THE CAPITOL THE CAPITOL PACE 6 Yank Servicemen Scream Approval 'Johnny' Film As D ixie la n d Sweeps Japan REDDCn THOMPSONTIinMDCAM ^ "W e’ll be back in Hollywood to make our motion picture in late BREAKS IT UP December or January. 1 can promise you that it won’t be like the films SOME LIKE only be-bop, others th a t h ave b e e n m a de in the past prefer riff jazz. But take It from featuring bands.” Red T h o m p s o n , A m e r ic a ’ s f ig h t in g W oody Herman is enthused— but ex­ men still stationed in Japan enjoy cited— about the independent filmus- 1 good old Dixieland jazz more than ¡cal he and his manager, Mike Vallon, left California to tour last month, bu t he’ll be back all the o th e r k in d s c o m b in e d . set up last month during the herd's A.n . 1.. __ with his herd— in his own motion picture within two months. Thompson was in Hollywood in V h ifn h ^ is a ‘4 tiir from Republic’s “ Hit Parade of 1947” musical which Avodon Ballroom engagement. “ Igor t ' Woody completed in October. Left to right, the Woodchoppers comprise Stravinsky him self w ill play a part in 1 late October after seven months in SonnyVBerman, , , Flip Phillips and Herman, w ith Bass­ Nip territory as leader o f a six-piece ist Joe Mondragon barely visible in rear. See story on the Herd at right. th e pic,” Herman told the Capitol News. “ And of course we hope to per- Dixie combo w hich is featured w ith fo rm th e e ntire Ebony Concerto which the Cilbert and Lee USO revue. The M r. S travinsky composed especially for troupe later planed o u t fo r Alaska and our band.” is now somewhere in the Aleutians entertaining Yank servicemen. Musicians to Cet a Break! L A Avodon Ballroom 3 Manone Fugitives W oody pointed o ut that most films Jake Flores, ta ilg a te tro m b on ist long show a band fo r a few seconds, then featured w ith W in g y Manone and o ther pan over to a girl sitting under a tree, popular American jazz units, is one o f Ready for Crosby, Basie and by th e tim e the camera gets back the sparkplugs of the Thompson group. to the band the music has ended. Pianist Bill Campbell, as w ell as How ­ Our picture will be different,” he Bob Crosby and Count Basie are set to follow the cu rrent Al Dona­ ard Robbins, drum m er, also are Manone - said. "W h e n th e band is playing the alumni. hue orchestra as the bandstand attraction at the Av odon Ballroom In and met ( h D,x,eland band took Dixieland Jazz to Japan recently camera and the soundtrack will record 1 The leader plays clarinet, and Ned and met with hystencal reception from thousands of American servicemen downtown Los Angeles. The room, opened last spring, is managed by the band and the band alone. It will be I Dotson is the trumpeter. Doubling on still serving m the land of the rising (?) sun. Here they are as they looked Barney McDevitt, and has boasted Woody Herman, Billy Butterfield, novel, to say the least. And we feel j bass and vocals is Dale M ullings, w ell th a t musicians and music fans will, for / H * Py'e Memo,ial Theater in Toyko, »here the “Jazz m I Blues” Bobby Sherwood, Henry Busse and Jan Garber as major attractions in its known around Hollywood. All six musi­ once, be satisfied.” cians, in fact, are members of Local cTadnei,e B ,,!ar , '07 l , r iXie ,UneS C'iCked biS’ The group inc,udes Thompson, eight months of operation. Dale M l, r“ ” ’ P,a"°; Ned t>°tSOn’ trumPeti Hkc Flores, trom bone; Bands playing the Avodon broadcast Sid K uller, who has w ritten many a ¡, 47 (L. A.) o f the AFM . Dale Mullins, bass and vocals, and Howard Robbins, drums. Donahue, with his fiddle and nightly over KECA and the ABC web h it song and scads o f special material “At the Ernie Pyle Memorial Theater bad. None of us w ill ever foreet those w oc , „ ■ *. at 12:30 midnight Pacific Standard revamped reed and brass section, for vocalists and comedians, wrote the j in Tokyo,’’ Flores said, “ w e swung th e tw o places.” $ W' SVer + 0 5 6 T ' J 5 Z earS witb f fcore of na™ replaced the Herman herd on Oct. tim e. original screenplay which will feature 'Jazz Me Blues’ to a howling mob of South America Next Y° Can bet that everV note Herman’s herd, Stravinsky and 3 top 15 and will continue until Bob youngstersan H cm If i iwho ,1 kept shouting , requests The 'Japanese------people were v v t i c Inot lu l aallowed 11U WcCJ ¡7" ^ ^ cast of actors. The title is “Concerto ; Crosby bows in on Nov. 1 2. Crosby H a TU he regU program had to attend the concerts which the troupe Beneke Overhauls for Johnny.” ended. Those youngsters know their presented, but members of the band is said to be reorganizing his present M cCall Creating Big Talk iazz. And they’re all anxious to hear said they talked with numerous Nip orchestra in the east. It has proved a Ex-Servicemen Form news of what s happening back in the professionals and were surprised to disappointment, musically, because of His Vocal Staff Following the Avodon engagement Dick Kane’s Trio its variance from the original Crosby W ith the Crew Chiefs and Artie Mal­ Herman took his musicians to Texas for 1935-42 Dixieland band which Crosby’s vin out of the band. Tex Beneke was three weeks of theaters to be followed fans can’t— or refuse to— forget. seeking a new vocal group and had al­ by about 30 concerts. Production of the picture is slated to begin no later than Count Basie then comes on for four ready hired Cary Stevens, baritone, as weeks following Crosby. The Basieites Jan. 15 i f present plans materialize. soloist when the band shoved off for jjsass& w t sesSSSvSS open on Dec. 10. Stan Kenton is set M ary A nn McCall, who recently re the east in late October. Stevens joined during the Z ‘ar had b WaSri°ne Wh'7 ’ S°Uth Amencan tour’ “We exPect to the McConkey agency has set Kane for fo r a Feb. 4 opening. The m onth be­ joined the band as vocalist, is creating a , . . ’ had been dangerously be touring another two years,” said a November stint at the Last Frontier Beneke at the L. A. Million Dollar The­ damaged by Jap shells and w hich had tween Basie and Kenton is s till to be a sensation and is being hailed as the Flores, who has blown a hot trombone Hotel in Las Vegas. been repaired and made seaworthy booked. ater Oct. 22. finest canary the herd ever featured. sSain just a few weeks before the She sang w ith Herman In 1939-40 but was not considered anything more than toncert. “We played in Tokyo, Osaki, Kyoto, Kobe, Yokohom a and on O ki- competent at that time. "awa island too,” he said. "C om ing Molina back, we beat it out in Manilla. O RCHtST** Sam Donahue Ork The reaction was always the same "hysterical.” A t Newark Terrace On three occasions Thom pson’s sp ir­ Sam Donahue’s fly young band went Learning i® ^ i t Dixieland band w e n t through into the Terrace Room, N e w a rk , N. J.. 'roshima. “There wasn’t much to see on Oct. 1 5 and w ill hold for four weeks. and trum- •c ” ^ores —-.w’ declared. “That iiiai uumubomb Donahue doubles tenor sax which ™>nths ago sim ply sw ept the c ity BobbY^l pet in fro n tin g his combo, the maP* — ‘Nagasaki • looked about records only for Capitol.