Eddie Vinson Puts f" DETROIT TRIBUNE SAT., JANUARY 15, 1949 15 | Big Town I tmphasis.On Youth By JAMES L. HICKS WALLS Around .NEW YORK |

—— NEW YOR/K, N. Y. Eddit Vinson, the blues YORK (NNPA) Jackie Robinson, the By Jay and V. Franklin Wall NEW Dodger jErfl pinging, saxaphone playing maestro, may have started > star, who is a teetotaler, although he broadcasts I for wine company, pearl left for a year's study in Africa of na- trend in bigtime music circles with his new “kid” a ankled into a Harlem hotspot one Primus anew Sunday night squiring his Mrs. and women. tive art and dancing under a Julius Uosenwald Fellow* two other ' ! band. i 1 HI Dorothy Calaway | . . featuring With the air of a gentleman, he summoned waiter and ship . Well’s Music Bar Aside from the leader, there is not a single member a gave him the order for his party. When the waiter re- who is makinsr her New York debut a* a popular singer. of the sensational new combo , put together by Mr. turned with drinks for all, including a tall, long glass of Miss Calawav was trained for the concert stage. who is more than twenty-four years of age. deadhead. something for Jackie, newsmen immediately buttonholed Nellie Lutcher’s sister, Vydah emphasize* youth Airlines is considering hiring cnk waiter. * Lutcher. is a very sweet and I Vinson decided to emphasize New Yjrk the present at ored girls as stewardesses as a after a recent road * shy person. She was aspect of things “Looks like Jackie has decid- M V*' a of Melvin the vouth sev- tour he disbanded the combina- i**' the fare .veil party (one of many [ result >f suggestion ago. On returning to ed to try to beat the good times,” Spencer Washington of Atlantic IHfillIf of While Pial months tion he then had Tondaleyo's White Lewis and and started to said to the City eyeing Harlem with a bor- given) for Nellie at build the present one newsman waiter. "Hamp to Mary Lewis has been appoint- aggregation. . Melody Room. The "Yeah,” yeahed another, "that J ed look . . Ma Bethune busy as He determined on the youth contract with Dcca Rec- ed to the Washington school sys- looks like a Tom Collins you just | ever despite her almost "four end his nev- policy in advance and made age ord Company. tem. and because they have served him.” scores and ten” age . . . twin Dorothy Maynor one of the requisites when he FIRST TO INVADE er been separated, sister Thereupon the irked waiter I IN FOR KICK .... Mane, A N.. will take up duties began interviewing prospective Julius Thomas of the Urban Bell’s Bar, the first to invade snorted: "Gentlemen, for your in- j Washington at D. C.’s Freedman s hospital. bandsmen. formation, the tall, long drink League has threatened to kick the hinterlands of Heights, celebrated its fourth an-! Ophelia Evans writes from the Slated At Ark. BAND PERSONNEL in front of Mr. Robinson is the { our slats up on our shoulders be- coast she arrived home safe and cause we niversary . . . We biggest sarsaparilla wa have in • said here that his cars understand! sound. After an absence of five The new band is composed of bigger Gable’s the Shalimar w ill use name acts | James Young, the house!" were than Clark years she finds the hometown Rhodes, . . . Seems; James CALLING RICHMOND Betcha Julius could do it too be- for the week-end trade College Charles Rice, William Harlem’s political leaders stay in; much changed for the worse. AM and N Garland. Attention, Richmond. Virginny: cause his feet are almost as big all it's faults she lo\es L.A. John Coltrane, John Coles, all Paige's hot water, now it's Sidney Davis With Ark.—Dorothy By the time you read this one of I as Satchel I still and except for short visits PINE BLUFF. of whom have yet to see their citizens, Notes to you: Brooklyn has •f the 11th Assembly District young so- twenty-fourth birthday. your better known a she will never again leave it. Mavnor. celebrated a three-bed brotherl in the base- (GOP) who has been jailed: Ac- ’ appear school teacher and postal worker,' Mrs. Jackie” Robinson, one of P ano. will in concert hist ment of a filing station on At- cused of tampering with the vote. M. N Many veteran musicians ques- will have arrived there with have the best dressed women around «t Arkansas State A. and young lantic Avenue. You enter the The Democrats had their j tioned the wisdom of the new white wife and their child, | these parts . . . Most of our de- College Sunday evening. Jan. joint by of trap door in troubles, too. Hall Auditorium plan but Vinson argued that “If the result of a wartime overseas means a partment stores now employ Ne- It,, in Caldwell days ago there the floor of the gas station (they BARBERS GO UP the auspices of the Ly* you’re going to play modern romance. A few groes in all positions. Gimbles under music, the kind youth appreciates was quite a discussion as to whet- say). It’s interracial too because Harlem's Barbers uppered their and several of the Fifth Avenue jm Committee. r. are Brooklyn believes in democracy! prices to SI.OO . . . Dr. Lucien and understands, then there is her you folks down there stores were the die hards, but < who will be poem in the book thiee Mi Ma'nor. to produce "ready” for such # union. | Cutest new Brown and his daughters, we are happy to report they have only none better able it “Poetry Negro,” by Constance, Jacqueline, viit'nc Arkansas’ state than the generation that creates This column tack the position ( of the edited BARITONE Lawerenc* Winter# preaently and Mrs. yielded supoorted college for Negroea for that you would receive the couple Langston Hughes and Ama Bon- YOUNG. Barbara De Pass left January 12 Bar, it” i hia second concert tour under direction of Phil Williams’ Gold Coast ih? first time, is a rare phenom- with open arms. Please don’t i temps, concerns a little colored appearing on for South Africa. Constance has and the newest addition to his attended a carnival in a from the tragic enon among singers—she can make us a bigger liar than we( lad who S. Hurik will sing at the Scottish Rite Cathedral, Sun- recovered acci- rapid growing chain, the Silver oboe, northern city and decided to ride dent which caused the death of n 1 v the the piano, and already are! . . . Attention news- 1 day, January 30. Lawerence is appaaring under the di- Meteor, held a gala cocktail sip Major! the merry-go-round. Th# poem her mother when both were tl” French horn, orchestrate a men in Miami, Florida: rection of Mia* Nellie Watt*, who sponsors winter con- for the case society crowd on ' and transpose accompani- Band Routes Kobinsoo, the public relationsl starts off like this: "Where ia the thrown from a New York Cen- New Yeer’s Day ment at sight. man is heading your way on an j Jim Crow section on thia merry- certs in the city each yaar. tral Train. Constance’s wedding, We don’t like the new record- ERSKINE HAWKINS I want had been shop- A< the fi’.st woman ever to assignment for a national maga- go-round, Mister 'cause for which they ing of the Mills Brothers with AJ Jan. 11—Gvm, Daytona Beach. to ride?” ping when the accident occur- sin® in the Washington Cathed- zine. John Young, the ex-news- Jolson and we are saying so! It Fla. , appeared man, is wooing Ethel Washing- FRANTIC WIFE j red. has been canceled and the is new* an tune, ivl whore she In choir 12—Elks Club, Pensacola. Fla. a release of old ton with a daily orchid. (Love, O in chuckling 1 engagement broken. They Say About v itmi nt« on the 50th anmvers- Skating Folks NY are over PARADE j "Is It True What 13— Rink, Jackson, Love, you expensive love!) 1 RECORD The song itself is OK, p v 1944, a of the YWCA in Doro- Ml.is. the .wife of Columbia U pro- Aubrey Pankey home from a Dixie?” thy M-vjv” made musical his- BRITISH CHAMP fessor who entered suit for plenty By OTTO MACK 1 European tour. but the deliverance of cam* 14—Casino. Meridian, Miss. Arthur King, the British Em- I successful concert t v. Fhe sang tn an unusu- against * big corporation and Ebony's smells of ‘‘Torn!” Gee! also 16—New Orleans, La. & Be sure to read fea- ?' Library pire's colored boxing champ who went out spent Jazz history has already resetved special niche Recommended: The singing of recital in the of Con- 17—Powell Hall, Lake Chari#*, then and that ture on Rev. Leonard Anderson • thrilled the Big Burg with hi* amount on LUNCEFORD, the genial bandleader the "Four Knights" on the Red ■'* on *he 75th anniversary Lj. i in credit the assump- for the lave JIMMY Illinois prison chaplain and lightning left band in his show . . . The neu trend o' the 13th amendment of the I#—Aud., Houston, Tex. Madi-1 tion that sh* would win the suit. who directed one of the most talented and enterprising founder of Chicago’s Randall Skelton C o son Square Garden debut a few That's right she lost the suit and to in make-up; lighter on all cos- ‘itution. ooening a Festival . Galveston, Tex. orchestra, j House. It will surprise you if 20—Aud weeks ago, is getting his share, frantic how to meet dance bands of all The Lunceford riding metics. One beauty house u M’-c. drHicated to the rec- Side Aud., Port Ar- is now over Cn\e. ! know’ what goes on in the minds here *T 21—W. of days holding thirties, art n ni* «n nt egro contributions thrills these her obligations. on the creat of the swing era of the middle de- of of entertainers. Rev. 1 re-narmng the Make-down. tnur, Texas. hands 'with Conchita Nakotina, some our Rhythm” •o our rut'u’e. It’s a boy at the Lawson Bow- arrangers who worked Randall once a featured sin- The "Businessmen of INK SPOTS eyeful. veloped new’ musicians and new was the Philadelphia man's the proprietor of Bow- ger with Earl Hines, and the j are rehearsing anew partner for Jan. 13-26—Capitol Th.. N. Y. Year’s Eve, as the performances that covered every aspect of popular On New . out their act It will once again be on Sugar Hill . .Ope C. man’s Bat fate Jimmie Lunceford, but only I whistles sounded-the death of of Harlem's top columnists and music from flHg-waving stomps to sophisticated blues. to used • the THREE ‘’Businessmen of Funny Team Starts a as a means an end. He CHURCHILL 1948, a blonde waded through over . . . SAVANNAH one of Its top disc jockeys are Well, these master minds his earnings to finance hu study Rhythm" KING ODEM FOUR puddle of slush in front of the feuding. They both have licenses at the Columbia Recording Cor- A recent Sunday nite ago mark- National 3-23—Chubby’s, Camden. lush kiss instead ot building tension and for the Episcopal mimstery. Billing Jen. Theresa and planted a to carry and when they poration have just carved a hitting notes heavily on the beat, SEPIA STEWARDNESSES ed another in those well to t>e N. J. Bailey, the "Opening Nights ’ NEW YORK. N. Y One of on the much of Ben meet the boys give them plenty special niche for themselves in the bebopper will often play leg- We hope it is true American remembered of . EARL BOSTIC . , Frienda Rex In- » ■! A”v ica’s funniest teams, Pat- doorman of of room. the hearts of lovers of Lunce- ato eighth notes slightly behind • ■■■ ■ ' ■ - the internationally known Smalls Jan. 15*—St. Louis. are that when he t'i hi and Jackson, begun gram saying ford’s jazi.nocracy by i e-tssuing rhythm beat, Paradise Club. Inc. Incidentally have City. Mo. grand jury the section's accord- go- s i nr of the nation’s theatre. 18—Kansas faces a Federal in an album entitled LUNCEFORD ing to Leonard Feather, jazi com- Savannah Churchill this dub lias been steadily 17—Omaha, Neb on slavery ing twenty-five T f r«t stop on their trip was Kansas that white Washington SPECIAL which includes several poser and critic. for the past year* ANARUS! 20—Columbus, Ohio. charge he will contend that he La recorded closing its doors, a hav- * or' 's v at the Apollo and of the finest tunes ever Relaxation, rather than tension, without sta Apn Arbor. Mich. brought that 15-year-old white Gets Swank Billing many Negro f«.n v thi# the team will blow 21— bv the maestro. is the effect produced on a listen- en for the artists 22Louisville, Kv. girl here to give her music les- OTHER COMPOSITIONS er who to LAS VEGAS. Nev.—Savannah who cant get a chance in the ii t'i the Howard and the Royal occupy Feted Galore has become accustomed * 23Cincinnati, Ohio. and that he did not includes WHITE Chut chill, whose Manor discs downto* n spots of the same cali- The ■**. sons. The album the new contours of a bop per- 27—Philadelphia. the same room with her in a ho- HEAT, one of the finest hits in formance. have become a "standard” in bre The name of the new show EDDIE VINSON tel. In Hometown the "killer-diller" school of hec- Beboppists will welcome the most record collections, will is "Inside Harlem” and it is bill- 15— N J. Charlotte Harris, the Richmond swing WELL, ALL engage- ed as ‘An original hot-Harlem S*»' You Sow It Jan Newark. Washing- tic music: variety of bop music presented olay her first swank Wilmington. Del. (Va > school marm, never fails CHICAGO —Dinah THEN, the band's first revue, fun filled with the type 22 "queen juke RIGHT in this collection. One is able to ment when she bows into the Washington. D. C to set the wolves howling when ton. famed of the novelty SY OLIVER'S Ve- of music blues, songs, and rhy- In the 23 received surprises galore success: discern the Dixieland influence Thunderbird Hotel in Las TRIBUNE! C,a. she sweeps through Harlem as boxes.” of THE LONE- . . gas on thmic dancing that has made 26—Atlanta. visit to this brilliant scoring . and such number as CUBA- Jan. 25. Supporting Sa- . . on her post-holiday 26A'banv. Ga she did last Sunday night . SOME ROAD and BABY, WON'T BE vannah will be the King Odeni Harlem world famous for torrid NO AND CUBANO BOP. ” WILLIAMS People who get around: Mrs. C. city last week. YOU PLEASE’ COME HOME, recently garnered sepia entertainment COOTIE of these pleasant premised at DIZZY GILLES- Fou>. who Okla. A. Scott, wife of the Atlanta pub- Not the least and Billy Moore's beautiful ar- at Ruban Bleu We would like to add in addi- Jan. 15—Tulsa. items letter from the PIE’S first Carnegie Hall concert rave reviews the EAST INDIA MEDICINE tfl_K«,rfsas City, Mo. lisher, living at the Waldorf-As- was a rangement of WHAT'S YOUR the >n York. ton to what is said in the above i a religious group in 1947. show exciting results New Rock. Ark. toria. taking the "A” train up- Martin Singers, MORNING GLORY and produced quotation, aboye all there is a 19—Little offering to to STORY that can be through a COMPANY j Kv. town. Lewis O. Swingler, editor a chance return PRELUDE NO. 7. blending maiked absence of anything 20— Paducah. job singer CHOPIN'S of African and Cuban TErract 3 8113 Topeka. of the Memphis World, stopping her old as with the album belongs on the percussion PATRONIZE UNCLE TOM” which is to be 22 Kan. Alpha group. This vocal and effects with Homo ot Romadiai. Moines. lowa off here enroute from the list of any collector of jazz sounds. OUR ADVERTISERS highly appreciated. Indian Harb 23Des VISITED MUST orchestra For Blood Cleansing, Asthma, t 24Omaha. Neb. convention. FAMILY Lunceford jazznocrary and will " Long Washington, who was ibim. Sugar Dtabot»s.i 27Indianaoolis. Tnd. He played hard with the Miss be a welcomed addition to the wagon crowd” on here to spend a few days with \ H oh and Low Blood Pronura. Island "station library of any collector of hot jozz THE RtVENS party family play belated and Bladdar Ailmanln Jan 15-16—Detroit. New Year’a Eva at the ner and a classics. os Harrisburg. Pa. thrown by Dr. John Singelton banta Claus to ner Infant son. RCA Victor just released an al- C mallei f 1 10— by A JAFAR Managtr 20 Feb. York which was also attended by the was genuinely gratified the of modern jazz entitled ALLI. Jan. to 16—New * bum < Claytons are for ofter. Orchestras 3681 Haitlngi St. Citv (Roval Roost). Horace who here BEBOP, featuring the a weeks. Said th* famed singer, when boppits as DIZ- { Dotroit *l, Mich. } DINAH WASHINGTON few of such eminent 606 HORSE SHOE BAR 1 noting letter Hri. ? the contents of th* COLEMAN P 8:45 a.m. to Ip. m. Jan 14-19—Cleveland. VISITOR! ZY GILESPIE. 16—New York City PHILLY "fortunately I am not available HAWKINS. KENNY CLARK and 20 to Feb Ramsey and Georg* accept their gracious offer (Royal Roost). Drs. Jim to LUCKY THOMPSON. The four Ward of Philly, squiring their now but it’s great to know that records in the album display the wives through Harlem. Mrs. Myr- they still want ma. Show bus- bop talents of some twenty-eeven AND COCKTAIL LOUNGE THE Busy tle Nicholson, wife of Ike of At- iness is such a funny business musicians, and represent easy /Bi'C Lucky Millinder lantic City, dropping in on the you know, on# never can tell listening tor #rfv«v- -<* of bopism. Big Town for a quick looksie. what might develop" BEBOP IB DEHNED Featuring The Sensational As RCA Executive Mrs. Ruth Welborn Davis of Dee IN CLEVELAND Rhythmically, bebop is a transi- b> NEW YORK. N. Y.—Bandlead- Cee, mother of Bill (Theresa) Dinah left here Thursday for tion from hot to "cool” jazz, for has been Brown’s wife, leffding a flavor of Cleveland where she began a er Lucky Millinder at the for the last distinction to the holiday merri- two week engagement at the Tia to opening on Broadway turning down dates hair. prior Royal Roost Restaurant. DON RAPHAEL so that he could spend ment with her pretty gray Juana Club In that city month Finley Hoskins of in his post as one of Playboy MAX VI time new back from a dash around And His Hammond Organ Y RCA Victor’s top music execu- Gotham . . Ir/jS* to choose the the country . Jesse Dedmond fIwIUWWWWWjWWWWWWWfI tives. Lucky helps name on Cea, signing his * several of Dee * ROTT m music for hundred ar- Mrs. Sara NOW SHOWING i\ register. I \ tists and orchestras. ______the hotel flQflßfifljT , A PRESENTS '' 'HL Lurleane 606 * Pin* Food* M ’1 Song Sty Ii»t y WO 1 • 3647 D™k. SUPPER CLUB ■ BBV 112 PeU Nujfri VICTORY fi M 2 Tap Dancer |g i f/'iwM Pruaaii y§ It Hi Jimmy Smith m PORTER THE NEW CLUB * V I Jfl I It ■p: m l\fking SINO | ft \ or THI I l|| |EL REVIEW 1 ] TRUMPET * /. * V k W T STEVENS h ,m* C°rd#po| - 79| AND Hit BAND ■ I I **°n uk# Gor „ _ ■Hp. 4^v£Lsi?p» H PRINCE OF THE I v TENCH SAX H■ Tommif!J W»l«r» '\9L | ?W * ■ figrn RND HIS COMBO Jimmie Glovor H

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