Dick Manning novelty loya adrenalin (plus touches of trumpet digi­ *A Ho-Ho with occasional intrusions by a male com­ talis) to bring them back effectively to Two good novelties. The first, based on edy Mexican. (Victor 20-4667.) life. The most live item, and the most the old children’s rhyme (All-ee-all-ee-In- # Laurindo Almeida likely to become a Satehmo standard, is etri Free etc.) was co-authored by Rita Col­ Four Aces tri Serenades by Schubert, Drigo, Tchaikov­ Kiss, from his picture The Strip, an estab­ ton, TV’s blonde Mennen model; the sec­ sky, Toselli, Biset, Mosskowtki, Romberg, lished top seller for many months on 78. AAA* I’m Yourt ond by Bob Merrill. Earl Sheldon’s orch ***★ I Understand and Drdla (Decca DL 5401.) assists. Both are divertingly handled by an a Album rating. *A-A Mindy. (Victor 20-4681.) With leader Al Alberts carrying the vo­ eold What a decided pleasure this album af­ ## Louis Armstrong cal lead, the Aces come up with a bright Bae cover discing of Yours, a quick-breaking wall fords! Imagine hearing a solo guitar— AAA A A Kiss Of Fira Don Cherry hit ballad with strong recordings by Don ticu no gook, no tapes, no dub-in. Ex-Kenton- **** ru Walk Alone ite Almeida’s approach to these evergreen A* Wonder Cornell and Eddie Fisher showing the melodies is largely classic in conception; Decca’s use of Louis to cover on current *** My Mother's Pearls way. Strong as the performance is, it will pop hits hasn’t produced any side to date result ia a splendid demonstration of tech­ Don wonders if you know he’s crying have to play third fiddle to the two leaders. that’s quite as wonderful as Kiss Of Fire. Understand, a strong ballad of a decade hi nique and some refreshing listening to his heart out for you during a routine triti delicate musicianship. Satch rings up a storm and, as a bonus, ago, is revived most convincingly by the blows his best half chorus on wax in some ballad, then contends that mother’s pearls Of course, the mission of the album is a are her boys and girls through an old- group, operating in front of its familiar time. He is almost as effective in ringing light semi-shuffle beat. Could stoke up at­ fast deliberately commercial one. Evergreen and blowing the revived standard on the timey beery waltz. He does both in his strikingly straightforward style; a vocal tention. (Decca 28162.) Ani though they may be, the tunes are over­ reverse side. Should make for Louis one and worked. It is to be hoped for that in a of the most successful commercial cou­ group contributes a gem or two to the second side. (Decca 28153.) Jan Garber new future set Lauri nd o’s sizeable talent is plings in his remarkable history. (Decca of a framed in a more imaginative manner. 28177.) ★** Zither Bluet aide (Coral CRL56049.) Nai “King” Cole kk Honky Tonk Blues 112 Toni Arden AAAAA Somewhere Along The Way Paul Mason Howard plays the zither Leroy Anderson ★*★ Im Youri **** What Does It Take To Make You throughout the top side. As far as the **** Mb**, Flank, Plunk AAA Kitt of Fire Take To Me material and treatment are concerned, *** SarsMtu Tiny Toni’s teeth grasp these two This is Nat’s most effective coupling in though, the general feel is that of an Dacca has raided Anderson’s second pieces of currently hot material firmly. some months. With Nelson Riddle pro­ old-time banjo, with the band capturing album again to issue Plink. Company’s The results are two dramatically effec­ viding a tasty string-ful background, Nat most of the rhythmic qualities of danee first raid on that volume produced an tive performances that should do a fairly fi rejects with warmth and sincerity a love- bands of the 1920s. Roy Cordell sings the item called Blue Tango. The new entry, impressive job of battling the consider­ y new ballad, Somewhere. Hank Williams opus overleaf. (Capitol being widely recorded and well plugged, able competition on both tunes. Percy Billy May’s band sets the medium rock­ 2068.) stacks up as a strong contender. It’s a Faith helps a lot. (Columbia 39737.) ing pace for the flip, a most attractive light-hearted pizzicato instrumental of the little Burke-Van Heusen bouncer which Jane Grant flash variety, recorded at a high level Nat tosses off in an almost too casual with a large studio orchestra. Blue Barron ** Fil Sail My Ship Alone manner. There’s a brief breathy tenor bit ** Doodle De Do Somata is one of Anderson’s earlier *** til By Yourself In The Moonlight between choruses. (Capitol 2069.) pieces built around a couple of sweeping, itt Funny Melody Jane is an average pop singer who, hummable, soundtrack-tvpe themes. (Dec­ Blue gives Moonlight the ‘how-staccato- Sambas by Emil Coleman at least for the present, will stand or ca 28168.) fall on her material and her orchestral can-you-get?’ treatment, with vocal by 1'ico Tico the Blue Notes. Melody has Betty Clark accompaniment. Neither factor offers her Brasil much support here, though the happy Andrews Sisters and the ensemble taking advantage of Lae Cae the song’s simple lines, emphasizing the pseudo-Dixieland atmosphere comes ** Music Lessons Carinhoso through tolerably on Doodle. (Dot 15016.) *♦ Dreamt Come Tumbling Down thirds to good commercial effect. (MGM Cavaquinho 11208.) The sisters hit some sort of low on Les­ El Caramelero sons as ridiculous a “soundie” novelty as O Freto E Attim Martha Lou Harp-George Barnes has been put on the market. George Cates’ Harry Belafonte Parisian Samba *** No Love, No Nothin* AAA Farewell Blues studio band prorides a real razzmatazz *** Chiminey Smoke Album rating: *** * backing. Dreams is still another adapta­ *** A-Rovin’ Society maestro Coleman delivers a Martha Lou debuts on wax as a multi­ tion from a traditional Yiddish melody; it Aided by Hugo Winterhalter’s orchestra spicy collection of sambas, played spirit­ dub vocal mate for Barnes’ stab to catch makes one realize Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen edly if not with imagination, which should up with Mr. and Mrs. Les Paul. Farewell was a masterpiece. Sy Oliver at least and chorus, Harry Belafonte gets off to a promising start in his record career as tantalize the hip-swaying set. (Victor expands Miss Harp into a chorus and saved us from another freilach chorus in LPM3009.) Barnes virtually into a symphony. It’s a providing the orking. (Decca 28116.) a folk singer. The first side, a lilting waltz, is the likelier hit. It is short and potent entry in the multi-dub sweepstakes, to the point; the coupling is a little over- the best turned out by the Paul imitators. Andrews Sisters-Russ Morgan long, but agreeably folksy. (Victor 20- Martha, recorded only as a duo on Love. AAA Wabash Blues 4676.) gets an enticing raspy sound which could A AAA Linger Awhile augur well for her future on *records. Bell Sisters (Decca 28144.) The gals get together with Russ’ Scran­ ton Seven, singing the veteran blues ♦AA Rutza, Rutza straightforwardly, with a measure of Mor- *** Boo Hoo Ink Spots gar's usual corn trombone. Linger, done The teen-age duo become embroiled in ** Under The Honeysuckle Vine fast, is the side that should doubtless do a mitch-mash production of an adaptation AAA You May Be The Sweetheart Of well in the juke-boxes. (Decca 28143.) of a horah-freilach novelty that sells Somebody Elfe pseudo-excitement. The kids fashion a The Spots tackle a couple of ditties charming bounce reading of Boo Hoo, a # Louis Armstrong familiar evergreen, on the reverse with a uncovered on the Songs For Sale TV show Ce*t Si Bon skillful assist from Henri Rene’s studio in the group’s inimitable style—Bill Ken­ ny solo, guitar, humming, and recitatif. / Get Ideas band. (Victor 20-4665.) La Vie En Rote Sweetheart is a real beer-jerker, could Because Of You snap up some nickels. (Decca 28164.) Maybe It’s Because # Johnny Bothwell Cold Cold Heart A* Street Of Dreams Burl Ives I'll Keep the Lovelight Burning iririr Fil Remember April A Kist to Build a Dream On AA* Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curvet Reissue of a pair of Signature sides ** The Little Green Valley Album Rating: **** made by the alto stylist with members of Satehmo Serenades is the title of this the great Boyd Raeburn band of some With Grady Martin and his Slew Foot LP, though it might well have been called half-dozen years ago. They’ll recall that SHOW OF SHOWS, the biggest Satur­ Five as engineers. Burl rounds the dan­ Satehmo’s Tribute to Tin Pan Alley. The Bothwell is a persuasive altoist and what day night television feature, on NBC, has gerous curves at high velocity. There’s a world’s most famous symbol of jazz is very a pity it was that the Raeburn band nev­ built up n loyal following for these two gang of lyrics here, most of them pretty far afield from jazz in the string of pop er did quite make it. April could stand a regular members of the cast. Bill Hayes colorful. VaUey is much more easy-going song hits he tackles here. chance commercially in our sax-conscious and Judy Johnson. They are seen here and folksy. Alto and guitar have solos. As single releases at the time of the era. (Brunswick 80176.) at their first MGM recording session. (Decca 28161.) 1, 1952 June 4, 1952 RECORD REVIEWS DOWN BEAT IJ Joni James Marion Morgan Jo Stafford tA* let There Re Lok 6* The Little Train A-Chuggin In My A* AWA Raminay! th My Bahy Just Caret Fur Me Heart WWW Within Your Ante reading Joni is a hip-sounding girl from Chica­ kkk There's A Cloud In My Falley Of Raminay should be another very size­ i "a big go who makes a lot out of the first side, Sunshine able source of revenue for Mrs. Weston. is effort with efficient orchestral work led by Lew Marion sounds agreeably confident on Described as “the New Orl"i'.ni» Chimney Pho Can, Douglas. She’s less expressive on the the second side, from Son Of Paleface. Sweep Song," it starts with the same e famili- faste- backside. (MGM 11223.) Nice guitar work (George Barnes again?) street-cry atmosphere that made Herb Jef­ vine tie in LeRoy Holmes’ support. (MGM 11219.) fries’ Barin Street a hit. . Mitch Snooki Lim»on Arm-1 is Sunny Skylar’s adaptation of 8-4687.) Ella Mae Morse French ballad Dane See Brar. Weston’s W Stay 4way from Dixieland ..rchestra and the Norman Lubuff Choir kkk Time WWW Loir Ya Like Mad! lend their sturdy arms and throats to both WWWW Oakie Boogie Snooky, a vocal group and u more or sides. (Columbia 39725.) !eu New Orleans type band help to put Love, is a fair vehicle into which Ella scrods the unoriginal morsel of southern injects as much life as possible. But she propaganda. Time is a westernish hallad, gets on blues Kay Starr nit Alan really going Oakie, a fast »imply and effectively handled. Given by Johnny Tyler with prominent western- ★★AAA I Waited A Little Too Long tided by some distribution, this side might have a kkkk Me Too good ar­ vtyle interludes from a guitarist in the chance. (Tennmee 816.) Nelson Riddle accompaniment. Not an­ Waited is as near to a cinch as you’ll ' guitar find. The stow, simple <>ld-timey melody makes a other Blacksmith, but a sure seller. (Capi­ Ben Light tol 2072 ) has Kay backed up with an unobtrusive key folk vocal group and a moment or two of sung re- ♦A Rote Mexicali guitar; second chorus doubles up. The 26.) kk Rosalie Ray Noble AWA Whistle My Lore coupling is un oldie (Ho, Ho, Ha, Ha, Me California State Senator Jack Breckin- kkk I Hear Thr Bluebells Ring Too is the full label) delivered with ridgt' Tenney, the former Metronome edi­ Starry-» ye¿ zest und a rousing beat. Both tor, -hould be happy with thi» treatment Noted for his rrood taste, Noble displays faces should maintain Kay’s status as a of Mexicali Rose, which he wrote many same to the nth degree to handling a steady seller. (Capitol 2062.) years ago. It’s just melody with flourishes, rather charming ballad from the soon due stepping featuring Light’s piano accompanied by Disney Robin Hood score and a breezy, ‘ lyrics, organ. Cole Porter, who is no State Sen­ albeit ligh’weight, rhythm novelty, Blue­ Three Sun- accom- ator and never edited any jazz mag^ zines, bells. Art Morton renders both pleasantly, My Reverie m in an will like Rosalie because of its limilnr if without color. (Victor 20-4668.) Moon Glow novelty loyalty to the tune. (Capitol 2074.) Intermezzo sie com- MISS JUDY LYNN i* one of the brighter David Rose Smoke Rings ■ind prettier young thing* on the vocal My Silent Lors Guy Lombard" horison. Recently purled by ttoral, she AAA On a Little Country Road in Switzer­ Moonlight Sonata land expect* lo have a hit with her version of April In Paris AAA More Than Love kkk Harlem Nocturne AA Come Back Phil Moore's novelty Blow Out the Candle. Laura Starting with a suggestion of yodeling A lesser Lombardo effort couples Love, Mbum rnlinc: 6^Ar and some trotting-hoofbeats, Road goes The Suns, specialists at pleasing the an adaptation set in a beguine and chanted Billy May into a jolly, ambling little ditty that could • the vo­ coldly out cleanly by Kenny Martin, and elders of the family, should do just 'hat You’re Driving Me Crasy catch on. The strings are brightly fea­ with plenty to spare with this balf-houi i bnght Baek, an American version of a French tured. waltz also warbled by Martin, is not par­ When lour Lover Hat Gone of “here’s the-melody” readings of eight ireaking Nocturne, like so many other versions by Don ticularly attracting. (Decca 28132.) Perfidiu super-standard items. The threesome here My Last Affair of this minor melody, is done as an alto to come» four with the addition of harpist ing the saxophone .solo. The alto man here is a I, it will Diane Martra Hanson. Goto music to drink tea Art Lund-Anita Gordon Please Be Kind guest star, Woody Herman, and he make; leaders, a gracious guest, proving again that this by! (Virtw I PM 3012.) i decade kk Freneti Tenderly ekk Pigtails and Freckles Orchids In The Moonlight is the instrument he should feature with by the his own band too. (MGM 30582.) Danny Winchell Umiliar Art takes Frenem atone, and a little too Album Rating: WWAW ' up at- fast; he does Pigtails us a cute duet with Big Band Bash! is the excited title of kk Two Anita Gordon, playing the once bepigtnued thia LP, and in the light of everything Barbara Ruick kk Why Did You Leave Me? snd freckled youngster who is now “his else that’s been happening with tne big ♦AAA Huw About You Winchell, a song plugger turned croon­ new gal." Leroy Holmes allows a couple band, the bash should be a highly lucra kkk I’d Wanna U alb Right Out Of er, shows some plea-int qualities on his of soloists to step out momentarily on both tive one. Thu World debut slicing*, particularly when he heads Iides—alto, trombone and guitar. (MGM to Frank’s direction. His songs are typi­ Seven of the eight items start with the You swings m a delightfully refreshing 11207.) inevitable sax section sound. (The lone­ cal Tin Pan Aliev ballads. L»‘>oy Hnlmse manner. Miss Ruick, an MGM starlet, has backs up «imply, tastefully. (MGM s zither some exception is When Your Lover Has a Doris Day-ish way with a song; she as the Mantovani Gone, and don’t worry, they get to it in delivers the Ralph Freed lyrics with un 11218.) _____ icerned, I Lore You Truly the second chonis.) appetizing charm that’s hard to resist. of an 4t Dawning All are good, danceable instrumentals, Incidentally, Freed produced a special Victor Young largely ensemble. The tunes fit the idea pt nring Lore Here It My Heart second chorus for the occasion and Skip WWW t Place in the Sun . well, imide from Tenderly, which can’t kkkk My Moonlight Madonna Martin backed up with an easy-swinging WWW Spellbound r dance achieve the requisite tendernesM to this ngs the Mexicali Rote dance arrangement that’s played by the These instruments' «ides are, of course, lovely Lady style All in all, there will be no kicks studio crew with drive and body. Should 'Capitol about thia album except the lucks May from two similarly-titled movies. Placb is «♦AA It Happened In Monterey draw plenty of deejay attention and could fane will get from it (Capitol 1-329.) pretty mood music, with brief solos from Was It A Dream? connect for major returns. Jack Zayde’? violin and Carl Prager's These are the eight sides thet are being Reverse is a pleasing new ballad, sung alto, the latter '«uggestive of the old leyed to London Records’ “Mantovani Billy May in a pleasant manner by Beeiz (that'? Wiedoft school. Pianist Stan Freeman, Month” promotion All are graced with WWW When The Swallows Come Bark To what her friends call her), though she for rome reason given label credit as the English recording quality that atom Capistrano could have done better without the tricks. (MGM 11231.) Stanley Freedman, is spotlighted to Spell­ r who, gives them n distinctive pound. Strings kkk Honest And Truly bound. Both sides should get plenty of and or predominate throughout, with occasional Both sides follow the established May play from disc jockeys. (Deeca 28115.) ‘hestral interludes for other sounds such ns sub­ pattern very closely, with the teeds doing Frank Sinatra ens her tone clarinet. (London 1170, 1173, 1174, their slurs in third« *»n Swallows. Trom­ AAW Walking in the Sunshine happy 1205.) bone section and muted trumpets are skill­ kkk My Giri comes fully employed on both numbers. Willie IM»16.) Victor Marchese Smith gets the release of the last chorus Axel's band jumps on Sunshine and JAZZ on his way to Capistrano, and a couple of Frank does an adequate job or. the fluffy You’ll Never Walk Alone lyrics. Girl is the kind of thing Frank Records in this section are reviewed rar» ♦WW Jeannine others have brief solo appearances, but it’s the ensemble sound that will rake in would have taken at a slower tempo n and rated in tern«« of their musical Marchese, a powerful tenor, Udis the the cash customers. (Capitol 2054.) few years ago, with more quality and merit. daylights out of Walk. There’s only a better intonation, not to mention bigger shade more restraint in his warbling of sales. Nevertheless, it’s one of his better multi­ the pretty revival on the flip side. Like Clyde McCoy ci catch recent ballads. (Columbia 39726.) Milt Jackson arewell Mario, this cat sings loud; let’s not say Basin Street Blues anything about it being good. Jeff Alex Sugar Blues A-AA Love Me Pretty Baby us and kk Heart and Soul . It’s u ander accompanies faithfully. (MGM Blues In The Night i stakes, S0583.) St. Louts Blues Love is the original which Milt cut for ita tors. Memphis Bluet Diz on Dee Gee. Now it’s a vibes solo, Dean Martin Wabash Blues unpretentiously and agreeably performed. n Love. Heart moves up to medium tempo, with • * I Passed Your House Last Night I arewell Blues h coula Limehouse Blues Milt putting it through it . changes charm­ ■ecordr. * kk Ret I Chn ingly; our copy, however, is off center. Album rating: WWW Dean sing? well, not sounding as much (Hi-Lo 1405.) like a second-hand Perry Como .is usual, 'x-ading off with his umpteenth slicing on the Don Raye-Lew Spence ballad. Bet- of his Sugar Blues trademark, McCoy has l-Cha is set in the jungles of Africa, ac- produced an album of the most standard Jani Session At Commodore eording to the lyrics, though the rhythm of the standard blues to provide a show­ A Good Man Is Hard to Find might he direct from Havana. An im case for his still saleable wah-wah trum­ Carnegie Drag pressive piece of minor-mood material. peting. He’s hacked by ii surprisingly Carnegie Jump ditties Dick Stabile’n band backs well. (Capitol virile band; the ensemble plays the sim­ Basin Street Bluet V show 2071.) ple, uncluttered arrangement« with vigor Oh, Katharina! 1! Ken- nnd cleanly. (Capitol H31L) Album Rating: kkk citatif. Al Martino First side consists of a reissue ot tee could 66« A6 Here in My Heart Mitch Miller four parts of Good Man, cut in March Ml kkk I Cried Myself to Sleep ★★★ Horn Belt Boogie 1940. Twenty minute» of the same short Here is a record from out of Philadel- kk Serenade for Horns (22 bar) chorus become* « little wearing, iihiii that is zooming into the best-seller A commendable experiment featuring but there are -om<‘ of the tost Dixieland ista, though both artist and label are un­ French horns and rnythm, with Stan soloists: Muggsy, Maxie, Miff, Brad Gow­ known. Freeman*? harpsichord also prominent ans, Pee-Wee. Joe Marsala on alto and Martino belts it out to thr goto old throughout. clarinet, Bud Freeman, with Stacy. Con­ V Foot Street Singer tradition on Here in My Unfortunately the two pieces written don, Shapiro and Wettling. e dan- Heart. Unlike most singers on sleeper by Alec Wilder are far below Alec’s level. Othe<* side, cut December, 1913, has sre’s a «mall--label hits, he’s substantially ac­ Boogie, the faster side, is a blues, mid THE SOUTHERN EXPOSURE of Jari's Maxie, Benny Morton. Foe-W*«, Bushkin. pretty companied by a big orchestra, directed by its high spot is

The Blindfold Test New 47 Trustee Is Johnnie Ray Crowns Sinatra 'King Mum On Merger Hollywood—Bob Kimic, trump«t player from radio field (hi. works By LEONARD FEATHER tne Jack Henny, Fibber McGee A can be done with a standard blues. I love her. Molly and This Is Your F£j, Many fabulous things have happened to I love her very much. She gets four stars. Johnnie Ray in the past months His environ­ shows) was elected to position at 10 This u another very interesting rec­ Local 47 trustee (equivalent fa ment, his future, ms salary, his whole world ord. Bui I can’t liaten lo Kay Starr with­ have undergone the prob an upheavals that board member) to fill a spot ol out recalling Good For Nothing Joe aa a the board vacated by the recent can only occur in show business parallel. That was my first introduction to One thing about Johnnie, though, has not elevation of Bob Hi nnon to finan­ her. She has been singing consistently cial secretary. changed. He retains the deep and sincere love great ever since, and she ia one of the of music that brought him into this business, Kimic, backed by the adminis­ greatest luday. Aa far at iho particular tration, wad opposed by Joe Mu), and still reflects it m expressing his opinions. record it concerned, she is singing real As J. hnnie scribbled his southpaw notes on lendore, arranger, who was hacked wonderful ... I like the song very much. by the American Society of Munir a pad, listened closely to the records and then The only reason she doesn’t get four stars spoke hit piece, the tape recorder inscribed Arrangers and by the Committee is because the arrangement is too spotty for An nlgamation of L«ocal 47 and h.t comments and his ratings—made, by the in its support. It comes through and then way, on the Beat’t new rating system of a it drops back, and it's not fair to Kay, Local 767 (AFM’s Jim Crow union five-stai maximum. Here’s how it shaped up:— here) > Usual small turn-out of because the song is strong and she’s sing­ Local 47 (membership close to The Records ing great. The record haa an awful lot, bul the arranger goofed, an I ean only 15,000) attended the meeting nt L I ve heard this voice before somewhere which the election was held. The .. this is a jazz blues thing, the kind I used give it three stars. vote was 217 to 185. to do a lot myself. The girl suffers from poor 11. I hope Frank Sinatra will read this, material; it’s just a prototype of seven million because I’m ubout to say some very beautiful Won’t Talk other things just like it. You'd probably get things ubout him. First of all, this is the sec­ Asked where he stood on ths the effect of s song like this if you were in a ond five star record you’ve played for me proposed merger of the white and club watching it, but as far as I could see, it’s today. This aong, the way Frank Bings it, is Negro union- here Kimic told just average charting. She does a fairly good only part of the reason why he wears the Down Beat: “I would rather not job with what little she has to work with. crown of king. No one can touch a guy like commit myself until I have studied She reminds me a little of Mabel Scott... and that for what he can put into a aong, the way the situation.” the girl I worked with in Detroit st the Flame he does it ... I have to lose two pounds a Local 47’s board of directora haa Shoubar, Chubby Newsome ihow to try to get icross to the pi opl ■ what gone on record as favoring—in he does by waving his fingers . . . This par­ principle—the abolition of the heg- ticular side, which is one I’ve always enjoyed regation set-up which exists hen listening to, ie one reason why he is king and as in most large AFM locals (witn he will stay king, Of course I’m carried away exception of New York's 802). type of peace u very foreign to me. Thia Johnnie Ray with Frank’s singing, but the accompaniment ig highly over-amuiged: I ju«l don’t like is just positively the end. You can’t even call the record. What did you say one atar retty tiling. And ihi« girl remind« me of it accompaniment really, because it’s just as OO1VT H»tU fOH IHOHDS! atoud for—poor? One atar. Eiltle Mim Sharecropper: however, I doubt much a part of the record as Frank. All The HANO-MASm CHORD CHART X This is r new record that I definitely go that it ta «he. Unfortunately I don't think around, there has been spun a web of almost ahewi the actual piano key* to ura for for—Armstrong, real great ... I go for it thia tong has any merit at all, in any ca­ ethereal mood and wannth. It’s probably one •«••{» chord. 144 keyboard rlkntratiom. three quarters of the way through; near the pacity; but I do belieie that everybody of the greatest records I’ve ever heard in my include« 7th«. 9th«, aug dim., etc Com­ end something happens tha* doesn’t quite jell there made the beat pomible effort to get life. And I repeat and repeat and repeat, five plete) Eaty to u«e! Send $ I 4«dap to with me. In the beginning I loved the trumpet, •omething out of it. However, the girl ■-tars, five starn, five «tars! CHURCHILL PUBLICATIONS, Suite 112, singer, I would like to hear her on some and the way th«- strings und the trumpet toss Afterthoughts by Johnnio 45 N. hr«t Street, Sen Jo««, California. it back and forth. There waa a piano thing in other thing« like some real good blues. I This haa been a very interesting session. there that I liked very much too. Louis ia only think that for what everybody tried to do conaidering the lack of material, tliia de- I've had a variety of material, and right along the greatest, what can you say after that? with it a variety of moods . . . Other five star Four «tars, ■erve« three «tara records? Well, we’ll go way back to the begin­ NAME BAND 4. It’s Um» bad you had to play thia for 7. I’m very surprised at this record. I can’t imagine what Perry and Mitch are trying to ning. The first five star record I ever heard— me, becaner Tony and I are such good Boy Meets Horn. Rex Stewart waa really blow­ SCHOOL OF MUSIC friends • • • bat I ean see that thia blind­ prove ... I get no message from this song. This is surprising, coming from me, because ing his heart out. I think the next five star felM test la dene very honestly, so I won’t record I heard wa* Peggy Lee singing Why thia man La one of my idols. Just because of ABdrau inquiriu to be eneugk to cover up my feeling«. Don’t You Do Right. After that, there were If Taffy rands «hit. I hope he’ll take it for that I’ve got to give it three «tai»., but I «n »evrral Take The A Train by Duke, Ojnu fit NAME BAND SCHOOL OF MUSIC wImb M*e worth, because it put« me on a only repeat, I don’t understand the song. Tc by Tommy Dorsey—and a very beautiful rec­ r. O. Eo« Sil. Tra»—, Arte««« ■Ml Sounds like Perry Faith did this; all be frank, 1 don’t like the song! 8. Thii is the first five-atar record ord, Janies Rushing with Cuunt Basie, Runty I can «a* is somebody goofed. They re­ Dusty Blues. That completely fractured me. corded Tony very flat; they gave him a you’ve played for me. And I don’t give it that be« ouae of the uiuaical merit uf the Erroll Garner’s I Can’t Get Started, when • How About aong that hai nothing, not even a commer­ he wove Tea For Two into the release of the cial value, leave alone musical quality. It’s record. It’s jual becauae I’m a damn senti- PRESS CUPPINGS ruentaliat. Thinking about the beautiful rhorus—that »as Treat , . , And Sarah released? Fm sorry, for Tony’s sake. 1 Vaughan's Don’t Blame Me. Then we have Wo maintain Entertainment; Radio don’t think it haa anything. I hate to oay times that Tie had in the past, watching Al being perched on the stage, watching Ivie Anderson. As far as I’m concerned, any­ and TELEVISION Dapartmanti Ihi«, bul Tve got it. giir il no itiri al all thing she did was five stars.______DOMBIITB MEW YORK CITY —««rt even a uno for effort. him let go—and me ao completely en­ NVImEIILK u« W. IMb SYRBBY tranced liy the whole thing, I forget I’ve Records Reviewed by Johnnie 5. The only thing that keeps Dolores Hawk- got a beer in from of me ... and of the ]ns and the Four Lads from getting five stars Jobuto *u gira* ■■ tafnrmali«* wbatarar ab«M iba good times Tve had with people when he —rd, plsy«d tar Sim, a*«b«, Safara a» ilaria« dm n my book is strictly that it wasn't the best waa tliere, and the laughs and the fun that blladiald «••« PIANO-BREAKSI job of engineering. D< lores was really singing I’ll never forget, As I «aid. I’m a damn I. Bulb Bra** Viaadaa» Oa Tha Caraar I Sil—Wal. AB—labi, la VleU*. duri*««. Sua, «l» up a storm. I appreciate the originality of the •eniimrnlaliai. so I’ve got to give it five B. Marie Imu Trayu«,« (Vlatw). fluì m,,ml. Ormi Rull«tii b tuli «f hot Four Lad» in supporting her. But because I'm «ruta •>>'" «ad ixiofia il*” «e yv« star«. 3. Loale Ariwfraeg-6iirdaa J—bl— India* lata Call ni kapturia« altra «banaaM ol Hll-p«n4« very famibar with her style I know Dolores 9. This is a very interesting record for more «D—u). tuu«a Suu4 Sta fot • «upy h O lui H car sing ever- better material and aing with rvasons than one. I take it for granted the 4. Tear B—aew. Matplaii (CalaatSla). ■■utb, Muatluu It «uu^ur. a lot more feeling; but considering the mate­ title is Helpless Bluet; and I know Billie and 3. Doiorae Hawhla« with ilia Faur Lade War«, la Mr "TU UH CMISTfltSEN MCTNT rial she’s uairg here I think a supreme effort love Billie so well as a friend that the lyrics Sta (Okab). B—EIb D FX>. B— 4SI OJoIb CoiN. on everybody's part hae been contributed, and S. Jimmy S—II Thar Sa. To* Cry (Card) in this song interest me. She says, I’m helpless 7, Parra Came. Mark UaoaUght (Viet—) Rita Mlt,b- and confuted and My friends all know it particularly p>eased with the Four Lads; I all Ayraa Orta PLAY MODERN PIANO 81 MAIL baby . . I know why she’s singing it. I know R Al Hibbler. Tree. (Mate» ■. •T' very fair, liar with them, of course, from why she’s feeling it. It makes the record all 9. BlUla Halida, Be Pair Ta Ma (Aladdla) Camp. 30 LESSONS - S2 what they do in tny records. This ia a fine that much more interesting. I imagine it’s Daraell. combination of everybody’s efforts. son nothing she perhaps even wrote herself. I 10. Kay »terr. «»—ta« (Capitol). With Fraab Da Vai 6. I waa very - iripreasrd with the trum­ Orta don’t know, but—a very expressive song, and 11. Fr—k Slaatra. Tat Cat 4 Crath Oa Tea (Cefaaa- pet in the mlrodnctiou . . . a very, very Billie doe» an awful lot with it—as much as bla). With flabby Haebetl and amaU group. KARL BERRY Contino Set MART SMALL with VIC MIZZY’S ORK Things To Come (Kin*. 4/SO/M), ChaHio Margulis, Michoy Or BOP TIES, MoMhhlog Toay Fooo, Frank Saraueot For Induction Ed Colyar, troa. | Hymio Schertnar. Saat $l These are recently-cut records and their personnels. Mwaiker, Allow Rom, Sol Tappar, roodai Hollywood — Dick Contino was Za m Imi« ' Ti. II Ilk« « ««•«<«:• Though not all jazz aides, many may be of interest to Down Marty Gold, Brioaei Maa Shopniek, baM| slated to report for induction in 1 *»“• ToMaay Kay, gwitar, Staa Kroll, drama mid-May at a Ixm Angeles induc­ T4- AM D«b Beat readers because of some of the sidemen in the groups. ImMediaMlYI TSm Morry Co *roamd Broko Ooioui two others« tion center. ^R Mu«ic«i fim-Ui. «a. Contino seemed happy about it, I.M u Duke's ’Perfume Suite' and told Down Beat: ‘I've passed I ’ COJ.'i m taptec all my physicals and I just want SEETON SALES CO.« "» ■ « topi. B BivuMya ». N.Y. B4U.Y TAYLOR JR’S RAND (Marawy, ira.i ribm, H«"«l wlopb«*« ,bi*>M A Set For RCA Release to get started. I haven’t the slight­ A/la/U). Tar« Jarda*, 1,1 , Caaiga Mat- U* «hl.üai Dita Rora. V, Mta l>rrllo, New York — Duke Ellington’s est idea where they’ll send me. «mn, ara.« Dm CUBarB, Caarga JaaMa, «•»•rBi«*| 411«* Haul«*, «■!««, | Irate« Perfume Suite, which han been “I want to thank all the friends alta, i u««rpa Rara- laaaa, BUI Daggaii G.ldbara ilrt-aa, who stood behind me I ow<- their «WI Billy laylar Jr. piaaa , Rari Mara, Aia'l Sha Saaatl; Caahaa Ualut Ur th» gathering dust on Victor’i- shelves baaai Cbarito Sa*lb, Bram«. Saa, Hat Up,. since 1945, will be telea-wd by that a lot and will never forget them.’ rarad!,, («ara, latir Tbaavaaa)« Fa company shortly The four-part that Sarai. Ra Or Baa ta Ka (Taaip. Lata, Tbaaapaa-l, BILLY IOU)U JU'S TRIO »lib ADDED DID YOU KNOW RH1THM «Raml, S/I/S2) lull- T.yl.r work will appear on two 10-inch Vaughan oner played second plant Jr. p«am Earl Mara, ba»i Cbarila Saallb, records. in Earl Hine«’ band? ■AaiAM «UPARTLAND (Smy. 4/B1/BS). Bruara« Fraab Caloa, conga i Kara) Oqaan *ri— MePaniaad, pl—« > Mal Zal*lta Ba, boa«a,| Cbaak Wayaa, «allar (oa «rat mura * »<*«■■> Maa Way—, bara. ir* Iba Grptr '■ Mr Stai. Oar Lata f, • ARRANGMMENTS ara tt Start It Vidi a» Wall Ut PIANISTS • RIVISION#» * •bnd cakds In brilliant rtuu. Type of material • MU ODIES AM IDEA FOR YOUR NEW CARD -«•eu by bear recora.ng artist« Finger SONGWRITERS • PRINTING .ngi for all Keys. Aitl igU not designed 113 rapraWuctiur.« uf MlU*s om«U br a for beginners, may be used for tech • PROMOTION niea) estreise by anyone knowing basic Write I•• Coda, l-j ii hin. Ori la rhoida. Meal material for leechera Ata «tan by «ulna CEN^BAL urt po«t«* Price S1.M Writ. WB |„r Briabusk, prie« Uri. ,«*pl—■ HANCOC* MU«

June 4, 1952 MUSIC SCENE IN FOCUS

Johnnie Wins The Weepstakes AGONY IN EXTREMIS ia registered by the Weep«takes Johnnie Ray,

Dizzy Wails, Too DIESt FINE PICTURES, credited to Willy Rirro of Paris-Match, were taken during Disay Gillespie’« recent visit to Paris on a highly successful three-week tour of the Continent. Seen with Dia at right i« Don Byas, veteran tenor star now domiciled in France. DOWN BEAT NEWS-FEATURES Chlrago, June 4> Ì9S1 Fielding Is Newest Feather’s Nest Coast Band Entry Hollywood—Jerry Fielding, who ------By LEONARD FEATHER baton: the Groucho Marx radio and TV shows. is the latest iron his The question has been asked many times, usually rhetoric­ brand* of the business to feel ths «and ally- It has been posed most often by smart-aleck non-inodern urge for a try at the dance game. thr f musicians and by the biand of Broadway columnist who is Says Jerry: He as anxious to perform autopsies as to announce impending “Originally, I planned only to ten Ri do a few «lance dates for the' fun that maternity. of it, but the reaction was so good peat/ The question, often asked but never answered, is “What­ and it felt sc good that I’ve de­ way) ever became of bop?” The implicatini* being, naturally, that it perished cided to giv< it a real whirl.” form right along with such lesser evils as Mussolini and Hitler. Line-up of the band Fielding had mind The purpose of this column will be to examine first what is meant m i ehear sal comprised Joe Tru- our by the term bop in this context, and secondly to answer the question. cari, Maury Harris, and John An­ light If bop means goatees, berets, horn-rimmed glasses and the school of derson, trumpets; Joe Howard and nstu singing of which Baba Gonzales was the prototype, one can go along Marshall Cram, trombones; H> inie ella with we Broadwaj columnista But to thoai who know a little more Gunkier, Buddy Collette, Joe Koch the < adnut musie thai. they can read between Hollywood romance items and Don Lodice, saxes; Red Callen­ (and let’s hope that means most of the readers of this column) the der, baas, Tony Romersa, drums Af form and meaning of bop is u little more serious. Pau) Smith and Jerry Wigging the c decid This i« Bop were alternating u? pianists de­ pending on commitments. Ruth «tact Bop, primarily, was and is an extension of the older means and Olay, Benny Carter protege, is in the characteristics of jazz improvisation. It is also an application of these the vocal spot. pon*1 means and characteristics to jazz orchestration. gins. Combine such elements in s iazz solo as the frequent substitution of minor sevenths, the much publicized but little understood ninth o r 13th CORKY IS AUTHENTIC—an honevt-to-gtMMlnme jass harpist. She's rofi with the flatted fifth, the off-beat manner of accenting strings of eighth Blackstone Back yuly notes, the use of broader harmonic contours and imp Ged chord changes, seen here with conductor- nrrnnger Dave Roae. with whom ahe playa New York — Orin Blackstone, chap the frequent excursions into double time against single rhythm—com­ the Red Skelton TV ahow from Hollywood. New Orleans collector, writer, and bine these and other typical qualities and yuu will have something discographical compiler, is back that resembles bop much more closely than Milton Berle dressed in a Girls In Jazz in action after a couple of Inactive soot suit years caused by the failure of the How'« Your Flatted Fifth New Orleans Jazz Record Shop. Of course, it has been said time and again by musicians of the older The loose leaf edition of Index to jazs schools that there is nothing new in bop anyway. Many is the Corky,TheAII-Girl Harpist Jazz, Fart One A E, is now ready veteran jazzman wl a has told me, “Why, I heatd flatted flfths 25 years and sidle for $2.50. ago. That stuff is old lat” Yet they have failed to product one solitary Part One of the Index coven piece of recorded evident? that any improvising musician of the earlier 1,100 artists and some 15,000 rec­ era even flatted a single fifth. Wont Talk On Gal Bands ord titles. Part Two is to be print Even in arranging, it was a long time nefore most of the writers ed in early summer. The Index in jaz> caught on to some f the possibilities of expansion in these By HAL HOLLY will Im* available in both loose-leaf areas (I remember hearing a Variety record made b\ Jimmy Mundy'.• form and in a bound book. Swing Club Seven in 1937 in which the penultimate chord of Jimmy’s Hollywood—With the all-girl hands launched here during arrangement of I Surrender Dear was a ninth with a flatted fifth. the rise of TV seemingly on the way to becoming all-girl Blackstone is also resuming pub­ By r'assical standards this is «‘lementary, but at the time, in a jazz, busts (excuse it, please!), we decided to check up on the lication of the magazine, Playback, combo record, it was impressive and, to me, mystifying.) which was suspended in early subject of girl musicians via a chat with one of Hollywood’s 1950.______National Fad most successful. She is Corky Hale, ;■ Anyhow, whether the nor hoppers were willing to admit it or not, and she made some records recent- ■A girl doesn't feel successful as a ance—bul nothing else—far sing­ something pretty radical did happen to jazz that crystallized in the ly for an independent label with musician1 unless she can work with ers. She’ll talk music far into the mid-1940s, acquired the name of bebop and, unhappily for its ultimate Al Viola, guitar, and Lloyd Pratt, 1guys —just like one of them. She night but won’t talk romance—not presage, became a national fad like goldfish-swallowing or the yo-yo. bass. (Al and Lloyd may be re­ wants to feel she’s been hired not with reporters anyway. On her off- Before long the tongues of many national writers were lodged firmly called as two thirds of the “origin- 1because she’s a girl but because nights she’s usually seen at b-p in 'heir august cheek, is they wrote about rebop *nd bebop in such al” Page Cavanaugh trio.) 1she can play the job.” sessions hereabouts with Howard pabbaMtioMB as LAfe, Liberty and The Pursuit Of Happiness Corky play; harp on these rec­ We asked Corky to name an im­ Roberts (guita* with Walter Gros» Soar day! Gradua’ly it cam out that some of th«* same gentlemen ords, but she’s really an all-girl aginary “all-star” band of gals. on the Al Pearce TV show). who wi»« gonte« and berets had some persona« habits that mad* them band in herself. She also plays She replied: “We’re just good friends and we desirable as the Gils monster. The following syllogism (and wc don’t mean plays uround “When I was a kid 1 was ically like thi same kind of music," she square Evm played piano with a iy with) piano, cello, flute und pic- ■ says simply, “I’m just too busy Bin peepkt with goatees and berets have bad habits. coin. So far she’s refused to monkey Dixie band one summer at Inter­ now, working, rehearsing and « lochen—the summer I studied with xm BSMSMiaMs who play bop wear goatees and berets. with multitape trickery for i • studying to have time for anything berefore, all beboppers are human wrecks ords—bul if she ever does she’ll Percy Grainger. Man, did I scare else." ? come up with a “new sound” for him!” Social Problem Overcome sure. We asked her to name her fav­ Hollywood—Andy und Della Rus­ It didn’t help the situation any, of course, that much of the criticism No Such Animal orite girl musician—in the ja« sell have made a series of half-hour was justified, that many musicians five or six years ago in the newly- Corky, who is as cute as her idiom Got this answer: TV film shorts for TV ue reloped clique of hoppers indulged in a paari me that was spreading “I think I fir sr became aware of Films were »hot at the Churus- name, holds that there is no such the new feeling in music about the like cancer in their midst. It would bi foolish to cop a plea for the many thing as a real jazz harpist. busco Studios in Mexico City, pool young souls who believed so fondly that bop was not merely a way time of the Charlie Ventura sex­ where many American firms make Around here it's held that if Corky tet during the Jackie Kr.il period. of playing, but a way of life. Their ranks have now happily thinned out isn’t the first, she’s the closest their TV pictures to avoid en­ and the social problem has been at least partially overcome. thing to it that has been heard to But of course there was that really tanglement with the AFM 5 per­ But in the meanwhile, a situation had been created that led to the date. But she, herself, prefers to great Woody Herman hand of n cent royalty setup required when What-Happencd-ToBop" attitude. Bop, in effect, had to go under­ be regarded as just a competent, few years back. Bill Harris! Oh, AFM musicians arc used. ground. What had been a saleable name for a lecord a bum or a jazz busy professional musician—which what he does to me!” combo one year war marquee poison the next. People like Charlie Ven­ she is Next month she’ll mark up Anti-Cheesecake tura, after firmly identifying themselves with bop, found themselves a full year with Eddie Bergman’s Corky, who could do it very suc­ seeking ways out of thi dilemma (witness Charlie’« unhappy bout with house ork at the Cocoanut Grove, cessfully, declines politely to pose SENSATIONAL OFFEB> his “Bop-for-the-People" billing). While musician? could n. more stop where she not only zings on the for cheesecake photos. “That’s foi Hof off the pre« .. . «ow playing bop than stop speaking English, they would do anything rather strings of her harp but plays hot these girl singers," she stati - with available for ALL INSTRUMENTS! the typical musician’s air of toler- than admit it flute on the rumba-mambo-samba MP COMMS by "Ms’* loser Smoke-Happy Cloudland set* and doubles as intermission A FOR EASIER □ Trump«*, □ 5«» □Clarinet, □ Gutter Another factor that has helped to kill the word bop can best be illus­ pianist. Yep, she sings too. (“Just ■ VALVE ACTION... □ Accordton, □ Violin« □ Vlb«i trated by the following anecdote the things that have to jump a MP SOLOS by ' tar*' MWER Two Dixtelander^ were standing on a roof and one of them just up little. My voice isn’t sexy enough * HOLTON □ Trumpet □ Sa». □ Clarinet, □ Guile* 'ind jumped off, falling S5 stories to his death. The cops « eked up hi for ballads.”) i Accordion. □ violin, O Vibe* friend, who didn’t seem at all upset. “Havent you anything to say?” We found Miss Hale, whose first MP DUETS by W kwer ^ey demands^ name is really Merrilyn but who □ Trumpet, □ Su, □ Clerlnef, □ Guitar “Well, pope," the Dtxielander said »lowly, ' you know I really thought has been called Corky so long she INSTRUMENT OIL □ Accordion, □ Violin, D Vibe* he could make it." can’t even remember how she ac­ “New Formula” offer«: quired the tag, extremely loath greater adhtrence — fatter MEV SOUNDS If Ourbt Yewhre Anyth., g wrong with this story? Sure. lou can immediately uense iprtidinf — improved clean­ C Trumpet □ Su, [7 ClariMt □ Guitar that I tolii it wrong, substituting the word “Dixielander” for “hiopper.” even to discuss the subject of all­ ing action —longer-lasting □ Accordion, C Violin, □ Vibe* girl bands. The anecdote could apply just as aptly, or inaptly, to two-beat musi­ “body" —uniform consit- RHYTHMS MOI I by Ro*ei ted Colli cians, but they haven't had to take the rap. It’s always pinned on the ttney . . . aottdrying"— Anti-Segregation reduces fnctior C Trumpet □ Su, □ Clerinel, □ Gutter bopper, that symbol of smoke-happy cloudland to whom ail things are “It’s like this,” she explained. At your Holton Dsnlrr. □ Ac-.ordion, □ Violin, n Vibe* cool With Hud* Zwab (2Sc) or “If a girl is a good musician she RHYTHMS MOR I by Rower aid Colle Laugii. Ilo»n, Laugh ReMstar,t Dicppar (10c). doesn’t want to work in an all-girl □ Trumpet □ Su. □ Clerlnef. P Sult*’ Sure, we laugh at these storie* and we read that bop is dead, and band because it implies she is BUY IT AT C Acrnrdlo«, p Violin, n Vibe* while we are laughing, hopper? like Clark Terry and Porter Kilbert working in it because she is a girl MUSIC DEALERS EVERYWHERE ADVANCE# DANCE STUDIES are playing in Duke Ellingto*band; Carl Fontana and a half dozen □ Trumpet, QSu, □ Clarinet „Gwrte othe- great bop soloists are sparking the great Third Herman Herd; □ Accordion, □ Violin, f1 Vibe* and George Shearing's record cf Swedish Pastry is being reviewed in 35 ORIGINAL STUDIES IN MODERN RHYTHMS trade papers as t*. “pop” item—because Shearing is popular, and if WOULD YOU PAY....$1.00 □ Trumpet, □ Six, □ Clarinet, □ Guitar, n> n abu to »am m yoib FUS A < OMP1FIF COIB-t ON AB- □ Accordion. □ Violin. □ Wbet you’re popular, wha.’ you’re playing can’t possibly be hop. can it now? OWN ARRANGEMENTS WITHOUT BANGING. The word bop is dead, sure. But the music it denoted, the style in EVEN USING A HANO. TO BAVE 4 SOLASI SNOWUDCB PRICE ONE DOLLAR EACH! OF CHORD PROGRESSION. IO ENOW THS •PAST HABMON1 which young jazzmen improvise (bt. they in Duke’s band or in Flana­ Til BF 4ULI Tn TRANMPO'f AWT gan’s or Anthony’s) has no more deserted bop than a plane can fly OF EVERT CHORD OF MUSIC FOR -OA.. TO 4M •I»11E» KEY. FREE! AU Ik, Ik * C INSTRUMENTS AT backward. • . I , TO St »I« V TO ANSVm ANY . wltk f ha parcbOM of my T boeh* THE SAME TIME. QL1ST1ON OF HARMONY your choice of ant EXTRA BOOR Minie Scholarship* ar« THE LIGHTNING ARRANGER Fgff! FOUR tOOKi FOR THUS RUCKS! 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Notes The following quotas are from Artis Shaw's The Trouble ron. hi» (Jumped from Page I) “and I am in a position to make for in essence they are a greatly With Cinderella, published by Farrar, Strauss, and Young.) feel thr extended version of the same story. * Fama. the following report: It’s murder.” He goes on to elaborate at great Strangely enough, though, a few Shaw On The Music Business only to length on the fallacy of the belief details that Artie confided at that that $ucce|| (a term he uses re­ time are glaringly absent from this __In order for a bandleader to go on maintaining popularity year the fun volume. Notable among these omis­ after year, he must be willing to forget about music and concentrate •o good peatedly throughout, spelled this I’ve de- way) is a static concept and no sions is Artie’s matrimonial career; on the business details involved in selling his commodity. ri.” formula for happiness or peace of he brushes it off comparatively The trouble with all this is that I never set out to be a business­ mind; that in achieving many of lightly in a couple of chapters man. I was railroaded into it—out of my own inner weakness and ling had which, except for one incidental Cinderella wishes. Primarily, I have always tried to play music that * Tri»- our ambitions we somehow lose quotation, name none of the ladies would satisfy me, within the limitations of the fields I’ve worked in. >hn Ab- light of the original objective, its involved. But judging from any strictly creative viewpoint, I have never srd and nature and value, and the Cinder­ SogaciouaneM actually been a musician at all. In my opinion, no public performer Heinit ella romance begins to curl around the edges. This will come as a shock to the in any mass medium can ever be creative in any real sense. At best, » Koch a performer can only re-create, interpret, modify, seek—and some­ Callen- Story Starts prurient, whose sole interest in After 20 pages of inquiry into Shaw’s literary career stems from times find—new values in the creative work he is interpreting, per­ druma. forming, re-creating. biggins the character of this problem, Artie the quest for cheap sensationalism. sta de­ decides to demonstrate how he got They will find in these pages more Shaw On Wives Ruth started on his personal quest for sagaciousness than salaciousness. e, is in the Cinderella solution. At this The parts of Artie’s life on which Let me make it clear right now that I am not going to go into th« point the autobiography proper be­ he dwells at length are, first, his intimate details of any of my various ventures into the marital state. gins. early years on the Lower East But one thing can be safely and accurately said about all these at­ T’ those who read our lengthy Side of Manhattan; then, during tempts—I made an unholy botch of every last one of them. Of course, yrofile on Artie in the Beat of last his childhood in New Haven, the I believe I can also state; equally accurately, and with complete dis­ ack uly 29, many of the succeeding brief and brutal encounters with Artie Shaw passion and objectivity, that I had a good bit of help in making these ckstone, chapters will have a familiar ring, anti-Semitism that scarred him various unholy botches. After all, in each attempt I did have a partner er, and psychologically for many years un­ in the enterprise; and while I would be the last to decry my own skill a back til, at the age of 15, he changed at botch-making, I must say I was either clever or lucky enough or inactive the hated name of Arshawsky and maybe just plain stupid enough (in at least two instances) to have ! of the became Artie Shaw. picked myself some pretty damn good partners when it came to gum­ I Shop. His adolescent years as he grad­ ming up the works. ndez to uated into the status of profession­ r ready al musician, his long sojourn in Shaw On Semitism Cleveland and his early, warm friendship there with Claude From the moment I realized that my being Jewish was something covers Thornhill are described in succed- to be ieered at for, called names for, or hated and exeluded for— >00 rec- ing chapters, followed by a very from that moment on I was no longer the same kid I had been be­ e print- frank and introspective examina­ fore. . . this had more to do with shaping the course and direction of : Inder tion of his gradual awareness of my entire life than any other single thing that has happened to me, ose-leaf sex, his tentative experiences and before or since... his first true love, a teen-ager in As a kid of seven or eight, I remember going through a brief phase ng pub- Cleveland on whom he dwells at of wondering what I could do about it when I grew up; there I was, ayback, length and with tenderness. a Jew, whatever that meant, and, whether I liked it or not, a Jew I would remain for the rest of my life until the day I died. early Evolution Gradually we move with him his musically formative years. strain any more, Artie Shaw r aing- through the Austin Wylie band to The first section ends with his walked off the bandstand and was nto the California, where he gaped at significant encounter at CBS with next heard of in Mexico. Since ee—not movie stars and met the Irving a musician named Guy d’lsere, who then he has made periodic returns her off- Aaronson band, with which he guided him to much of the litera­ to the band business, generally for at b-p worked later in Chicago during ture that, despite his already vor­ reasons of sheer financial expedi­ Howard acious reading, he had unwittingly ency. . I r Gross Electric Guitarists! been passing up. Artie Shaw,hM,never been Onf 1 show), tuccefS of the most loved people in the M music business itself; the kind of snd we The period from Begin the Be- ic,” she INTONATION is remarkably accurate GET PERFECT TUNING, guine to his abrupt retirement, affection it can offer him *'twtoowKJ o busy when he gladly forfeited a fortune spurious, too confused in its ideol- aoR ? and and superbly balanced in all registers. ogy to mean much to him. But, aa in grosses to get away from the one of his close friends one*, oh- SI lything Every instrument is actually “play-tested” success monster with which the CLEARER HIGH NOTES served, the people with whom he before leaving the factory. with spectacular new bridge music-business Frankenstein had confronted him, will be the most cannot get along, or who fail to Ila Rua- for arched top guitarsl engrossing group of chapters for like and understand him, fall main­ ilf-hour New for Hie Ant tim». you can tune perfectly ly into two groups: dolts and FREE BLOWING-Bellcut tones holes many readers, notably for those at every fret, regardless of siring gauge. And. who have ever faced, or strived to leeches. Since he feels he has come hear Ihose highs come oul with a brilliance into contact with more than his ’hurus- and accurate bore produce flexible, achieve, a similar set of circum­ ' City, you've never enjoyed before! share of both, he has seen fit to 1 controllable power to spare—even Mehta "Synchro-Seeic" Universal Guitar stances. withdraw into a world that can I s make Bridge has separate adjustable saddle tor each |ucce$$ of this kind, says Artie, >id en­ at full fortissimo. string; permits split-hair tuning from nut is entirely too sudden. “Everything offer a freer outlet for his emotions fi per- through to bottom fret. No special tools need­ and ideals, a world in which his ed! SAVES MONEY. Brings old strings back is stepped up by a ratio of fifty goal ia continued development aa a j 1 when lo pitch. Fits any arched top guitar. to one . . . There is never any MECHANISM is precision tensioned by time to think . . . you’ve got the human being. Order from Travelin’ Light experts. 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Arthur Prysock To Johnny Otis and Little Esther Work As A Single New York—Arthur Prysock, bal­ lad inger featured for years with Brew Bigger and Better Blues Buddy Johnson’s orchestra, will leave the band to go out as a c By LEONARD FEATHER single starting June 2. He will be Spots, broke up in 1948. Then booked by the Gale office, which •vod. ) “You ought to talk to Johnny Otis,” said Earl Warren. Johnny and Bardu Ali, who for also handles Johnson. erno'n I’ve “Not just because we’re friends—I’ve known him since 1939, years was the conductor of the Prysock has been gaining mo­ and 1 mauaged his band for a veai^—but because he ha» .original Chick Webb bund, opened mentum in recent months through were r the Bairelhouse, which they ran aoch an unusual background. He’s white, you know, bui several Decca records under his looked successfully for three years. everything about bini—the bands own name as well as those ho made as vocalist with the John­ he’s worked with, his own band, the kind of voice of which it might Recordáis two si son band. bis wife, hi* friends—everything be said that the worse her diction, Johnny wait a sideman on some though about Iura u i-olurod.’ the better. It’s just a wonderful of tne early lut records on Aladdin He will start in Cleveland and Ixiuis, Caoung from Earl Karren, who sound, if you happen to dig blues already has dates set in St. Louis, bis m< (or Pmio, as it was then), aucn Pittsburgh, Detroit and several looks neither more nor lea* Negro sounds. Little Esther is Esther as Jacquets two-part invention on «1 the than Johnny Otis himself, this Mae Jones, and if you haven't other cities, hitting New York intogr Elgin Home and the three Blaz­ Sept. 4, when he opens at Bird­ was an interesting tip; anJ so caught her record uf The Storm ers Driftin' Blues. He made a •«Icon several years late, I caught up on Federal, Then You’ve Never land. Stockh bunch ol line records with his own Tab Smith on the unique Mr. Otis, who in Blue. band, including one of the first the past year or so has become lecoixis of Harlem Nocturne; but The a name to reckon with in the wind up the show, ev ery Excelsior, a poorly distributed la­ people rhythm-and-blues field. body got on thi blues kick. The bel, went out of business. degice Johnny was in the middle of pianist, a frail little woman who Later, with Esther, he wrote Tab Smith Sees AIL Now nent < hit fourth engagement at the looked overworked and who is and recorded Double Crossing w an ApoLo. Earl, who still handles Known to her fans as Lady Dee Blues- -a* a gag, he says— and it ferenc some of his business ventures, had (to her family ar Devonia Wil­ became a best Beller on Savoy. papen rejoined the band on alto for the liams) got up and earn* to life Since then he and Esther have Tells All About Dance Biz newel to do u boogie dance bit with been with Modern, Exclusive and be ini Johnny Otis, who had been trip­ FederaL Currently he’s with Mer­ Portland, Oregon—Tab Smith, the little man with the big nembi ling his way through the show on cury, but .also accompanies Esther horn who came out of retirement recently on the strength of msteai vibes, piano and drums. on her Feder a > aides As you may a hit recording of Because Of You, thinks that he has the ve’ve One way and another, it was have noticed from the review sec­ the i a pretty much of a blue.-; marathon. tion, Ben Webster cut some dates answer to the “what’s wrong” query on the lips of dance Jeeme A backstage flap jaw with Johnny with him for both labels recently. iromoters, musicians, and band v- he Ò brought the further remarkable Johnny has made his mark in Besides Tab, the band includes disclosures that (1) his present the deep south market, though his For the past two und-a half Walter Johnson, drums, Jimmy Sunda set-up doesn’t reflect his musical years, Tab has been in the real Styles, bass, Irving Woods and WO Jh heart remains in L.A., where he Charlie Wright, trumpets; Jimmy ideals and ambitions in the least, has a home, a wife (he’s been mar­ estate business in St. Louis and •ut w (2) two fingers of his right hand was uble to view the music scene Styles, bass; Teddy Branan, piano innou ried since 1941 to a former Ber­ —Ted Hallock are paralyzed from a 1949 acci­ keley schoolmate) and two chil­ objectively, from sidelines ludiei dent that left them bent double more or leas. He came to these con­ uirnei dren. He’s still a Basie man at clusions; and immovable—but luckily they’re heart, too, with place and show •ope, not bent so far that he can't just “The people have been confumxl the n spots for Lunceford and Duke. New Blues Promoter They squeeze a drumstick into the space Someday he’d like to reorganize by the trend toward progressive and hold onto it, (3) he never jazz. The complicated rhythms and itamp the band he had a few years ago, melodic lines have them bewild­ Active In N. Calif. they'd played an instrument in his life the musically good band. To his until 1939, when he was 17. ered. Many people who like to ihouti credit it must be added that what dance, and would go to dances, shy Oakland — The Frank Padrone- he's doing with the blues, within away because they’ve had bad ex­ Manny Schu artz - George Oxford week With a iiecond trumpet also Born in Vallejo, Cal., and raised its own much more limited field, periences with bands that are too group takei its first blues band them» added, this gave the band six in Berkeley, Johnny got th« Mes­ has musical validity too—all the progressive.” into the Monterey area May 23 High kanea; a eantriLmti * toward a sage when he heard Count Basie’s way from Little Esther up to Big Tab went on to say, “If you want with Roy Milton at the Del Monte mstea bigger aound. but still a band, with Jo Jones. He became Mama. to keep the business going, you've Gardens. Milton back into punct lai ery from the big, modern band so anxious to get a set of drums got to play down to the public’s Oakland on the 25th for the same in th< group. Jehnay tried to eon- that he forged his father’s name level—a good beat and an easy to hw t -w»Ab- -wteieb Later blues band bookings in­ qtwr tbe puHie in the mid-’40s on a music store application. He Betty Roche Now understand melody are what they dig. Billy May and bands like his clude Roy Brown and Johnny Otis ipbri studied a Gene Krupa book, never in Richmond, July 3, and Oakland, went to a teacher, and latei got are doing a lot to get the public The Otis outfit today is a blues Bock With Duke dancing again.” July 4; Earl Bostic in Richmond, bin*•wcneirv /ne*♦ uiaui***• UNI- STANDARD did an amateur show at Johnny's ard for eight months, then took a Audition* no« being Sold «t the famout DANCf MUSIC GUIDE CHARLES COLIN STUDIOS dub, and they have been working band of his own into the Club By WILLIAM BEU * A claitifiad «od alphabetical Hal *1 Iha together ever since. Alabam. This was 1945. He has IJuillicrd Frefauar) bait and "'Oil pupa'*» ataadard F*«tri”< Little Esther is a big girl now, had hia own band ever since. The Coll or wrlfo for dotalh to

r-iir iwsi, mn, vompu’e” Mvyv «nw Starting H-tar including — ‘Th* Song Hitler.* ■ of Favorite Cornpotar»". it" Song Hit* through the Tear*" . . Tha nuh'andlng long* ef each year, from the Gat NinaHet I® Nw praiant day. SEND FOR YOUR <1 AA COFY TODAY IMPOSSIBLE.. BUT WE DID IT YOUR DEALER WILL PROVE IT TO YOU June 4,1952 NEWS-FEATURES DOWN BEAT 1952 ro Norman's Tale Of Europe: Lauds Fans k, bal­ s w.th Swedes,BelgiansHippest;French Noisy » will (Jumped from Page 1) IK a loon « leaned the pantry out of all the Festival, and Pat Brand, Edi­ fabulous jazz critic, record col­ will be tor of the Melody Maker of Eng­ lector, und disc jockey, Count Car­ which 'ood We arrived the following aft­ ernoon in Stockholm. land, «reorted us from the airport los de Radzitzky, has conducte«) a I’ve read that certain jazz groups to . ur hotel. That evening I had one-man crusade to educate the g nio- tert met by crowds ranging from my first taste of working with the Belgians into the delights m jazz. i rough 5,000 to 50,000 in size, and I French stagehands, and I confess* He's a wonderful guy. sr his looked forward to ¿uch a greet I never saw so many people ac­ After Brussels, we flew to Hol­ se he *g. Unfortunately, there were but complishing so little in iih out insist on conducting themselves happened wuile Flip Phillips was Two American soldiers walked ,n their own small, narrow, bigoted They sound like men who’vr played der They listen to you, applaud, nnd playing Huw High The Moon. As together forever, actually they’ve itamp their feet indicating that tn and headed for the bar; the manner. if by signal, the gendarmes started moment that they saw Ella and been organized seen put on at the Post. into Jazz Fan. But, finally everything rose en mass« and went to the bar1 anent Louis Armstrong’s all-stars: punctuate Ella’s Body and Soul ' W« left Frankfort the next day, ‘They’re better than Condon, man same quieted down and from then on in where they all sat with Ella and April 20 .ind flew lo Hamburg, in the U. S. from that impatient the concert was a beaut. Ella und for man, but their ensemble -work Miss Henry. The singer who was wnerc we transfered to another bw that (a) try to show how hip the Peterson Trio really broke the just doesn’t come off. The guys are" B m­ they are; or (b) have had poor working m the liar turned his back plane for New York, arriving place up. to t^e two soldiers so that all they too outstanding as individuals. Otis upbringing. Crm» Jim there the next morning. Hobi, who is on a Teagarden land, could see was a row of backs at Aftcrtliought* aond, Beautiful Hall Incidentally, the French jazz the bar. It was a wonderful lesson kick personally, ia aided by trum- The European audiences are i>eter-vocalist Ezzy Parkington 27; The next day we went to Gothen fan, who is extremely chauvinistic in democracy taught Americans by argely interested in jazz in a dif­ y 29, berg where we played the most where the Negro jazzman is con­ Europeans, but it was unfortunate (ex-Lu Watters); former classical ferent manner, though not neces­ violinist Joe Szymanski, who play it land, m-autiful auditorium I have ever cerned, completely took to Flip, that we couldn’t have set the ex­ sarily to a greater degree, from teen. We did two sellout perfor- and perhaps thereby we broke up ample instead of having it set for clarinet now; pianist Vic Sewell, the American jazz fan. There they and drummer Don Cary. •oups manccs. Then we went to Copen- that tiurrow-mind attitude that us. Thus shamed, the soldier« came nave a healthier respect for all art exists there that only a Negro can —Ted Hallock lying bagen, where we did four snows 1 to the bar and bought drinks for forms, whether it be dance, paint­ Ben m a place that holds better than play good jazz. This is just a E1H and Georgia nnd toasted them. ing, or in this instance, jazz- As a 4,000 people. wrong as bin« in the U.S. that’? The give and take between the Perhans they learned something at result of their viewing it differ­ European fan and Che American The band, of course, was soon directed the other way, that instant. ently from us, they were inclined The band had the following musician is good for both: it tends busy cleaning out the various .Mi­ We flew to Zurich the next day to ask different questions and to rer shops of Copenhagen, and Os­ three days nff in Paris. Flip, Os­ to loosen up the European fan, and broke the place up. Bv now listen to different things from and to temper the American jazz­ car even bought a concert grand car, and I flew to London, where the hand hnd reached its stride and American juz/ fan. This is particu­ piano. We closed our Scandinavian we were met hr a Melody Maker man. wee clicking as it does in the larly true of the critic» in Europe, Album Souvenirs tour by doing two concerts in reporter and photographer They States. whe take jazz very seriously. Kalmo. We played a midnight con- 1conducted us on a tou- that in­ I recorded the concerts in Stock­ cluded Westminster Abbey and Escargot Escapade The audiences are older than the holm, Gothenburg, Pans, Frank­ cert and a matinee, and were hon- ! American audiences and a good Rnckincham Palace. I later took We went to Geneva next, and 1 fort, and other cities and I plan to ared at a somewhat silent «ocktuil . deal more reserved and critical. party—they could only speak Swe­ Flin nnd Oscsr to various men’« chartered a bus for I wanted the issue the concerts in JATP Goes sbons, where they were diverted of band to see how beautiful Switzer­ Apart from countries *-uch as To Europe albums. dish and we could only speak Sweden and Switzerland, which EF English, but enough ton tq were whatever monies they had. We flew land was. We stopped in Berne f jr Nils Hellstrom in Scandinavia, lunch and I introduced Flip, Os­ were neutral in the war, and Bel­ Lou Van Rees in Holland, Delau­ made to break the ice and warm back to Paris the same evening. gium, which is a small, but higly ES everyone. We left Malmo Sunday Hip Belgimi* car, Ray, and Ella to the ¿« lights, nay in Paris, Willy de Cort in and mysteries of eating snails. Ella industrialized country, recovery Brussels, Sonia Kantorowitz in morning, nnd flew ro Paris, where Thursday we flew to Brussels has been very slow and, as a re­ IS we were V* play the closing con- 1where we did a concert for the began to enjoy the snails until Switzerland and Horst Lippman in Flip remarked that the one she sult, not much money is left for Frankfort, were our promo teis ’S cert of a jazz festival that had Hot Club of Belgium. I would say jazz concerts; though, I must hast­ been held at the Salon du Jazz that the Brussels audience is prob­ was eating he had seen on the wall and the American promoters could a few minutes ago. That ended the ily udd, we removed most of the all take lessons from them in artist that w«>ek. ably the hippest in Europe, except- available money. Charles Delaunay, Director of ting, possibly the Swedish. That snail proclivities for Ella. relations They treated us as art­ After playing Geneva und Zurich Nu Jo* ists, und not as just a bunch of we took a plane for Frankfort. It Disk jockeys are practically non­ jazzmen. They probably got better was fitting that we closed our tour existent in Europe, since most music as a result there; it seemed a« though 90% countries have but one radio net­ All in all, I’d say that JATP of our audienc«' was GI. We work, and that is usually govern­ was most happy with Europe, and charged thehighest prices «ver ment-owned. Very little jazz is I imagine Europe was equally charged for any concert there, aired in Europe, with one big ex­ happy with us. OK classical or jazz, and both the ception—the American Forces Net­ shows were sellouts. work, (AFN), which is heard throughout most of Europe. 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that skirts around the melody for two one from her voice; nevertheless, tag und a half minutes Moon has much more Slues audiences, the fine aide in pa'Uca- Record Reviews variety, not only in Bostic’s tone and lax will be strong meat with a daba «r attack but tn the rhythmic underlining. cayenne. (Deers 28113.) This side will sell it. (King 4511.) Loear, Come Beck to Me Billy Bunn The Oriole- - Buddy Lucas Hossky Tossk Train Tisherome *** It’s Over Because Waive Through R«fr Six Wheal (hater S’posin’ ♦ •♦A Until The Real Thing Lornes Along *♦♦ Waiting The Sheik AAA That’s When Your Heartaches Begin Yanres Spacial Willie Bryant's old band theme mak— Bans on Top Album Rating: ♦*♦ Billy is making a strong bid fot the apt material for this group’s popular alow Ckieago Flyer Mary Lou is accompanied by Willy title «if Male Soprano of the Year. He’s at temp«» groove First chorus is a tenor «oies TaU Ymir Story (Bobo) Correa on bongos and Billy Tay his mosl dramatic on Until; despite tho solo, then the tempo doubles briefly au th. COMPII Album Rating: kkk lor on bass. frequency with which lecords of this song group comes in. Of course, there’s an or Maleo Two unistu<*d and four previouKy re­ For the most part, these sides repn-^rnt appear, the side should still have a big gaii iu the uccoinpummeLL Waiting is a N. Y leased 12 inch cuttings by the boogie­ Mary on her bop kick, with less of the impact Bucking is a good ballad co au­ medium-paced ballad with a beat. Either ÄmiH pioneer comprise an album that should individual personality than we would have thored by Fred Fisher. (Vidor 20-1657.) side can move. (Jubilee 5082.) way. liked to find. Indeed, much of the person­ ■ (Tror teadily pleas« admirers of the b.w. idiom. Michi Yancey and Chicago represent the pre­ ality here is infused by the bongi playing, und it is not an endearing one Eight num­ Mabel Scotl vious!} unavailable slicings and are as ♦♦♦♦ yet COMBO reasonably stimulating as the more fa­ bers with this instrumentation, especially since the bongos an. quite heavily favored ♦AA» Shut-Lya miliar und available titles. (Blue Note Rocht IJP7018.) in the balancing of the trio, can become Mabel's laughing, extrovert personality weuruig really beam» through the grooves of I es, ÄNOM New Sounds From Sweden There is much that is original an J a sung much better suited lo her than th« charming here, notably in Tha Sheik and string of I »logic- woogie to which she wu ♦AAA Moonlight Swing Time Kool, and much that shows a striving for so long confined. Coupling *>tarts out with IPtOA AAA Rain on tha Roof « ffect», even if at times it’s a bit strained. this line: Every shut-eye ain’t sleep, every chest' trick A Handful of Stars Allan Mornsun desrr« es a special nod for goodhyt ain’t gone, and goes on fron ' glena ♦AA Septesstber 'serenade his long, lucid and literate album notee. there into some happy fast blues- Small These arc four of the itenu- cm by the best of the many written about Mary. band with unnamed good tenor helps t, Swingin’ Swedes Leonard Feather as­ (Circle L-412.) make Mabel able, «¿ral 60703.) sembled on his trip to Stockholm last sum­ ¡XKRII mer. First two nave solo* by hen no’d Lester Young Svensson’s piano, Patte Wickman’s clari­ 1 Fant a Little Girl AA Berry B ell net and Rolf Berg’s guitar. Stars is a Counlltu Blues JAD baritone solo by the eminent Lara Guilin Isfin' the Ihnl k Marshall Plan and Serenade, as an alto aolo by Arne Way Donn Yonder in Ness (Means Thio is the Johnny Hodges band without Domnerus with piano interlude by Bengt Three Little U ords Hodges, and also without anything ex­ Hallberg, compares interestingly with the Four O'Cl ork Drag citing to say. Emmett Berry delivers hit Janies Moody version. (Prestige 719, 750.) Jo Jo ditty, first muted and then open, in a mild­ I Got Rhythm ly pleasing performance Tne Plan dedi «ANTI Album Rating: kkk cated to drummer Joe Marshall, thoagl band Brau AAA hey Largo credited to three writers, is u rehash of The four top items in this LP stem from trite blues riffs and solo« to which even Mini kit Hi Ho Trailus Bootwlup a session on which Lester Young played Lawrence Brown cannot lend any distinc­ NUSIC Reissues of two of Anita’s more suc­ clarinet as well as tenor. This alone maki» tion (King 4520.) re-oi cessful Signature sides. Benny Carter led it almost unique; then, too, there’s the offict the band and co-wrote the pretty Large almost quai it sound of an electric guitar, melody. Alvy West’s band never gets off 1928 style, essay»d by Eddie Durham and Terry Timmons the ground on Bootuhip, a flimsy fast backed by Freddie Green’s regular guitar ♦ At» I Could Make You Care blues trifle. (Coni 60697.) in this piun<»less combo. Buck Ch in lends ♦kA Mr. Lose Lose his muted horn to many of tl quietly Terry, who has been doing nicely around Django Reinhardt pleasant moments. NEV> VOCAL SOUND luu- been prmidcd Cincinnati and Cleveland, sounds almost The other four numbers were made at a by Billy Bunn on hit recent Victor rec­ exactly like Dinah Washington on the ♦ * Double Whiskey Kansas City Six date six years later, with ords. Like Jimmy Scott. Johnnie Ray and ballads side, but by no means like a cheap k Impromptu a rhythm section that is strong in names other recent succeMful diac teller«, Billy is carbon copy. It’s a convincing job, with The French have discovered bop, and (Bushkin, John Simmons, Jo Jones) but one of the male ningen who encroach on good subdued orchestral backing. Reverse Iu, they are lost. Of the six guys on these weak in beat. Bill Coleman’s trumpet, long the female range for his warbling». is a jumping blues by Howard Biggs. sides, only alto man Hubert Fol emerges past its peak by 1944, adds little, tearing (Vidor 20-4675.) anaealpen Tha firs: side is a cute riff The Dominoe» Ui* but DJangu trying to max« the nod vide most of the kicks. Muddy Waters arn kick sounds like a fish out of whiskey, The ughr tunes a»e combined in an LP ♦ ♦»♦A R Am the Sscallosrs I uns Bu'k "SpeCialfy to tin accustomed to such called Kansas City Style. (Commodore FL to Capistrano AAAA 4U Night Long ma me »-us-♦ as those of Farlow, Mun- 20021.) kA AA* That's What You're Doing to Ma kkh Country Boy daU. CJmm» Wayne et al. Impromptu goes Organ, mission bell effects, a high tenor Elemental, plaintive blues by Waters so fast that everyone, trying to follow a voice und an almost dead-stop tempo voice und guitar, with harmonica. Strong pace they evidently heard established bi make Capistrano the Dominoes’ best bid southern stuff. (Chet» 1509.) Bird, sounds bewitched, bothered and RHYTHM & BLUES for a best-seller since their fabulous bedraggled. (Dereu 28145.) Sixty Minute Man. Coupling is a 32-bar Earl Williams jump opus with a bluer feel. (Federal AAAA I Don’t N Mt To Take a Chance 12059.) AAA Lost Without You *** I Got It Bad And That Ain’t Good Helen Hume* ♦AAA Spang With any luck at all, this talented singer will come up with a real liit soon. He Reissues of some .ides cut for Haven k* They Raided the Joint sounds just enough, but not too much like around 1945, with Bill De Arango on gui­ Both recorded at a Blues Jubilee con­ B, und his orchestral backing by George tar and Al Haig on piano. Spang is a Williams is first class. Saxes and Bobby minor, medium paced 32 bar chorus with cert, with a huge arena acoustical sound Earl Bostic «.nd much lust}' laughing at the lyrical Hackett’s unbilled trumpet help the Three Ben’s rich, warm personal sound at its lines from the big audience. Those who Flames’ composition on the first title; a greatest. Fe Arunge ag» n mak»-s us re­ AA Lover Come Back to Me minor melody with superior lyrics givet AAkk The Moon Is Lose remember the gentle charm of Helen’s gret he retired to Cleveland. (Brunswick Basie days will lament her having to shout him ammunition on the second. (Okeh «»177» Lover is an uneventful jazz alto soln th< blues so loud that all the music is 6874.)

HUMPHREY-MOORE — Claude Everett w $^*^5—A daughter. Patte, to Mr. and GRAVITT—Clarence W. Gravitt, former SMITH Dr. Leonard Joseph Smith. 71, Humphrey, drummer, and Dorothey Eitel­ Mr». Pete Solus, March a in Wilke» Bam. drummer with the Queen City Negro Con­ music editor of the Toronto Globe. April Moore, April 20 in Chicago. Pa. Dad ■■ trumpeter with the Lee Vin­ cert Band, Sedalia, Mo. (1892-1898), April 18 in Toronto. He wrote his music column MAZZITEU.I-BENZIE—Vito Maszitelli, lead cent orchestra. under name of Leo Smith. alto with Lee Vincent, and Mary Benxie, SANDERS—A »on. Charles Robert (8 lbs. February 2 in Wilke* Barre. Pa. 5 oz.). to Mr. and Mr». Bob Sanders. Dad is drummer, formerly with Billy Simmons NEW NUMBERS and Curly Williams. Mother, Elizabeth San­ der». was formerly a singer with the KIENZLS— Frank J. BOWERS—A son. Jay Philip, to Mr. and O’Conner Sisters. pianiit and muiic t Mrs. Phil Bower». April 6 in Chicago. Dad WRISLEY—A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Wiluwooo. N. J. play» trombone with Gay Claridge, mother John Wrisley, April 8 in Fitchburg, Mass. II MASSENA Clarence I'd« » I Le Mm- STUDY M Carol Sherry of Sherry Sisters Trio. Dad is program director and disk jockey »ena, 83. compoaer^author, April 17 in Emit BROWNFIELD—A daughter. Dinah, to Mr. at WFGM in Fitchburg. and Mrs. Bruce Brownfield April 12 in Covington. Ky. Father is member of the FINAL BAR Decca artist and repertoire chief. April 11 TIED NOTES Bella ires, WLW-T. Cincinnati, trio. in New York City. VOICE CARRIES ASHLEY- Mn. Xusia Y. Z Ashley. 88. PRIES—Theodore Prie». 24, pianist, April tKWMMMOHOVTH -U.ll llrown.n«, Mr». Billy Carrier In Mariemont, Ohio. former mezzo soprano, April 17 in River­ 16 in Washington. He had appeared rm baas drummer with tungling Bros, circus, Father is a member of the Swanee River head, L. I. soloist with the National Symphony. Wash­ with and Martha Kohoutek. March 10 in Waco, Boys, vocal team heard over WLW and BAMMAN—Catharine A. Bamman, 69. ington, and the Boston Pops Orchestra. Texas. former concert manager, April 20 in Wil­ SCHREINER -Otto Schreiner. 83. former FRIML-LING - Rudolf Frim! composer, FOFF—A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Wally liamsburg, Va. violinist of the Met Opera orchestra. April The Master Teacher' of and Kay Ling, his secretary, April IB in Popp. April 24 in Hollywood. Father is COHN—Zinky Colm. 43. pianist, April 14 in New York City. Danny Thomas’ accompanist. 18 in Chicago. SCHUMANN — Elisabeth Schumann, 63. ft GORDON MaeRAE FOX Robert L. Fox. orchestra leader. operatic soprano and lieder singer, April April 15 in Danbury, Conn. 23 in New York City. GINNY SIMMS now ☆ BARRY WOOD Conducts JAZZ CONCERTS NORMAN KLING P M pressure plate Hoar Th» Great Stert I» M»d»ra Jan NiabHy Aad Waday (2 F.M. Till— > M-D fait -tackiM, CMc**a 4, IU Feafvriaa Shorty Reperì Jinny GiaRr« MIH Earahart Fraah Patchaa Shally PhMM WI 9-71M OUT-OF-TOWN STUDENTS! Sen* |1.K for Norman Kling f* ligatures **AJ —FaJp* CflUFlN VWAMMMNWMAMMMW I

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Tuxedo suits. Tails Sine»1 that time, Allen was rarely t. Either ISRRIFIC SMALL BAND SPECIALSI! Two« $25.00. Wallace, 2416 N. Halsted, Chicago. heard from or about. That was the Hou .ml Garland of KFMB, San Diego, i- rather wroth way, Three-way. Trumpet, Sax (Saxes), case up to the morning of deadline on er what he call» mj “absolutist ^777--- 7—7—,7---- 7----7---7—; ■ (Trombone). Chet Marrier, Escanaba, NAME YOUR INSTRUMENT. Lowest prices. thing. I believe the disc jockey Michigan. Kaye Music. 103A Saint Marks Place, for this issue of the Beat. That proposal».” Actually, Mr. Garland NYC.______morning, Freddy called me on the misinterpreted my original column should occasionally play records :OMBC SPECIALS!) Written to order for phone at home and enthusiastically due either to fuzzy writing on of musical quality by first rate jazz any 2, 8, or 4-front line. Reasonable. MISCELLANEOUS artists so that the audience can Arranging Service, 884 Monroe Ave., brought me up to date on Bai clay my part or quick reading on his. WRITE SONGS? Read “Songwriter’s Re­ Allen. get u chance to hear that there rsonality Rochester, N. Y. I do not propose that the na­ view" Magazine. 1650-DB Broadway. New "Here’s a real story of courage,” tion’s disc jockeys make like phoe­ are other sounds in music besides I of Yet, fINOR BAND STANDARDS. Free List. York 19. 25c copy; S3 year. multiple voices, multiple husbands Phoenix Arranging. Route 5. Box 72. said Freddy. “Without telling any­ nix birds overnight and rise from than the one about >t, Barclay, whose arms of Leslie Caron and multiple tear». she wu Phoenix, Arizona. ENTERTAINER'S FOMEDY mat« rial col­ the ashes the next AFRA morning lection, $1.00. Sebastian, 5133-P Cahuen- recovered well from the accident, with programs consisting entirely It is unfair to both jazz and the out with FECIAL ARRANGEMENTS individually or« ga. North Hollywood, Calif. got into a wheel chair, went into of jazz. Not ->nly is this totally average listener to say that jazz ep, »very chest rated. Original manuscript. Profes- a Hollywood recording studio and can’t make it popularly when it on from v gional quality. Professional fees. Box NOW: Visual Aid in Harmony—the MA­ unimaginable but, as a lady from 481, Down Beat, Chicago 16. SON MUSIC-MASTER. A new and revo­ started fooling around with a mul­ West Virginia sternly wrote me rarely if ever gets an opportunity a. Small lutionary musical slide rule which shows tiple-dub idea for piano. Mind you, to be heard. The process of in­ help* tu AT LIBERTY at a glance all chords and their rela­ after the disc jockey column, “We tionships in all keys. Endorsed by lead­ without the use of his legs for the listeners like the kind of music the cluding jazz into a pop show ad­ EXPERIENCED DRUMMER. 22; stage, dance, ing musicologists everywhere. $8.00 by pedals. mittedly ha, to be accomplished mail only. Pikes Peak Publishers. Inc.. disc jockeys play.” concert. Good references. B.A. in Music. “Barclay sent me the resulting Multiple Husbands slowly and with taste. Otherwise, Travel. Union. Raleigh Fish. 2600 Ben­ Dept. D.. Box 1615, Colorado Springs, Colorado. records. I thought they were won­ What I do advocate and what if the unoriented listener is sud­ nett. Evanston. Illinois. derful and took them to Dave denly barraged by only Getz, Bru­ FATS WALLER ENTHUSIASTS. Join “Friends the writer of the other letter. Jack 4AD TRUMPET at liberty June 7th. Ex« Knpp, the recording boss at RCA Garrett, WJQS, Jackson, Miss., is beck and Billie records, he will perienced, 24, single, veteran. Vern of Fats” International Society. Ray Victor. He agreed that they were cling even more firmly to the fa­ without Cressler, 820 S. Mitchell, Bloomington, Fortier, Farmington, New Hampshire. actively doing, is quite another Indiana. great and bought the masters for miliar and be permanently lost ung ex­ DISTINCTIVE PARODIES. SONGS. LIST Victor. This alone is precedental, Carthy, has volunteered his serv­ to jazz. vera tu* FREE. Hanley, Box 881, Grand Cen« HELP WANTED trai Station, NYC. for Victor ha, never been known ices gratis to help promote the Al­ Love Music Madly i • mild- to take outside masters. In addi­ len records, the first of which will zn dedi- COMMERCIAL DANCE orchestras wanted. When the disc jockey both knows WANTED Top grade musicians—Territory tion, Dave is going to sign Barclay be released on May 23. and loves music, he can accomplish thougl band Back every nite—top wages. Clem Established A g e n c y . Transportation, to n long term Victor recording sound financial status necessary. Write The record itself has Allen play­ some forceful results by more mu­ shaah of Brau Orchestras, Box 174, Arlington, contract.” Minnesota. Box 967. Down Beat. ing piano on four tracks, giving sical programming. As Mr. Gar­ ch ever Dial Ain't Mi the effect of a piano quartet, with rett writes, "... in this once hill­ diatinc- WHICIANS ANO GIRL VOCALIST for band So Barclay Allen has got him­ rhythm section assistance. First reorganizing with prominent booking billy-infested country, 1 have peo­ office. Want men willing to work and M U S I C I A X S ! self back into the business he most couplings titles are After You've ple now requesting Stan Getz and stay with organization. Location and IMPROVISING and HOT PLAYING (for all loves and best knows by sheer cour­ Gone and Cherokee. Sarah Vaughan and I’m proud of travel. Box A-668. Down Beat. inntrumt-nt») hundred» of improvisation pat- age. Working from his wheel chair, The kind of heart Allen dis­ MO0EKN he was able to produce an effort played deserves a big reward. PHONOGRAPH RECORDS cHopn In Boston, where the “Boston that is going to get an all-out pro­ While it could only be partial tenor” was born and still flour­ (or more modern Harmony $0.50 • HARMO­ motion drive from the powerful recompense, a hit record would go RECORDS. Collector*• items. All types. Send ishes, Bob Swan of WORL has around NIZATION CHART. 372 verdon. of 4 part RCA company. And, as if that a long way toward paying it off. almost j want list or name for mailing list. I^es harmony <»n any note 11.00 • TRANSPOS. a healthy Hooper, ar increasing Zeiger, 1056 Sherman. Bronx 56. N. Y. [ART. changing mu-k t«» al! k doesn’t show enough of show busi­ So, let us be among the first to on the lira, ( HART OF 2(4 MODERN ( HOR audience and all the plug- he can ness' heart, one of the music trade’s wish that his first RCA record sells handle. Mr. Swan began by play­ a cheap |F IY'$ BEEN RECORDED We Have It! •ion ACCORDION BASS GLIDE $0-50 leading record exploiters, Jim Mc- at least a million. b, with Mwin Record Paradis. 5S00 Hollywood ing an occasional Garner, Wardell Rever*« Blvd.. Los Anzek« 2B Calif. We buy PIANISTS! Gray or Getz record, and now his entire collections. Mom.llN PIANO INTRODUCTIONS *1.00 • Bigga IH MODERN PIANO RUNS fl.lH • MOD- listeners keep asking for more and more Hu still plays mostly pops EMCEE «»ami»» krv* $1.00 • FROM PIANO TO MTORDIO Martino Scheduled For Rapid but they’re well arnmgtsi, well per­ CoataiiM original material. a 100 page enurw 13.50 • CHART < MoBologvea, Parodies, Band HAMMOND ORGAN COMBINATIONS $0.50 formed and all the aide** he nicks Novelties, Skita, Diotaguec. haw a relaxed, non-tracely oeaL Soaga, Patter. Gags, Joke«. anu. Organ. Trarr ine. Fame Via Here In My Heart' Instead of JoKnnie 1U^M Subscription, $2. Add $1 mental. 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An­ function is to provide entertain­ George DRUM INSTRUCTION tests, and is due East for a pro­ Bobby other unknown, Monty Kelly, con­ ment and pleasure and hy delimit­ motion tour and an opening at the ducted a 37-piece studio orchestra Three New York Paramount soon. ing his choice of records, he de­ on the date in professional fashion. limits the possibility of new aural itle; a HEX Surf** Philadelphia's Singing is not new in the Mar­ i gives Miller, who “found” Martino last pleasures for his listeners. DRUM SPECIALISTS tino family. Al conies from a long launched a group called thi Four (Okch line of opera singers, including the Let the listener hear other Aces with an obscure song called sounds. Explain—-but not didacti­ Individual Instruction by Well Known famous Italian tenor who bears the Sin. family name. 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