ance Biz Needs Younger Leaders: De Franco By LEONARD MATHER New York—“Do vou know what the trouble is? The band« leader* are too old!” Diseuasing the musical state of the na« don, Buddy DeFranco made this statement aa he arrived in New York to in. “Back in names,” continued Buddy, “they Ventura Junks CHICAGO. MARCH 9. 1951 were still in their 20s. “They were all young enough to have with the Ork For Combo younger set, and they were the ones who influenced the school and college kids toward better musical To Go On Tour uke Flays NAACP For ideas. What Iboul Kids? Philadelphia- -Charlie Ventura, who has bee> putting in time as s “But what about the kids who roadhouse nitery owner nearby as are 19 or 20 toda< They were well nu providing • h me base for alting Richmond Concert four or five year* olc when Good- his hand, ha* junked the big band man and Basie hit. They don’t in favor of a five-pier« combo. ► rniiauripnia— i ne nirnmono, v u., niuunsi »Muciauuny remember the hysteria of those Ventura several months ago days, the wild excitement about for the Advancement of Colored People chapter, which bought tiie inetime Overbrook Vil­ swing. la at nearby Lindenwold, NJ., and ruined Marian indemon’s concert there on Jan. 16 and “We’d like to bring back that has been operating it as the Open canned Duke Ellington to cancel hie concert there the follow« feeling,” added the poll-winning House cafe. clarinetist, who celebiated his 28th With th« five-piece combo, for birthday Feb. 17 “I don’t want to which trumpeter Conte Candoll re­ boast that we can bring the music joined the «axist, Venturu offers Source Of Bird, business back, but we’d like to a fivetet of vocalists in the re­ Although the backer* of the swing business, create turned Betty Bennett and the boycott said the move was against same kind of fervor that was there mixed hai monies of the Overtones th« segregation policy at the Dizzy Bootleg before. quartet. In spite of the rural set­ Mosque there, and not agum.l the “We want to give the kids some­ ting in the Jersey pines, the jazz Negro artists caught ii the web, thing they can nang their hats on set has found little trouble in find- Duke, wb.i was hit by the boycott Discs A Mystery —bring young music to young peo threat while in town for u date New York—Latest development pie and start a modern idioir that ing ’em from inilea around for at the Click nitery, complained in the bootleg record situation is they can grow up with, instead of some of the greatest jazz heard "Why do they have to wait until the appearance of six sides labeled trying to recreate a 1935 or 1940 in this territory. we sign a contract to start such “The Black Deuce” with the <ap- product in 1951. Benny was and Ventura will take leave the first activities?” tion ‘A Night at Carnegi« Hall always will be a great musician, of April, leaving the nitery >pera r The maestro flayed the Rich with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie but his era is a remote thing to tinn to members of his family, and mond chapter for its “vicious” Parker.” these kids, and even Flanagan ia take in n 16-week tour with his no chicken. I don’t mean we want combination ot five instruments stand in boycotting Marian Ander­ Both Dizzy und Bird state that and five voices. son’s concert. they were not paid for the release to push the older guys out of the of any such records. Disc jockey way, but there’s room for the “Nobody wants to cross ■ picket younger element, too, among the line and get hurt; it just isn’t the Symphony Sid reports that he re­ thing to do,” said the Duke. “I ceived the records from Teddy bandleaders themselves.” Sarah Vaughan Reig, but stopped playing them don’t know why they pick out a < oidd Be Man Negro’s investment and destroy when he found out they were not clean-d with the musicians It would seem that Buddy is it, hut not the whites’. Just a mat­ To Tour Europe ter of procedure, and I don’t agree volved. just the man to represent that on anybody’s segregation. The date und details of the younger element, No great new New York—Sarah Vaughan’s tual concert and how poll-winning jazz instrumentalist ••ft« n-rumored European jaunt has "Those people iRiihmond NAA­ recordings were obtained remain has startea a big band in wars, finally been set. CP) are Id people living all their a mysterj which lawyers for Park­ which they were presented, were with the sole exception of Dizzy But instead of going into the Fees in filth and dirt. What about er and Gillespui are investigating. tendered irooner Perry Como Gillespie, and, as Buddy comments, Palladium in Ixmdon as have most the toilets and water fountain in The tunes, which are not even recently by a pleaded RCA Vic­ “bop just missed the cue -in gen­ colored waiting looms, why don’t listed on the labels, include several tor. Singer Monica lewis gives eral the fault was an attempt to they d<> something about that? copyrights of Leeds Music Corp., Perry a r ongrelulatory peck in make too much of a commercial open in August for a four-week Why pick on entertainment invest­ whose lawyers also plan to «top honor of the occasion. Tne four gimmick out of it; there were too stay at London’s swank Colony ments ? further distribution of the discs. lop Como disco, each of which many hop-inongers in the business club. “This thing was un investment Teddy Reig, former Savoy a. sold over ■ million copies, were end.” Other bookings in England and of ?4 ihiii for one night. Tim>- «re and r. man now with Roost rec­ Prisoner of Love; When You A couple of years ago Buddy on the Continent are now being ords, was not avnilable for com­ Were Sweet Sixteen; Hubba, made an abortive attempt to start I'lgntisted G* rgv Treadwell, highest paid musicians in the ment at presstime. Hubbn. Hubba, and Because. a big band via u Capitol record Sarah’s husband-manager, will ac­ world, nobody gets loot like my date. The four side* were never company her on the trip. men. Just think of paying the rail­ released, and Buddy has attempted road fare.« for al) of tne group, Decca, Lionel Split; Firm Sets to buy back the master of the one including entertainers, dancers, aid«- that did turn out reasonably BG Assembles well, a George Russell original ‘‘They should have some system called Bird in Igor’s Yard. But he Sextet In L.A. set up for these sort of things, and IPs Of Hamp, Louis Concerts says Capitol wants more money people should be warned in .id- than he can afford f«r it. Hollywood — Benny Goodman vanee. It has ened before, •ut together his new sextet here to it’s nothing new. is very cost- New York — Lionel Hamp>^ “That was one attempt at pion­ head the show he waa booked to ton left Decca early thia monti eering that I never should have headline at El Rancho Vegas, Las regated audience» at the Rich­ made.” he recalls. “Then I did the Vegas, starting Feb. 14. mond auditorium. It’s disgraceful after 10-year association Granz To Europe; small-band date with a Shearing­ Lineup of ace sidemen contained to do such a thing to a great sing­ with that firm, No word at type quintet. That was a stupid Paul Smith, piano; Johnny White, thing; if people want that kind of er and person lik< Marian Ander writing js to what company he’ll “““ ------- liter; Billy ton. On one occasion they gave her now join. Sets Up Concerts music they’ll buy Shearing. The two best sides from that date, an forty Corb, an award. Decca, however. New York—Nurmu-i Gianz flew “The law has been thr re all th* original of Teddy Cohen’s and vne Nancy Reed wm signed to do lease a 10-inch LP of Hamp’s to Copenhagen Jan 20 to start a of mine, never came out ” time. What do they do the rest of 1947 Pasadena Civic auditorium two-week tour in which he hoped vocals with the sextet, which, It the year when Negro artists do jam Mission, spotting stars like to finalize deals for thi European Joined Baaie was understood, will appear strict­ not go there? This only happen* Charlie Shavers, Willie Smith, jaunt of his Jazs at the Philhar­ ly as a musical feature in the when they come. They don't ooy- After trying unsuccessfully to Corky Corcoran, Barney Kessel monic unit. keep the quintet together, Buddy snow and not a* a dance combo. cott Tommy Doracy and the sym­ .ind Slam Stewart Granz expected to visit Frank­ phony, and th* Negroes are al­ joined Count Basie in January One entire side is levoted to furt, Milan, Geneva, Zurich, Paris, 1950 and spent what he describee lowed to attend. Stardust, the other to Man I Love as “the freest musical period of “It’* tough when we aie planned a trip to London, in an New York -Farmer Gena Kru­ knocked down by our own people. Apparently stirred by the suc­ my life” working for Count. “I effort to conclude arrangements got everything I «ranted to play, pa vocalist Dolores Hawkm* has Our concert in New York gave cesses of the Benny Goodman Car­ with the British musicians union been added to Perry Como’s TV the national «flier of the NAACP negie hall LP und the J ATP al­ and of course Basie has never whereby hi* group inigh' break failed to have a swinging group.