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Axel, June to Hearing Gag- About “Did You 'Orla Bring Vour Piano with You?”, Ibels 953 I.hirago. December 16, 195S i eht The Blindfold Test By Leonard Feather unes ■i bj New Tork—Billy Taylor, who terry haa been accustomed all his life Mn» It's Ella All the Way: Axel, June to hearing gag- about “Did you 'orla bring vour piano with you?”, ibels. finally found the real thing hap­ pening to him here last month. Axel Stordahl and June Hutton, benefit fur head tillable sound; you recognize the . It’s very interesting. 1 like though they are both mainly identi­ big alar» had fied nowaday*, with the worlde of band and the style as soon aa you everything except the vocal; it’s TV, radio, and recording, have a hear it. I think they’re Nea> Hefti’s sung out of tune. Instrumentally arrangements. Very goo I. I'd give I like it very much It’s not Nel­ of the who asked substantial background of dance him in un* whether band associations- -June as a form­ it four stare. JUNE: I'd say the son Kiddle, is it? JUNE: Those musicians singing get carried away hr had urrunged to have a onal- er member of the Pied Pipers, in spots. But the orchestration cer­ piano brought along. t Jim Axel as a man who grew Ui fame b. Ella Fitzgerald. I've Got a Crush When Billy confessed that he with Frank Sinatra in the Tommy tainly is interesting. AXEL: Three sing­ On You (Decca). With Ellis hail negligently left it home, Dorsey orchestra. and a half. JUNE: I’ll go for that. plain Larkins, piano. »omeone thrust an areordion at For their blindfold test the mate­ him Hi» protest» that he hadn’t rial was divided up between instru­ JUNE: Right away Cd »ay five Afterthoughts by Axel and touched mentals and vocals, but as so often Man. AXEI: (.re.it. Great, tour g M Juno vhoui happen- with married couples, und u half star*. JUNE: I give it accordiontot- e of there was very little conflict in five, bccuuM* I think JUNE: One of my most im­ V MGM broad«ant and alL He their reactions. Axel and June great««! ihre« to. There' portant standards is, I like diction. wan Mill under »edative» at sher were given no information what­ I like to hear what they’re saying. ever, either before or during the As far as favorites—-everyone in test, about the records played for accompaniment. JUNE: I liked the the business says the same thing. them. accompaniment. Mu really doesn't It ha- to be Ella. AXEL: When ei«n n>*ed u full hund. WEI.: Well, I first started in the business I Th» Records I mioRid il a little, but four and a thought Isham Jones had a won­ I. Claude Thornhill. Poor half »tar» mean» very good, doesn't derful band, As fai as my writing it ’ Okuv! Rich Girl (Trend). Arr. Gerry Ji is concerned, I was probably more 7, Sauter-Finegan Oreh. Coco influenced by classical composers uamt Mulligan. Ray Norman, tenor: Axel Stordahl, June Hulton —Ravel, Wagner, Richard Strauss Chicago- Th«- hird annual ‘Jazz Sonny Rich, trumpet. stars on account of Jo Jo sings it Bongo (Victor). Voca* by band. —those cats. Ravel more than any at Manuel Hall” concert will take JUNE: I haven’t the slightest just great. Frank ... I like Frank’s AXEL: (kidding) Nice lyrics! of them. place at that hall at the Univer­ idea who that wa^ but I’ll tell you singing but I think it’s a little sity of Chicago on Dec. 2 under the one thing. It took me a long time bit loo dramatic. Too many slur­ direction of Dr. S. I. Hayakawa, to figure out what the song was. rings of tne words for me. AXEL: Recording Stars Must Learn semanticist and 1«*« turer on jazz I like to hear more melody. AXEL. Jo is one of my favorite singers. Featured will be Lovie Austin, I thought the teno: solo kind of I’d give it four stars. Booker T Washington, Mama brought the thing down It got go­ Yancey, Muddy Waters, Little 4. Felicia Sanders. Embrmse (Co ing pretty good in the first chr rus. Nitery Ropes: Bob Manning Brother Montgomery, Cripple Olar JUNE: It’s just fair. I don’t like lumbia). With Percy Faith Orch. ence Lofton, and Mherg. who’ll all that wild playing. Two atars, AXEL: I don't know who it to. By Not Heirtoff give demonstrations of early jnu AXEL: Yes, two. JUNE i 1 don't know, either. Thr in Chicago. i piek aong to lair. AXEL: I liked the or­ New York — The morning On hand to aid in emceeing and 2. George Batsman. /'// Be Around producing will be Dan Burley, as­ i ahi» chestra. JUNE: I don't quite under­ after a sudden record hit, stand the word*. 1 guev it's French sociate editor ot Ebony and veteran We’re (MGM). many a young, inexperienced JUNEt I like that It’s a good for love or aonaething- But I jazzman. Suae AN El ,t Yeal: Aire Wilder » couldn't diatinguidi some of the vocalist begins to worry. TU Be irmutd. But I’U tell you, I word* anyway — diction could have “Now that I have access to the «blab it’s treated a little proton- been better. Just fair. AXEL: Two top elute and TV and high fees, tunee with lioual» for thia kind of a song. I and a half stars. JUNE: As far what will I uw for an act? Where ground at all. like the record on the. whole, but aa the aong to concerned, it's two. will I get the experience to per­ “In another room, the leader 1 didn’t ease foe that big fiatoh. form before show-wise audiences? apologised to me for the way he’d 5. Tommi mw. The Touch of What am I going to do?” I’U Bo Ârotutd to a very nice, easy Your i {Dacca). Arr. Neal ).>■>«!, but it *aa all right hecauee rthed. kind of melody. JUNE« 1 think HNa Those who haven’t come up with the people had already left. Then u The way intereatina, though. I'd asy Hefti. answers haw disappeared after there wm the man at the piano in three stars. AXELi Okay, three. AXEL: That’s Tommy, and 1 the one record. Others, like Capi­ a small towr. who turned tn me and think he’s got a great style here tol’s Bob Manning, begin the long said, ’What do you want from met 3. Jo Stafford * Frankie Laine. with this new sound. I don’t like learning process that will even­ I’m not a piano player.' I toM him litici Batin Street Blunt (Columbia). it as well aa the first one that tually malie them season'd per­ I knew. polk JUNE: Well that, of courae. ie came out—what was it called?— formers “He waa the one I asked for a i few one of the great songs, and I Tin Most Beautiful Girl In The 1-ram by Doing D flat arpeggio. You know, that would give this three and a half World. But it’s a wonderfully iden- “Many people,” Bob says, “put was the only tuns I’ve Branded down young singers bm aiiM- of their like Bobby Breen.“ lack of thorough professional skill Tht in elute, but they don’t realise that they haven't had a chance to Bob Maaataa nnpta learn There’s no olchi-m k to make expected to go over 200,000- His Tony you good overnite. There’s no latest. Ifo Eary to Remember, to rroup he’d better not expect too much at­ school except by doing.” also doing well. Yet Manning has tention And he’d be fooBah to say ter, s Bob’s first record for Capitol, not accepted all the offers that Mt 0Í «•mething derogatory about the The Nearness of You, was re- have come his way aa a result of noise, or it’ll get worn. Duly a leas<Ml in March and its sales are the recorda good comic ean successfully kid aa “There are some rooms I ve audience about inattention. You 'uraed down b»-«tau9i- I don’t think just have to try to overcome it. I’m ready for them yet I’m not “In terms of promotion, the disc even thinking in terms of regular jockeys are real important. I’ve TV shows or films until I’ve had had between 160 and 400 disc more experience. I don’t want to jnekvy intr-v,».» mi the lust be rushed. nine months. They're responsible “Man, You Learn!” for Nearness. They also write in "And, man, you learn. I reeer t- and suggest 'unes to record, most­ K* did a weekend at a elub in ly old standards I’m flattered at MOUTHPIECE mnsylvania. After an hour’s re­ their interest, because they’ve hearsal. the four musicians on the nothing to gain from it. FOI date could only make one tune. 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