AD LIB ter in . The theater’s man^ Ain Ric (Continued from page 10) ment was hard pressed to prevent aa- The Stai CAUGHTIN THE ACT voices finally produced an obscenity other riot when Charles failed to appear jhim ot I after a chorus by the late Lester Young. at the first two shows of his one-week a early Ji CAROL SLOANE The album has been withdrawn from run. Charles and six others were » Wan in Red Hill Inn, Camden, N. J. the market, a new version has been is­ rested in a narcotics raid that produced blitonist J In an era of gospel-rooted “soul sued and customers may exchange the no narcotics but did turn up two ft. Itb Fit/pa sisters,” it is refreshing to find a singer first album fot the second if they wish. caliber revolvers. Charges against the nd Kento with taste—an ingredient many of the Straight Away, a newly planned tele­ singer were dismissed. kiabofc re new crop lack. Carol Sloane is an ex­ vision production, has musical back­ Composer-singer-playwright Oscw skating the ceptional singer in that she knows the grounds by Maynard Ferguson . . . Brown Jr.’s satirical play Kicks d Co. Dritivn Sm value of understatement. Where many Chubby Jackson began an ABC-TV pro­ is scheduled to be world-premiered at Kitten a n of her contemporaries shoot off into gram in late July for teenagers. The McCormick Place Sept. 27. The cast has (Mg Arr meaningless musical paths in their over­ program features a 17-piece band not been announced ... Sarah Vaugh«, a own N enthusiasm, Miss Sloane is as effective and will present teenage musical groups according to Ravinia Park Festival of­ nd by G. with the notes she doesn’t sing as with from time to time ... In London, Mel ficials, was forced to cancel her Aug. 9 tr took hi those she does. And, incredibly, she Tonne told a television association that and 10 appearances at that north-sheet Town Hill sings in tune. U. S. radio and television is ridiculous park because of illness. She was to he Weis broki The girl is a rarity for the 1960s in and then attacked his British hosts for hospitalized. ’s band wi ¡ag vocal is that her roots are in the bands. following suit . . . Tony Bennett and go on without her. tn Beach's If Miss Sloane has a fault, it is her Jimmy DePriest talked of painting, clas­ Things seem to be going Eddie Hig­ dudes also tendency to do just a little too much sical music, and jazz on ’s gins' way finally. The pianist, with bass­ M Smith. scatting, which, incidentally, she does WCAU-TV last month ... All that Jazz, ist Richard Evans and drummer M» ... Pianis very well. Like Sarah Vaughan, she an hour-long situation comedy—no one shall Thompson, took Audrey Monk’ with Assoc has excellent control over a voice of knows how much of any of it will allude place as the five-night-a-week house Waikiki B unusual quality. Despite her innate good to jazz—begins filming at the MGM group at the London House. Besides this Honolulu, taste, she occasionally lets out a Vaugh- studios in the fall. Italian radio plays a extra exposure, Higgins’ first album ■ bus and T anish swoop that rubs the wrong way. taped jazz series by Dave Brubeck twice scheduled for mid-August release by three retun If she does this to show that she can, —once in English and then with an Vee Jay ... Trumpeter his bet. all well and good, but the device should Italian announcer translating the Bru­ left ’s Jazz Messengers to George ! be used infrequently. This is a criticism beck script furnished to each station. front his own group. The tentative per­ coast in F< aimed on a strictly musical considera­ Two new members of the Herbie sonnel includes Cliff Jordan, tenor saxo­ LA. tion. Commercially, apparently, such Mann Afro-Jazz Sextet are vibist Ha­ phone, and , drums. S vocal tricks are valuable in the current Bassist Connie Milano is now with the good Hardy and bassist Ahmad Abdul- Cal Tjad market. Bob Scobey band, working at Bourbon Malik, who also plays oud ... The Sept. Scriber, for Miss Sloane is at her sensitive best St. . . . Composer-arranger Bill Rum 3 concert in the Lenox Music Bam will new drumn on the old jazz chestnuts like My Funny came back to his Chicago home late in be by Chris Connor, backed by the Ron­ with Geor Valentine and Little Girl Blue. She July to dispose of several personal busi­ nie Ball Trio and Coleman Hawkins. conga drun shows she can swing on Harry Edison’s ness matters before leaving for Italy. Les McCann returned from a short cousin, Juai Centerpiece (borrowed from Lambert- Russo and his wife expect to stay in European tour, including the festival at nd Sonny Hendricks-Ross during a short stint as Rome for about nine months. Antibes . . . Trumpeter Cat Anderson Sugar Hill a sub for Annie Ross) and displays a returned to the Duke Ellington band ... dub gig in feel for the on Coffee and Cake. LOS ANGELES Trumpeter Yank Lawson will handle the been runnii Bob Bonis and the Willard Alexander Frank Sinatra’s forthcoming picture, bookings for Jazz Horizons, a new or­ Essex Productions’ Swing Along With special sess agency have been grooming her care­ ganization that will set up musical LC Doug fully for some time waiting for the right Me, will feature the resurrected Tommy shows. The first production will be a band Sinatra sang with during Irmd and moment It came at Newport in July Dorsey pilot tape of a Gerry Mulligan show. the early 1940's. By no coincidence the continue as and she followed her hit appearance said he expects to tour film bears the same title as the singer's Concerts there with a Red Hill date in which this fall, playing the Freedom Now she showed she knows her way around new album on Reprise records and Si­ by Keeley Si suite, on nationwide dates sponsored by natra will star in the musical. tiled for Au in front of a jazz room mike. the NAACP. The tour would include Santa Monica municipal court granted Sluff Smith A subject which causes much debate vocalist , plus Cliff Jor­ an extension until Sept. 22 to the Syna- Jan Festiv is whether or not Miss So-and-So or dan, Richie Williams, Julian Priester, non Foundation for a new hearing on •. . Arrar Mr. This-or-That is a jazz singer. If and Ray McKinney . . . Jazz writer anyone is, Carol Sloane is a jazz singer. the narcotics rehabilitation center’s tech­ Ftmk D’R< Ralph Berton is part of the production nical violation of a city zoning ordi­ breakway s She thinks and phrases like a musician staff of the fall-scheduled Monte Pros­ nance that threatens to close it up. The KHIP is and has superior time. But she should ser-produced adaptation of Puccini’s elapsed time will also allow the new motes; so is not restrict her activity to the all-too-few opera, La Boheme. The adaptation will California law legalizing Synanon to go The Limeli jazz rooms. feature “beat score and libretto," Berton into effect... Rupert Branker, 25-yeir- vacation .. Give this singer a properly handled said, and will be titled Like, La Boheme. record date (without a behind old pianist with the Platters vocal group, her to drown her out) and she can make CHICAGO was beaten to death after a party in La * the San a lot of noise in the music business. There’s one thing to say about Ray Angeles July 3. Robbery was not the ■d Tommy With the right kind of breaks, she Charles fans—they are a passionate motive for the murder, police said. ^ncntal Lo< could crack the tight little circle of group. Last month in Atlantic City, N.J., Leonard Feather has teamed with ft Tea Bei “jazz singers” who dominate the field. the singer's followers rioted when he Yelin, former a&r man with Capitol, ■ *reo pad A trio led by drummer Dave Levin failed to appear on time (he was four a production organization to service in Oct< supplied adequate backing for the young hours late—a recording session, he said, record companies in New York and La ■aed the I singer. In less fortunate times. Levin caused his tardiness). A week after the Angeles. The new firm, Model Muse hi Skip V backs boy wonder Fabian of the rock- Atlantic City rhubarb, Charles and his Co., will produce both pop and ■houghout and-roll set.—Dave Bittan IPW band were booked into the Regal Thea­ LPs on assignment, the first set being