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G€rE Lrc Ad Libitwm e" Jazzletter PO Box 240, O)ai CA 93024-0240 of jazz and swing, of Basie and Duke. night-"1 Knights of the London House want this music to connect with that audience and not just other musicians."And again he excoriated the new Swing Part II Groups. The tour was to be called Swing Magic. Almadon Produc- and set an itinerary. The tour was to I remembered the Peterso n albtm Motions turd Emotions, tvith tions printed brochures two days of rehearsal in Ottawa affangements by Claus Ogerman, whose work did not come beginseptember 16, after historic Chateau Laurier hotel ' Then cheap. A large orchestra was assembled in the studio' Oscar urd u p"rfot ance at the Vancouver. San Francisco, tried out the piano, said, "l don't like the box,"and walked it woutd proceed to Toronto, all the performances taking out. leaving all those musicians, who had to be paid under Chicago, ind New York, with An extra performance union contract, sitting there. Hans Georg Bruner-Schwer, who place in historic hotels and ballrooms' New York schedule, with profits was producing the album for his MPS label, was stuck with was eventually added to the fund for the Apollo Theater' the very considerable costs' Fortunately for him, he was able to go to a restoration report on the formation of the to record the orchestra and then overdub Peterson later in N.*.pup".s continued to In The Toronto Star, Germany. But Oscar was capable of such cruel caprices, and tour with almost breathless anticipation' "the event has the musical I remembered it.
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