• Abstract and Figures
• Public Full-text

By MICHAEL LEVIN >«*w York—Duke entered his 14th year of roncertixing in is town last month when the Ellington band played a benefit icrrt for the NAACP ut the Metropolitan Opera House Jan. During 88 minutes of music, the shortest concert EKE's ‘ thr audience^ ■■ “ .---- Proceeds From CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 23. 1951 Muhv of the musical faults of (Copyright. Itti, Daws Boot, Im.I levious concerts were not heard, L'Affaire Duke ten <1. balance, attack und intona on were all better than they have «n. Clarinetist Jimmy Hamilton ayt.l brilliantly, perhaps the Go To NAACP Frisco Holds Huge Benefit >st of his career. The Carney New York—Duke Ellington’s tritone nnd Brown’s trombone usual, excellent Johnny concert at the Metropolitan Opera House Jan. 21 was a tradition­ lodge» played with less sac- more force than he has in shattering triumph, For Critically-lll PeeWee he last five years. Tenor man Pau) Ellington’s the first Lons*'res, despite rather strained ganized jazz orchestra ever to play * San Francisco—PeeWee Russell may never leave the San iforts to emulate Hawkins, is still the Met (only other jazz concert he best resident of that chair sine« given there wrs the Esquire all­ Goodman Six Francisco county hospital. As this is being written. PeeWee ken Webster left the band. star lineup in January, 1944) is still on the critical list at the hospital where he has been Duke attracted a capacity crowd Twit Drummer«, Bn-w*- since Dec. 31. Blood transfusion after blood transfusion has of 3,600, including 250 standees, been given ihe wiry clarinetist in* I Duke used two drummers, Sonny for a gross of roughly $16,000. To Go On Road •in attempi ti save h)« life. The 1condition was not generally known tree- for special effects Bill Clark Net profits were turned over to the docs literally did not know al presa. He had* been working at Coffee m beat, while Wendell Marshall National Association tor the Ad­ Hollywood—Benny Goodman is time if PeeWee would make it. Dan’s in an afterhours group here nd Joe Benjamin manned two vancement of Colored People. reorganizing a sextet and will open But if he does, he will have the for several weeks prior to New- Basis. This second return to an Event was attended by many Feb. 14 at the El Rancho Vegas, Year’s, but that job folded. Then Id Ellington device had rather memory of one of the greatest trib­ celebrities both in and out of the Las Vegas swankspot, for two utes to a jazzman this country he was for a time in anothei local eculiar results in Ring Dtm Bells. music world, notably Mayor Vin­ has ever seen. hospital, was relensed, and planned lllington and the two bass men cent Impellitteri, NAACP chief He’ll get $7,000 a week for the to leave for Chicago but collapse'! «re playing cut time in unison, Walter White, Dr. Ralph Bunche, date. His appearances elsewhere On Monday night, Jan. 22, at and was taken to the S. F. hos­ rith the resultant sound boosted Alfred Baker l«ewis, Morris Ernst, be limited, as few Doc Dougherty’s Hungover club, pital. will a monster benefit for PeeWee va« o high by the mikes that the flat Arthur Spingarn, Mrs. Ruth spots can afford that money and There the medics found him suf­ our played by Greer and Clark held. Led by Ixiuis Armstrong’s Bryan Rohde, and such show it’s reported Benny won’t work for fering from acute malnutrition idn’t com«1 through. business notables as Ethel Waters, much less. All-Stars, Marty Marsala’s I «ind und ii bad ca«e of cirrhosi« of the Despite moment« of studied mu- W. C. Handy, Jack Robbins, and Sidemen were not yet set at and dozens local liver. ieal excellence, however, at no Lena Horne. writing. played to a nardine-can-packt'd oint did the band or the evening house till the wse hours. By mid­ After the »tories in the papers, Brief speeches were madi by the the idea for a benefit just sort of eally catch fire. All the tried und Uutvh for ihe Jack Teagarden evening the Standing Room Only mayor, Walter White, and Mrs. sign was out, and Doc had to keep grew, with Dougherty the logical rue devices were pulled out, done Rohde. •lory in the Mim h 9 issue. lith more attention to detail und people on the sidewalk until some­ guy to handle it. Armstrong, in a resentation than they have in th«1 one left. And few left. typically generous gesture, offered to stay over the night after his ut, yet the cumulative result Other Collections ras a pleasant but not striking Club 150 job ended to “play one At $1.50 each at the door, plus for PeeWee,” and he and Jack lusica) evening. a collection later, the trust fund Something important and vital Beneke Book, Properties Teagarden were among the many i missing from the Ellington for PeeWee ran upwards of $1,500. who milde the trip out to see Rus­ and. Exactly what, it is hard to Disc jockeys and tecord stores, sell in the hospital. ay The trumpet section, despite which have been taking up collec­ tions, will swell that total. Brwii<kn»i a five high-note exptrts, at times Grabbed By Ex-Manager idfBC, which normally ha» u Dougherty donated thi club, Mme to lack body. The two buss wire Sunday night out of the ben were playing into a mike sys- Hollywood—The morning idler Tex Beneke'» Itand closed which is normally closed Mondays, em hampered by an off-center ind for 36 percent of the door to de­ Hangover, carried a half-hour of Mping speaker cone. Even tak- al the Palladium here, a moving van hired by his ex-manager, fray operating expenses. The mu­ the benefit Monday night, with og this int< account, the Elling- Don Hayne«, pulled up at the dancery and huuled off music sicians gave their time and talent. Jimmy Lyons as emcee. Life, which I>n rhythm didn’t seem to be boot- rucks, a portion of the library, and various props. The equip- Pat Patton, local two-beat bass had snot numerous pix of PeeWee at the hospital being visited by ng th* men as it should have. nirnt was Mid I«» hr the property•« n tist with whom PeeWee h'ld been Probably the most successful and Heller, the firm which also living prior to his sickness, is serv­ musicians, covered the benefit like of Master Music, firm a blanket. rork« of the evening were the two which was jointly owned by Haynes handles Frankie Laine, Skitch ing with Doc as trustee of the mg tom positions, Harlem and and Tex iM-forc their split. Henderson, Lawrence Welk, the fund raised by the benefit. Idea is Nappy Lamaiv’s band, which lonologue-Duet-Three«ome. It was said that Haynes has se­ Trenier Twins, Liberace, and to have enough te send PeeWee to closed a six-wees engagement at Pastel Picture* cured a court order to attach the Bobby Sherwood. a rest home when and if he gets the club the night before the bene­ out of the hospital. fit, had to leave for L. A. for Harltm is a recurrent Ellington property, but it was unnecessary for him to show it, as Beneke The whole idea caught on like Nappy’s show, but Brad ttempt to paint pastel pictures in wildfire rnd received tremendous Gowans, who does not play the iusic. This particular one opens offend no objections. Hodges Cuts First show, stay« d behind for the Lash rith a muted trumpet figure voiced Said a spokesman for Tex: impetus from disc jockeys and “Tex had just as much right to newspapers. Fred Wyatt, a local for his old stand-mate at Nick’s. gainst jug-toned reeds in a theme Sides For Mercury Many other mjsician? wen ininiscent of the work theme this stuff as Haynes, but he didn’t newspaperman, was originally re­ care to make any trouble about it New York— Longtime Duke El­ sponsible for th* publicity on Pee­ there, u few of whom included art of Black, Brown, and Beige. Meade Lux Lewis, Mary Ann Mc­ rs the central phrase of the piece, He wants the whole thing settled lington saxist Johnny Hodges ha? Wee’s condition. Having discovered a» peaceably as possible.” signed a contract with Mercury the hospital needed blood donors, Call, the Walter Mitchi ■ trio, Tut ecurs several times. Follows a Soper, Smoky Stover, Pat Patton, retty clary bit by Hamilton, then It was understood Haynes also records and cut his first sides for for Russell, Wyatt planted yams had seized othei jointly-owned them here last month. in all the local shee*? on Peewee’s Dorothy Bennett, Albert Nicholas, tie theme on Brown’s trombone, and Julian Laine. hen into Ellington’s well known property in New York. Men on the date included Ray plight and the blood flowed. ut still delightful stunt of figures Tex ha? signed « personal man­ Nance, Lawrence Brown, and Son­ Up to that time, Russell’s critical -Ralph J. Gleason »Bed lietween b>ass and reeds, agement pact with Gabbe, Lutz, ny Greer. rith Carney working the theme ter. The piece progresses through luban influences, then into blues Cab Re-Forms Big Ork t * jump tempo. An abrupt con- lerson finds Larry Brown stating be theme as a hymn, with Pro- For Trip To Uruguay FPe’s clarinet and Harold Baker’s rumpet taking it up for a full New York—Reassembling his big band fur a trip to Uru­ iatement.

Load more

  22

Copy Link