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Top left : US singerGuy Mitchell, whoarrived here thisweek to open at theLondon Palladium,for a fortnight fromMonday next. Topright: Mike Daniels'Band serenadesTower Bridge, in thefirst of the fortnightly" Rhythm on theRiver " trips lastSunday. Centre right:Happy opening ofIvor Kirchin's Man-hattan Club. (1. to r.seated) Cab Kaye,Phil Moore, Ivor Kir-chin. Standing,Jimmy Walker andBenny Lee. Bottomleft: French nation-als celebrate July 14in appropriate cos-tume at ChelseaTown Hall. Bottomright: LusciousMarion Davis, whocan be heard singingevery Friday nightwith Ambrose and

his Orchestra.

2 THE NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS

Deal SiftForeign Orchestras and Musi-cians. Jazz Concerts-June 28

and 30.THANK you for publishing the

statement we prepared. Icould spend a lot of time com-menting upon what appears inthe same issue ; but the neces-sary time is not available.

One point may be of some im-portance ; and I mention it be-cause it is my impression thatto journalists facts are sacred.

Your editorial column headed" Scapegoats" includes thestatement that " Musicians whowere ready to play were gladlyaccepted ; most of them wereMU members." A statement ofthis kind should not be madewithout evidence.

I do not know whether thereis any list available of the musi-cians who were "ready to play"or of those who were "gladlyaccepted." Certainly only asmall proportion of those whoappeared on the platform, oractually played were membersof the Union,

It should not be overlookedthat Union membership is oftenclaimed by non-members ; andit is quite possible that someclaimed it at the Jazz Concertsto support the " line " that mem-bers were ignoring Union in-structions. In fact, very few didSO.

HARDIE RATCLIFFE,General Secretary, M.U.

Sicilian Avenue,Southampton Row, W.C.1.

6 Is Jazz Dying ?

THEstage has gone a little

further than dying ; we'realmost to the point of embalm-ing-that is as far as commer-cial proposition is concerned.Whether it dies or not matterslittle to the musician who playsto vent his own feelings, audi-ence or no audience. If follow-ers are needed before it can beplayed, then let's cease callingit art at all.

The reasons then for the pre-sent state of affairs can be laidon several doorsteps - firstly,the musician, with his couldn't -care -less -blast -the -fan attitude.I'm sure the club -goer realisesthat it is nothing short of amiracle that he's there at all ;whether he plays or talks aboutthe weather matters little.

Then the non-playing critics,with power of pen tell us allwhat we must do if we are tosurvive at all, and in the

attempt cut everybody's throat,their own included.

One such critic -cum -compereof a well-known West End jazzhaunt (in this case a modernone) brought dawn from thenorth what he called a " newdiscovery " (you must play inLondon before you are " dis-covered") to blow with the resi-dent trio at the aforesaid club.

After it was all over, " ourfriend " apologised to the "poorunfortunate " about the treat-ment and welcome handed outquite freely from the t'rio'sleader. In his own words : " Asfar as ... is concerned this clubis a closed shop."

Yet hardly a week had goneby before "our deliverer" askedin his weekly "gab" where thenew blood was and why out oftown jazzmen refuse London ? Iwonder if he still pretends hedoesn't know.

Next, the fans who see in jazza kind of teenage escapism.Their attempt to "go backward"has resulted in sandals andbeards, or "going forward" andscreaming at a distorted beat.This has resulted in jazz takingthe place in art that the trailerholds in modern cinema,

So while people think of jazzin these terms, we must acceptthe hand of fate as it is. In themeantime, jazzmen will stillplay and enjoy their music, car-ing little for goatees, typewrit-ers, sandals or screams.

DOUG PROUDLEYThe Doug Proudley Trio,

Club Meurice, W.11.Kensington Park Road, W.11.

Praise for BasilT'M sure there are a great many1- modernists who will agreewith me when I say that BasilKirchin is the greatest moderndrummer we have.

I have yet to hear a Britishdrummer with such a fine beat,and sense of rhythm, and theenthusiasm he shows whileplaying must almost be un-equalled.

F. B. DODSON.Rom Crescent,

Rush Green Road, Romford.

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formation to NME readers, par-ticularly in Yorkshire.

The Palace Cinema, Heck-mondwike, are presenting onAugust 1 and 2, a Republic Pic-ture which should be of greatinterest to jazz and pop fansalike.

The title is "Chance of Heart"and features the bands of CountBasie, Ray McKinley andFreddy Martin, with specialitiesby The Golden Gate Quartetand Dorathy Dandridge.

I might add that furtherattractions of interest to read-ers will be showing from timeto time at this cinema so if any-one would like to write me Iwould be only too glad to letthem know details and dates.

DONALD HAIGH.11, Crossley Terrace,

Upper Mount Street,Batley, Yorks.

What is Jazz ?AT the present time. there are

numerous conceptions as towhat is Jazz. To some, only themusic played up to 1927 or '28 isthe true Jazz. Others believethat nothing before the '30s and

and exciting proposition to me.If the experiments come off,

then everyone will jump on theband waggon to shout " I toldyou so ". Maybe bongoes etc.,wouldn't have helped Dodds,Noone, Bix and Berigan, butthat is not our concern; theywere greats with what they had.In the case of British Jazz,there's no such thing, or at leastvery Lyttel. Here then is achance to make a genuine con-tribution to the evolution ofJazz.

I don't think HumphreyLyttelton or Wally Fawkes aregimmickers. I do think that astwo of Britain's leading jazzmenthey know what they are doing,and where they are going.

Maybe they will mix a Latin-American cocktail that willprove very palatable.

ALAN JACKSONCumberland Avenue,Gravesend.

Take your partner by the hand,Step out to the Winstone Band,At square-dancing, they're the champAt the Clacton Butlin's Camp !

nothing after '39 can be calledJazz

Then we have those of us whothink that Jazz began when thelast war started. Doubtlessthere are a few, who are stillanticipating the birth of Jazz.

Regardless of all these flutter -brained fanatics, and myopic -minded morons, jazz began (sowe are told) around the turn ofthe century, and has beenaround ever since. Quite simpleisn't it, or is it?

Let us consider just how longjazz would have survived, ifthere had been no developments,branch -offs and progressions, noEllington. Armstrong. Hender-son, Basie, Parker or Herman,even Whiteman and Ted Lewis,for they showed the way thatJazz shouldn't develop. With-out these evolutionary periods,Jazz would have become stag-nant and meaningless.

In spite of this, there remainmany " knowledgeable " Jazzcritics who refuse to accept pro-gress if it doesn't match theirpersonal conceptions of Jazz.Hector Stewart seems to havejoined this unimaginative gi oupof people, qualified by his attackon the application of Latin-American rhythms to traditionalJazz (NME 4/7/52).

Hector accepts the fusion ofmodern Jazz and Latin-Ameri-can rhythms yet rejects theattempts of Humphrey Lyttel-ton's group to apply the samerhythms to traditional Jazz,Why? Surely this is a develop-ment that could revive the flagg-ing interest in traditional Jazz.

Using the traditional melodicand harmonic forms with aLatin-American rhythmicalfoundation sounds an interesting

A Shot -in -the Armfor Dance Music

IWAS interested to read theletter you published last

week (NME July 4) from Mr.B. Bunyard, and his suggestedboycott of British bands, recordand jazz clubs, in an effort toinduce the authorities to let theAmerican and other foreignmusicians into this country toplay.

Well, I suppose this might be

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one way of doing it-if enoughpeople joined in the BunyardProtest Movement, but person-ally I think the only way is forthe British musicians them-selves to do something about itwith their Union. After all, ifall the Union members attendedthe meetings as they are sup-posed to do, and voiced theirdisapproval of the existing ban(or would it be approval?) thensurely they could bring the mat-ter to a head so that the Unionas a body would have to recon-sider the whole question.

I am a working musician andtherefore mix with manyUnion members. Frankly I havebeen most surprised to hearnearly everyone I have spokento say that they would like tosee the best bands and soloistsfrom the USA allowed to comeinto the country to work; thatthey do not consider this wouldcreate unemployment, butrather that the fillip such visitswould give the music industryas a whole would quickly re-create a keen interest every-where-in dance halls, theatres,clubs, and thus bring nothingbut benefits to the British pro-fessional musicians.

It seems others, like myself,remember the days when wehad Duke Ellington, Louis, andothers here, and what a " shot -in -the -arm " the music busi-ness got from their short visits !

F. G. CRANE.Old Steyre,

Brighton.

Rush to DefendSo A. S. Maybury didn't think

George Brown's type ofmusic " was what the modernspaid to hear." Beina a modernfan myself, I would like to rushto the defence of (1.-orge Brown.I think his performance wasvery good indeed.

If it wasn't for men likeGeorge Brown, Mr. Maybury,there may have been no con-cert at all.

H. E. COOPER.Shroffold Road,

Downham, Bromley.

Underdone ?To say that " Jazz in England

is dying " is like saying :" After two minutes take thesteam pudding out of the oven."

MONTY SUNSHINECrane River Jazz Band

Colvestone Crescent,London, E.8.

BAND CALL Week beginning July 18

WINIFRED ATWELLWeek, Regal Cinema, Great Yar-mouth.

CARL BARRITEAU AND HIS BANDTonight (Friday), Belle Vue, Man-chester. Saturday, NCO's Club, Brize

"-Norton. Monday, Crystal Ballroom,Dublin. Tuesday, Palladium Ballroom,Port Rush. Wednesday, Town Hall,Irmah. Thursday, Eldorado Ballroom,Oldcastle. Friday, Town Hall, Killar-ney.

TITO BURNS SEXTETTonight (Friday), Astoria Ballroom,Nottingham. Saturday, NCO's Club,Fairford. Sunday, South Parade Pier,Southsea. Thursday, Gaiety Ballroom.Grimsby. Friday, Coronation Ball-room, Belle Vue.

TEDDY FOSTER ORCHESTRATonight (Friday), NAAFI Club, Ply-mouth. Sunday, Essoldo Cinema,Newcastle. Friday, Royal Star Hotel,Maidstone.

ROY FOX ORCHESTRATonight (Friday), Pavilion, Exmouth.Saturday, Winter Gardens, Weston -super -Mare.

HARRY GOLD AND HIS PIECES OFEIGHT

Tonight (Friday), Saturday, Green'sPlayhouse, Glasgow. Sunday, Mon-

day, Beach Ballroom, Aberdeen. Tues-day, Eldorado Ballroom, Leith.Wednesday, Heads of Ayr Hotel, Ayr.Thursday, Ice Rink, Falkirk. Friday.Ice Rink, Kirkcaldy.

JOE LOSS ORCHESTRASeason, Villa Marina, Douglas.

SID PHILLIPS AND HIS BANDTonight (Friday), Exeter. Saturday,Corn Exchange, Kings Lynn. Sunday,Winter Gardens, Morecambe. Mon-day, Grafton Rooms, Liverpool, andweek.

RALPH SHARON SEXTETSeason, Pier Pavilion, Weymouth.

SQUADRONAIRESSeason, Palace Ballroom, Douglas.

BILLY TERNENT ORCHESTRASeason, Butlin's, Filey.

ERIC WINSTONE ORCHESTRASeason, Butlin's, Clacton.

RAY ELLINGTON QUARTETTonight (Friday), Saturday, LocarnoLeeds. Sunday, Adam Smith Hall,Kirkcaldy. Monday and.week,Locarno, Glasgow.

FREDDY RANDALL BANDTonight (Friday), Saturday, SeaburnITall, Sunderland. Sunday, Monday,Nottingham. Tuesday and week,Scaburn Hall, Sunderland.

FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1952. 3

THE chopper has fallen yet once again ondrummer -leader Alan Kane's Band, at the

Café Anglais in Leicester Square. The Managementhave decided to do some economising, as a result ofwhich George Chisholm, trombone and piano, isnow working under notice.

PLEASEDto be able to render a slight service to

Ronnie Keen (whose wife, Marion Davis,is now singing with Amorose over the air). In tneofficial lviushaans' Union handbook, Ronnie's ad-dress and phone numoer are given incorrectly, andas he is free-lancing now, ioLowing a spell withEric Winstone and Ken Mackintosh, a teiephoneis most important to his livelihood. Correct numberis Tudor 5247.

TROMBONISTJimmy Wilson, now on tour with

Jack Parnell's Band, is due to leave shortly totake over the trombone chair in Lew Stone's Band.

Jimmy says he'll be sorry to leave Jack's finenew band, but is looking forward to a job whichmeans no travelling, and which will give him timeto lower his already formidable golf handicap.

AT the Ambrose broadcast rehearsal last FridayI had a chat with latest arrival from Canada,

trumpeter Ellis McLintoch. Back in Toronto, Ellis isa pretty busy fellow, does a stack of radio work,and is able to maintain a wife, two children, a largehouse and a new Pontiac automobile.

Don't want to be pessimistic, Ellis, but thereain't any trumpet players over here who can man-age those luxuries! Good luck to you, anyway, ifyou decide to stay here!

* * *IF the boys on the Braden show do not sound their

usual merry selves over the air this week, youmight like to knew that owing to Bernie Bradenbeing commissioned to make a new film, BBC pro-ducer Pat Dixon had to have the programme re-corded on Sunday morning. and made the " call "for nine o'clock-a.m. that is!

Bad enough if you live in town, but for the boyswho live further out-oh, brother!

SEQUEL to the story I told you last week, con-cerning drummer Bobby Kevin, who went for

a swim but had to change a flat tyre in OxfordStreet instead.

Well, on the way home that very same evening,Bobby had reason to get out of his car, and to hishorror discovered his boot door was missing. Rea-lising that it must have dropped off en route, heabout-faced and went back in search of it.

Nothing happened until he reached WestminsterBridge, where to his dismay he witnessed a " help-ful gentleman " heaving said boot door over thebridge and into the Thames!

If you see a blue Hillman saloon, minus a coverfor its boot-that'll be Bob's.

* * *CURPRISED to learn from trombonist George" Rowe the other day that for some strange rea-son, many, many people seem to think he left " thebusiness " when he left the Skyrockets at the Lon-don Palladium.

I hasten to make it known to all and sundry, onGeorge's behalf; that he has not and did not leavethe profession, and is still very much in it. At themoment he's on tour with the Ray Martin -DannyKaye show.

SEVERAL of the boys on this tour (Eric Breeze,Jack Bentley, Dave Shand, and one or two

more) took the opportunity whilSt in Newcastle todrop in to say hello to George Evans, resident atthe Oxford Galleries.

They've all come back with the news that Georgehas a pretty sensational band building up there-nine saxes. four trumpets, one trombone, fourrhythm-and should make a welcome addition tobands to listen to, very soon now.

Saxes get some interesting " doubles "-fourtenors and five baritones, and all that sort of thing.Trust George to make full use of tone -colour in hisarrangements. When do we get to hear this bandover the air, I wonder?

BRIGHTEST bit of news to hit the NME officeson Monday was when jazz -page writer Jimmy

Asman dropped in, looking very bronzed, toquietly tell all and sundry that over the week -endhe visited a nudist camp for the first time . .. andthoroughly enjoyed it!

He went along with some friends, and in no timeat all was swimming in a fine natural pool, andsunbathing. Says the funniest thing is that it isextremely difficult to recognise anyone there-justas if everybody wore exactly the same colourclothes in the street! Something in that, come tothink of it!

RAN into that well-known drummer Max Abramsa day or so ago, and he tells me he is kept

very busy these days teaching the younger genera-tion to become proficient drummers, in additionto his freelance BBC work.

Max has just moved to a new house in Hamp-stead, and before he left his old address, threw afarewell party for his next door neighbours, Afterdinner Max's " neighbours " - ballerina MoiraShearer and her writer -husband Ludo Kennedy,

4ANNINIWINNW~IPMIWMINP,

Wimbledon Pala isbandleader K e nMackintosh takes hisplace in our series ofMusical Celebritiesand their cars. Ken isseen here with hisOpel convertible, a 12hp car which cruisesnicely at between 50and 60 mph. It isfinished in metallicgreen, with matchingupholstery, and has aradio fitted as an extra.

adjourned to the Music Room where they joinedin a Lavin -American jam session. Moira quicklylearned how to manipulate maraccas, tambourineand guiro; while her husband (who has alwaysnursed a secret ambition to be a drummer) per-formed nobly on drums, tom-toms and bongoes.

* * *STOOD on the steps of Aeolian Hall, in company

with the cream of the session boys, and acouple of 'bandleaders when a smart and sportily -attired gentleman approached, making a dignifiedentrance past the profession's lesser lights ...onlyto stumble as he walked up the steps.

Turned out to be famed bandleader Geraldo, whorecovered his equilibrium, and addressing the littlecrowd, suggested the incident would doubtless bereported in this column

He then made to enter Aeolian Hall, but suddenlystopped, removed his sunglasses, and said : " That'sin case you didn't recognise me !"

* * *LAST Saturday evening American pianist Ralph

Sutton, from Eddie Condon's Club in NewYork City, joined the party at the Georgian Club.Ralph was asked to sit in with Johnnie Gray'sband, and received a wonderful ovation from thesotiety register clubites. He enjoyed the sessionimmensely, afterwards remarking that Johnnie'soutfit was about the jumpiest group he has heardin the West End.

The leader's future activities include a furthercricket game for the Handlebar CC, who are play-ing Godstone on Sunday next. The side will again

"If they write good about you, that's good!

If they write bad about you, that's good!

If they don't write about you-that's BAD !"

by THE " SLIDER "be captained by " trombonist " Jimmy Edwards,and it is hoped that Raymond Glendenning will beplaying, too.

Johnnie says any boys who are free on Sundayand care to come along will be assured of a warmwelcome and a lot of laughs. After stumps aredrawn the whole company will, as usual, adjournto the local for an evening's entertainment.

*ATTENDED the Cyril Stapleton broadcast on

Tuesday (15th). Here is a fine band whichplays all kinds of music, from jazz to marches. Onething on which I would like to commend the bandis the formality of its attire. Not one membersports a zoot suit, flash shirt, crew cut or Diz specs,which comes as a welcome relief after some ofthe bands I have seen around.

Incidentally composer -conductor Bob Farnonhas penned an original for Cyril's outfit which fansshould listen for in the near future. Aptly titled" Pow -Wow," it certainly is ! Great stuff, Bob !

LEFT home very early one morning last week,with instructions to wife to 'phone trombonist

George Chisholm to book him for a date. Puttingthrough the call at 7.30 a.m. she confirmed thedate and then apologised to him for getting himout of bed so early, remarking : " Shall you begoing back to bed now ? " Back along the linecame George's voice, from his flat where he wasstanding in his pyjamas. " No, I think I'll go outto a dance !"

* * *CYD RAYMOND, drummer on the " Queen Mary "" blew into the NME offices this week, freshback from the States again. He made many callswhilst he was in New York, and managed to con-tact his old pal George Shearing, who is doingOK, by the way.

But the bit that made me laugh was Syd tellingushow he was getting from George the names ofthe boys with him now in his group. He wascalling out the instrument and George was givinghim the name of the player. Suddenly Syd said:" Piano ? " Back came the snappy answer : " IzzyGarfinkel !" Nice work, -George.

* *ANYBODY want an odd -job man for a week or

two ? I know of a good man free right now-sense of humour, fund of tip-top stories. andnever at a loss for a word. Benny Lee is the name-he's been around the West End these last fewdays prior to taking his annual vacation now thatthe Braden show has come off the air for the sum-mer-and everyone he's met he's asked : " Got anywork for an out -of -work actor ? " Don't take thisseriously, girls-he's only kiddin' !


If you go the right way about things, it's not difficult to

If you follow the guidance in this article, one day yourvocal group may be as famous as this fine quartet -

THE STARGAZERS.

"THERE should be moreglamour in the modern

music industry," say thepeople who know.

" That's all very well,"you say . . . " but that's forthe Ted Heaths andGeraldos-it doesn't affectroe.,,

YOU are leader of a smallseven- or eight -piece groupsomewhere out of town. Youhave, say, four saxes, trumpet,piano, bass, drums. You setgood tempos, allow no smokingon the stand and insist that yourboys are smoothly turned outand start on time.

You are even lucky enoughto have perhaps a second altowho occasionally, with muchprodding and several falsestarts, turns out in his ownlaboriously smudgy way, a bop-pish special to please the boys-and those scattered tans wholike that sort of thing.

GlamourAnd you are quietly proud of

the way you announce over themike . . . that crystal clear dic-tion . . . that glowing smile.

" What more can I do ? " yousay.

" You too, can have glamour,"say the people who know."More glamour-more money."

For the small bandleader asabove, adequate though his out-fit is, there are ways of creatinga greater demand for his ser-vices.

Give people that little extrathe other bands don't give. Byall means give them goodspecials, but more particularlygive them vocals-for in vocaltreatment, comedy and serious,lies the secret of that "littleextra."

Maybe our out -of -town -leaderhas noted that when one of hisboys has stepped forward andshouted a raspy and not alto-gether -in -tune "Gandy Dancer'sBall," or something similar,there has been fair responsefrom the crowd.

Maybe he has stretched hispocket and added a femalevocalist-complete with eveninggown-and found after all thatit paid.

Today, it does pay a leaderto consider inserting as manyvocal numbers in his pro-gramme as possible. Nevermind what the jazz critics say.We like jazz-but we also likebread and butter.

And with so many smallbands already jumping on thevocal wagon, it might pay aleader to go one step furtherand form a vocal group.

It's not as hard as it, sounds.* * *

INGREDIENTS: A lead voice,preferably female, and three orfour boys from the band whohave a rough idea of croakingin pitch-and what musicianshaven't? *

THE MIXTURE: Take thelead girl on melody linethroughout. The men fill outthe chord underneath like saxesunder a lead alto, although ifwritten for in treble clef, theyappear to be singing an octaveabove the girl.

*SERVE: At the beginning,

plenty of unison phrasing,breaking into harmony onlywhere the chords are simple,within easy range of the singers,and most important can beheld long enough to establishroughly accurate intonation.

*So much for the sketchy out-

line, now let's get down to it..THE VOICES

Lead girl's range, to get mostout of the group, should extendfrom about A, B or C abovemiddle C to an octave or sobelow-roughly the range ofmost female dance band singers,although the better voicesstretch a few notes either sideof the octave.

This requires more of a con-tralto voice than a soprano.Except for unison passages,where strength isn't so import-ant, the lead should never have

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by an expert from the George Mitchell organisationto go below A or G belowmiddle C.

For the best results the leadshould be firm-not to be con-fused with hard-and should beable to hold a note steady with-out wobbling. There should beabsolutely no tremolo (some-times called vibrato).

Tremolo is a rhythmical up-and-down wavering of the voicewhich many singers affect. Itmakes a harsh, badly trainedvoice sound sweeter. Also,although they don't realise itbecause it happens so quickly,their voices are going as muchas a tone or two tones aboveand below the true note. Thisthrows intonation in a group.

A true vibrato is an on -and -off pulse in the voice. It isnatural in a well -trained voice,should have little or no affecton the intonation, and is badfor the singer to try to cut out.

NOT SO IMPORTANTProviding they sing a tune

and balance up to the lead, thetone of the men's voices is notso important.

Best results naturally comefrom the best voices, but if acompromise is necessary, Iwould rather have soft, flat,toneless in -tune voices hugginga mike for balance, than fruityresonant rich tones accom-panied by the usual tremolo.

Toneless in -tune voices don'tsound bad if the lead is good.

First tenor should be able toget high G or A (in treble clefoctave and half above middleC). Bottom voice needn't gomore than a couple of tonesbelow middle C-easy for abaritone.

BILLSHEPHERDclose harmony all the way. Iffive voices are used, that wouldmean bottom doubling leadthroughout.

As those who have written forfour- or five -piece sax -teamswill know, sometimes better andricher sounds can be obtainedby opening up the chord. Butcare should be taken withvoices; unless singers are good,the more open the chord, therougher the intonation.

!low one then bump back upagain.

EARLY BEGINNINGSRight . .. we have the singers

and a rough idea and we'reready to go.

How about a number like theWhiffen-poof Song ?

The various verses can betreated as solos. We all joinin a resounding unison chorusand just break into harmonyevery time we sing the Baa, BaaBaa's. It's easy . . effective,and they'll applaud..

It might be as well to treatthe first three or four numbersby the group just like that. Bagsof unison and solos, and har-mony here and there for theadded effect. Remember tofinish on a good chord.

Very few numbers will have REHEARSINGa small enough range for the Don't try head arrangements.group to sing in harmony Make sure there's a score, thethroughout. The arranger will parts are clear and all thehave to fiddle. words are under the right notes.

If the singers aren't goodreaders let them learn theirharmony parts one at a timelike separate melodies.

Go from the top down. Getthe first two going, add thethird, then the fourth. Don'tlearn parts separately then putthem together all at once. Thatmakes it more difficult to pickout the wrong notes. By thetime the bottom voice is addedthe others should all know theirparts.

A last word of advice. Whenyou get to the job, get on to thatmike before the people get in,have someone go to the back of

All group arrangers have to the hall, and check for balance.make this compromise. Only Be as particular as you like.other way out is to alter the Balance makes or breaks a

SCORING melody. It works sometimes in group.Easiest and best affect is tight tunes which reach down for a Good luck !

When melody goes as low asA or G below middle C for thegirl (remember ... in treble clefthat's G above middle C formen), the harmony scored be-low that G lead is low enough tosound muddy.

UNISON PHRASESThis is what happens : The

arranger keeps the key low sothat the lead can get the topnotes. But in places the melodygoes down below that A or G.Harmony is impossible, so thelow passages have to be eitherunison, men only or girl solo.

1Z MAIL 700?AJUKEBOX war is breaking

out in parts of the UnitedStates, whereby out-of-townmobsters toss bombs into jivejoints and restaurants usingother outfit's coin -operatedmachines. There is heavyrevenue from these musicboxes and rival gangs (localagainst out-of-towners) vie forthe dough....

* * *Several American music pub-

lishers are bidding for thetheme music rights of EricSpear's " Meet Mr. Callaghan."..." The Biggest Show of 1952"has lined up Nat King Cole,Sarah Vaughan and Stan Ken-ton to tour the country, kickingoff September 19. Show will goon a 10 -week tour, playingseven evenings and four mati-nees per week....

* * *The Orioles came up with a

top record, " Getting Tired,Tired, Tired" on Jubilee....Atlantic Records has put to-gether two jazz albums, " Yan-

by ALEONBENNETT

Duets." When these discs hitthe stalls, collectors' items willbecome available for thegeneral public.

* * *One word regarding " collec-

tor's items." We know severaljazz enthusiasts who sunk quitea bit of money into rare recordswho are not too happy with thedrop in value of their collec-tions via the ready availabilityof these scarce products. Likediamonds, you know....

* *Dinah Washington on " Mad

About The Boy " for Mercury areal solid smash ...Mel Henkebeing booked into the CircleTheatre, a 150 -seater, for a one-night concert in September. Mel

cey Special " and " Sidney has been set for a return to theBechet and Muggsy Spanier Encore, where he drew capacity

crowds several months ago. Weare touting this great modernpianist because his music isreally great....

* * *Xavier Cugat, his marital

troubles with Lorraine Cugat allstraightened out, is headed fora European tour beginning inFebruary, A rumour hath itthat Cugie will premiere severaljazz tunes never before heardin public ...Yma Sumac is hav-ing several of her earlier etch-ings packaged into an album byCoral Records. There are discsmade years ago in Argentina

. Johnnie Ray has beenbooked into the Sky Club inDallas for September 26-28....

* * *Inside story on the quietus of

Benny Goodman is reported taxogre. Seems Benny is stillmaking much moola from hisold recordings, and any newshows he does simply adds tothat tax burden, and as Bennyfigures it, Why work for theGovernment alone? He does per-form every so often for classicalgroups....


Venn.Nut Carnegie hiahlMIKE BUTCHER tells the story of fabulous PHIL MOORE

Consideration . .

IN a New York apartmentatop Carnegie Hall lives

the Svengali of show busi-ness or if you prefer, thepresent-day Pygmalion.

The wonder of Phil Mooreis that he has been so muchmore prolific than his pre-decessors, factual and fic-tional. The personalitiesthat he has moulded andvitalised are the archangelsin a wolves' paradise -yet they tell only one chap-ter in the story of the amaz-ing Mr. Moore.

The story began in Portland,Oregon, only thirty-four yearsago. Four years after that, ayoungster was taken to his firstpiano lesson and in no time atall he was precociously perchedupon local concert platforms,virtuoso soloist with the Port-land Junior Symphony.

" They tried to turn me intoan infant prodigy," Phil re-members, " and the way I usedto murder the concertos was no-body's business !"

But the old masters wereeventually able to rest peace-fully in their graves once again,for at the age of thirteen some-thing important happened inyoung Moore's life.

First Jobs" I turned my back on the

classics, on account of an offerI had to join Louis Richard -son's Rinky-Dinks," he unblush-ingly recounts.

The first few jobs Philworked as a jazzman were at asoda fountain, and he was paidoff in malted milks. Then thefamily moved to Seattle, Wash-ington, and for Phil, this provedto be a significant shift; it ledto his initial engagement asvocal coach, arranger and ac-companist to a number of sing-ers.

The period was circa 1932,and the two most importantthings on America's mind weredepression (financial) and pro-hibition (alcoholic).

" My folks had lost theirmoney, and it was necessary forme to work after school. Putthat down as plot -laying stuff "advised our eloquent inter-viewee.

" I found a speak-easy thatwas willing to employ me-thatwas what we called an illicitliquor joint, you know-but byway of salary, I had to rely ex-clusively on tips. I don't recallthe name of the place, but it

Hesitation . .

was a dimly -lit room, and therewould be five, six or seven en-tertainers wandering from tableto table, and singing as theywent.

" It was hard enough tryingto find a key that fitted themall, but when one of themstarted out on Yes Sir, That'sMy Baby' before another hadfinished Road To Mandalay'confusion really did set in!

" There was a kitty in frontof the rostrum, and my share ofthe take was one -eighth of fiftyper cent. The boss took theother half, and charged us fiftycents a night for the hire ofuniform jackets on top of that.We would keep right on untilthe last drunk had beenbounced out, or fallen underthe table."

Piano TravelBetween times, Phil yawned

his way through high school,and majored in music at theUniversity of Washington. Hehad reached the age of eighteen,and that seemed as good a timeas any to go out into the worldand learn the facts of life.

A bandleader who could helphim here was one Eli Rice, self -acknowledged doyen of theWest Coast circuit, and it sohappened that the piano stoolwas vacant just when Moorewas wanting to see what laybeyond his native heath.

" Eli really did know his wayaround every neck of the woodsfrom Washington State to NewMexico " his former protegeacknowledges. " We wouldseem to be in the middle of anuncharted desert, then someonewould switch on a flashlightand behold, there was a pavi-lion. We would set up thestands, and before we knew it,the hall was full of people.Where they came from, whowill ever know ? I guess theprairie dogs used to take overwhen the dance was through."

Chordal StyleSeveral such trips were be-

hind him when Phil found thatthe Californian climate suitedhim best, and decided to stayput at the southern end of theaxis. He worked with severalgroups, and was fired fromthem all-" I was altogether toosmart-alecky," he admits,

" I liked to think of myselfas a Tatum -style pianist, butone day in 1937, a friend ofmine, Marshall Royal. the clari-nettist, was scheduled to makescme records with Art, and Iwent along to the session. Theymade ' With Plenty Of Money

Observation . .

And You' and three other pops,and after hearing the great manin person, I resolved never totouch a piano again."

As we know, Moore promptlychanged his mind, but thechordal style he switched to -and, some say, originated, Mil-ton Buckner notwithstanding -was a wilful recognition of thefact that he, for one, hadrealised the odium of compari-sons.

Working for a spell behindIda Cox, " A real earthy bluesmoaner who later got -a freshlease of life at the GreenwichVillage Café Society," Phil wasapproached by a very youngDorothy Dandridge who askedhim to advise and rehearse avocal trio she had formed withher sister Vivian, and EttaJones as second and third mem-bers. Not unnaturally heagreed, and thus was the Dan-dridge Sisters' act started onthe road to success, later becom-ing the vocal group in theJimmy Lunceford Band.

Then Lena Home first flashedacross the Hollywood scene.She was signed to appear in anindependent all -Negro featur-ette entitled, for some obscurereason, " The Duke Is Tops,"and Phil was engaged as musi-cal director.

Film WriterStill in the late 1930's, he

worked on a sequence in theMarx Brothers' film " A Day AtThe Races " at MGM and thisfired him with the ambition tobe a regular staff writer at thecompany's colossal studios.

" I went along for an inter-view," he reminisces, " and theywere very charming and polite,but it all added up to the factthat I was far too inexperiencedfor the sort of post I had inmind."

Yet it was not long before theambitious youth had workedhis way on to the MGM payroll,as rehearsal pianist in the firstplace, later as musical adviser,arranger and conductor.

Some of the movies he wasconnected with were " Present-ing Lili Mars" (starring JudyGarland), " Ziegfeld Girl " (agigantic production with LanaTurner, Tony Martin, Judy Gar-land and a cast of hundreds)." Kismet " and " Cabin In TheSky " (he was head musicsupervisor for both of these andpersonally appeared in the lat-ter), and Lena Horne's firstfeature for the company," Panama Hattie."

" I wrote a song for Lena tosing on her MGM debut-it wasa mixture of Spanish and swingcalled ' The Sping.' I men-

tion this because the othersongs in the score were by ColePorter, so goodness knows whythey wanted any extramaterial." Phil explains.

For other organisations, therewere free-lance opportunitiessuch as " This Gun For Hire."" Palm Beach Story " and " MyFavourite Blonde " at Para-mount and Fred Astaire's " TheSky's The Limit " for RKOwhich had a memorable bar-room sequence conceived byPhil as setting to the number" One For My Baby And OneMore For The Road." Muchmore recently he re -transcribedthe same song for Jane Russellto sing in " Macao," first shownin the West End last month.

Another motion pictureassignment came Phil's way in -

Revelation.

directly, as a result of his posi-tion on the scoring staff of JackTeagarden's band. Jack andhis men were given consider-able footage in Paramount's" Birth Of The Blues " withBing Crosby and Mary Martin,and Phil was included in thedeal as arranger -in -chief.

Moore's benevolent and help-ful interest in the careers of theDandridges and Lena Home didnot pass unacknowledged in thetrade, especially after " ShooShoo Baby " which, he says," Lena inspired me to compose "had topped the Hit Parade forseventeen weeks.

In movie studios and band re-hearsal rooms he lent a guid-ing hand to Gloria de Haven. be-fore and after she left Bob

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TWO -STYLE RHYTHM

Wednesday, July 9, 1 to1.45 p.m. Light

Jimmy Walker QuartetFreddie Randall and his

OrchestraMOST times I have listened

to this show, the title hasstruck me as being somewhatmisleading. In fact, even to thefaintly informed listener, thedifference in style was neverobvious enough to warrantsuch a pointed, descriptiveheading.

The contrast, however, be-tween the offerings of Messrs.Walker and Randall basicallydoes provide some authenticityfor its existence, and is a policythat should be continued. Thatis, if the BBC regard the useof titles for nearly all theirband shows as anything otherthan a means of space filling inthe " Radio Times."

I use the word " basically,"because technically speakingthese two outfits, although pur-porting to be of the violentlyopposed " bop " and " Dixie "factions, are, with the excep-tion of influence, nothing of thesort.

Both have taken a differentidiom, dressed it up in mannerthat would appeal to themasses rather than the min-ority, and have gone as near" commercial " as a fans' bandcan go without resorting tocomplete desertion.

Well, I suppose that is theirbed, and they must lie in it, butI've no doubt that it is a verycomfortable bed, and the typethat can always be allotted acosy spot in the BBC. Is thisbad? Only, I think, from thepoint of view of critics whoput their pets in large print,but couldn't care less aboutthem starving in a garret.

Of course, we'd all lilee toplay the music that we like, butif the people who pay thepiper to play their piece, don'tlike it, let's have our own funin our own time, and get onwith the job.

So, with the premeditatedintent of these two 'intelligentgentlemen in mind, let me con-gratulate them on a very goodbroadcast.

Mr. Randall has a very" beaty " band indeed. The factthat it was an unorthodox four -beat, with most of the soloistsforgetting their best " SouthernGentlemen " manners by play-ing near " boppish " phrases,didn't escape me.

But neither did the fact thatthey are all very good instru-mentalists, and the lattershould come first in anybody'sestimation.

A word of criticism-the"half valve" effect of FreddieRandall's trumpet ceases to be-come effective when overdone.Whether the trombonist's" buzz " in the middle registeris an effect or a defect, I don't

know. In either case, I shouldcease to affect it.

Diana Coupland fitted in" Randall Revels " like the ex,perienced " free-lance " perfor-mer she is, and it was a pleas-ant change in her songs not toneed English sub -titles.

Mr. James Walker and hisQuartet I reviewed quite re-cently and am glad to see thattheir talent has been recog-nised, inasmuch as they havebeen re -booked on the air sospeedily. There's nothing muchmore I can add to my previous

If this is to be the meagrereason for providing a band'sstyle title, there's no reasonwhy Dr. Crock shouldn't playthe " Pizzicato " from BalletSylvia, and qualify for Sadler'sWells. Still, maybe it was amisprint in the " Radio Times."

I have a great liking forLatin-American rhythms, andtheir fundamental object, whichis to provide a magnetic attrac-tion to the dance floor, seldomfails to persuade me to swing asly hip.

Thirty minutes of song anddance music that could havebeen produced by British per-formers thirty times better, andif it's the French atmospherethat was supposed to be theattraction, rather than what wasoffered, an improvement wouldhave been the inclusion of Mon -sewer Eddie Gray.

Just what entertainment themajority of BBC listeners gotout of interminable French dia-logue, unending French pointnumbers ond unattractiveFrench jazz, I can't imagine. On

VP FRENCHMAN'S CREEK

WITH

LE BBC,

French musical jollity was not only confined to the BBC lastweek. Here is trombonist -bandleader Geoff Sowden with

the colourful characters at the July 14 Ball at theChelsea Town Hall.

some of

remarks, except that this timethe unison vocal duets weren'texactly high -lighted by spot-ontuning.

A point I have never men-tioned before, is the fact thatBBC announcers' names arenever mentioned. Up to now Ithought I knew why!

The little lady who adornedto -day's proceedings, however,was such an asset to the pro-gramme, I feel it is necessaryto look for another theory.

Opinion: Randall and Walker.Fine and Dandy.

*

DON CARLOS AND HISSAMBA BAND

Friday, July 11, 12 to12.25 p.m. Home

WHY this outfit was labelleda " samba " band, I can't

imagine. Even the announcerhinted that the inclusion of anitem with this rhythm was anovelty event. Towards the endof the programme he proudlyproclaimed here was TheSamba.

Jimmy Walker is in the reviews on this page, so here is atopical picture of him (left) recording for Melodist with his

outfit last week.

Maybe it's " anno domini "creeping up on me, or maybeit's a case of " corpus delecti"on the part of the Carlos car-case, but I'm afraid during thishalf-hour not even one of mygoose -pimples twitched amuscle.

I can't define exactly what itwas that accounted for thelethargic reaction on my part,for there's no doubt that therewere some extremely good in-strumentalists involved. Theflautist, for instance, had atechnique and tone whichwere superb. His solo in" Sugar Loaf " savoured ofacademic training and wasthe most listenable moment inthe show.

Don Carlos himself, who asthe pianistic leader, I gatheredwould stand out as a salientfeature, confined himself to anodd bar or so here and there.This, I think, is a mistake. Ifa leader is to forsake the batonfor his instrument, then heshould justify the move by ap-pearing frequently in the lime-light.

Don Carlos has got a veryforceful but individual styleand although I admire him fornot adopting the egotisticalattitude taken by several otherpianistic bandleaders I knowof, it `wouldput more of per-sonality stamp on the show ifthe arrangements were wovenaround him more often.

The vocalists could be lis-tened to but not lauded.

Opinion: Inspired rather ashrug than shimmy.

*

SURPRISE PARTY FROMPARIS

Sunday, July 13, 10.30 to11 a.m. Light.

THE only surprise about thisprogramme was the fact

that the BBC wasted money onit, and the only party who en-joyed themselves must havebeen the lucky members of theCorporation who were sent overto arrange it.

JackBentley's

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top of this, the " mad dog ofan Englisman " who was pre-sumably present to enlightenlisteners as to what was goingon, was such a fluent linguist, Ihad to study the " Radio Times "to find out for myself.

If I say that the highlight ofthe show was the JacquesDieval Quintet, and that wouldhave done no more than per-suade one to raise a reluctanteyebrow if it appeared in anyof the numerous London "bop"dives, then that was the heightof my enthusiasm.

The Camille Sauvage Orches-tra must be heard to be believed.But if you don't want an ordealin the cause of credulity, it'sunderstandable.

Whilst holidaying on theFrench Riviera. I heard theAimee Barelli Orchestra manytimes in person. As a societyband, it is of a standard thatcan compete with most that wehave to offer. As purveyor ofstylish jazz, it is in the wrongsociety.

Its opening gambit was theambitious title " New Rhythm."If warmed -up " boogie woogie "

with soloists trying hard to ke,eptheir heads above the " bop "water is new rhythm, then takeyour partners for a " gavotte " !

Aimee Barelli as a trumpeteris a brilliant player, but unfor-tunately belongs to the greatarmy of musicians who wereweaned on a style of a differentera, and in spite of franticefforts to move with the times,simply can't catch up.

Throughout the whole show.the balance was strictly up" Frenchman's Creek." However,the music nearly drowned themany vocals and from what Iheard of them, I see the engin-eer's point.

Opinion. A Norman invasionthat didn't come off.

JAZZ CLUBSaturday, July 12, 5.30 to

6 p.m. LightIT would seem that our radio

has contracted a slight attackof the French disease this week,for even your favourite " discjockey " programme, sometimescalled " Jazz Club " has suc-cumbed.

Pat Brand, an eminent jour-nalist in our profession, pre-sented a recording of an excerptfrom the recent Paris " JazzFestival." Let him be thankfulfor the American in Paris, Sid-ney Bechet. The genius of thisgentleman who has grown oldso gracefully, surmounted every-thing.

" Everything," I must add, waswhat the accompanying Gaelicgroup seemed to put into theirvociferous efforts, and if everthere was a more glaringexample of "brawn over brains,"than Monsieur Rivalotti and hishenchmen, it should at once betransported to Helsinki. ClaudLuter, ditto.

Mr. Brand informed us thatwhenever Bechet and his Pari-sians came on the air, everybartender in Paris rushed to theradio, and turned it up.

If our grand old man of NewOrleans can't get a better sup-porting sound than this, I sug-gest he " turns it up " altogetherthis side of the Atlantic, andunless our Musicians' Union un-bends, takes a one-way ticketback to Basin Street.

Opinion: Men and super -man.* * *

HIGH NOTES OF THE WEEKThe alleged story of Sidney

Bechet, who was approachedand asked why he affected thatshivery vibrato. To which hereplied : " Man, that aint noaffectation, I'm just getting old."

* * *LOW NOTES OF THE WEEK

Our ex -favourite comic, RegDixon, who turned straightsinger on " Variety Bandbox."His " piece de resistance," " TheHeart Of a Clown." Playing" Hamlet " no doubt.

GRAHAM FREELANCING.-One-time bandleader KennyGraham who, as reported in theJune 27 NME, left the EricWinstone Orchestra last Satur-day, is now freelancing, andcan be contacted at 42, St.Osyth Road, Clacton, Essex.

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Record Reriews by Ralph SharonHERE'S A NEW PIANO

STYLE LOCKED FINGERS!BEFORE

I start in on therecords this week, I have to

apologise to you, my readers,and to a certain gentleman ofthe profession, a guitarist.

When I reviewed the Joe Sayedisc last week, I gave quite arave to it, and in particular tothe guitarist on it. I told you hisname was Joe Mears. Why, I'veno idea!

His name, ladies snd gentle-men, is Johnny Wiltshire. Italways has been Johnny Wilt-shire, and doubtless will alwaysbe so.

Sorry, Johnny, very much forthe mistake (how lucky itwasn't a panning!), but I trust,gentle readers, you now knowthat when you listen to thatgreat Saye record, and theguitar -playing on it, you are lis-tening to Johnny Wiltshire.Nobody else.

*KAY STARR

" Me, Too "" Angry "

(Capitol CL.13760)FIRST side, taken at a helluva

fast lick, finds Miss Starrsinging and swinging her waythrough three choruses, and shecertainly sings with a beat andwith plenty of jazz feeling

The accompaniment, by DaveCavanaugh's Orchestra, is first-rate, and notice that althoughthey have to play a fast shufflerhythm all through the side, therhythm section is balanced justright, and the bass and drumscan be heard at all times!

I am afraid the reverse sideis only fair, with Kay doing afemale impersonation ofJohnnie Ray, backed by a justso-so arrangement. First side isworth hearing, though.

*TED HEATH'S MUSIC

"Casey Jones""Turkey In The Straw "

(Decca F.9946)TWO instrumental sides by the

Heath crew. "Casey " istaken at an easy jump tempo,and features the clean -soundingsaxes, led by that exceptionallyfine lead alto -man, Leslie Gil-bert, and also the well -drilledtrombone team, playing a goodopen passage here.

But once again I come to mypet moan. Why is the bass madeto sound indistinct and thedrums too under -recorded? Oncemore the rhythm section goesfor a " ball of chalk", and inthis case the band's final ride -out, with the rhythm sectionmissing, just doesn't jump theway it should! Is there a doctorin the house?

Don't be alarmed by the flip -side title. It's not a squaredance effort, but a very good

arrangement of the traditionaltune, which although it adheresclosely to the melody allthrough, is nevertheless inter-esting. There's a good mutedtrumpet solo, and my compli-ments to the baritone playerfor getting a real baritone noise-that's more like it!

Good Heath, but not outstand-ing.

*ELLA FITZGERALD

(with the Daydreamers)" That Old Feeling ""A Guy Is A Guy "(Brunswick 04929

FIRSTside is taken a shade

too fast for the tune. I al-ways like my " Feeling " slow,and here it's a bit uncomfort-able.

As for the vocal group, theyare no help at all to Ella-com-plete miss-fitz! Main trouble isthe girl lead, who exaggeratesand has a poor idea of a blend.Ella sings well though.

Reverse, with a Sy Oliver ac-companiment, is only a fairversion of this tune. This is notoutstanding Fitzgerald, but shecan still show most girl singersa thing or two in phrasing.

*BILLY MAY ORCHESTRA

" When Your Lover Has Gone ""Please Be Kind "(Capitol CL.13758)

MORE May. The man cer-tainly knows how to pick

his material, and is graduallyworking his way through thelist of evergreens, " skimmingthe cream " so to speak.

Both these sides show off theband's precision and musician-ship, so what more can we askfor?

" When Your Lover " is con-spicuous for a driving, rockinglast chorus, quite exciting, andproving that the whole band isvery much alive and kicking.There's a spot of good tenor, too,which is also a featured instru-ment on the reverse side-justas good-and ends with one lastluscious slurp.

NB to Recording Engineers:Notice how the rhythm sectionis balanced and recorded. It isas light as a feather, with analmost harp -like quality, but itpacks a mighty wallop andswings all the time, like a well-oiled machine!

PATTY ANDREWS" That's The Chance You Take "

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here, and very well, too. Shesings " Chance " with restraintand understanding, and I canonly fault her on some of herupper register stuff, where shehas a tendency to yell. Must bea throwback to her stage act,when she has to make herselfheard over her sisters' voices!

The Nelson Riddle accom-

Kay Starr goes places on herrecords; here is a picture ofher going some place in per-son-and the twinkle inRalph Sharon's eye at thetop of the page suggests thathe'd like to be going with

her!

paniment is excellent, and fea-tures a warm -toned middleregister flute, and a passage ofelectric guitar -led brass-a goodside.

Reverse is an adaptation of aFrench tune " C'est Fini "(translation: This is Finland!)and it's nearly all Patty, onlyshe's joined by her close rela-tions who add some elementaryharmony near the end. There'ssome very good clarinet playingon this one, especially in theintro. Andrews fans can safelyadd this disc to the collection.

CHAMP BUTLER(With Percy Faith's Orchestra)

" Meet Me On The Corner ""Looking For A Boy "

(Columbia DB.3098)

YETanother new male singer

enters the field. Good, too!" Meet Me On The Corner "(must be a popular corner-nodoubt due to the pawnshopbeing there!) finds the Champdealing a knock -out blow to thetune, singing with lots of beatand life, even occasionally toss-ing in a growl for full measure.The band rides along with him.I like.

Reverse is the nostalgicGershwin tune wich deserves tobe heard a lot more than it is.Champ sings with great feeling.making much of the Ira Gersh-win lyric. Band again is good.especially an alto obligato.

Welcome to the new Champ.

JEFF MARLOWE ANDORCHESTRA

" It's A Sin To Tell A Lie "" Blackpool Bounce "(Columbia DB.3105)

COLUMBIA are playinggames! For although both

these sides are vocals, there areno names given on the label,making a sort of musical dip-yer pays yer money, buys therecord . . . and only then canyou tell whether it has a vocalor not.

Yet in the case of " Sin " Ican quite see the point.in omit-ting the vocalist's name becauseMiss Anonymous is nothing towrite home about. She is justanother girl singer with intona-tion trouble and a phoneyAmerican accent. If she'sAmerican, it's a phoney Englishaccent!

The band behind her is rag-ged and badly balanced, with amonotonous chug -chuggingrhythm section, and the ar-rangement is tenth -rate hackstuff.

Reverse is a tune extolling thevirtues of Blackpool Tower andtells of " jiving on the pier."Are you kiddin', bud? HereMiss Anonymous is joined by aMr. Anonymous who has theright idea, being a disciple ofthe Johnny Mercer school ofsingers.

Band again is poor and fea-tures a spot of cumbersomepiano-awfully stilted. You'veheard tell of " locked hands "style-so now let's welcome in anew vogue. Locked fingers!

WEEK'S BEST BUY-Billy May. " When

Your Lover Has Gone."BEST VOCAL OF THEWEEK-

Kay Starr. "Me, Too."WEEK'S BIGGESTSURPRISE-

Yma Sumac with abeat, in " Wimoweh."GIMMICK OF THEWEEK-

The Lucky Dip labelon " Blackpool Bounce."

YMA SUMAC" Inca Love Song "

" Mamallay "(Capitol CL.13740)

" Suray Surita " / " Zana "(Capitol CL.13746)

" Babalu " / " Wimoweh "(Capitol CL.13766)

ALTHOUGH Sumac packedthe Albert Hall recently, on

her first visit to this country,the music critics without failgave her a very poor showing,and comments were pretty

severe-most unfairly so, to mymind.

Quite frankly, I'm of theopinion that what she sings, hermaterial and the way she putsit over, is way over the headsof most people, and I includethe music critics. Maybe I'm anexception, but her voice thrillsme, and although I don't mindadmitting that I can't under-stand everything she does, I findthat her amazing voice has agripping and compelling qualitywhich is unique, and quite un-matched in the music world.

Through all of the six sidesunder review she displays anamazing variety of exception-ally diverse talents. " Inca LoveSong " finds her singing a duetwith herself (dubbing, I pre-sume?) and there are somereally frightening growls by thePeruvian Nightingale. The sideends with a most blood -chillingscream, which scared the day-light out of me!

Reverse is enhanced by somefine modern -scored string pas-sages. bongoes, too, are mosteffective. " Suray Surita " makesfar more sense, and is a sort of" Peruvian Pop," sung withgreat intelligence and emotion.Reverse is a gay Latin-Ameri-can affair, backed by a rousingmale chorus.

But the best coupling by faris of " Babalu " which is thebest version I've heard of theLecuona classic-on this theSumac girl is terrific. There is amost unusual flute intro, whichgrowls for a few bars, and diesout suddenly as if the poor guyhas been strangled! Effectivestuff!

On the back, " Wimoweh " isthe biggest surprise of all. Forno reason at all, Yma is backedhere by a big jumping band,with fine beat -y rhythm andbrass sections, which soundssuspiciously like the Billy MayOrchestra to me.

Tune is of the " HawaiianWar Chant" ilk, and here Ymadoes an Ella Fitzgerald, impro-vising around the melody. Allthe sides are directed by herguitarist husband, who is alsothe composer of the first fourtitles.

My choice is for the lastcoupling, which would addlustre to any collection. I'mexpecting a comedy version anyday now, by Mickey Katz. Howabout " Inca Dinca Doo," for asuggestion, Mr. Katz?

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For SongmenON TUESDAY night, over 120 notabilities in

the world of British popular music settleddown to enjoy an excellent repast andsome witty speeches at the fifth anniver-sary dinner of the Songw: iters' Guild ofGreat Britain. The evening was a con-vivial one, and the tone of the gatheringwas set by such witticisms as Ted Kava-nagh's announcement of the top song ofthe moment as "Auf Davidson, Sweetheart!"Chairman Douglas Furber (always en-shrined in the hearts of jazz -fans by reasonof the fact that he wrote the lyrics for" Limehouse Blues ") kept up the wittywork by remarking that the Songwriters'Guild had had to turn down the applica-tion for membership of Max Factor, des-pite the fact that he had written " I'llMake Up For Everything!"

THE GUEST of honour, Mr. David Gammans,MP, the Assistant Postmaster -General.looked forward to the day when Britonswould sing songs written for them byBritish songwriters, and this sentimentevoked loud applause.

BUT DARE one be critical of so worthy andhard-working a body as the Guild? Wewere conscious of two undercurrents to allthe speeches-two inferiorities . . . twochips on the shoulder, and we are makingso bold as to point them out in the hopethat bringing the light of day into thedark places may possibly help the Guild inits very laudable objects.

WE WERE surprised to notice that, in amongall the congratulations and backslappingcustomary at a gathering of this naturetwo sections of the musical community re-ceived no mention-the publishers and thepluggers (sorry, the contact personnel!)Aithpugh Eric Maschwitz did make onerefe?ence in passing to the publishers, theunderlying feeling that we had as welistened was that there was an almostopen hostility between the men who writethe songs and the men who publish them.

IT IS conventional, and almost taken forgranted, that " underdogs " grumble atthe " overlords" in any business, and there-fore one is hardened to hearing about thebold bad publishers. But it is a seriousthlolg :when the songwriters almost flaunttheli hostility towards the men who, in thelong run, earn them their living. Thatdoes not make for co-operation or mutualunderstanding: it makes for enmity.

THAT IS one chip on the shoulder. Eventhough the publishers have, in most casesadopted the Guild's standard contract andcontinue to publish the works of Guildmembers, there is no platform or meetingground between the parties. Pity!

THE OTHER chip concerns British songs.Now this is a very delicate question, and itis very difficult for us to write about it insuch a way as to make it quite clear thatwe are absolutely patriotic and intenselyloyal to our Tin Pan Alley colleagues. Buttaking the broad view, we feel we mustsay that we cannot subscribe to the all -too -prevalent attitude that, because a songis British, it must of necessity receive bettertreatment and more favourable considera-tion than a foreign song.

WHEN OUR record reviewer reviews a newrecord, he listens to the subject matter ita detached and critical way. If it is a goodsong, he says so. If it is a bad song, heis equally honest. It does not matter tohim if it's a good or bad British or Ameri-can song; the quality of the song itself isall that counts, and that is the way theSongwriters' Guild must learn to think, ifthey are to get their whole policy on aproper basis.

BY ALL means let us cheer every time aBritish song is mentioned, and by all meanslet us kid ourselves that the music pub-lishers are big bad wolves in millionaires'clothing. But, when an organisation withthe stability and the importance of theSongwriters' Guild openly feels that way.then via strongly suggest it is time for themto get a proper perspective, more in keep-ing with the facts as they are. The best of1pck to them in all their efforts.

At the party he threw at the Celebrite on Tuesday (15th)to celebrate the sixth anniversary of his band's formation,Cyril Stapleton greets guests Johnny Gray, Kenny Bakerand NME contingent - Ray Sonin, Jack Baverstock and

Les Perrin.

SARAH VAUGHAN, ELLAFITZGERALD AND DICK

HAYMES TO TOUR HEREHALF of impresario Maurice Kinn's " Mission to Man-

hattan " has already been accomplished, with thesigning of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and DickHaymes for concert tours of Great Britain. This newscame to the NME on Tuesday night through a trans -Atlantic phone call from Kinn, in which he reported thatthese three great singing stars had already been signedto appear here. Manchester, on September 21,

Dick Haymes will open his and later to Dundee, Edin-29-day t our on September 14 burgh, Glasgow, Newcastle,with two concerts at the RoyalAlbert Hall. Subsequent dateswill take him to Belle Vue,

MU PROBE OPENS ONTHE 6 NAUGHTY BOYS'SOMETIME today (Friday), six of the musicians who

on Wednesday appeared before the London BranchExecutive of the MU, charged with " conduct detri-mental to the Union," will learn the findings of theExecutive.

Gerry Moore, Dickie DeVere,Tony Crombie, Lennie Bush,Tommy Pollard and BruceSwain walked into the MUOffices at 12.45 p.m. on Wed-nesday at the behest of theUnion, to defend themselvesagainst the charges levelled atthem, subsequent to their ap-pearance at the Royal FestivalHall on Monday, June 30, in thesame bill as Arne Domnerusand Rob Pronk.

We are given to understandthat these six musiciansstated in their defence thatthe Union official preferring thecharge was not seen either atthe door or backstage during ornrior to the concert, and no in-timation was made to them thatthey must not appear.

A QUERYWe also understand that one

of the six asked how the Unionreconciled their attitude in thiscase with the fact that they per-mitted Arnold Ross and JoeBenjamin to have British

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is dead ", they said. Bylunchtime on Tuesday no lessthan seven different sources had.ought to convince the NMEthat famed Latin-Americaniianist-bandleader Don Marino3arreto, so well-known in Lon -Ion, had died in Madrid.

So we sent a cable, and onWednesday afternoon the fol-owing message was received at`he NME offices: " Thanks for'nquiring. I am quite well-`setter than ever. Greetings."

And the signature? DonMarino Barreto, very muchalive, and currently working inMadrid prior to moving toBilboa with his orchestra for amonth in August. He was herelast October with his Trio, theather two members being hisbrothers.

We are delighted to record thegood news that effectively stopsall rumours.

musicians playing with them atthe Palladium, accompanyingLena Horne. This question,however, was promptly ruledout of order by the Chairman.

Asked for a statement onWednesday afternoon, LondonArea MU Organiser AlexMitchell said: "A number ofknown Union members todayfaced charges of conduct detri-mental to the Musicians'Union."THE OTHERS

He added: " The Union hascarefully noted particularly thenames of prominent non -Unionists who performed at theFestival Hall concerts, includ-ing Dizzy Reece, Cab Kaye,Lonnie Donegan, George Webb,and of course others."

Questioned by the NME as tothe reason for noting thesenames. Mr. Mitchell had nocomment to make.

We gather that certain tra-ditionalist Union members whoappeared in the Saturday con-cert could not appear beforethe Executive on Wednesday,and the charges against themwere heard in their absence.

Mitchells withMitchell at the

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He was given this name byhis discoverer, guide, andmentor Mitch Miller ; it hasproved a lucky and happychoice, for Guy's records havesold by the million.

With such singing hits as" Truly Fair," " The RovingKind," " There's Always Roomat our House," etc., he hasrocketed into the top incomebrackets.

Today Mitchell (Guy notGeorge) has a ranch in Cali-fornia, and gives practical ex-pression to his love of horsesby spending his holidays work-ing rodeos.

Guy arrived in London yes-terday (Thursday).

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Most of these dates will beone-nighters with two shows anight; Haymes may also beappearing at some of thecountry's largest ballrooms.

The supporting group to playthe tour with Haymes has notyet been fixed, but may includesome very well-known people inthe jazz world.

As in the case of Haymes,this will be Sarah Vaughan'sfirst appearance in this coun-try, though in the past therehave been several highly pre -

JACKPARNELLMYSTERYTHE fate of the Swedish

tour, which (as pre-dicted in our issue of June6) the Jack Parnell MusicMakers have beenapproached to make withLena Home for two weeksfrom August 15, hangsperilously in the balance.

This lucrative engagement isJack's for the asking, but heand his Band are already con-tracted to certain one-nightstands in this country whosedates clash with the tour.

It now remans to be seenwhether the British promotersand agents concerned can beprevailed upon to release Jackand the band from their con-tracts.

Meanwhile, something of amystery surrounds corres-pondence which has been ex-changed between Jack Par-nell and a senior official ofthe Musicians' Union concern-ing the appearance of Par-nell's Music Makers as sup-porting attraction to LenaHorne at Glasgow Empireand elsewhere.The NME is given to under-

stand from a usually reliablesource that the MU's complaintis directed at Jack's action in°laying with Lena's Americanaccompanying musician duringthe recent Moss Empires tourbut we were not able to get anyconfirmation from the Union ofthis.

However, London Area Or-ganiser Alex Mitchell stated onWednesday evening " Lettersof explanation were requiredfrom Mr. Parnell concerning theLena Horne tour. These ex-planations were duly receivedby the Union."

And there, for the moment,the matter rests. What the ex-nlanations were, why they wereneeded, and about what ... allthese things are still a mystery.Alex Mitchell would commentno further.

mature announcements that shewas " definitely coming " forconcert and nightclub appear-ances.

This time, though,' it's a fact.She will be commencing aseries of one-night concerts allover the country early in Janu-ary 1953, and it's Maurice Kinnand Cyril Stapleton whom thefans have to thank.PROBABLE DATE

No opening date has yet beenfixed for Ella Fitzgerald, but shetoo should be appearing hereearly next year.

Now it remains to be seenwhether the other half of theKinn project can be achieved;the signing - and, more im-portant, the actual presentationin this country with MUapproval - of Atherican jazzmusicians.

STAPLETON'S6th BANDBIRTHDAY

SIX years ago, at what wasthen Fischers Restaurant in

New Bond Street, a new bandwas born. Fathered by CyrilStapleton, the new baby flour-ished and prospered, and nowis regarded as one of the finestbands of its kind in the country-proof of which can be seen inthe band's overflowing engage-ment book.

To celebrate the sixth anni-versary of the Stapleton brain-child, Stapletonians past andpresent foregathered last Tues-day evening (15th) at the band'sbirthplace, now known as theCelebrite, and everyone wined,dined and danced to the musicof the Derek New group, withRobin Richmond at the organ.

No fewer than five of theband's original members arestill with Cyril-Tim Bell, JackGoddard, Bill Griffiths, DaveStevenson and Ted Thorne

Others present at this cheerygathering were ex -Stapletonvocalist Pearl Carr, BBC pro-ducer Johnnie Stewart, Decca'sBunny Lewis, Capitol's DickRowe, Johnny Gray, KennyBaker, Jack Olivieri and manyother notabilities of the profes-sion.

"Porgy" opening-October 6has now been announced as theopening date, in London, for theall -Negro opera "Porgy andBess," which is to star band-leader Cab Calloway, William(Showboat) Warfield and Leon-tyne Price.

Britain's No. 1 traditionalistjazz fan, the Hon. Gerald Las-celles, younger son of thePrincess Royal and cousin ofthe Queen, and his bride, MissAngela Dowding, leaving St.Margaret's, Westminster, aftertheir wedding on Tuesday(15th). Princess Margaret, theDuke of Edinburgh and theDuchess of Kent were among

the guests.

WRYER TOLEAD SEXTET

IN NEW RADIO

SERIESPIANIST - ARRANGER Mal-

colm Lockyer, the man res-ponsible for the brilliant ar-rangements used by the NatTemple Orchestra in the BBC'sBraden show, is to lead his ownSextet in a new 13 -week serieswhich commences on RadioLuxembourg in mid -August.

The programme is to' becalled " Guess The Year," andmoney prizes will be awardedto listeners guessing the titlesor the tunes played and theyears in which they werewritten.

Singing the songs will be aname male vocalist-possiblyLarry Day-and playing thetunes will be Malcolm himselfon piano, leading TommyMcQuater (trumpet) Al Baum(tenor, flute and clarinet);Harry Roche (trombone); FrankClarke (bass) and Geoff Lofts(drums).

Arrangements, by Malcolm,will be of the " modern Dixie"variety already familiar toBraden listeners.

The Songwriters' Guild held their Fifth Anniversary Dinnerat the Horseshoe Hotel, Tottenham Court Road, London, onTuesday (15th). This special NME picture shows (1. to r.)John Macmillan (Assistant Controller, Light Programme,BBC) ; Douglas Furber (chairman) ; Haydn Wood, and Eric

Maschwitz (vice-chairman).

JAMBOREE-OCT 12: STARBANDS BOOKED

Jimmy Edwards to CompereTHE Fourteenth Jazz Jamboree, to be held at noon

on Sunday, October 12 at the Gaumont State,Kilburn, is already assured of success. The news wasreleased this week that five of Britain's greatest bands,money -spinners every one, have accepted the invitationof the Musicians' Social and Benevolent Council toappear at this annual showcase for the very best inBritish music.

Heading the imposing list,which already ensures fans offull value for their money, isTed Heath and his Music,nationally recognised as thecountry's top swing band.

Hard on the Heath heels,both musically, and in popular-ity, comes the predominantlyyouthful jumping Jack ParnellMusic Makers, whose appear-ance last year marked one ofthe biggest moments of that orany other Jamboree.FIRST FIVE

The smooth, polished music ofCyril Stapleton and his Orches-tra makes a welcome returnthis year, and will be eagerlyawaited especially by thosewho remember tlais band's fineshowing in the 1950 event. Theperennial Johnny DankworthSeven will be there again, andthe news that the Ray EllingtonQuartet are appearing this yearin their fourth Jamboree shouldmake it a virtual certainty thatthere will be no empty seatswhen the curtain goes up onOctober 12.

*ith " resident " compereTommy T r i n d e r away inAustralia, the MSBC have beenfortunate in securing the ser-vices of "Professor " JimmyEdwards for the 1952 presenta-tion.THE PROFESSOR

Jimmy's musical talents mustbe well-known to readers, andit will be interesting to seewhether the professor permitsany of the bands to have thehonour of accompanying himon a euphonium or trombonesolo!

The NME will be printingdetails of other bands who willbe appearing just as soon as theinformation becomes available.The date from which ticketswill be on sale will also beannounced in these columns indue course.

Missing pianistfound-

and ;ailed!Dumfries, 10 p.m. Wednesday.

LESLIE EPSTEIN, the LondonOrchid Room bandleader -

pianist who mysteriously dis-appeared on Isis way to workone March evening (NME reportMarch 29) was today sentencedto three years' imprisonmenthere after being tried on fivecharges.

These included the theft of acar, and obtaining board andlodging at various hotels byfraudulent means.

QURPRISE visitor to London"" this week is the IcelandicMusicians' Union official,Svavar Gests, here to finalisedetails in the exchange arrange-ments between British and Ice-landic musicians.

As previously reported in theNME. our star tenorman Ron-nie Scott has already beensigned to appear in Reykjavik,and we understand that Mr.Gests intends to fix other well-known British jazzmen to playin his country.

Sudden Death ofBosworth Chief

THE NME regrets to reportthe death in Germany of

Mr. L. 0. Bosworth, OBE, man-aging director of Bosworth'sMusic Publishing Company. Hewas 66.

Mr. Bosworth had been man-aging director of the well-known publishing firm for somethirty years; he was on vaca-tion in Germany when he wasseized with a heart attack anddied almost immediately.

Speaking to :the NME, Bosworth's orchestral manager,Len Munsie, said: " Mr. Bos-worth was a fine gentleman,one of the old school. His deathis a great personal loss to usall here."

Mr. A. F. Bosworth, brotherof the deceased, now beccmesmanaging director of the com-pany.

TRUIPETS,

PLEASE!Eric Winstone urgently

requires a second trumpetto join him immediately atButlin's Holiday Camp,Clacton, to replace RonnieHeasman who has nowleft the band. Applicantsshould phone Bill Elliottat once at Welbeck 3332.

Gig leader Fred Hedleyrequires a first trumpet forhis band. Prospectiveleads should phone Fredat PUTney 7643.

* * *Third leader short of a

brassman is Britain'snewest big -band profes-sional, Arthur Rowberry,who also requires a leadtrumpet for his orchestracurrently appearing at theAstoria Ballroom, Notting-ham,

Anyone interested shouldcontact Arthur direct.

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RECITAL. - Distinguisheojazz writer and critic ErnestBorneman is to give a recitalto the New Jazz Society at theirmeeting next Tuesday, July 22,at the " Cranbourne," Cran-bourne Street, W.C.2. His sub-ject: " A Critic Looks at Jazz."

KENNY BAKERSTARRING

SOLO IN VARIETYWHEN the new Bernard Delfont show "Television

Highlights " takes the road in mid -September tplay the Moss Empires circuit, one of the many bignames starring in the production will be Britain's No. 1trumpet genius, Kenny Baker.Famous in the past as a Land -

leader in his own right on one-nighters and concert appear-ances, and as leader of his" Baker's Dozen " on the re-cently -concluded " Let's MakeMusic " BBC series-whichgained such popularity that anearly return to the air islikely-Kenny will with thistour make his debut as a soloVariety artist.

He will be appearing on avery strong bill. Already fixedare personality -singer BillyBanks, comedy -magicianTommy Cooper and singerBetty Driver; another big nameis still to be signed.

Taylor suits RosBAGATELLE bandleader Ed-

mundo Ros has called onRoberto Taylor to take over thestand there during the Ros'sfour -weeks' absence from theirexclusive Mayfair " home."

Bob Taylor moves in onAugust 4.

LONDON fem altoist, MaryLouis, who appeared at the

Royal Festival Hall ModernConcert, has landed a residentengagement every Saturday atthe Grandison Ballroom, Nor -bury, fronting a ten -piece band.

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The Deep River Boys take over the instruments of SvenAsmussen and his Band, while the Asmussen boys reciprocatewith their version of the Deeps' famous bow-a picture taken

in Sweden and rushed by air to the NME,

DEEP RIVER BOYS DUE BACK

DIAMONDS FORHERE AFTER

PEARL FROVSWEDISH

TEDDY TRIUMPHSAST week it happened: Pearl

Carr and Teddy Johnsonorought a three -year -old sug-gestion into reality-and gotengaged!

The suggestion came fromlisteners to the BBC's " BlackMagic " programme. " You singso well together," they said." Are you married or engaged?"

Which gave the two singersideas-ideas that were finalisedlast week.

And just to clinch theromantic angle the pair gotengaged on the day that theywaxed their first duets forColumbia - titles, " No OneCould Love You More Than IDo" and " My Heart's Desire."

Teddy meanwhile continueshis tour with the Jack Benny

lmpany-this week at Glas-,ow.

Of Benny, Teddy says:" Working with him is a grandexperience. He's helpful, kindand very considerate. In someways, he reminds me of myfather."

Which latter comment drawsfrom " Old Meanie " a lifting ofthe famous Benny eyebrowand a highly expressive" Hmmm. . . ."

PRIMROSE SWITCH

TO UPTON'S

OTHER GROUPPRIMROSE Hayes, vocalist

with Sidney Lipton'sOrchestra at Grosvenor Houseand wife of saxophonist HarryHayes, has arranged with Sid-ney Lipton that she will nolonger be appearing regularlywith his number 1 Orchestra.

Primrose will now sing withthe number 2 group, appearingwith the former only for broad-casts and occasional otherdates.

The NME understands thatthis arrangement has been madein order to give primrose somefree evenings.

pRIOR to their opening at theI- London Palladium on Aug.4, the Deep River Boys aremaking an appearance 'en TVin " This Is Show Business" onAugust 2, and flying to the Isleof Man for a concert there onSunday, August 3.

This news reached the NMEthis week in a letter from theDeeps' manager, Ed Kirkeby.In this letter, Ed raved aboutthe hospitality which had beenextended to them in Sweden,where they have just completeda four -week stint in Stockholm

Currently fulfilling a five -night engagement at Furuvik,the group opens on Monday inGoteborg for three days; then,after a one-nighter in Malmo,they take the boat to Britain.

Gordon Franks joinsLatin-American Music

WELL-KNOWN free-lancepianist -arranger Gordon

Franks, prolific sessioneer andarranger for many name bands,last week joined the exploita-tion staff of the Latin-AmericanMusic Publishing Co., a branchof Southern Music.

Accompanist in the past tosuch names as Dolores Gray,Bill Johnson, Christine Nordenand Hermione Baddeley, Gor-don is also a composer; his firstnumber, " Cuban Nocturne ",has just been published by hisnew employers.

BOB HARVEY'SWAX DEBUT

YOUNG British singer BobHarvey, who for over a

year now has been serenadingthe customers at the Carousel,Picadilly, makes his debut onwax next month with the releaseof his first two sides for theParlophone label.

Titles are " Waltz of Paree "and " No One Could Love You ".

Bob broadcast on Wednesdayof this week in Jimmy Grant's" Melody from the Stars ".

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FORMING INMIDLANDS

TWO of the Midlands mostenterprising musicians have

announced that they are form-ing a new Student Orchestra.

They are drummer Jim Biliauand saxist Jack Clarke, pro-prietors of the " Band Box ",which they opened in Wolver-hampton five years ago, andwhich is now regarded as themusical centre by local musi-cians.

In addition they have securedthe services of well-knowntrumpet player Ron Page,formerly with Teddy Foster,Ivor Kirchin and other Londonbands, and Taylor Frame, saxistand vocalist with Vincent Lad-brooke, Vernon Adcock, HedleyWard, etc., as teachers for theOrchestra.

The proposed line-up is fivesaxes, five brass, four rhythmand vocalists and rehearsalsare expected to take place on.Sunday mornings.

A venue has not yet beendefinitely fixed but alreadymany applications have beenreceived and local band -leadershave also shown some interest.

GLASGOW'S

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to the end of whathas been an even -busier -

than -usual week is Ian Gourlaycheerful king -pin of the BBC'sScottish Variety Orchestra.

On Monday, he was on theair as a conductor in twoprogrammes; Tuesday saw himappear as featured vocalistwith the SVO. On Thursday, hewas singing and playing his sax-ophone over the ether; tonight.he can be heard playing pianoaccompaniments for a 20 -minute revue he also wrote themusic for; and in tomorrow'sScottish dance music pro-gramme, Ian will be therebehind the clarinet!

VOGUE RECORDSBROKEN (INTO!)THE first floor premises of the

Vogue Record Companyin Charing Cross Rd., London,were broken into last week -end,and about £25 was taken.

Speaking to the NME, VogueRecords chief Doug Whittonsaid: "The thief got into thebuilding through a second -floorwindow after scaling a drain -pine. There are several otheroffices in the building, but ourswas the only one to suffer.

" Whoever did it can't havebeen a particularly hip character-all the records are still there!"

READING - Local music-shopowner/bandleader NormanHackett has just landed thecoveted date at the Manor,Ewelme, Oxon, to play for theopen-air ball, to be held thereon July 30.

Line-up for this and all othercurrent commitments will be:Bert Martin (trumpet); PaddyHoey (clarinet); George Chand-ler (bass, guitar); Frank Robin-son (piano) and Bill Upshawand Norman himself -(ssxeS).

MIDLAND musicians are to meet in Birmingham toiron out the strict tempo versus progressive storm

which is blowing up. Professional dancers and bopperswill be invited to attend to express their views.

MUSIC ANDRHYME ONSCOTS AIR

THE Alan Stewart Quartetjoin forces with Don Whyte

on July 25 in the ScottishHome Service for another 25minutes of the music and rhymethat proved so popular on 41eirlast airing.

Producer Donald MacLeanhad the bright idea of teamingthe quartet (Alan Stewart,drums; Ian McLachlan, bass;Alex Shaw, piano; Bill Macnab,guitar) with Don Whyte, whoup till then had been writingchildren's stories in rhyme.

The combination of modernmusic and tongue-in-cheekpoetry proved popular, and thisnew show is in response toquite a demand from Scottishlisteners.

As a sample of the sort ofthing perpetrated by the satir-ical., Whyte, we can't do betterthan quote the signing -offannouncement from the lastprogramme:

The Alan Stewart Quartetmade the music tonightFor the wry reflections-blame Don WhyteAnd in case " swing " and" noise " are to you synony-mousThe producer - DonaldMacLean- wishes to remainanonymous.Time of the new programme

is from 7.15 p.m. to 7.40 p.m.

NAME BANDS ATNOTTINGHAM

CONTINUING their nameband policy, the Astoria

Ballroom, Nottingham arepresenting:-Tito Burn's Sextet(July 18 and Aug. 15), FreddyRandall Ork (July 20), JackParnell and his Music Makers(July 25 and Aug. 4), JimmyWalker Quintette (July 27), VicLewis Ork (Aug. 1), and TeddyFoster Ork. (Aug. 8 and 9).

Arthur Rowberry and hisOrchestra are house band at allthe dates. The most recentaddition to Arthur's fine aggre-gation is ex -Al Washbrookevocalist Larry Gretton, who, ismeeting with tremendous suc-cess at his new berth.

This move comes from band-leader Freddie Barratt whofronts one of the two residentoutfits at the Grand Casino,Birmingham. For some time hehas been campaigning for stric-ter tempo in ballrooms, andcloser co-operation betweendancers and dance bandleaders.

Freddie is taking his tape re-cording unit round a number ofMidland ballrooms and bopclubs to record examples ofstrict tempo and progressivestyles while bands are actuallyin session.

FORUMThe bandleaders concerned

will then sit on a forum withprofessional ballroom dancersand boppers to hear the eccrd-ings played over and give theirviews on the respective styles.

It is believed that by arguingthings out in this way, a moresatisfactory tempo for Midlanddancers may result, and band-leaders will be left with a lotof useful information.

Freddie Barratt said: " I believe dance bands should playfor dancers and not the smallnumber of fans who appreciatecomplex playing. I also believeyou can play strict tempo thatis good to listen to as well asgood to dance to."

Having put this theory to thetest in his recent broadcast,which included no musicalgymnastics, the number of en-couraging letters he has readfrom dancer -listeners streng-thens his convictions.

Several Midland bandleadershave expressed their willingnessto take part in the forum. Mostagree it will serve an extremelyuseful purpose by getting across section of views both frommusicians and dancers.

BRIGHTON. - Royal AlbionHotel MD Richard Ames, whohas just had his contract thererenewed for the third consecu-tive season, is putting in a newmodern -style trio at the AdelphiHotel next door, to open onJuly 26 and play' six nightsweekly.

Personnel will be: Vic Connor(piano, accordion); HaroldMundell (guitar) and LenJames (bass).

Ames will front the Adelphigroup as often as Royal Albioncommitments permit, and hisLatin-American group from thelatter hostelry will also appearfrom time to time at theAdelphi.

THE GREAT CONTINENTAL SUCCESS

RENDEZVOUS(DO YOU REMEMBER)

s.o. 3/ -

CALLING ME HOME(WALTZ) S.O. 3/.

LOVE ME OR LEAVE MES.O. 4/ -

FROM THE WARNER BROS. FILM "I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS"

KEITH PROWSE & Co. Ltd., 43, Poland St., London, W.I

FRIDAY. JULY 18, 1952. 11

LES PAUL SURPRISEBehind the latest New York News with

Les Paul has heart attack.BEHIND THE NEWS: This is news

that has been rather jealouslyguarded since Saturday June21. Les suffered a slight attackin his dressing room at theParamount Theatre in NewYork City and missed twoshows while being examinedby a hastily called doctor.

The doctor advised Les tocancel the rest of his engage-ment for a vacation, but hedecided to finish the job firstand then take it easy for awhile.

The proposed vacation will notseriously 'hamper his futurecommitments.

I view the event with more con-cern than I would usually,because all of Les's energiesare needed now for furtherwork on the act. Their NewYork showing was largely dis-appointing, drawing neitherthe crowds nor the applauseof their last appearance.

The inevitable difficulty of stageperformances, when you'vegimmicked records has slowlycaught up to him even thoughthey have managed to giveMary two voices by having hersister sing with her, hiddenin the wings.

But the overall sound is missing,and the people are dissatisfied,I think, with what they hear.Some new and distinctivesongs and a distinctive sound,that can be done on the stage,are real necessities fromhereon.Columbia Records top hit

producer.BEHIND THE NEWS: Of the 179

published sides that ColumbiaRecords has issued in thefirst six months of this year,22 have been hits, giving thatcompany a 12.3 hit percentageas against an industry -wide4.2 per cent. Capitol Recordshas climbed steadily duringthis period, ending up nextstrongest with a 5.5 percent-age mark.Things not OK with Kaye.

BEHIND THE NEWS: A new kindof revolution has hit themusic business. Key sidemenfrom the Sammy Kaye bandhave left Kaye and formedtheir own orchestra which isdue to begin work soon.Actually, according to spokes-men for the band, the men areleaving for economic reasons.They insist that Kaye is reallyleaving them, because hehasn't tried to book the band.The band is booked for onlyone night in the next tenweeks. The news took themusic business by surprise. Noone seems to know what hashappened to Kaye, but it's

BILLCOSS

definite that he'll have to forma new band to meet any futurecommitments. MeanwhileKaye and his manager issueda report that it was all some-body's imagination.Duke Ellington planning new

concert.BEHIND THE NEWS : This kind of

news is always a big eventamong jazz fans. Yet it's asindefinite and frustrating newsas can be imag .ed. Duke hasa habit which At many peopleare familiar with. His com-posing is generally done at thelast minute, often after the pro-gramme notes have alreadybeen written. This accountsfor the difficulty some people

have in trying to follow agiven composition from thenotes at an Ellington concert.Right now, Duke is speakingcharacteristically and picture-squely about his new concert,describing his germ of anidea as a "kissy-pink" mus-tachioed germ dressed in themost flamboyant of clothes.

BRIEFINGS : N e llie Lutcherhas left Capitol Records for a tryat Columbia.... Bob Hope hasbeen signed by Decca Recordsto make an album with BingCrosby and Peggy Lee of bitsfrom their new picture, "Roadto Bali".. . . Trumpeters RoyEldridge and Erskine Hawkinshave a new combo . . . JohnnieRay got a gold record fromColumbia for hitting the twomillion mark on sales of hisrecord " Cry." Johnnie expectsto gross one million dollars thisyear. After fees and taxes thisshould amount to a 100,000dollar net. . .

Stapleton vocalists Jean Campbell, Dave Carey and MontyNorman, with bassist Tim Bell in a happy group at the

Stapleton Band Party.

BIG WINTER BREAK FOR SANTIAGOLATIN-AMERICAN bandleader Santiago Lopez,

whose departure from the Astor after a long resi-dency was announced in the June 20 NME, has nowsigned an exclusive representation contract withMaurice Kinn. The NME is able to announce that onOctober 6 Santiago's Orchestra will be taking up resi-dency in a famous West End club whose name we arenot at present permitted to divulge for contractualreasons.

Prior to this booking, theLatin-American group will beundertaking a series of varietyengage rents on a number onecircuit, as well as their first -ever one-night stand, at Wey-mouth, as soon as SantiagoLopez returns from a visit tohis native Spain.

Also signed to the new com-pany which Maurice Kinn isforming on his return fromAmerica at the beginning of

August, is the Arthur RowberryOrchestra,

The Rowberry band is cur-rently resident at the Astoria,Nottingham, and has beendoing such good business thatthere is every likelihood it willbe asked to play there againnext year. The current Astoriacontract ends on October 4, andKinn is now negotiating forthem to do a winter residentseason in the south of England.

Cyril Stapleton welcomes (1. to r.) Pearl Carr, BBC'sJohnnie Stewart and Johnny Johnston to his sixth band

party at the Celebrite on Tuesday.

LATINFORMATIONDURING

Ciro's summer clos-ure it was proposed that

Ramon Lopez should tourGermany. Negotiations for thishave now fallen through, con-sequently Ramon has decided totake his holidays now. Person-ality trumpeter Dennis Waltonis fronting the Lopez Orchestraa; Ciro's during Ramon'sabsence.

Ex Ros Trumpet Ronnie Millshas gone to Brighton for a shortseason fronting the Alex Os-borne band.

* * *Nervous breakdown forced

drummer Clinton Maxwell outof the Casino show " LatinQuarter." Leslie Weekes hasbeen depping for him, but nowhappy to report that Clinton isback looking as fit as ever.

* * *Milton Grayson, vocalist with

the Katherine Dunham show re-turned to the USA aboard the" Queen Mary" last week.Meanwhile the Dunham entour-age moves on to Copenhagen

* * *Vocalist Guy Loraine has now

returned to the Hermanos Denizband after a month's lay-offowing to glandular trouble

* * *Xavier Cugat, his Orchestra,

and Revue, opened at the Edge-water Beach Hotel in Chicago,on .June 13.

* * *I recently reported in the

NME columns that the Henna -nos Deniz Band were the firstL/A band to appear at theRoyal Festival Hall. The follow-ing week, reader G. Broadbent,of Barnsley, wrote in to say thatFrancisco Cavez was the first.

I have since received a letterfrom Don Phillipe contradictingboth by stating that he was thefirst band to appear there.

All contender, for the " Festi-val hall St ,xes are requestedto send in details and dates so

that the appropriate prize maybe awarded.

* * *Talking of controversy, in my

last column I spoke of " Deli-cado," I quoted : " There are noless than twenty-four differentrecordings of it."

Since then I understand thatthis has been topped by "PrettyBride." Although the officialfigures are not yet known, I amtold that in France alone, thereare over thirty recordings of it.Can anyone beat this ?

* * *A few months back the saying

was " Rags are the rage " ; thenit became " Waltzes are wonder-ful." Now it looks like " Tangosare tops."

" Blue Tango " and " Kiss OfFire " are still fighting it out fortop honours in the USA with" The Mask Is Off " creeping upbehind, and " Strange Sensa-tion " (based on the old " LaCumparsita ") looking like newcompetition.

* *New numbers worth a " look-

see " are " Blendeena," a Castil-lian waitz, written by FreddyGrant, and a guaracha " TheCuban Nightingale."

* * *The record label said " Noche

de Ronda " a bolero, played byNoro Morales and his Orches-tra. This number is not thetype that one usually associateswith Morales, so, thinking thatmaybe he had added some ofhis usual fireworks, I put therecord on and listened.

I heard, " Noche de Ronda "a bolero, played by NoroMorales and his Orchestra.Another authentic gone com-mercial ...!

* *Some very nice high register

trumpet can be heard on theLuis Arcaraz record of " Trum-pet Mambo."

GOURD TIME CHARLIE

Crosby to become a contractplayer at MGM ; to Ella MaeMorse, who was with FreddieSlack's brand new band in 1942when Phil fashioned the style -setting presentation of " Mr.Five By Five " that did so muchtowards putting both leader andvocalist on top ; only a fort-night ago Phil dropped in onFreddie at his new residentvenue, Billy Eckstine's " Cres-cendo " night club. There hemet the guitarist with the band-our own Dave Goldberg.Phil also worked in New Yorkwith Mildred Bailey on herweekly CBS radio show.

It is, as you must know, forhis vocal coaching that PhilMoore is probably best knownand highly respected, so aquote from him on this subjectseems very much in order :" What I try to do is to give a

FABULOUS PHILsinger an environment ; a soilin which to grow. A performercan only project convincinglyon a certain level, and to findthat level is the coach's firsttask.

" Dorothy Dandridge, fir in-stance, is far removed from thesultry climate of Lena Home,even though some people havetried to compare them. In short,one must be shown a way toexpress oneself, and not leanuncomfortably upon the styleof another, fundamentally dis-similar individual."

To say that Phil has theknack of bringing out the goodin others is a gross understate-ment. His list of one-time

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clients gives positive proof ofthis. To those previously named,add Vivian Blaine, GeorgiaGibbs, Billy Daniels (who sangon the 1945 HMV recording of" Together " with the PhilMoore Four), Perry Como andJulie Wilson with whom he wasappearing in London cabaretearlier this month.

Returning to MGM just over ayear ago he made a torch -singerout of Ave Gardner for her roleas Julie in " Show Boat."

As Music Ohief and ExecutiveVice -President of Discovery

Records he waxed his own majorinstrumental works includingconcertos for trombone andpiano, and a " Fantasy For GirlAnd Orchestra " which hecreated for Annette Warrenwhom we will shortly be seeingover here.

To write these, he tells us, " Ilived in an artist's hovel forsix months, with candlelight foratmosphere and an un-grandpiano."

In the last three and a halfyears Phil's record sales haverocketed to over three million,most of these being sides cut bythe Four.

He recently completed a car-toon short for UPA,

Many additional namesshould have been mentioned inthis narrative. A few of themare Harry James. Kostelanetz,Louis Armstrong, Hazel Scott,Woody Herman and Paul Is obe-son. Phil has had connectionswith them all at me time crmany.

That one man could accom-plish all that he has in a life-time would be remarkable. Inthirty-four years, it's a miracle !

* *FOOTNOTE: Phil Moore who

has just spent a 17 -day visit inLondon and Paris, flew backto his Carnegie Hall home fromHeathrow last Wednesday(16th).

Before he left, however, wewere able to get the exclusivepictures which head thisarticle.


James Asman reviews Alan Lomax's new book about

'THE INVENTOR OF JAZZ'

FERDINAND LAMEN TH E, better

known by the million -oddjazz lovers in Britain asJelly Roll Morton, claimedhe created jazz in NewOrleans around 1902, wouldrather have achieved fameas the world's champion bil-liard player, and died infear of Voodoo.

In May, 1938, Jelly RollMorton was invited to record thestory of his life for America'slong-haired Library of Con-gress. The recording took overa month, with Jelly playing thepiano of the Coolidge ChamberMusic Auditorium and talkingsoftly into the nearby micro-phone.

Only one or two completesets of albums are known to bein this country made from thishistorical recording date andthe cost of a set is nearly £50!

The story Jelly Roll Mortontold was the story of NewOrleans jazz music, born 50years ago along the muddywaters of the Mississippi River.

A unique picture ofJelly

taken

round

Roll Morton,

i n Chicago

about 1921-2.

As a young Creole in NewOrleans at the turn of the cen-tury he danced in the MardiGras festivals; sang the French -Negro street cries, and joinedhis family at church singingSpirituals and hymns.

Be fought in the street fightswith Negroes and whites, andsome of the legendary figures ofjazz fought with him. The musicaround New Orleans belongedto the marching brass bands,the dance hall string quartetsand the new generation of rag-time pianists.

Jelly was still in his earlyteens when he began to make aname as a rag pianist, playingthe marches of the brass bands,together with popular music ofthe day.

The cradle of jazz was theTenderloin district of NewOrleans around 1900, wide opento every slick gambler, everyhigh-stepping young Creole, andrich with blazing lights and thenew ragtime jazz of the GameKid, Scott Joplin, Tony Jackson,and young Ferdinand Jelly RollMorton.

Many years later Morton

BOOGIE FROM 'WAY BACKby HECTOR STEWARTROMEO NELSON" Head Rag Hop "

MONTANA TAYLOR" Indiana Avenue Stomp "

Recorded in Chicago, 5-9-29 and23-4-29 respectively.

(Vocalion V.1011)

ANOTHER from Vocalion's" Origins of Jazz" series,

which lives up to its descrip-tion more accurately than most.Whatever the origins of boogiewoogie, Romeo Nelson certainlyremains one of the most obscureand primitive -sounding pian-ists who ever recorded in theidiom.

It's a great pity that he com-pletely vanished after makingonly four sides. But as WilliamRussell mentioned in " Jazz-men," the South Side sectionwhere Nelson lived was levelledto the ground in the mid -thir-ties, and he might just as wellhave been buried in the debris.

"Head Hop " suggests whatthe music might have soundedlike in its raw, rural state be-fore coming to town where moreprogressive exponents got holdof it.

Nelson's playing, althoughcrude by such standards, pos-sessed a compelling vitality. Italso illustrates clearly some ofthe basic characteristics of the

music and the weird dissonan-ces arrived at by the left andright hand lines.

During his performance, Nel-son converses agreeably in twovoices-a trick of Pine Top'sfrom an earlier disc. He evencopies some of Pine Top's pat-ter. It fits well with the musicand makes for an entertainingas well as an historically valu-able item.

Montana Taylor was anotherof Chicago's early boogie men,although he had the good for-tune to be run to earth and re-corded again in 1946. Like mostoutstanding boogie players, hepossesses a highly personalstyle, although on rather moreconventional lines than Nel-son's.

In his piece he commemoratesone of the South Side's mostrenowned thoroughfares, com-bining thoughtful phrasing withfine swing and enthusiasm.

THERE were several kinds ofcornet on Brighton beach

last Sunday (12th) when theCranford and Albemarle JazzClubs took coach to Brightonand presented the Crane Riverand Albemarle bands to packedbreakwaters in a pre -lunchsand -dance.

heard a broadcast by Bluescomposer W. C. Handy, whowrote " St. Louis Blues " claim-ing to be the originator of jazzand the Blues. He blew up andsent a 4.000 -word letter to theRipley " Believe It or Not "programme.

" It is evidently known,beyond contradiction, that NewOrleans is the cradle of jazz,and I, myself, happened to bethe creator in the year 1902,"stated Jelly Roll.

It was this outburst, in 1938,that gave Morton a chance toregain the spotlight he had lostfor several years. He mademore records and finally visitedthe Library of Congress to tellthe colourful tale cf NewOrleans jazz.

Morton's records, and manyare obtainable on HMV andother labels in this country,prove him to be a great ragtimepianist, a fine musician and aperfect jazz arranger. Hisnumerous recordings with hisRed Hot Peppers on HMV arenow acknowledged to beamongst the greatest jazz onwax in the world.

Jelly Roll Morton, christenedFerdinand La Menthe, sufferedfrom the music slump in theStates along with other jazzidols. Work grew less easy tofind and his recordings ceased.He too had trouble with the

Union and from 1930 saw a con-stant run of bad luck.

He met up with a West Indiansong writer and they becamebusiness partners. When theyquarrelled Jelly believed himselfto be the victim of a Voodoocurse. Coloured powder sappeared in various places inhis office and Morton was infear of his life.

He finally fell ill and died inLos Angeles in 1941. His under-taker stole the diamond set inhis front teeth, and Jelly RollMorton, " Mister Jelly Roll",robbed of hundreds of tunes andsong s during his lifetime,robbed of fame and fortunewhen he greW older, sufferedthe final indignity in his coffin.

Alan Lomax, who recordedMister Jelly Roll at theLibrary of Congress back in1938, has now published thestory of this fabulous characterof real jazz based on thescores of records he made inWashington. The book, "MisterJelly Roll " (Cassells, 18s.), isan exciting drama of jazz,American history, folk loreand Voodoo practices.It is the story of Jelly Roll

Morton, the fortunes; of a NewOrleans Creole, the " Inventorof jazz", told simply and feel-ingly by a man steeped in thesubject who writes with author-ity, intelligence and insight.

Two well-known jazz guestsare here seen starting out forthe Royal Wedding on Tues-day. Pianist Ralph Sutton ison right, with Sinclair Traill,

chairman of the NFJO.

An interesting appendix tothe book is the music andlyrics of some of Jelly Roll'sfamous numbers, and a 40 -pagediscography by Thomas Cusackis included in a very good18s. -worth.

JAZZ ROUND -UPJOHN SELLS, the trombonist

with the Locarno Jazz Band,was celebrating his last hoursof freedom on Friday, July 12,at the Catford Jazz Club whenthe band made a surprise visit.

In a bright evening of livejazz they shared the bandstandwith George Webb's Dixie-landers and the Mike JeffersonTrio. John Sells, by the waywas married the next day toMaureen Ancion at the HolyTrinity Church, Southall.

Meanwhile the Locarno JazzBand play every Sunday night(correct your copy of NFJOBlue Book which lists Saturday)at their own club at the ViaductInn, Hanwell.

Robin Scutt rang us up theother day to remind us of theexcellent series of jazz broad-casts on the BBC French Ser-vice -224 metres between 8.30p.m. and 9 p.m. On July 13,Robin featured the London JazzGroup, a pick-up group com-posed of Arthur Mouncey ontrumpet, George Chisholm ontrombone, Billy Amstell (clari-net), Mike McKenzie at thekeyboard, Joe Deniz and hisguitar, Tiny Winters (bass) andJock Cummings on drums.

After seven years, this is areincarnation of the jam sessiopmusic made popular by Robinand Mark White, featuringmusicians from the old Ambroseband and the RAF Quintet.

On July 20 Max Jones isscheduled to present a recitalon the Blues starting at 8.20p.m., and Denis Preston giveshis quarterly "Jazz Roundabout"on July 27, beginning at thesame time. August 3 is aListeners' Requests programme,whilst colleague Hector Stewartof the NME will talk on KansasCity bandleader Bennie Motenon August 10. Why leave it allto the French?

* * *Cyril Scutt, of Boogie Woogie

piano fame, is looking for agood bass player to fill out hisTrio to a Quartet. Cyril tells

me that he also interested infinding another George Melly-any offers?

He could also use a girl jazzvocalist, and you can contacthim c/o JAZZ PAGE, NEWMUSICAL EXPRESS, 5, DenmarkSt., London, W.C.2.

Meanwhile Cyril is busy tour-ing seaside towns during thishot, sunny weather with NewBrighton fixed up for July 20,Morecambe on August 3 andHastings on the 10th.

* *Ron Simpson's Commodores

are featured every Thursdaynight at the Club du Fauborgin New Compton Street, W.C.2.,home of the old Delta JazzClub.

Lonnie Donegan's Jazz Band,who also will be presented atthe " Jazz Matinee" show atBattersea Festival Gardens onSaturday, July 19 at 3 p.m.,play every Monday night at theSouth London Rhythm Club atthe " Harrow Inn ", AbbeyWood, S.E.2.

George Webb's Dixielanderscan be found every Fridaynight at the Catford Jazz Club," King Alfred Tavern ", Catford,S.E.6. George Melly accom-panies Mick Mulligan and hisMagnolia Jazz Band aroundtown and can be found on Wed-nesdays at the Worcester ParkJazz Club, " Queen Victoria ",North Cheam, and Fridays atthe West End Jazz Club, 44Gerrard Street, Soho.

Neva Raphaello guests at theCatford Jazz Club every Friday,and on Saturday and Mondayat the London Jazz Club inOxford Street. Good hunting!

* * *After Saturday, July 26, " Jazz

Matinee" will not remain aweekly feature at the BatterseaFestival Gardens. The NFJOhas decided to cancel this showat the Fun Fair owing to thepoor attendances recorded atthe turnstiles at the Gardenssince the season began.

* * *The latest edition of the

NFJO Southern Area Bulletin,"South " has come to hand withsome more news of activities inthe " Deep South".

The main items include newsthat the Southampton RhythmClub has closed down for thesummer, the Winchester andDistrict Jazz Club has nowadded live jazz to their meet-ings in the form of the Pine CityStompers from Bournemouthand the Portsmouth Jazz Band,and several famous Southernmodern groups have broken up.

First of these is the RonnieHorler Quintet, winner of anumber of " Musical Express "contest awards. The Horlergroup also aired on BBC JazzClub last April in an outsidebroadcast from the Southamp-ton Rhythm Club. Ronnie andpianist Ray Ember are joiningBert Osborne's local danceorchestra.

Jimmie Kerr and his Orches-tra, with their Royal Pier Pavi-lion contract completed, alsodisband. Leader Jimmie will beoccupying a music stool for asummer cruise on the Mediter-ranean-lucky man!

* * *Snub Moseley's Band, visiting

Butlin's Holiday Camp recently,have long since been intro-duced to British Jazz enthus-siasts via their records on theBrunswick label.

Snub, ably handling a slidetrumpet (second cousin to atrombone), leads a small groupconsisting of Willard Brown(reeds), Bob Carroll (trumpet),Call Cobb on piano, FrankClarke (bass) and A. Godley ondrums in a 1941 recording of" Snub's Blues " on Brunswick03449.

A later release, made in 1942,features Moseley again on slidetrumpet with Buster Smith onalto, Courtney Williams ontrumpet, Hank Duncan (piano),John Brown (bass) and JoeSmith on drums with " Blues atHigh Noon " on Brunswick03462.


CONFINED to a. NewYork hospital bed, the

flaming talent of pianistBud Powell is now burninglow. Tomorrow, perhaps, itwill be brighter than ever,for such is the unpredict-ability of this unfathomableman.

HIE WILD-EYED

GENIUS

MIKE BUTCHER discusses the

paradox of great bop pianist

BUD

POWELLAlmost half his time in recent

years has been spent undermedical supervision for mentaldisorders. The other half, hehas devoted to producing Aisleof unquestionable logic andcoherence.

It was in November, 1944,that your correspondent firstbecame aware that Earl Powell,featured soloist with Cootie

Williams and his Orchestra, wasno ordinarily competent hack.

A review of the band byLeonard Feather in " Metro-nome " had suggested thatthe twenty -year -old boy livedup to his name by sounding likea compromise between EarlHines and Mel Powell, buthearing was believing, thoughwhat was to be heard at theSavoy Ballroom almost passedbelief.

Here was a technician withthe kind of facility that makesall things seem possible, and a

profundity of ideas that

All the way fromSables-d'Or-les-Pins, Friday.

HERE at Sables d'Or, things" are very beautiful and veryquiet. There is so much sandthat it takes a good ton minutesto reach the sea, so I've hadplenty of time en route to rumi-nate about the jazz scene I leftbehind in London.

The present may be somewhatstagnant (see "Attack," NME,25/4/52), but as far as soloistsare concerned, the future lookspretty bright to me.

* * *There are so many young-

sters all over the country whohave the right idea and theright approach to modern jazz,and it will be a crime if theseboys are not encouraged andgiven an opportunity to developtheir ideas.

* *My personal choice for the

Outstanding New Soloist of theYear is definitely 25 -year -oldtenorman from Blackpool, RoySidwell. I've heard him on fivedifferent occasions now, andthough like the best in anysphere of life, he has his shareof " off -moments," he has neverfailed to impress me.

What I like best about Roy'splaying is the way he takesabout five choruses at a time,feeling his way round the chan-ges, and all the time building upto an inspired but always taste-ful climax.

* *Don Rendell is about the only

established star to whom I cancompare him in this respect-and talking of Don, What apleasure it always is to hearhim blow, especially when he'sfronting a rhythm section withTommy Whittle. Don't think I'veever heard two tenormen withso much mutual musicalsympathy.

* * *Reverting to the " new boy "

situation, there are severalothers around who should havematured in a couple of years orso, notably tenorman GeoffAlderson (Carl Barriteau) andJohnny Marshall (Teddy Fos-ter), both of whom have whatit takes to be stars of to-morrow.

* * *On alto, there's Geoff Taylor,

whom I haven't heard for acouple of months now, and theNorthampton boy, Roy East,

Brittany come this week's

HALLMARKS

who should come to London tolearn and listen. On trombone,Tony Russell and Ken Wray(though by no means new tothe profession) are at last be-ginning to receive the recog-nition they so rightly deserve.

* * *Among the pianists, there's

Ralph Dollimore of course-themost original piano stylist we'vehad for several years; BillMcGuffie his somewhatBruebeckish inflections; HarrySouth, who's beginning to get alot of sessions now; a youngsterjust out of the RAF namedMaurice Biella; and an enigmafrom Scotland, Pat Smyth,whose work is well-known tomost London piano modernists.

* *The best young drummer I've

heard this year is Alan Ganley,now with Jimmy Walker. Ithink he'll be pretty good

And, thank goodness, at lastpeople are beginning to rea-

rise that in Phil Seaman, wehave possibly the greatest big -band drummer this side of theAtlantic.

* * *Guitarists? Ex -Fox sideman

Ray Dempsey is a name to re-member, and Ken Sykora, too.On bass, Stan Wasser and PeteBlannin are the two compara-tively new boys who stand outover the past year or so. Andthere's a bassist who also playspiano, Kenny Napper (in theArmy at the moment) who lookslike Johnny Dankworth'sbrother. Remember his name,too. He's got the right idea.

* *And last of all, trumpeters.

Here, the position is very sad.After the advent of Messrs.Hunter, Deuchar and Blair,there's been no one, and Ihaven't even heard of any pos-sible future stars. Perhaps youhave? If so, wish you'd let usknow. Surely there are some inScotland?

Well, I must go. It's time foran aperitif. Hope all this hasn'tbored you. It's so beautiful here,wish you could all share itwith me. I'll be back in town onthe 19th, so maybe we'll seesome of you then? For now,au 'voir!

TONY HALL.

Tony Hall introduces tenor -star Tommy Whittle to the Musicfor Moderns' Jazz Club at Reading on a recent visit.

securely harnessed the cascad-ing streams of notes.

Powell recorded with Cootieon Hit, Majestic and Capitol,and stayed with him for almostthree years. He was subse-quently heard along 52nd Streetwith Gillespie, Don Byas andAllen Eager and on wax withCharlie Parker, Jay -Jay John-son, Kenny Clarke and othersuntil his first serious bout ofillness forced him out of circu-lation throughout 1948.

InspirationSince then, he has worked

spasmodically, usually with hisown trio, but his unreliablemental state has robbed Bud ofany real security.

Long and widely assessed asthe greatest of all pianists toemerge during the bop era, BudPowell hap been a source ofinspiration to almost all hiscontemporaries, His own stylecertainly stems basically fromHines, as Leonard Feather sug-gested, but a more direct com-parison can be made with BillyKyle.

Several combo sides featuringBud are available on British

labels-those with Charlie Par-ker on Savoy, such as " ChasM'The Bird " and " Donna Lee,"and " Royal Roost " with KennyClarke (HMV) are reasonablyrepresentative - but from hissolo sessions we are only offered"'Ornithology " and " You GoTo My Head " by Vogue, neitherof which could be called quin-tessence of Powell.

RecordingsIn America, two LP sets de-

voted to his work have beenput out by Mercury Records,another by Roost and a fourthby Blue Note. Between them,they display every facet of hisgreatness, from the contempla-tive " Body and Soul" (on thesecond Mercury record) to thenonchalance of " SomebodyLcves Me " and the dazzlingpyrotechnics of " Indiana "(both Roost).

There is a possibility of fur-ther Powell issues by BritishVogue, drawn from Roost orBlue Note masters, but disap-pointing sales of the " Orni-thology " " You Go To MyHead " coupling make this lessthan likely at present.

RECORD REVIEWHarry Klein, with the Ronnie Ball Trio

" Negotiation " (Klein). " Cu-Ba " (Payne, Fuller).(Esquire 10-236)

Harry Klein (baritone saxophone) ; Ronnie Ball(piano) ; Pete Blannin (bass) ; Tony Kinsey (drums).SCRAPING the bottom of the barrel that Ronnie

Ball filled to the brim prior to his departure forthe States, Esquire Records have come up with alucky dip.

Your reviewer has long held the opinion thatlittle Harry made a smart move when he bought abig horn to stack alongside his alto. His train ofmusical thought is best expressed in the lowerregisters, where his sound also sits most comfortablyand his control seems super -sure.

" Negotiation " is as tuneful a theme as you couldwish to meet, and the variations never fall out ofline. Not all the phrases are fresh, but they are setdown in fluent order, and Keep swinging gently along.

Ronnie's solo spot is not all one might have hopedfor, but as a unit the Trio offers an object -lesson inunanimity of purpose and rhythmic subtlety.

You may know " Cu-Ba " from Charlie Barnet'sCapitol version, or perhaps you heard the arrange-ment of it that Harry wrote for the short-lived KennyBaker band. It is a side that the boys did not reallywish to make, though as a stylised routine it has itspoints.

THE SWEDISH FANS ANDARNE DOMNERUS

WHILE most modernists con-tinue to shake their heads

in wonder at the alto wizardryof Arne Domnerus, whoseappearance at the NFJO's RoyalFestival Hall jazz concert madesense out of the shambles, atleast one of Arne's compatriotsbegs to differ.

" Domnerus gave no real ideaof what he can do" insists BjornFremer, before leaving townafter a ten-day visit. " Hiswhole individuality was lost,and all that he played was justsecondhand Parker.

" Arne is really an extremelypersonal player, you know. Thenearest comparison I can thinkof is the way Johnny Dank -worth used to sound in 1949,v hen he visited Sweden to workwith Domnerus on a series ofSidney Bechet concerts. Theyboth registered so strongly thenthat it is impossible to saywhich was the better."

Fremer, we should point out,is one of Sweden's foremost jazzexperts. He contributes to both" Estrad " and " Orkester Jour-

nalen," the country's two inter-nationally famous popularmusic periodicals, and hasspoken about jazz on the radio.

He is a student lawyer atLund University, 22 years old,and, in his own words, one whotakes music very seriously. "Iam working hard to makepeople understand that jazz isan art," he told us.

Somewhat surprisingly, henames Charlie Parker as themost intelligent musician he hasever met, and we have askedhim to elucidate this viewpointfor a future issue,

Reverting to Domnerus, Bjornstressed how disappointed Arnewas at not being able to playwith the Geraldo Orchestra onhis London appearance.

" In Sweden, there are no bigbands, and Dampen - that'swhat we call him-was lookingforward to this unique experi-ence. He had bought arrange-ments from Lars Guilin, GunnarSvenseri and Gosta Theselius, aswell as writing some himself."


CAN YOU WRITE ALYRIC FOR £25

A NEW type of songwritingcompetition which should

have a wide appeal, can beheard in Rowntree's " Stars ofthe Evening" programme, broad-cast Monday to Friday at 7.45p.m. over Radio Luxembourg.

From now until August 1,there will be played on the pro-gramme each evening a waltzcalled " Waltz Without Words,"written by a well-known figurein the music business under thenom -de -plume of EdwardPowell.

Listeners are invited to sub-mit lyrics to fit the music, andthe winning lyric-which will beselected by Gordon Crier (pro-ducer of the series) and repre-sentatives of the Decca RecordCo. and Francis, Day & Hunter,Ltd.-will earn its author acheque for £25, plus the usualauthor's royalties for subse-quent record and sheet musicsales.

Messrs. Francis, Day & Hunter,have agreed to publish the win-ning lyric, and the Decca RecordCompany will record it Thetune itself is already availableto the public recorded by CyrilStapleton's Orchestra on DeccaF.9939, and sheet music copiesare already on sale from F D& H.

Closing date for entries isAugust 5, and entries should besent to Rowntree's at 40 Berke-ley Square, London, W.1-notto the NME.

BANDS AT THE

HOLIDAY RESORTS

BRIGHTONNorfolk Hotel: Jeffery EssexPalace Pier: Burt GreenAquarium: AI Collins

BROADSTAIRSPavilion: C. Barker

CLACTONButlins: Eric Winstone, Len RookerOcean: Maurice DixonKay's Bar, Butlin's: Gil CoombsBlue Lagoon: Teddy Dobbs

CLIFTONVILLECafé Normandie: Murray PilcerCliff Café: Murray Pilcer

DOUGLAS, I.O.M.Derby Castle Ballroom: Stanley Barnett

EASTBOURNEPier Ballroom: Tommy WoolfDevonshire Park T.: Norman Burns

FILETButlin's: Albert Dunlop

GT. YARMOUTHWellington Pier: Burt GaleyMarina: WardiniBritannia Pier: Neville BishopRegal T.: Harold Hall

LLANDUDNOWinter Garden Ballroom:

Laurie WilliamsonLONDON

Festival Gardens: Bernard SteinFestival Gardens: Billy WellsFestival Gardens: John Thorpe

(Military)Festival Hall: John Farley

NEW BRIGHTONPier: Eddie Mendoza

PAIGNTONCharles Shadwell

PRESTATYNHoliday Camp: Leon Cochran

PWLLHELIButlin's: Ivy BensonButlin's: Wilf Green

RAMSGATEPavilion: Eddie Payne

SCARBOROUGHSpa Royal Hall: George Crow

SKEGNESSDerbyshire Miners' Holiday Camp:

Johnny RobinsButlin's: Syd SeymourButlin's: AI FreidButlin's: Cecil Black

SOUTHPORTLord St. Boulevarde: Jimmy Leach

SOUTHSEASouth Parade Pier: Frank Lane

WESTCLIFFBandstand: Don Rico

WEYMOUTHPier Bandstand: Ralph Sharon

WHITBYSpa Pavilion: Reginald King

YARMOUTH, I.O.W.Savoy Holiday Camp: Laurie Home

DANCE BAND

NEWS FROM THE

ISLE OF WIGHTGIG -KING George Wilkinson

has built up a very fineconnection during his six years'residence at the Isle of Wight,supplying bands for many firstclass hotels as well as clubs anddance -halls all over the island.

A multi -instrumentalist, play-ing solovox, marimba, drumsvibes and tenor, George leadshis own eight -piece residentgroup at the Winter Garden,Ventnor; the rest of the line-upbeing, George Pharoah (pianoaccdn.), Ted Day (drums),Hugh Cook (bass), Reg Davies(guitar and vocals), Cyril Daish(trumpet arranger), Charles(Chip) Aram (tenor); andAuthur Lewis (trombone).RAF SQUARE DANCERS

Such is the pressure ofengagements handled by Georgethat his brother, drummer JackWilkinson, has left London andtaken up residence down thereto help out both musically andin a managerial capacity.

One of George's many com-mitments-and rather a novelone at that-is a weekly visit toan RAF camp at Calshott, whichentails a half-hour trip over ona launch supplied by thepromoters, complete with eight -piece band, caller, and a teamof eight demonstrators forsquare-dancing.

George was late on paraderecently owing to car troubleand arrived to see the launchalready out to sea, and theonlookers were treated to thespectacle of George in" National " costume of highly -coloured check shirt and bluejeans, frantically hopping updown and waving his arms toattract attention,HOLIDAY CAMP GROUP

Fortunately he was spotted bysomeone on the boat and itreturned to pick him up.

These square dances aremeeting with enormous success.

Another snappy little outfitpleasing the steady flow ofvisitors to Warner's HolidayCamp at Puckpool is the RonnieMack Quartet.

With Ronnie who leads ontenor (and doubles piano andfunny man) are George Fother-gill (piano); Ian Leal (drums);Owen Tong (guitar).

Before landing the respon-sible job of bandleader at theholiday camp Ronnie waspianist with George Wilkinsonat the " Ritzy " Starboard Clubat Seaview, where he nightlydelighted the patrons with hisvivid impressions of NellieLutcher, Fats Waller, Hutch,etc.

POP SONG BY STRAIGHT

COMPOSERYOUNG film music composer

Malcolm Arnold, whosework on such films as " CurtainUp," " The Holly And The Ivy "and " Sound Barrier," as wellas many orchestral composi-tions which have earned himhigh praise from many eminentmusicians including Sir AdrianBoult, has just written a pop.

Composed for the film " ItStarted In Paradise," and withlyrics by author ,and TV" What's My Line? " personalityMarghanita Laski, the song-" Young Love "-is to be fea-tured in a cabaret sequenceand sung by Diana Decker.

BRITISH SUCCESSIN BARCELONA

Reavey Gains SecondPlace in World SoloAccordion Trophy

TAMES REAVEY, dynamicaccordion star, won second

place in the World Solo Accor-dion Trophy (organised by theNational Association of SpanishAccordionists on behalf of theWorld Accordion Confedera-tion) in Barcelona, Spain, onJune 15 last. He was laterspecially featured in the Festi-val Concert held there.

JAMES REAVEY

The other British success wasMartin Lukins who came fifth.First place was gained byEgidio Benadusi (Italy) withRodger Maniet (Belgium) third,Amleto Zonca (Italy) fourth(he is also first accordionist inthe Frontalini Orchestra).

Fifteen -year -old winne r,Egidio Benadusi, also. SoloAccordion Champion of Italy,will be well remembered byaccordion fans who atter dedthis year's BAA Accordion Fes-tival, when Roy Herbert wrotein the NME (see report, May30 issue) that " Benadusi'sextremely high standard ofplaying and technique madehim star of the day."

Curzon St. Serenade!GENTLEMEN taking the air

late o' nights along CurzonStreet (not to mention an inter-esting assortment of late -nightladies) have been assimilatinga pleasant dosage of serenademusic on accordion, waftingdown from the roof -top restau-rant now part of the swank LaRue Club.

Twentieth-century accordiontroubadour Don Barrigo hasbeen keeping up sweet music tomatch soft lights, with a fieryfifteen minutes of Hungariangypsy fiddle to spark thesession, when " 21 Club "violinist Seisal arrives to puthis own hall -mark on the pro-ceedings.

Perched high above rtreetlevel accordionist Barrigo thusoffers melodic strains not onlyto the cosmopolitan LaRueclientele, but also to CurzonStreet passers-by!

" Box Biographies"IVOR RAYMONDE

BORN London, October 27,1926. First became in-

terested in music at the ageof six when he started toteach himself the piano. Atthe age of seven he com-menced piano tuition. Wonschool scholarship for TrinityCollege of Music, London,where he studied piano, har-mony, etc., until the age offifteen.

About this time his interestin music started to slack offand he left Trinity College.Some months after this Ivorwas coaxed into a local semi-professional band, playingpiano. Then joined accor-dionist Paul Heimann andplayed gigs in and aroundtown. At 18 was called up forNational. Service as a coal -miner. After nine months'service he was released fromservice as unfit.

Together Ivor and PaulHeimann joined with JohnnyDenis which was the start ofthe now well-known " Ranch-ers." After a period ofeighteen months Paul leftJohnny and Ivor bought hisfirst accordion to take Paul'splace in the outfit, also doingspecial arrangement's for thegroup, and for their manyBBC broadcasts.

Was with Johnny Denis forfour years, then had a spellwith Al Tabor at Murray's,playing piano and accordion,and with Frank Abbott asaccordionist on the " Queen

Mary." Frank took the bandto the Norfolk Hotel wherethey were resident for almosttwo years, later forming a bigband for a resident job inSouthsea.

Ivor stayed at the Norfolkand formed his own sextet,which he now leads on accor-dion and vocals

Hobby : Arranging.Favourite accordionists:

Micky Binelli and Joe Mooney.Favourite record : " Septem-

ber Song," by Joe Mooney.Favourite like : Lockshen

soup.Dislike : Big-time attitudes.Hopes for the future : To

own fourteen different newsuits.

LUKINS' LUCKY WEEKTHIS

week is certainly a luckyone for accordionist Martin

Lukins (thrice winner of theBAA British solo trophy).

Last Monday evening (14th)Martin appeared on the televi-sion programme " Shop Win-dow." He played, with his usualbrilliant technique, " Tea ForTwo " and his own composition" Phoebe " a bright, fast num-ber He is not only a wonder-ful player but has a welcomepresentation with a friendlysmile and poise-a lesson to belearnt by many accordionistswho compete in various contests.

For Saturday's " Music Hall "Home programme Martin haschosen " Bel Viso " by Frosini,and his own arrangement of" Liniehouse Blues." Accordionfans who have not heard Martinshould catch " Music Hall " to-morrow. MARTIN LUKINS

The Albert Delroy TrioTHE Albert Delroy Trio is

welcomed back on the airon Wednesday, July 23, at 6.30(Home) and Friday, August 1,at noon on the Light pro-gramme, playing their usualtip-top Continental music. Thetrio consists of Albert Delroy(accordion), George Elliot

(guitar), Len Cushion (bass)with vocalist Julie Dawn,

Albert has a solo broadcasttomorrow (Saturday) July 19from Radio Diffusion, Paris.

One of the busiest accordion-ists in town, Albert still broad-casts with Michaeloff, Troise,and Roberto Inglez.

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FABULOUS FELDMAN'S 100Oxford Street, Sunday. DizzyReece's Fantastic Orchestra,Robert Feldman Quartet,Maurice Burman.

NEW JAZZ SOCIETY meet-ing TUESDAY, Ju:y 22. TheCranbourne, Great NewportStreet, London, W.C.2. Com-mencing 8 p.m. prompt. Guestrecitalist ERNEST BORNEMAN.Admission ls. 6d. (members)2s. 6d. (non-members).

SLOUGH PALAIS de DanseTuesday, July 22nd, The Club 59Group featuring Tommy Whittleon tenor, 7.45-11.15. Admission2s. 9d. Jive or listen in comfort.

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NEWS AND CHATTER OF THE MUSIC BUSINESSHALLO, there ! Here's the

news from the Alley thisweek, and first a welcome toEddie Kassner. He's over hereon a business trip, and he's stillthe same old Eddie.

* * *I was at the private showing

of the new British Technicolorcomedy, " Penny Princess "-and comedy it is! It's really greatand a credit to our film studios,who in the past have alwaysmanaged to achieve great emi-nence with their dramas, butnot so with their attempts atslapstick.

There's the one song, publishedby Sun Music, and which I toldyou about a couple of weeksago. It was written by ValGuest, is called, " It's a Fine,Fine Night," and I'd say it hasa great chance of success.

It's very similar to the song" It's a Grand Night for Sing-ing" (remember it?), and ifthat caught on, I don't see whythis shouldn't.

* * *Bouquet to BBC: Thank you

for at last realising the listeningpotential of top-ranking dancemusic instrumentalists, andallowing us to hear such fineperformers as Ken Mackintoshin " Guest Night " and FreddyRandall, etc., in a weekly in-strumental spot in " Calling AllForces." Keep up the good work,BBC! It's a pleasure to compli-ment you.

Incidentally, heartiest con-gratulations to Ken Mackintoshfor his superb rendering of" Harlem Nocturne." It wasgreat!

* * *News from the Rabin orches-

tra is that singer Marjorie Dawrejoins the outfit after a sllc-cessful cabaret season at homein Johannesburg. Oscar him-self returned fit and bronzedafter his Mediterranean cruise,and leader David Ede is backafter his honeymoon.

"Lady of Spain") Evans is leav-ing for a business trip to theStates on August 19, aboard the"Caronia." I wonder what hehas up his sleeve this time ?

* * *Humphrey Lyttelton will be

doing his second commercialbroadcast on Saturday after-noon, July 26, from 3 p.m. to3.25 p.m.

* * *I wrote the other week that

Phil Tate was not one of ourmost talked -of outfits. If hecontinues to turn in such finebroadcasts as he has done onhis past couple of sessions, hewill be!

* * *Donald Phillips has just re-

turned from touring Malayawith Donald Peers and hasbrought back a new composi-tion to add to his alreadyfamous works such as " Con-certo in Jazz," " SkyscraperFantasy," etc. This opus he hasdedicated to the Malayan forcesand is titled " Jungle Patrol."As usual, it is published byLawrence Wright.

* * *Pleased to see that Frank

Chacksfield has his own bandspot in the new " Up the Pole "series.

* *I wonder whether Australian

pianist, Ray Hartley, and SamBrowne, the writers of "Let's DoIt Again " have in fact done itagain, with their new compo-sition, " Start Singing a Song."Publishers Eddie Cox & Co.,are hoping so, and after hear-ing Vera Lynn and her version,there's quite a possibility.

* *There's a film now on general

release, called "Wide Boy,"which carries the hauntingBlues theme music written byEric Spear which I told youabout some weeks ago. In thefilm this theme is played by

THE BIG SECRET OF THE YEAR !I hasten to reassure the A and R men concerned, thatalthough I know their secret, I will definitely not divulgetheir names in connection with their signing to take overPhillips and American Columbia at the end of the year.

You have my word, gentlemen !

Listen out for a new trio thatwill be commencing a series atthe end of August. It will consistof Allegro pianist Ann Denys,bassist Joe Nussbaum, andguitarist Ike Isaacs.

* * *Tolchard (" If ", " Unless ",

" Faith ", " Life's Desire ",

Max Goldberg on trumpet,Andy McDevitt, clarinet, andMax Abrams, drums.

*Joe Saye Trio have a " Music

Hall " broadcast on August 9.It's about time we heard thisgreat trio on some dance musicsessions.

From the United Artists Film " HIGH NOON "THE SENSATIONAL

HIGH NO(DO NOT FORSAKE ME MY DARLING)

Recorded byTEX RITTER (CAPITOL) LITA ROZA (DECCA) BILL HAYES (M.G.M.)

WILF THOMAS (PARLOPHONE) FRANKIE LAME (COLUMBIA)

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LADY LOVE*

WHAT GOOD IS A GAL WITHOUT A GUYOrchestrations : F.O. 4/- each

ROBBINS MUSIC CO.23, Denmark Street, London, W.C.2. TEM 4685

Curious twist for conductorGeorge Melachrino. He is nowno longer employed by HMV,but is an RCA -Victor artist, andis on the American company'spayroll, although his recordswill still, of course, be put outin this country by HMV.

* *I hear a whisper that a lyric

far the fabulous " Blue Tango "is on its way over from theStates

* * *Max Ophuls, the man who

directed the great French film,

They're performing it againtomorrow morning in theirHome Service series, so why notgive a listen? It'll be worthwhile.

Incidentally, when the North-ern Variety Orchestra go onholiday on August 17, guess whois the orchestra chosen todeputise for them on " VarietyFanfare " ? It's none other thanTED HEATH.

* * *I rather think that Northern

pianist Ken Frith is to be con-gratulated. He .did his third

" The Alley Cat," on this page, praises Phil Tate and hisBand, at the Hammersmith Palais, so here is a specially -

taken NME picture of the band.

" La Ronde," is now in Salz-burg, making a picture for aBritish company that will fea-ture the music of Mozart. Mr.Ophuls will be coming to, thiscountry during next month, andwill be staying with his oldfriend, music publisher HarryRalton.

* * *I hear that Sam Browne and

his singing associate young AnnGray stepped in for TessieO'Shea at Shepherds BushEmpire last Saturday evening,when Tessie was taken ill sud-denly. The couple went downso terrifically, that in conse-quence many offers of Stolldates have been offered. You'llbe hearing this delightful pairin " Music Hall " next month,August 23, so then you canjudge for yourself.

* *A new show was recorded up

in Manchester last week. You'llbe hearing it on August 19, andit stars Al Read. Other stars inthe show were Jimmy Edwardsand Louise Traill.

* * *There's quite an interesting

divorce case coming up shortly.It'll involve several mostfamous names , end won't thetongues be wagging !

* * *Best of luckto ex -plugger

Maurice Clark who has nowjoined Michael Barclay at Melo-disc Records as his exploitationmanager.

Alyn Ainsworth and hisNorthern Variety Orchestra dida fine job on the first performance of Robert Farnon's newcomposition " Alcan Highway ".

In case you're wonderingwhere Bob got this title from,it may interest you to knowthat the Alcan Highway, was atrain route built specially inCanada, which stretched toAlaska, so that the evacuationof Canada could be completedin case of invasion by the Japs.

multi -recorded broadcast in" Fanfare " this week and veryexpertly, too. Seems he recordsone part with a rhythm sectionbefore transmission.

He then records a secondpart, and the final disc is thenplayed to him through head-phones on the actual broadcast,where he then plays the top lineover the lot. All this in front ofa large audience. Sooner himthan me !

Curious thing is that itsounds great, so again I say,well done, Ken Frith.

* * *I hear that singer David

Hughes is due to go into the TVHit Parade from the 28th of thismonth.

News of GeorgeTHE many fans of George

Shearing will be pleased toknow that his Quintet, currentlyat IBirdland in New York, isplaying to capacity business.

Line-up, after some recentchanges, now reads Dick Garciaon guitar; Marquis Foster,drums; Al McKibbon, bass; JoRoland, vibes; with Georgeleading from piano, of course.

Foster is deputising forDenzil Best, who recently hada leg broken in a car accident.Unfortunately for Denzil, theleg was set but did not healproperly, so he has had to haveit broken again and re -set.

Something that will surprisereaders, I think, is that inDecember George will be play-ing a concert with the RochesterSymphony Orchestra at theEastman School of Music, inwhich he will be playing Rach-rnaninoff's Symphony No. 2-ifthe Braille manuscript comesthrough in time for George tomemorise the work.

The Shearing group will soonbe starting another tour withBilly Eckstine, and expect tocover something like 75,000mIlea ill seventy dagll.r-8 R,

MUSICCHARTS

As a service to our readerswe have arranged with "TheBillboard," the U.S. show tradepaper, to reproduce its MusicPopularity Charts.

The Charts appearing beloware the latest to reach us byair.

RECORDS MOST PLAYEDBY DISC -JOCKEYS

Last ThisWeek

2 1 Here in My Heart-A. Martino1 2 Kiss of Fire --G. Gibbs9 3 Lover-P. Lee4 4 Delicado-P. Faith3 5 I'm Yours-E. Fisher6 6 Half As Much-R. Clooney5 7 Auf Wiedersehn-V. Lynn

13 8 Walkin' My Baby-Nat Cole7 9 Walldn' My Baby-J. Ray

12 10 Blue Tango-L. Anderson8 11 I'm Yours-D. Cornell

10 12 Maybe-P. Como-E. Fisher14 13 Auf Wiedersehn-E. Howard19 14 Botch-a-Me-R. Clooney25 15 Kiss of Fire-T. Martin11 16 Here in My Heart-V. Damone18 17 Gay is a Guy-D. Day21 18 In Good Old Summer Time-

L. Paul-M. Ford- 18 Take My Heart-A. Martino19 20 As Time Goes By-R. Anthony21 20 Something Along the Way-

Nat Cole27 22 Vanessa-H. Winterhalter30 22 I'm Confessin'-L. Paul-M. Ford29 24 Watermelon Weather-

P. Como-E. Fisher- 25 Kiss of Fire-E. Eckstine

BEST SELLING POPSINGLES

Last ThisWeek

3 1 Auf Wiedersehn-V. Lynn1 2 Delicado-P. Faith2 3 Here in My Heart-A. Martino4 4 Kiss of Fire-G. Gibbs6 5 I'm Yours-E. Fisher5 6 Blue Tango-L. Anderson8 7 Walkin' My Baby-J. Ray7 8 Half As Much-R. Clooney

10 9 Maybe-P. Como13 10 Lover-P. Lee12 11 Botch-a-Me-R. Clooney9 12 Kiss of Fire-T. Martin

11 13 I'm Yours-D. Cornell14 14 I'll Walk Alone-J. Froman15 15 I'll Walk Alone-D. Cornell23 16 Somewhere Along the Way-

Nat Cole22 11 Take My Heart-A. Martino25 18 Be Anything-E. Howard18 19 Carioca-L. Paul26 19 Smoke Rings-L. Paul-M. Ford- 21 Vanessa-H. Wintorhalter16 22 Guy is a Guy-D. Day- 24 High Noon-F. Laine17 25 Forgive Me-E. Fisher

' BEST SELLING SHEETMUSIC

Last ThisWeek

1 1 Kiss of Fire2 2 Blue Tango3 3 I'm Yours6 4 Dellcado4 5 Here in my Heart7 6 Be Anything5 7 I'll Walk Alone

10 8 Auf Wiedersehn Sweetheart9 9 Walkin' My Baby Back Home

11 10 Half As Much8 11 Guy is a Guy

11 12 Blacksmith Blues- 13 With A Song in My Heart- 14 Somewhere Alone the Way13 15 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

TOP TUNES IN BRITAINLast This

Week1 1 Auf Wiedersehn Sweetheart (PM)5 2 Kiss of Fire (Duchess)2 3 Neser (FDH)4 4 Blue Tango (Mills 2/6)3 5 Blacksmith Blues (Chappell)

11 6 Homing Waltz (Refine)6 7 Pawnshop on a Corner (Cine)7 8 Ay -round the Corner (Dash)8 9 Tell Me Why (Morris)

10 10 Be Anything (Cine)9 11 We Won't Live in a Castle (C&C)

13 12 I'm Yours (Mellin)12 13 Wheel of Fortune (Victoria)18 14 From the Time You Say Good-

bye (The Parting Song) (Pickwick)14 15 Cry (MR)22 16 High Noon (Robbins)16 17 Gandy Dancers' Ball (Disney)15 18 At Last, At Last (Pickwick)17 19 Anytime (Victoria)20 20 Unforgettable (Bourne)19 21 Be My Life's Companion (Morris)- 22 Trust In Me (Wright)21 23 A 41Iuy Is a Gay (Leeds)24 23 Star of Hope (Ascherberg)

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