musician named Owe Lind, played a very personable horn, with in­ Jazz Reviews fluence from Shaw, Goodman, and Feather Writes Jazz Revisited In DeFranco but still with fine drive and ideas. The other one, Putte Wickman, played a more polished Jazz Volume 3 European Cities horn, but, man, did he swing. H-ppyi There also were other fine mu­ New York — Contracts .vere Ahead; TED WARNER sicians such as Bengt Hallberg, signed here last month for the pub­ Kind I’m a former Swedish musician, a drummer, who has lived Reinhold Swenson, Rolf Larson, lication by Horizoi* Press, Inc. of in Chicago since 1948, during which time I’ve reported for Ingmar Ericson, all pianists, and what they say will be one of the .1 tenorist named Carl-Henrik Nor­ biggot and most ambitious jazz The only reason for the rating the Swedish Orkester Jaumalen and worked part-time as a in, a real swinging man. He had books to date. Last month I took a trip^ his own combo at i’s big Leonard Feather, a Down Beal ing of Mary Ann McCall (she's to Europe, visiting London, Paris, heard at all, so 1 don’t Know how they were. g> . t amusement park, and they contributor for the last four yean, on Detour, Careless., and Kind) and and . Here arc my find­ played their own arrangements, is authoring the tome, which will the excellent rh; section of ings on jazz in these cities today. A jam session was in progress pluu transcriptions from American Sonny Igoe, Bob Carter, and Dave at the Flaming» when we arrived, be known as Jazz Encyclopedia, The first stop London, with musician: from the Ken Mac­ records. Feather says he aims at making McKenna. For the rest, Ventura is where, at Studio 51, tenor man Norin was the most outstanding this the most comprehensive aid as tastelessly appalling as usual. Tommy Whittle led his own combo intosh band on the stand. It did soloist, but his clarinet man, Gun­ Frankly, he is one of the few mu­ not move me- no soloists to talk definitive reference work yet to He turned out to be the best mod- about, no rhythm section. nar Nilson, also was excellent. be published tn jazz. It will run sicians I find it literally painful close to 250,000 words und will in­ to listen to. He’s all right behind heard in London, The second band, however, was Mary, but give the man solo space a very fine group. Tony Kinsey, The biggest band it. is clude ut least 1,000 biographies of playing with a drums, bad with him the best bass leading jazzmen of all schools, with and things happen that make you very fine beat Thore Ehrling’s 15-piecer. The lists of records. check the speed of your turntable. and ideas. He player I heard on the trip, plus band is imployed mainly by the Now that he has such a musical seemed greatly u terrific altoist, Joe Harriot. The government-controlled radio for most outstanding member of that unit and singer, can’t we have just influenced hy top whole group swinging and commercial shows. But it does play group. He is not a sensational so­ one Charlie Ventura LP without American stars. moving along very fine, and it is some good Jazz on one-niters. I loist but a tf i rifle section man with the leader? (Norgran LP MG N-20) H i s baritone, understandable that this band was caught the men doing a one-niter great attack. The band’s “braai ehosen to represent Englund in the in a small Swedish town where Dinah Washington Harvey Klein, al- section” was the best I heard. «0 was jf a high latest music festival in Paris. they two half-hour shows, Bjarne Nerem from u ♦*** Pennies from Heaven standard, but the plus dance music. another top tenor man. Brehm on O-hk+O Love for Sde drummer did ev­ I was I oping to hear Ted Heath, It is a very well-reh« arsed or­ bass, is one of the best bass play­ Two wailert from a singer who erything to spoil Johnny Dankworth, Jack Parnell, ganization, and I was told that ers, but he got no help from an continues to be the most under­ things for these and others, but they were out uf Ehrling was Sweden’s answei to unswinging drummer. rated current . azz vocalist. Dinah two men—he town. England’s Heath. Weil, it did not Fine Danish Group is backed by Clark Terry, Julian played the old style of 1936-38. Paris, the next stop, had only sound like Heath, but there still were a few very fine jazz men in At the Bcrzelii Terassen in Mance, Eddie Davis, Bill Bettis The bass and piano couldn’t be one place where you could hear Stockholm, I heard a very good Ed Thippen- and Rick Henderson. modern jazz. Charles Delaunay, that group. Tenor ist-arranger Gos­ ta Theselius, and the other tenor half-commercial group from Den­ Pennies would have made five stars Brown, Barney Kessel, and J. C. the fai' oua jazz man. told me that mark, Paul Verlis’ band, which too had there been more Dinah, Heard. On the earlier recordings the only place was the Ringside, man, George Bjorklund, moved along well. Arnold Johanson, showed a flexible style. The clari­ less routine tenor, and none of that —mostly contained on the second where a combo played jazz in netist is Paul Hindberg, who be­ bongo-organ nonsense. Love for half of the LP—among Lester’s as­ American fashion. played good valve trombone, and Henry Wallin was the only drum­ lo-gs among the top clarinet men Sale is a gas—one of the great sociates are John Lewis, Bill Clark, The guitar man, a fellow from I have heard. He plays movingly, jaz. vocal records of recent years. and Joe Shulman. The earlier ones Belgium, Rene Thomai, played mer 1 heard who played drums. I also heard ’s with a lot of modern ideas Don’t miss this one! (EmArcy EP are better, with Pres’ conception some very nice stuff, and the whoie One thing I noticed was the kind 16014X45) tliereon vigorour than un thing sounded pretty good. eight-piece unit, supposed to be Sweden’s best jazz Caught of dance music these bands played the somewhat langorous interpre­ We left Paris and arrived in —no commercial stuff at all like I oler Young tations that begin the LF. The per­ Stockholm, my old playground. them during a one-niter outside Stockholm, and the musicians had the general American dance band. Stardust; Confeias'; I formance as a whole would win any There I heard 10 different bands All try to combine dnnce musie tut You Anything But other tenor five stars. and some 100 Swedish records. to fight bad acoustics and a bad PA system. with jazz, and they do it well. These Foolish Things; Leste, For Lester, it’s a good character­ 1 went to the biggest hotel in Seeing»; Count Every Stur; It Alt istic set, but on occasion he can The certainly have Wonderful Trombone Stockholm and expected to hear Defends on luu; September in the do better as on the two recent LFi unproved during the last six years, Ake Person, THE trombone man some dance music, but Curt Soder- Rain; Pete's Cafe; Slow Motion with Oscar Peterson trio and I heard some very fine men, in Sweden, played a wonderful lind’a combo played enthusiastic Uhu (Down Beat, May 19). In any case, who could play any job with a horn, especially cn My Funny Val­ jazz instead. Nothing great, but this is good Pres and well worth top Americai band. entine, He sounds much better on the men had an awful Tot of fun A collection of Pres signatures youi attention. High point of the Especially good were two clari­ records. where he plays in a Bill doing it. I asked my ex-bass player made at various times in the past set is the sin ple, movingly con­ net men, who, with proper back­ Harris-Ka.. Winding atyle. Ernie how they could get away with it vincing Slow Motion Blue (Nor ing. could be sensational in this Englund, the trumpet man from and he said everybody like« it ana grim 12' LP MG N-1005) clarinet-starved gauntry. 4 young the United States, was far the wasn’t used to anything else.

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