Anthony Bus Crashes, Band VOL. IB—No. 25 CHICAGO, DECEMBER 14, 1951 <C«gyrl«M. IWI, Daw« Mat. I««.» Still Makes Portland Date -O Portland, Ore.—Diminutive trumpeter Ray Anthony anti band fought through a heavy fog to begin their recent one- New York Gets niter at Jantzen Beach ballroom here 15 minutes late. Withal, the audience waa delighted. At» a leatler, the man blends in- AFM Bars Shaw New Dixie Club ♦ atrwnental proficiency nnd a deli- cate venae of showmanship. The New York—A new Dixieland band, an obvious commercial en­ jazz s|>ot opened last month on Production Cut tity, hms just that. the site of the old 181 club on In spite of the fact that certain Wax Date In G.B.; Second avenue. sidemen resembled linemen after Known as Le Jazz „club, Kit fea- 0n Juke Boxes the USC-Cal. game (result of a tu res a combo led by Max Kamin­ bus accident 10 days before), everybody blew ... a little like sky, with Munn Ware, trombone; New York—The juke box in­ Miller, Flanagan, Gray, et al . No Reason Given Billy Woods, clarinet; Sherman dustry may be facing tougher but blew, nonetheless. The accident Edwards, piano; Jack Fay, bass, times. The NPA (National Produc­ New kork—Arlie Shaw arrived back here Nov. 11, after occurred about 45 miles out of Pro­ and Kansas Fields, drums. tion Authority) notified it recently vo, Utah, when the band bus broke Iwo months in England—but his mission was unfulfilled. Cliff Jackson, who recently left that materials will be heavily cur­ a tie rod, skipped a ditch, and Artie sailed Aug. 30 owing Decca 18 sides, which he planned Cafe Society after a 13-year stay, tailed after New Year’s. wound up on another highway, is the intermission pianist. At a meeting with industry rep­ to cut in England using a big orchestra with strings and wood­ resentatives, NPA announced - the parallel to the first. wind». British »idemen »cale being*’ leading manufacturers will have to Injuries about one-third of the American share half the steel and aluminum, Jimmy Schneider suffered a fee, thi» would have represented and one-seventh of the copper they broken nose and Tommy Mercer * saving of thousands of dollars, NorvoDropped From used before Korea. was bedded with a leg injury. even after deducting his round-trip There are now about 400,000 The band, which pulled 3,500 to fare. juke boxes operating throughout Stopped it Jantzen. opens December 17 ut the U.S. and about 40,000 will have NYC’s Statler for six weeks. However, the AFM put thumbs TV er; Hassel Begins been manufactured during the year down on the plan, ana to Artie’s by Dec. 31. Personnel consternation he was informed by Neu York—Associated Booking Personnel of the group as of his attorney that he had made the Corp, was reported steamed up at Got Bopped writing: reeds — Bob Hardaway, 3000-mile jaunt for nothing. the replacement of the Red Norvo Jimmy Schneider, Earl Bergman, “We have no quarrel with the trio by a new group on the Mel Billy Usselton, and Leo Anthony; AFM,” said Andrew Weinberger, Torme TV ahow. An airing of Ihe trombones — Dick Reynolds, Tom Shaw’s lawyer for many years. hu«»el before union official'- was Band Won t Play Jazz, Oblak, Kenny Trimble, and Eddie “However, it does seem a pity that scheduled at presMime. Butterfield; trumjiets — Woody this decision was made more or Fansler, Bruce Brukert, Jack Lau- less retroactively in Artie’s case.” When the show was resumed as Fight Starts, Law Wins bach, and Marty White; rhythm— “All I know is, I couldn’t make a black-and-white production, two Archie Freeman, drums, and Bud­ the sessions," Artie told the Beat. weeks after the dropping of Mel’s San Pablo—There was a free-*----------------- dy Savarise, piano. Vocals by Glo­ “I haven’t talked to anyone at the and all other color TV programs, it for-all between jazz and hillbilly him, and was knocked off the band­ ria Craig and Tommy Mercer. Federation yet. They let Cams rata featured a new outfit under the in this little town on San Fran­ stand for his presumption. Anthony pulled a Hampton with do it, and they let Dave Rose do it, name of Al Pellegrini, Mel’s pi­ cisco Bay on Armistice Day. The proprietor wasn’t a man to The Saints Go Marching In dur­ so I still don’t understand why anist, who doubles on clarinet. Willie Rowell, 25, of Walnut give up easily. He went for rein­ ing which the band parades they stopped me.” Others in the eombo are Terry Creek leads a four-piece western forcements in the person of his through the crowd. Reviving the Gibbs on vibes and drums; lion band at the Blue Bird inn. The pa­ wife. 1940 custom of watching, rather Elliott on mellophone nnd vibes; trons tired of a constant diet of She held the bandleader while Asked whether a grudge-bearing than dancing, the crowd raved Hal McKusick, clarinet, alto, and Black Strap Molasses and Wheat the owner clouted him with a over Ray’s version of Slaughter on musician here might have spiked tenor; Kenny O’Brien, bass, and, Germ Bread and asked for a little chair. The band stopped the fight Tenth Avenue. the project, Artie said it was more in his spare time, Mel Torme on jazz. and took Rowell to the Perman- —Ted Hallock probable that some chauvinistic, drums. Rowell wasn’t giving out with ente hospital where seven stiches Britain-for-the-British member of The Mello-Larks and Kaye Bal­ any. were taken in his lips. (He’s a England’s union might have been lard have hern added as regulars So they petitioned the gentleman guitar player.) to blame, despite the employment on the show, heard daily at 3:30 who owned the joint. He remon­ Later, Rowell returned with the Prolific Writer Shaw would have created for p.m. over WCBS-TV. strated with Rowell, finally slapped law and had the owner arrested. British musicians. “Do you think Decca will still pay for your trip?” we asked. Romberg Dies “I don’t know. There’s a dispute Ray Airs His Top Dance Crew On Pacific Coast going on about that right now. In­ New York—Sigmund Romberg, cidentally, I may go back to Eng­ noted composer and conductor, died land in January anyway, to make Nov. 9, in his room at the Ritz some documentary films. No, that Tower hotel here, of a cerebral wouldn't involve any playing.” hemorrhage. Can't See It Romberg had been apparently A Decca representative, speak­ in good health and was working on ing unofficially, pointed out to this a new show. His wife, Lillian, and reporter that many industries, other relatives were with him notably the Hollywood movie out­ when he died. fits, send American artists over to Born in Nagy Kanitza, Hungary, England to use up money that the in July, 1887, Romberg came to companies have frozen there, and this country in 1909 after serving that evidently Petrillo does not two years in the Austrian army. see eye to eye with the U.S. gov­ At first he worked in a pencil ernment about the desirability of factory, later finding outlets for recovering these funds. the extensive musical talents that “Vic Schoen did a date over had made him a successful com­ there with the Andrews Sisters poser while in his teens. only a couple of months ago," the A member of ASCAP since 1917 Decca rep added. “Artie just hap­ and a director from 1930 to 1939, pened to be the victim when they Romberg was famous in this coun­ decided to clamp down." try for the last 30 years, his first At presstime the argument was big hit having been Blossom Time. still going on, Artie was irrevo­ He is said to have written 79 oper­ cably back in the United States— ettas and some 2,000 songs. and he still owed Decca 18 sides. Some of his outstanding suc­ cesses were The Student Prince, The Desert Song, New Moon, and Rosalie. Among his best known songs are Lover, Come Baek to Me, Nat Brusiloff, When I Grow Too Old to Dream, and One Alone. Violinist, Dies New York—Nat Brusiloff, 47, violinist and conductor, died Nov. 3 in Larchmont, N.Y. Spike Jones Born in Russia, Brusiloff was a prodigy from the age of 5, when On The Cover ne made his concert debut in Bal­ Getting into the spirit of the timore. At 14 he was playing with islands on the cover of this issue the Baltimore Symphony. is our No. 1 musical depreria- Coming to New York in 1927, tor, Spike Jones. The photo was he became concertmaster of the taken in Honolulu when the Paramount theater. From 1929 to Jones revue played the state fair 1933 he was a house conductor at in Hawaii and the beauties pos­ CBS, leading the band on the ing with the maestro are Eddie Kate Smith, Morton Downey, Bing Kop and Joyce Tauai. Spike and Crosby, and other top shows. Portland, Ore.—Ray Anthony's hand, shown in going to take off into the air at any moment, and his gang are louring Texas and After that, Brusiloff was with toto in the top photo, is composed of (left to right); dig that sad look saxist Schneider is displaying be­ the southwest currently, plan­ WMCA for some years, and until trombones—Eddie Butterfield, Kenny Trimble, Tom hind his court plaster.