DOWN BEAT NEWS-FEATURES Chicago, April 18, 1952 Olii The Hollywood Beat ’Jiri The Multitape To End All G Is Now Here-But Will It? E) By HAL HOLLY HoUvwuod—So you think you’ve heard everything? Well, Sa you haven’t until you’ve caught, or been caught by, the latest mm and most fantastic of the multitape recordings—Blake Rey­ lelep nolds' St. Louis Blues and IF airing for the Robert E. Lee on mH the McGregor label, which will be’------.hr t recalled as the same firm that gave was paid for the two recording swd as Geordie Hormel's potentially im­ sessions on which he did the plat­ “Tl mortal multitapings of Chinatown ter. i us at and Shirk of Araby. "Just flat union scale," he re­ Hawi The odd part is that Blake is— plied with a grin, “But of course on ni or was—one of those well adjusted that included the extra money for Hawi musicians, securely ensconced here also being the leader and the ar­ nade for many, many years in a solid ranger.” with film studio berth (currently on con­ Seems odd the musicians union tract at Universal-International) hasn’t demanded the employment who ordinarily comes out of pros­ of a nonplaying contractor on these perous obscurity once a year to ap- one-man-band recording sessions. near with Ed Skrivanek’s Sextet There might be a lot of votes from Hunger at our annual Dixie­ there, and this is a Local 47 elec­ land Jubilees. tion year coming up. Jazzman in '20« In the late *20s Blake was fam­ ous among musicians as a player. (Jazz men were more than satisfied to be famous only among their fellow-musicians Loew s Houses in that day; they neither cared nor worried about public acclaim.) There's a popular—but inaccurate —legend here to the effect that Open To Jazz when he was signed for the first studio staff orchestra organized in New York—An experiment that Hollywood he couldn’t even read may lead to a new trend in jazz music. That part of the story isn’t presentations was tried out here recently when two neighborhood Hollywood—If this bewildered musician seen» to ment of Robert E. Lee and St. Louis Blues. But is it true. But it is true, he admits, that the end or just the beginning? That's whal Hal Holly up to that time he had never seen a Loew’s theatres presented all-star be saying “Am I on the right track?” he probably is. concerts. It is Blake Reynolds, who has just turned out for the is worrying about in his Hollywood Beat column this “legit” clarinet part. He says, issue. (Photo by Teddy Krise.) “After I was signed up and dis­ Jerry Jerome, musical director at McGregor label the multitape recordings to end all covered I was supposed to be a' WPIX, local TV station, was in multitape recordings—his dozen or more tracks treat- legit clarinet player, I just went charge of lining up the talent, in to work and became a legit clarinet addition to playing tenor himself Kitty Kallen Records Yma Sumac At Pierre player.” on both sessions. Gibbs Works Like Les Paul, Blake has a re­ The first concert, a two-and-a- Sides With The Horn New York—Yma Sumac started cording studio in his own home half-hour show at Loew’s Kings in her second stint at the Hotel Pi­ where he did his preliminary ex- Brooklyn, featured Red Allen, Cut­ As A Single Hollywood—Kitty Kallen, singer erre’s Cotillion Room Mar. 11 for perimcntmg. though he did his ac- ty Cutshall, Billy Butterfield, Bud­ who got her start with eight weeks. tuul “takes on the McGregor rec­ dy De Franco, Bill Harris, Charlie New York—Terry Gibbs, in ac­ ork but who has been working as Stan Melba’s band, which accom­ Parker, Teddy Wilson, Dick Cary, ord at the company’s studio. He tion for the last two months in a single for the last several years, panies Yma, has Bill Dunmore, Don Lamond and Ed Safranski, as a trumpet; John Bashark, alto; Her­ Stotoa that he was not trying to New York, is now working will have a reunion with the band prove that one musician could be with Louis Prima headlining as a single at the Blue Note in Phila- man Stanchfield, tenor; Ken Schlei­ a full-aiaed orchestra. special attraction. , delphia. on wax. Kitty did the vocals on cher, tenor; Kenny Karpf, alto and The following night at Loew’s The booking is his first under four sides recorded by the James violin; Manny Fiddler, violin; John- Valencia in Jamaica a similar pro­ a new contract with Associated boys for Columbia here in mid- ny Potoker, piano; Sandy Block, “I was just searching for that gram was presented, with Lips Booking Corp. After closing Apr. March. bass, and Jack Waltzer, drums. ‘new sound’ everyone’s been talk­ Page and Lou McGarity replacing 5 in . Terry will as­ ing about,” he told us, somewhat Butterfield and Cutshall. semble a sextet for future book­ ( 44rarti semant > apologetically, “And now look As the list of names indicates, ings. It will probably include what’s happened!" Jerome planned to present a pano­ Jackie Paris, Hal McKusick, and To the best of Blake’s recollec­ rama of Dixieland, swing and bop. Don Elliott. tion, the ‘new sound’ on Robert E. Further similar Loew’s presenta­ Gibbs is obtaining a release from Lee is Blake Reynolds playing four tions depended on the success of Savoy Records and is dickering soprano saxes, three altos, two these two trial ventures. for a new recording deal. baritones, one bass sax, and six (this is no gag) octarinas. On St. Louis Blues he thinks he played four , one bass clarinet, three altos, two baritones, one bass aax. The percussive, rhythmical ef- feets that have been mistaken by HOLTONS The Greatest Show some listeners for a guitar or harpischord are achieved by cording rhythmic backgroundsat_ on Earth” half the speed at which they come out (an octave higher) on the final master. We asked Blake how much he

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