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EDITED BY DAVE DEXTER, JR. "|"HAT LEAD-OFF letter from Holland in the column a t th e le ft is no F o r Three S a x e r s phony. Actually, it reflects the feelings of a grea t m a n y Europeans; There’s a hot ratrace on right men who look toward America as a Promised Land and who are now in H’wood with Vido Musso, determined to live here even if they must hold their heads under water for Lucky Thompson and Babe Russin, 24 hours as the extraordinary Dutch gentleman so eagerly promises to do. all highly regarded tenor saxists Letters like that offer a moral for a lot of us who complain that a who have worked for various name buck is only worth 30 cents nowadays. orks, competing with each other as Stuff and Such From Here and There maestros. But- Can This Cat fRIENDS AND fans of Alan Courtney— and they number in the Musso q u it Stan Kenton and has been rehearsing a big band that will hundreds of thousands throughout the New York area— m ay write Make Records? ? ? emphasize “ sweet stuff as well as hot,” Amsterdam, Holland. him at Radio Station KMYR in Denver. His entertainin g new in Vldo’s words. Thompson, who came We thank your address to the Hot “ Campus Club” airshow was preemed as only Courtney can preem a pro­ up via his stellar blow ing w ith Basle, Club of France, Paris, where we stayed gram on Sept. 16 and it’s a cinch that he’ll build a vast audience while Raeburn and others, has been unshut­ for a few days on our tour with Minn simultaneously building back his health in that altitu d e . . . That flashy tering his 18-man crew at the local Dajo, the world famous Dutch fakir. new band that just opened at the Susie Q Club on Hollywood boulevard Elks Hall on weekends. Guys like Dodo We enclose some pictures. Can you do (headed by Jesse Price) is destined for big things. Price calls himself "the Marmarosa, Jackie M ills, Frankie Beach world’s loudest drummer,” which is rare understatem ent. He sings the something with him? We are interesting PERKY PAULINE Byrnes is th e and Ollie Wilson are Lucky’s best known blues, too, and well . . . Monte Proser of the New York Copacabana Club for your monthly and request you to "in tune” fem m e voice heard w ith sidemen. recently purchased the H’wood Trocadero and is spending a potful of loot send us an example. Reciprocately you the Starlighters vocal group on vari­ Russin, who spent three years in the redecorating it for a late fall opening. Monte, however, learned that there will receive a copy of our magazine ous airshows from H ’wood. She army after holding down the tenor already is a Copacabana here a few days AFTER he made the purchase. which is the best groomed in Holland. once sang w ith A rtie Shaw’s band, chairs with Tom and Jim Dorsey and And he no likee . . . Louis Jordan’s oft-postponed run a t Billy Berg's is Mirin Dajo can shoot with a revolver and is one of the favorite thrushes others, hasn’t worked a Job yet— nor skedded for next January, which is just about the tim e th a t Slim Gaillard's through his head, he can remain 24 on the west coast. O the r members have Vido and Lucky— but he has big hours or longer under the level of a contract with Mr. Bee expires. No nitery is big enough fo r Slim and Louie plans for a group which will feature of the Starlighters include Vince HAPPY, HANDSOME Jack Smith water basin, he can hang himself. He together, or is that too confusing to follow? strings. Babe intends to employ only a Degen, Howard Hudson, Tony Paris makes his debut as a Capitol star puts a knife into his brains and will do Herman: Two Movies Made, One to Co single trumpet and no trombones and and Andy Williams. this month, meanwhile carrying on things so as have never been shown be­ work hotel jobs a la Freddy Martin. LEO WATSON has bobbed up again, this time with a quartet in -Ray W h itte n Photo. in fly fashion with his CBS radio fore. He puts needles through his body None of the three tenor titans, how­ which Dexter Cordon, tenor, and two other mad indiv id u a ls perform show which emanates five nights in 16 places. He will reserve his best ever, has anything really solid set from weekly from New York. Charlie numbers for the U. S. A. You can make without inhibitions . . . Woody Herman leaves California Oct. 15 the booking standpoint. All hope to be Mihn made this candid shot on much money with him. Also do your with two new movies in the cans, but he’s still not set on th a t filmusical of Kenton, Cole riding high by November. best! Awaiting your answer, we remain, his own which may prove to be the first decent band pic ever made. Woody Jack’s first Capitol wax session last F. V. KLINCEREN, swears he will postpone its start until a “ sympathetic and hip” studio setup month in Hollywood. N. Z. Voorburgway, 72. is found . . . Milton Karle has quit the road. He stays in N. Y. permanently Count Basie now publicizing S. Kenton’s krew . . . Bobby Sherwood’s etching of “ Sher­ For Paramount 41 C. I. Readers wood’s Forest” is doing more for him than any face he’s needled since Capitol artists w ill dominate the Opeining in L.A. “ Elks’ Parade” in 1942. itage of the New York Paramount Henderson On Shemya (The Aleutians) Count Basie’s trip to Hollywood, Thank you for the copies of The New “ Hof- Discography*’ in Preparation Theater beginning Oct. 23 and postponed a couple of times in re­ QHARLES DELAUNAY, French artist, w riter and hot fan , has been Capitol News— they were waylaid for holding forth for at least six weeks. cent months, is now definitely Bing's Program a while somewhere on the Alaska main­ gathering material for his next “ Hot Discography” b o o k — th e record Stan Kenton’s “ artistry in rhythm ” scheduled for mid-October. Milton Skitch Henderson will be fea­ land but they are here now and it was collectors’ bible— and w ill sign contracts this month for its publica­ tombo featuring June Christy, Gene only a matter of minutes before the 41 (Iron Man) Ebbins, Basie’s ebulli­ tured as pianist on the new Philco tion by Criterion Books of N. Y. On his current visit to the States he’s Howard, Red Dorris, Shelly Manne, Ed members of our outfit had drawn lots ent mentor, has set the band for a Bing Crosby radio show when it is been huddling daily with M. H. Coldsen, Criterion’s top poobah . . • Jo Safranski and Kai Winding will alter­ to determine who would follow whom week starting Oct. 15 a t the L. A. M il­ heard via transcriptions, nationally, Stafford’s 1947 plans regarding radio will surprise even her numerous fan nate under the spotlight w ith the King in reading the copies . . . Surely you lion Dollar Theater. starting Oct. 16. Skitch also is form ing clubbers; perhaps even her own family . . . Howcum the critics never Cole Trio. I t ’s the firs t tim e th a t Ken­ must know how we enjoy them. Basie has his old rhythm section back his own band for dance dates. For sev­ compliment Art Hodes and Dale Curran for the plucky way they’ve kept ton and Cole and their outfits have SCT. HERMEL P. DAIGLE intact, but Buck Clayton still is a hold­ eral months he has been under exclusive their “ Jazz Record” rag going all these years? It deserves a larger circula­ ever appeared together professionally Det. 120th AACS Squad., APO 729, out since his army discharge. contract to Capitol for recordings. tion . . . Peter Tanner of London may head for the U. S. shortly a la although they’re both personally man­ C/O Postmaster, Seattle, Wash. Delaunay. His tasty scribblings on music appear regularly in the famous aged by Carlos Castel, w ho is looking “ Melody Maker” weekly, the British equivalent of “ Down Beat.” • • • w a personal manager for himself. ‘No Discrimination’ California platter pilots are wary of Martin Block’s impending invasion St. Joseph, Mo. via KFWB. They wanta know what he’s got that rates a minimum annual New Gee Your mag deserves a Breneman orchid income in excess of $300,000. Well, soon they’ll kn ow . . . Longshot bet: echie Smith Ork because you carry articles on all bands Vido Musso will, sooner or later, be back in the Goodman reed section with Lands Randini’s Run and vocal artists, not limiting them his heavy tenor . . . Billie Holiday is in H’wood to sing two tunes in the Fresh out of the army after tw o years strictly to artists who record exclusively “ New Orleans” film in which Louis Armstrong and numerous lesser-knowns !V e South Pacific, Ceechie Smith took for Capitol as some “ big time” record­ also will participate. Lady Day isn’t feelin’ so good, however. This California f!s new lumP combo into Randini’s ing companies do in their own record smog isn’t conducive to healthy pipes . . . It looks as if th e Basie band will u > Los Angeles, in September and publications to limelight their own follow Harry James’ at the Meadowbrook in November. Contracts still aren’t ?! [emain there indefinitely. Smith, an talent. Keep it up! signed but the Base wants the job. Illinois Jacquet w on’t be with the Count wlahoman, blows- a powerful trumpet RAY STOCK when the group arrives here in mid-October. n sings blues. M ore retails about him 2213 Lafayette St, ^ be foundI Tommy Dorsey; Still Thrills Californ ians lulAYBE IT’S a trend. Or a sign of the times. But th e singing Pied “The Old Man is mellowing. Every year he's easier to work with Pipers as well as Freddy M artin, Slim Gai I lard and arranger-conductor Ziggy Cuts Out Lately he’s been fe e lin g a n d a c tin g e s p e c ia lly h a p p y a b o u t the band and Sonny Burke are all doing brisk business at the rec ord stores in Los things in g e n e ra l.” Angeles which they own and operate in competition w ith each other. Ray Bauduc abandons his own Benny Goodman’s musicians talk that way when they d iscuss their little orchestra and takes over the The Pipers are so enthused about boss. No longer do they complain about the Goodman “ death ray ” drums in Tommy Dorsey’s band on their shop that they intend to open Southern C a l i f o r n i a n s w h o h ave . , O c t. 1 a t C a s in o C ardens Ballroom. additional Piper stores in other been flocking to the Meadowbrook masterful combininS his W ith Z iggy Elman leaving the . n „ i . 1 masterful technical skill with impeccable c itie s . to catch the Beegee band have gone good taste, and a jazz beat— even on Dorsey crew to go east and form away ranting and raving about the sl°w ballads— that puts to shame the Back in N. Y. after two weeks in his own band, Joe Craves moves music, the singers, the instrum ental £0"called “swing” being dished out by into the vacant trumpet chair. He has Filmtown, Leonard Feather is still with soloists—but most of all, about Benny a l 1 t0° many of the contemporary lead- been a star of the Bauduc band for Metronome mag as editorial associate himself. ers these daV£- contrary to a previous item here and eight months. Radio Show Coing Big r e t n f f t * ° Moy ies ^"b'S Trip his name has been returned to Met’s MCA to Groom Elman...... Getoff trumpets are blown by Johnny masthead. He’s also shaping up the Dorsey and Bauduc got together and ' a^e going pretty well ” Benny Best and Nate Kazebier. Vet guitarist “ THAT’S WHAT I’m talkin’ next Esquire jazz poll for Esky’s forth­ the deal was set in a few minutes.linutes. Ray’Ray’s f ’ W'fe ^ bad “ Mike Bryan' BarneV Spieler on bass, joe ’bout,” cries Beegee at a rehearsal ’ chance to en|oy our house in Westwood Bushkin at the piano— recently he re- coming ’47 yearbook. last job as a leader was a t Catalina Is­ tor his Monday night NBC show land. The former New Orleans tub- for a long: tim e and our tw o daughters placed Mel Powell, who Is studying in with Victor Borge. The clarinet wiz­ are growing into little ladies. Why, the east— and a superior little drummer Many a musician is missing the thumper, famous for his rhythm pat- ard and his band broke it up— like a they’ll soon be ready fo r school.” by the name o f Louie Bellson round out friendly face of Ted LeBerthon, veteran terns with the pre-war Bob Crosby demolition crew— at their Meadow- columnist and friend of many show­ Dixieland band, will receive heavy bill- Goodman’s radio show, in which he the rhythm section admirably. A rt Lund brook opening in Culver City Sept. and Eve Young are the vocalists. Bi men, who left L. A. last month to enter Ing with TD and his weekly salary is toes top biliinS with Victor BorS ^ ¡£ 12 and none of the thousands who Shine leads the reed section. th e Order o f St. Francis o f Assisi as a said to be one o f the highest being rollinS alonS w ith a building Hooper attended dared argue that Benny Benny will not make a motion pic­ still isn’t the King of Swing as cleric recluse in San Francisco. RAY BAUDUC joins Tommy Dor­ paid a sldeman anywhere. ratine and *he s_P°nsors are pleased- ture this trip, he said. He didn’t on his Young Graves is a Bauduc discovery, Exciting Sldemen, As Usual always. sey’s band Oct. 1 and will receive previous trip last winter, either. “ Four and w ill s p lit the solo horn parts in the The band is like all Goodman bands—- C harlie Barnet will reorganize his heavy coin and top billing as the TD weeks here is all we can work in this band w ith Charlie Shavers. Elman, who great. One finds no pretentiousness in band shortly for coming run at the drummer. Ziggy Elman leaves the fall,” Goodman added. “On our next has long been anxious to go out on his the arrangements. The sldemen are more t“j'p’ we ¡ntend Casino Cardens. band to form his own orchestra in own, is tie d w ith M CA and intends to than merely com petent, as always. And 7 5 th e east. Joe Craves replaces Zig. Junior Collins Blows French Horn W hiting Chirps build his new crew in New York. when Benny moves m ikeside to lay Billy May, trumpeter and conductor, — Photo by Charlie Mihn. Goodman employs only two trom­ down a clarinet solo he still blows “ inl­ i is the new musical director of the New G irl Joins Band, Too bones, including the recently returned On Cantor Show “Ozzie and Harriet” CBS program in Sherry Sherwood, 1 8 , won the Dorsey Cutty Cutshall, but he thinks the French H’wood. He and Mrs. May expect a N othin’ But Money contest to tind a new sparrow and is horn played by Junior Collins gives the M argaret W hiting planed to young ’un along about February. r.ow regularly featured w ith Tom’s band. brass team a sound that is unique. H’wood to be the singing star of For King Cole Trio She’s from Washington, D. C. Tommy Collins played overseas in the late Maj. The King Cole Trio worked four hours Eddie Cantor’s new radio show last and Jimmy have v irtu a lly wound up Glenn Miller’s AAF orchestra. Jack Leonard, former T. Dorsey bari­ month. It marked a resumption of on a Kansas City one-nighter last It’s getting to be an old story with , tone, is ta k in g dram atic lessons at their work in “ The Fabulous Dorseys’’ month and wound up, as their share of west coast musicians and band fanatics. Filmtown activities for Margaret, Columbia Films and will be groomed m ovie w hich Charles Rogers is produc­ the night’s take, with $5,162.88 cold All the top name outfits come out here w^° came here from D etroit as a child I for flickers. ing for a 1947 release by United Artists, cash paid them— and happily— by Pro­ from th e east ever so often, most o f anc^ w h° has lived in H’wood ever since moters Johnny Antonello and Jim Nixon. them with explosive publicity and excePt for her recent New York visit Freddy Martin and his men go back Two years ago, playing the same spot, New York Aquarium razzle-dazzle exploitation. All too often nearly a year. I cn the stand at the Cocoanut Grove of th e K. C. M unicipal A u d itoriu m , N at the most heavily-ballyhooed outfits The daughter of the late Richard Hotel Ambassador after four-week vaca­ and his boys walked out with a meager Next for the Duke turn out to be second rate— no better Whiting, one o f the most prolific and I tion starting Oct. 8 . $4,000 for their single night’s labor. Duke Ellington’s band trained back than a half-dozen California “terri- beloved songwriters in American music, to New York for an opening at the tory” combos. But with “Old Man La Whiting will be heard every week on Trombonist W ill Bradley won’t take Cavallaro Is Back B’way Aquarium this month after three Goodman” it’s always different. Year the Cantor stanza throughout the fall over the Teen Agers’ ork after all. But Carmen Cavallaro and his band opened m onths on th e w est coast. There were after year his music is thrilling. On this and winter months. She’ll also be cut- it’s probable that Bradley will form a at Ciro’s on the Sunset Strip on Sept. no changes in the band. Duke, ill fo r« visit— his second in 1946— he’s done it ting a batch o f new discs to be released new combo of his own here on the west IS. The pianist will make a picture time in California, was feeling bettei again. shortly by Capitol. coast this fall. while coasting. w hen th e tra in pulled out from the L. A. Union Station. SIOUX CITY SUE is what they call this 23-year-old chanteuse who came out of nowhere last month Desi Arnaz New Star and bagged the singing spot on the Of Hope’s NBC Show Jimmy Durante-Carry Moore CBS Desi A rnaz is th e new musical di- show. Her real . name - -is ------Suzanne rector o f th e Bob Hope NBC show, re- •». she* s.ngle, and she made a placing Skinnay Ennis, who moves over several years singing — to the Abbott & Costello program. soundtracks for stars like Cail Pat- Arnaz and his bandsmen specialize r'ck, Vera Ellen and H ilary Brooks, “ Latin A m erican” tempos. Jerry Colonna Wh° on|V make like they sing on the gets big billing with Hope for the nint screen. Roy Bargy’s ork backs Suz­ year. anne on the program. THE CAPITOL THE CAPITOL PACE 6 PACE 7 Concerts N ext Young B.6. Band Blows For W . H. Herd; After Great Avodon Run McCall Returns W IN D IN G UP seven weeks at the Avodon Ballroom in do wntown Los Woody Herman’s band w ill play Angeles, Billy Butterfield takes his spectacular ne w band back to the three weeks of theaters and then eastern circuit shortly after acquiring thousands o f new friends and 20 jazz concerts in the Middle- west immediately following their boosters during his Southern California stay. current e n g a g e m e n t a t th e A v o d o n f Butterfield’s brilliant recording of Ballroom in downtown L. A. “ Stardust” was released on Sept. Herman and his men have finished 30 by Capitol just as Billy and his Peggy Held at work in the Republic “ Hit Parade of men were concluding their Avodon 1947” picture, in which they will be seen running through “ Northwest Pas­ ry n . sage” and “ Fan It.” The Avodon run BABETTE, CHERIE and Peggy DeCastro, of the chirping DeCastro Sister The complete lineup of the BB band N.Y. Theater will be from Oct. 1 to 14. team, wish Woody Herman well on his Oct. 1-4 engagement at the Avodon as it swings back east includes Billy Peggy Lee was forced to post­ Only new change in the band finds Ballroom in downtown L. A. The DeCastros, who hail from Cuba, just finished I. Stegmeyer, arranger, lead alto and hot 'Mary Ann McCall replacing Betty Perry work in the Columbia film, “ Over the Santa Fe Trail,” and are booked for pone her trek back to California, clarinet; Bob Levine, hot tenor; Nor­ as the herd’s canary. Miss Perry had re­ nitery engagements in supper clubs on the west coast. Herman, feeling better 1 and w ill not return to her home in man Elvin, baritone; Bill Cervantes, cently replaced Lynne Stevens. For a than he has in years, will play 20 concert engagements with his herd immedi­ flu te and tenor; Earle Pearson, alto; the hills of Hollywood until “ some­ BILLY BUTTERFIELD couple of years, in ’39 and ’40, Miss ately following his Avodon run. \ Bob Peck, Archie Johnstone, Jack Sta- time in November,” she wired The C alifornia W e n t fo r His Music McCall sang w ith th e band and her mets, trum pets; Marshall Hawk, Earl Capitol News. return came as a surprise to followers Mahan, Sam Moore, trom bones; M ickey of the herd. M ike Vallon, W oody’s Co-starred on the stage of the N. Y. Carrano, piano; Red Ryan, bass; Dave manager, is in Hollywood setting up Paramount Theater with the Charlie Reiser, guitar, and Pete Vuolo, a left­ the coming concert to u r. He asserted Two Basses, Two Guitars Hypo Spivak orchestra, Peggy and her hus­ N e w M e n Spark handed drummer. that Woody would be back on the west band, Dave Barbour, proved socko coast “as early as possible in 1947 de­ Vocalists are Allan Wylie and Patricia enough to be held an additional four O'Connor. Jack Celia is the group’s road pending upon a New York Paramount Hampton's Heavy Payroll weeks. She and Dave also are doing a Heywood Band manager. Theater engagement.” lot of radio guest shots from Manhattan, Even when he fronted a con­ ness and the Hamp is m ig h tily enthused The Eddie Heywood band which Herman also finished scenes fo r the Booked by GAC, Butterfield organ­ in short, they’re wrappin’ it up. over the effects he’s getting. If he had ju s t w o u n d u p a four-weeker at Jules Levey film , “ New Orleans,” last ventional orchestra, Lionel Hamp­ ized his group last spring and broke it his way he would add another saxo- j It’s expected that Peg will tee off a ton was noted for his incandescent in, but good, on a long tour with Jerry Billy Berg’s nitery may not be month' At the same time the vetera" phone or two, a flugelhorn for color new radio assignment, on her own, after trombonist Neal Reid, an original m em ­ Colonna until time for the Avodon showmanship, his powerful en­ and perhaps a third set of drums. His her return here. She was wanted for made up of “ big name” sidemen, ber of the band, returned to the fold opening. Stegmeyer, who several years sembles, etc. own set, he says, he breaks up too o fte n Bing Crosby’s Philco series but the but many of Eddie’s fans believe after four years’ absence. Reid didn’t ago worked with Butterfield in the old But you easterners . . . you ain’t and they are constantly in need of Paramount engagements kept her from his current group to be the finest he’s replace anyone. He w ill share solo tram Crosby Dixieland band, also sparks a heard nothin’ yet. overhauling. accepting. ever fronted. choruses with Bill Harris. seven-man “ band within the band’’ The Hamp will return east soon, after w hich is featured, w ith great success, Ernie Powell is new, doubling tenor a smashing run at the Trianon Ballroom A rtie Shaw Still Mum and alto. Young (21) Leonard Hawkins by Butterfield. Milhaud Scoring here, w ith tw o bass players, tw o guitar­ Garner Joins On Production Plans of Brooklyn has the trumpet chair, and is ists, six trumpeters and four trombon­ blowing gobs of great horn. Two trom­ ists. All this, of course, in addition to Artie Shaw still is preparing to pro­ Republic’s ‘ Parade’ bonists are carrying the sliphorn load Bel Ami* Film his own wild drumsticks, his mad single­ Berg Lineup duce a film. He admits it, but prefers w hich V ic Dickenson once handled Famed French composer Darius fingered piano playing and his fleet Ready for Editing not to disclose additional details. Be­ alone. They are Britt Woodman and Back from a short vacation in Milhaud, for the last five years handling of the vibes mallets. Frank M cDonald brought Republic cause his yearly income has slumped Henry Coker. Ernie Shepherd is on basst Pittsburgh, his home bailiwick, Then, too, Milton Buckner is at the Studios’ latest pic, “ Hit Parade of appreciably since he stopped playing and Keg Purnell at the drums. nead of the music department of piano and another drummer is up on Erroll Garner opened in mid-Sep­ 1947,” under the wire on schedule last theaters and one-nighters with his band, Mills College in Oakland, is in tow n Heywood’s sprightly piano and ar­ the stand to keep the beat going when tember at Billy Berg’s nitery on month. Woody Herman’s band, Eddie a judge in an L. A. court last month composing the score for “ The Private rangements still spark the whole she­ Lionel is away from his skins. A lbe rt, Connie Moore, Joan (H it Pa­ reduced the amount of support money Affairs of Bel Ami,” a flicker which will Hollywood’s Vine street. Garner re- | bang. All of which adds up to a mighty 21 rader)) Edwards, Bill Goodwin, Gil Lamb Shaw is still paying Betty Kern Shaw, star George Sanders, Angela Lansbury placed A rt Tatum as the bistro’s key­ musicians in the band— counting, of and Jack Kenney all have top parts. who was his wife before he married and and Ann Dvorak for 1947 release by stroking attraction. course, his five saxophonists. It’s the McDonald produced and directed the was later divorced by Ava Cardner United Artists. Slim Caillard, Frankie Lane and the ‘Song of Norway’ largest straight dance band in the busi­ Carry trio are held. film himself for late 1946 release. Shaw. Milhaud’s radical, ultra-modern com­ positions are the current rage o f jazz Set for Flicker musicians today and his presence in Purchase of screen rights to “ Song of Hwood has Local 47 hotrocks excited. Norway,” click musicalnusical which was tem . # produced in L. A. A . and then scoredscore a U ll M U S IC D O X G e t s ‘THE THINGS WE resounding success on Broadway, as been announced by U... , freddy . Slack Band 010 LAST SUMMER’ tional Studios. "Norway” featu rcc% Slack broke up his long thea- music bv Greig w ith a modern libret o .r our from H’wood to New York in by Milton Lazarus. It will be fl'me Wember when he and his bandsmen Technicolor. N either stars nor the Pr ‘ «ned at the Music Box, a n itery, in CAP. 297 5« ducer have y e t been announced, m - , lcag0- S|eck follow ed A ndy K irk. The IIC O ID f duction, however, w ill begin in • « continues in m id-O ctober. — .*> p

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w co Alvarez thumper, ana ers forehead e Paramount Mi/m Phntn i PACE 10 THE CAPITOL | rHE CAPITOL PACE 11 Meet the Jockey! Luckies Pipe RAY PERKINS mixes a shrewd selec­ tio n o f records w ith his own solo piano Créât Blues Shouters Snared for Discs stylings daily on his program over Andy Russell Denver’s KFEL. Perkins for sev­ Lee, Smith and eral years w orked From Hollywood in N e w York, Price Cut W ax and was heard Andy Russell got his Lucky Strike over the chains CBS program going from H’wood For Capitol before entering I on Sept. 28 after a one-week post­ the service and y^lTH THREE outstanding blues ) . ponement during which time the spendinga period singers u n d e r c o n tra c t a n d m o re to overseas. On his emanation point of the show was be signed this m onth, Capitol return to civil­ f switched from the east to the west Records has entered the blues field ia n life, he I coast. headed for Den­ with an im p o s in g lin e u p h e a d e d b y Andy’s voice is piped from here to ver. N o w his the main CBS channel. A crack studio Julia Lee, Geechie Smith and Jesse program enjoys a high regional rating, band of hand-picked musicians accom­ Price. Regular releases by these and panies him from CBS on Sunset boule­ other artists are being scheduled. vard. Married just a year ago, Andy , Until recently, Capitol had con­ and his wife hope to enjoy their recent­ ly-purchased home for at least six 'Carnegie Hall' fined its blues o u tp u t to th e C o o tie months before commitments force his Williams orchestra exclusively. De­ return to Manhattan. Out here, Andy mand for blues music, a branch of JUMPIN’ JULIA Lee of Kansas points out, he can use his outdoor swim Film Finally American Negro folk music, necessi- City shouts the blues excitedly and pool the year ’round. teted a “highly accelerated” output, has fo r some 20 years in Kansas C ity. according to James B. C onkling, d i­ Her first Capitol record was re­ rector of repertoire for Capitol. Eddy Howard In Production leased Sept. 30 pairing “Cotta P ro d u c tio n o f th e heavily-publi­ Baby Lovett a t th e Tubs Gimme Whatcha’ Cot” with “ Lies.” Miss Lee, for two decades a favorite Here with her are Henry Bridges, Next at Casino RED NICHOLS returned to Holly­ cized and long-delayed “Carnegie singer and pianist in the Kansas City tenor; Baby Lovett, drums, and Billy wood Sept. 11 after two months in H all” musical finally got underway Eddy Howard and his Chicago or­ area, trained to Hollywood in Sep­ Hadnott, bass. San Francisco and was snared by the ; chestra start their first west coast last m onth. Paced by an unusual tember to wax her first sides under the Club Morocco as its feature attrac­ new contract. Her first record, coupling : engagement Oct. 4 when they open num ber o f noted stars of the music tion. Nichols’ Five Pennies are set w orld, i t ’s a W illiam LeBaron and Boris her own jumpy “ Cotta Gimme Whatcha’ at the Casino Cardens Ballroom, Dinning Sisters indefinitely at the Morocco and do­ Morros production and will be released Cot” with the 1931 ballad, “ Lies,” was Ocean Park, for six weeks. A former ing the best business on Vine street. in 1947 via United Artists. released Sept. 30. The five-piece combo guitarist and singer with the old Dick accompanying her big, w arm voice in ­ Take a Tacit The Nichols cornet, moreover, Leopold Stokowski, Artur Rodzinski, Jurgens combo, Howard and his musi­ cluded Baby Lovett on drums, Billy sounds greater than ever. L ily Pons, Gregor P ia tig o r s k y , Jan “ It’s time for a vacation!” cians will follow Tommy Dorsey on the Hadnott on bass and Henry Bridges on — Photo by Ray W hitten. Peerce, Rise Stevens, Walter Damrosch, Lou Dinning of the Dinning Sisters Casino Gardens bandstand. tenor sax. th e V atican Choir, Vaughn Monroe’s called her shot last month, and promptly Hal McIntyre’s music will follow up and married Don Robertson. Mean­ band, th e New Y ork Philharmonic and Geechie Smith hails from Tulsa, and GEECHIE SMITH is a veteran of Howard’s Nov. 15 with Charlie (The while, Ginger Dinning, who In private Nichols’ Pennies others w ill be featured. Marsha Hunt, if was to that Oklahoma metropolis the old Ernie Fields ork of Oklahoma. Mad Mab) Barnet slated to open in life Is the wife of Harry R. Lutke, gave W illia m Prince, Martha O'Driscoll and that he dedicated his own “T-Town But now, after three long years December with a new outfit. For two birth to a son. He’s been named Frank McHugh are playing the leading lump” just released. A superb trumpet overseas in the army, he’s on his own weeks, last month, the bands of Tommy Into the Morocco Harry, Jr. roles. Edgar G. Ulmer is megging it. player as well as a shouter, Smith’s sec­ with a new Capitol waxing binder and Jimmy Dorsey held forth together With a new singer, Dottie O’Brien, When they all get straightened out ond side—just released w ith “ T-Town signed and delivered. Smith sings on the stand, marking the first “twin on the bandstand and a contract read­ the Dlnnlngs will resume radio, nitery lump”—-Is titled “The Kaycee Kid.” blues and is rated one of the most run” the brothers have played together ing “stay as long as you like,” Red and recording commitments. Korngold’s Opera ¡Eight men form the band which record­ exciting trumpeters on the west in years. Nichols and his Five Pennies returned led with him. to the Club Morocco on Vine Street coast. — Photos by Charlie Mihn. Jesse Price Also Comes On ■ Riley Swings at Swing Sept. 11 after two months in San Fran­ Jack McVea to Cobra In Vienna Preem Also from Kansas City comes Jesse Mike Riley and his zany crew of cisco. Nichols, blowing a powerful cor­ Jack McVea, his tenor pipe and small E ric h W o lfg a n g Korngold is rush- t e , noted drummer and singer, whose Chuy Reyes Returns musically-inclined clowns are the new net, worked the same nitery for 14 combo opened last month at the Club ■ ■ pacting by Capitol was announced in The rumba band of Chuy Reyes, pian- attraction at Hollywood’s Swing Club, ing com pletion of his original music Cobra in dow ntow n Los Angeles. Jack consecutive months in 1945 and ’46 last month’s Capitol News. Price’s “ You ist, was on the bandstand at the Mo- replacing Jack McVea’s band. Riley is set score for W arners’ “ Deception so blew in Lionel Hampton’s reed section and his return is being hailed by a Satisfy" and “ Kansas C ity W om an” cambo Club when it reopened in mid- it the Swing Club indefinitely. He owns a few years back. legion of his fans. that he can fly to Vienna in No- already are juke successes. He once September. a piece o f the place. vember to supervise the first pres- drummed in Count Basie’s band, and Katherine," recently has been w orkin g a t th e Susie enianonenta tion uio f his wrwopera. > , , , ftri.LL which was originally scheduled for a UUub here as leader of his own band. 1939 premiere. The bigger Cootie W illia m s orchestra, A d o lf H itle r’s behavior necessitated »«awhile, with Trumpeter Bob Merrell postponem ent o f the premiere but o Handling vocal chores, also w ill be repre- -ented regularly with blues on future gold is confid e n t that the Pr0 uc w ill open within a few months. J aP'to releases. stop over In N. Y. en route to Vien lack Smith, also just acquired by to witness the Initial performance ap'toi as a singing star, w ill not shout his new violin concerto by Jascha * s' Conkllng denies the rumor cate- Wcally. fetz In Carnegie Hall. THE Capitol ! THE CAPITOL PACE 12

Criterion to Publish Meet the Jockey! DOCTOR” WALLACE Dunlap places His “ needle” in an appropriate place as Dexter’s ‘Cavalcade’ He pilots a platter on his “Musical Clinic” show over

Jazz Book This Month J U L E S L E V E Y ’ S “ N e w Orleans" f ilm c o n tin u e s in p roduction with By EVE STANLEY L o u is A rm s tro n g , B illie Holiday, “fH A T LILTIN’ Tilton gal, Martha “ Jazz Cavalcade” w ill be published by Criterion Books of New York Kid Ory, Z u tty Singleton, Bud Scott, by name, swept into the New York In late October. W ritten by the editor of The Capitol News, Dave Dexter, W oody Herman’s band, Barney Bi- Capitol Theater as the vocal star of Jr„ “ Jazz Cavalcade” w ill mark the first appearance o f a m a jo r v o lu m e gard and others appearing in brief the new October stage show which since the war interrupted publishing - anced formula dedicated to all phases of hot music scenes. A r t h u r L u b in is directing. also features Paul W hiteman’s or­ schedules nearly five years ago. chestra. The bill will probably hold Available in Foreign Lands, Too L j remedy the old Orson W elles, multi-talented Horace H eidt did a turnabout in for six solid weeks. adage that Sat­ “Jazz Cavalcade” will be Dexter’s urday afternoons are the dullest period genius and jazz fan of the first first book. According to Coldsen, who September and announced that he Doris Day, blonde Les Brown oriole, for radio listeners. Mobile loves him! water, has written the foreword to will distribute it throughout the United w ould resume as a bandleader in Febru­ left the band last month as planned and States to music and record stores as ary, w hen his long-term binder with “ jazz Cavalcade” and there also SHE LOOKS like anything but a remained in H’wood to work as a w ell as book shops, the opus also w ill MCA expires. Heidt hasn’t waved a will be included within its 16 chapters bullfiddle plucker. But that’s how be sold in at least eight foreign coun­ wand in a couple of years. single. Radio and film deals interest her. and 300 pages a section of unusual Vivian Garry operates— profession­ tries. The demand for American jazz Boffo Concert photographs of musicians and bands as ally, we mean — when she isn’t records and literature is incredible not Some 1,500 big and little shots at­ Dick Haymes returned to coast after well as a bibliography which is reputed sporting in the blue Pacific. V ivia n ’s cracking vaude marks in Boston. Mar­ only in Europe, Coldsen reports, but tended the “ press preview” of Capitol’s to be the most complete ever assembled. trio holds fo rth at B illy Berg’s n itery garet W hiting helped him ring up record also throughout South America and new b uilding a t Sunset and Vine on Season Slated in the heart of Hollywood. Has Colorful Jazz Background Sept. 6 , when it was formally opened. box-office takes. Australia in particular. Alfred Wallenstein opens the The publisher of “ jazz Cavalcade,” The highlight of the festivities was R M. H. Coldsen o f C riterion Books, also Buddy DeSylva’s return from a long Billy Eckstine causing big talk in 1946-47 season of the Los Angeles heads the tw in firm s o f Capitol Songs Cape Cod vacation. He’s chairman of Southern Cally as a result o f his local Philharmonic on Nov 14 with and Criterion Music. W ith the Dexter the Capitol board of directors. Johnny Harry James theater appearances. The guy kills the Nathan Milstein on deck as soloist. volume Coldsen now unshutters a third Mercer, Glenn E. Wallichs and Floyd A. chicks with his pipes. All concerts will be presented company, and one which he says will B itta k e r w ere o ffic ia l hosts. frequently be publishing books pertain­ Next at 'brook Dinah Shore and Frank Sinatra are during the coming season at the Phil­ harmonic Auditorium in downtown L.A. ing to music “if the manuscripts are Jess J. Carlin, fo r 21 years editor of airing their weekly radio commercials Following his brief tour of the One of the unusual features of the truly exceptional.” Orchestra World mag, winding up his every Wednesday via CBS from H’wood. South, Harry James w ill return to One follows the other. series will be the appearance of the It was Dexter who conceived and semi-annual stay in H’wood. San Francisco Symphony under the baton produced the four “ History of Jazz’’ | Culver C ity in O c to b e r to m o v e in to Yes, Bing Crosby is waxing scads o f of Pierre Monteux. albums for Capitol Records a year ago. Ella Mae Morse goes out on a theater the Meadowbrook w ith his band for transcribed programs under his new Irwin Parnes’ forthcoming series of He recently returned to Capitol as an tour in October, joining up with Freddy an engagement of four weekends Slack later for straight vaude appear­ Philco air contract. When he gets a concerts at the Wilshire-Ebell Theater editor and also to head up the jazz and following Benny Goodman's current run. dozen or so in the storage cans he w ill will present the Triana Spanish Ballet blues division of Capitol Records. In ances. Harry, still featured every Friday via cut out for a long vacation trip. on Nov. 22, Mischa Elman, Feb. 23; the 1930’s he worked with and wrote Mutual on the Coca-Cola program, will Tito Cuizar, March 21 ; Claudio Arrau, newspaper articles about numerous of A xel Stordahl spending all his spare introduce his new girl singer, Marion Charles Trenet, French baritone, made April 1 5, and Lawrence Tibbett, May 11. his fellow Kansas Citians, including tim e — and even a lot of his working Morgan, for the first time to Southern his west coast debut at Ciro’s. | artists like Andy K irk, Count Basie, time— sailing from Balboa to Catalina Still another series, the Behymer Cally audiences. Miss Morgan, a Tim Bennie and Buster M oten, Julia Lee, Jay and back. His new boat is one of the concerts, start Nov. 13 with the Don Gayle discovery from Detroit, has al­ B ill Anson, KFWB platter pilot, McShann, Benny W ebster, H ot Lips Page, fastest on the west coast. Cossack chorus at Philharmonic Aud. _____ ,eady completed a tour to New York turned singer to plug his own tune, M ary Lou W illiam s, Joe Turner, Pete PAT FLAHERTY is the lass whom Also to be heard are Lotte Lehman, “ You’re Cute.” Johnson and others who were perform­ Les Brown chose to replace Doris Tony M a rtin show and the David ^ s i c ^ ker* b u t is s t i l 1 Dorothy Maynor, Szigeti, Marian An­ ing thereabouts at the time. Since then Day in his band. She’s barely 18, Rose program , both CBS, faded from « ear locally. Buddy D eV ito continues derson, Casadesus, Tourel, the San Carlo handle male vocals and featured in­ Bob Hayden, former Benny Goodman he has edited “ Down Beat” and his own comes from Milwaukee and once was th e air. Opera troupe, Thebom and the Trudi strumentalists are Corky Corcoran, tenor, “ Note” magazine. His Tuesday night a star pitcher on the Sherwood and Bobby Byrne chanter, now in Schoop company. Pianist Artur Rubin­ and Willie Smith, alto. H’wood pursuing single career. jazz concerts (via records) on KFWB High School ball team. Bullets Dur- Russ Morgan held over at the Bilt- stein concludes the Behymer series in with Gene Norman have been a regular gom heard one of her test records, more Bowl u n til Jan. 15, 1947. May. feature of the Warner Brothers’ station played it for Brown, and the job It’s Jerry W ald Next Lillian Lane is fern sparrow with the UCLA and Pepperdine College also for two years. follow ed. M etro p u t Bronislau Kaper to work Tex Beneke band, soon to close a t Pal­ will present concerts on their respective ladium. scoring “ The Secret Heart.” At H’wood Palladium campuses this fall and winter. lfs Voung, black-haired Jerry Wald Baritone Bob Graham east to open at and his clarinet for the Palladium next. Loew’s State, N.Y., Oct. 3. ^ald and his musicians, playing their ------first date in California, w ill open Oct. 8 Slim Caillard’s trio set to play the following the current Tex Beneke’s stint. N.Y. Paramount Theater next winter. Spike Jones Signed M orty Corb and his “ Fourette” opened RKO’s “Varieties of 1947,” which at the new Casbah nitery on Figueroa. *arts shooting in January, w ill have a

Red Skelton “sings” in his next or two *n which Spike Jones’ lc ers will be seen. They w ere signed MCM film , “ Merton of the Movies. as month. Michel Kraike is producing. PACE 14

WOODY HERMAN: Avodon Ballroom. COUNT BASIE: Million Dollar Theater Oct. 15-21. HARRY JAMES: Meadowbrook. ^YH ILE BOX-OFFICE receipts have dropped in most phases of the RED NICHOLS: Club Morocco. dance business recently, western dances are still p la y in g to healthy PINKY TOMLIN: Trianon Ballroom. crowds in Southern California. From 20,000 to 30,00 0 dancers attend ERROLL CARNER: B illy Berg’s. RUSS MORCAN: Biltmore Hotel. western ballrooms every Saturday night in the Los A n g e le s area alone. CEECHIE SMITH: Down Beat Club. Tex Williams and his Western FREDDY MARTIN: Ambassador Hotel, Caravan took over the Palace Barn­ starting Oct. 8. JACK McVEA: Cobra Club. dance and after only six weeks they TEX BENEKE: Palladium. have built a big following. Spade JERRY W A L D : Palladium , starting Cooley’s new western outfit are Oct. 8. holding forth at the Santa Monica LES PAUL TRIO: The Rounders Club. Ballroom, on the shore of the Pacific SLIM CAILLARD TRIO featuring Zutty ocean, and Cooley keeps the floor Singleton: Billy Berg's. crowded. Down the coastline, at Re­ JESSE PRICE: Susie Q Club. dondo Beach, Texas Jim Lewis is click­ EDDY HOWARD: Casino Cardens start­ ing and Foreman Phillips (see photo) ing Oct. 4. has a hot thing in his county barn­ VIVIAN CARRY TRIO: Billy Berg’s. dances. Ray Whitley and Curley W il­ CHUY REYES: Mocambo. liams hold forth at Baldwin Park and MEADE LUX LEWIS: Club Cobra. Compton; in Maywood it is Oley Ras- HOLLYWOOD FOUR BLAZES: The mussam (and his Nebraska Cornhusk- Penthouse. ers) offering square dances to fat FOREMAN PHILLIPS, in four EMIL BAFFA: Florentine Cardens. crowds. MARVIN ASHBAUCH: Hangover Club. years, has parlayed his west coast western dances into a big business TEX WILLIAMS: Palace Barndance. Jack Rivers O ff to Cood Start JAN GARBER: Aragon Ballroom. Dave Ming’s 97th Street Corral proposition. In addition to promot­ MIKE RILEY: Swing Club. pushes out western music seven nights ing ballrooms Phillips has a large MANNY STRAND: Earl Carroll’s. a week with Red Murrell, Three Shift­ following over Stations KXLA and DON ROLAND: Casablanca. less Skunks, the Georgia Crackers, KRKD with his “Western Hit Pa­ T. Texas Tyler and also Tex Williams rade” shows. Born in Texas, he Trianon for Tomlin with the Western Caravan (three nights knows and loves music with a sage­ Pinky Tomlin’s band was to have fol­ weekly). Out in the good San Fernando brush touch. Every big name artist lowed Lionel Hampton’s at the Trianon Valley, the Painted Post with Happy in the field has, at one time or an­ • Now-your favorite recorded music Ballroom on Oct. 1. The Oklahoma Perryman and his gang bring the folks other, appeared w ith Phillips at his singer, who rang the bell just 1 0 years in for a good time. In Long Beach, Jack dances and on his airshows. wherever you go...Brilliant electronic ago with “The Object of My Affec­ Rivers’ new western dance band got off tions,’’ hasn’t played a major ballroom to a good start in September. hours every week o f recorded western reproduction — on shipboard — at the job in C alifornia in several seasons. Local stations offer more than 100 music and as many as 1 0 to 1 2 live ta le n t shows each day. Yessiree ... the beach-in the home—in camp, cottage western situation looks mighty healthy. Guthrie Leaving Service or hotel-room... C apitol this m onth brings out the P0LK&1 first release by Wally Fowler's Oak A flip of a switch changes from electric Ridge Q uartet, namely “ On the Jerico' Road” and “ Dese Bones Agwine to Rise to spring-wound motor. A turn of a A gain.” Both title s were actually re­ corded in Nashville; they are both true, knob converts amplifier from Alter­ a u th e n tic songs th a t the quartet sings nating or Direct Current to battery. regularly in m eeting houses and at con­ ventions throughout the land. Jack G u thrie’s newest release pairs Plays 10 or 12 inch records—with or “Chained to a Memory’’ with “I’m without power supply! T e llin g You.” Cuthrie comes out of the service shortly and is planning a series of personal appearances. Hamblen Returns to KFWB CHATTER: Hank Penny has disbanded his band and is now a permanent fea­ with Cowboy Bond ' - ture with Cooley down at the Santa ::»AU£/ TOLD you LATEly ~~~ Monica Ballroom . . . Stuart Hamblen IMMEDIATE returned to his many fans and listeners r J HATL l<>ve you on Station KFWB after an absence ot DELIVERY nine months .His talent has been misse 1 ™ •m tH YOU LEAVE DON'T SIAM THE DO Sunset and Vine and his return is making a great many CAP. 296 ...... »PITOl QUALITY ALL THE WAY from RernrjLinn to Ronmilnrtinit I Sec. 562, P. L. & R. *

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■0. PRIMED AND ready for his debut as a horn-tooting cians are enjoying a vacation b ut when the play opens on no actor in the forthcoming Arthur Hopkins stage play, “ Hear Broadway soon Bobby w ill double from the th e a te r to e lit- That Trumpet,” Bobby Sherwood takes a rib from Frances hotel and ballroom spots where his fine outfit is Per Clenn, who warbles with Sherwood’s band. Bobby’s musi­ form ing. — Photo by Charlie Mihn.