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FOR THE BEST IN JAZZALL ABOARD

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DOWN, down anddown dip the discprices. Today, the

MELODY MAKER canannounce that the low price Gala label willcrash into the record

150
ICES

market with 4s. 45 rpm singles from October 1. This is 2s. cheaper
than the average 45s retailed by the major disc concerns.

Only recently Gala launched their line of 16s. 9d. LPs. This presaged big
company cuts in LP prices. A fortnight ago Pye announced their series of"Golden Guinea" 21s. LPs. Now, Decca have followed suit with 21s. pop LPs on
their "Ace of Clubs" label.
Big question of the

moment is whether Gala's
4s. singles will bring down
the price of the major

CONNIE FRANCIS IS BACK

companies' 45s.

NO PLANS'
EMI and Decca are noncommittal. Pye have " noA fishing boat, sunny weather and a pretty girl . . so this is
how a top disc star spends his off -duty hours.The star isBuss Conway, currently playing at the Grand Theatre, Llandudno. His companion: Show dancer Jessie Carron.

plans." A Philips. spokesman
said: " We are watching thesituation vegy carefully."
Says Gala chief Monty
Lewis: " I doubt whether
the overheads of the big
concerns would permit pricecuts in singles. It wouldn't

be worth their while to cut
Back Page, Col. 3

KINGSTON 3 LEAD
BACK in London from

America on Tuesday,
agent Harold Davison told

the MM of histrans -

1960 TREK

Atlantic exchange plans
Ted Heath will make yet Davison has also acquired thefor 1960.
American tour, prob- British rights of 100 American
Among the top name anotherincluding " Oklamusicals,
ably
in February.
stars involved in his latest
Johnny Dankworth will homa," " Li'l Abner," " Belle Of

deals are:-definitely make a return trip to New York," " Call Me Madam "The Kingston Trio, cur- the States in 1960. No dates and "Bells Are Ringing."
He plans to present some ofrently one of the hottest acts in have been set, but Davison
the States, both on records and reports " plenty of offers for the them as touring shows nextyear.
personal appearances. The Trio band."should reach Britain in Marchfor concerts and TV appear-

ances.

The Platters will make a

Americansinger Connie
Francis (above) met thePress at a cocktail party at
the Dorchester Hotel on
Wednesday.
With Connie
were her manager George

Scheck and American A&R
chief Rail Ellis. She is here
at the special invitation of
EMI to record three LPs fortheir MGM label. Connie
will record LPs of Christmas
and Italian songs, and an
LP titled "One For The
Boys,"' conducted by Cyril
Ornadel.

HI-LO'S RECEIVE THEIR MM AWARD

1960 tour of Britain for Variety,
TV and Sunday Concerts. (Seealso Page 11.)OH! `BOY MEETSGIRLS' IN
NEW ABC SERIES
planners this week
decided to kill " Oh Boy ! "ABC

Instead, a beat show, probably
called "Boy Meets Girls," will
be seen on the ITV networks
from Saturday, September 12,

at 6.30 p.m.
The decision to scrap the " Oh
Boy ! " name was reached lateon Tuesday night.
The "Boy " will be Marty
Wilde and the " Girls " theOther regular stars
on the show will be Cherry
Vernons.

First tour
Miles Davis Quintet will

Wainer and tenorist Red Price.
" We shall also
featuremake its first British tour.
The Count Basie Band will
be back for its fourth British

American stars each week," said
ABC programme controller Ron
Rowson speaking to the MMfrom Belfast.
" The show will be quieter
and smoother and will nottour in 1960.

Ella Fitzgerald will make

British appearances without thefull Norman Granz Jazz At
The Phil unit, but probably
with the Oscar Peterson Trio.

move at the same frantic pace
as Oh Boy! ' "Producer Jack Good said:" The show will be designed toappeal to the older brothers
and sisters as well as the teenagers."
MD will be Bill Shepherd.

Dick Haymes has hopes ofsolving his visa trouble in thenear future and will sign for
Britain as soon as it is settled.

The Four Crosby boys-

Bing's sons Gary, Philip, Lindsay and Dennis-are also being

meanwhile 'Jury

Johnny Dankworth" Juke Box Jury "-the BBC TV disc review series-has been

lined -up for Britain.

is surprise hit
extended for a further 13 weeks.
And from September 5 the show
is to be moved from Monday
evenings to 6.50 p.m. on Saturdays-in direct competition withat the Marquee
The National Jazz Federation's
Marquee Club. Oxford Street. W.,

is to switch from Friday night
sessions to Thursdays. Booked
for next Thursday (August 27)
is the full Johnny Dankworth
Orchestra.

They're the world's top vocal group. The who better to present the award than British
famous Hi-Lo's last week received their scrolls actress Joan Collins? The boys are (1-r) Clarke
for winning the MELODY MAKER'S annual Poll at Burroughs, Gene Puerling, Bob Morse and newthe 20th Century -Fox Studios in Hollywood. And comer Don Shelton. !Photo: Howard Lucraftl

ABC -TV's new teenage show.

Producer Russell Turner told
the MM: " The show has beensuch a fantastic success-much
to everybody's surprise."Page 2 -MELODY MAKER. August 22, 1959

Melody Maker charts service

I(Week ended August 15, 1959.)
Cliff Richard, Columbia(1) LIVING DOLL
Lonnie Donegan. Pye(3) BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS
3. (14) ONLY SIXTEEN
Craig Douglas. Top Rank
4. (2) DREAM LOVER
Bobby Darin. London
Paul Anka. Columbia
5. (7) LONELY BOY
6. (4) LIPSTICK ON YOUR COLLAR..Connie Francis. MGM
Elvis Presley. RCA
7. (5) A BIG HUNK 0, LOVE
8. (10) THE HEART OF A MAN .. Frankie Vaughan. Philips
Marty Wilde. Philips IT was Saturday evening, July 18, 1959. In a large clearing in the
9. (6) A TEENAGER IN LOVE10. (8) ROULETTE
Russ Conway. Columbia
woods of Stony brook, Long Island, 50 miles from New York City,
11. (-) GOODBYE, JIMMY, GOODBYE Ruby Murray. Columbia
2,000
people ranged along the broad slope facing the stage. At
LondonDavid
Seville.
12. (9) RAGTIME COWBOY JOEJohnny Mathis. Fontana B.40 p.m. a stocky, smiling figure strode onstage and they burst
13. (13) SOMEONE
Anthony Newley. Decca into warm applause.
14. (12) PERSONALITY
15. (19) TWIXT TWELVE AND TWENTY .. Pat Boone. London
Louis Armstrong's illness
16. (-) TALLAHASSEE LASSIE
Tommy Steele. Decca
After the most publicised illness
17. (-) WHY SHOULD I BE LONELY Tony Brent. Columbia was over and he hadin the history of jazz, Louis
18. (16) I KNOW
Perry Como. RCA officially gone back to
Armstrong is back, playing as
19. (18) ONLY SIXTEENSam Cooke. HMV work.
well as ever. Here Leonard Feather
Less than four weeks
20. (-) MONA LISA
Conway Twitty. MOM
1.
2

I

takes the opportunity to reappraise
had passed since thethe work, personality and influencemorning when Louis had
triggered front-pageof his old friend.
headlines all over theworld as he lay in his bed by Jim Crow, and it is not easy He regards himself not as an
1. (3) THE NOBLE ART OF MR. ACKER BILK (LP)..Acker Bilk, Columbia
the tiny village of for a man his age to adjust artist or even as a jazzman,
2.
(2) CHRIS BARBER BANDBOX -Vol. 1 (LP)Columbia in
3. (6) BLUE SAXOPHONES (LP)
Spoleto, in Italy.
psychologically to conditions but first and foremost as an enColeman Hawkins and Ben Webster, Columbia -Clef
4.
6.
S.

7.

(5-)

(8) JAZZ IMPRESSIONS OF EURASIA (LP)

O.

(10)

1.
2.

3.
4.
6.
6.
7.
8.

9.
10.

Jelly Roll Morton, RCA
Buck Clayton, Philips
Miles Davis, Fontana

CHRIS BARBER JAZZ PARADE (EP)8.
10.

During those weeks there that now give younger and tertainer with an implacable
had been more concern, more sophisticated Negroes a desire to please his audiences.
more speculation and pessi- relatively broad degree of free- His education was very
limited - unlike the vast
mistic prognostication about dom.
Pye the
If he uses terms like majority of today's jazz musifutureoftheworld's
Bing
Crosby"cians, he is unable to enter an"Technicolour
Dave Brubeck, Fontana most famous jazzsoloist it is because it's a sure way to intellectual
discussion of such
Phu Lips than at any other time inget a laugh and because he matters.
Miles Davis, Fontana his forty -year career.
In order to give a fuller piccan't see what's
My main interest in driving personallywith it.
ture of the man I could go backout to Stonybrook was to hear wrong
To
those
who
answerthat
overreams of correspondence
just how much the ordeal had ignorance is no excuse, I would that haveup throughaffected Louis, and to ask him point out that these are minor the years. mounted
in the 1930s
personally how he had felt, matters compared with the Louis wroteBack
endless
letters inSoundtrack, RCA and felt now, about his physical qualities of strength in his tre- longhand.
Soundtrack, MGM condition.
mendous, unending loyalty to Later he bought a typewriter
Original Cast, Philips
old friends; his utter depend- and would sit in the dressing
Unshakenability when he makes a pro- room for hours writing casual,
RCA(as Lyttelton pointed out) chatty letters to friends.
Peter Sellers, Parlophone
The first question was soon mise
The basic urge to love andFrank Sinatra, Capitol answered, for Louis's pipes and and his complete professionalism.
be loved has never been more
Cliff Richard, Columbia chops obviously were completely(7) THE KING OF NEW ORLEANS JAZZ (LP)(1) SONGS FOR SWINGERS (LP)(9) PORGY AND BESS (LP)KING OLIVER (EP)(-) MILESTONES (LP)(1) SOUTH PACIFIC(3) CIGI(2) MY FAIR LADY
(5) A DATE WITH ELVIS(7) THE BEST OF SELLERS(4) COME DANCE WITH ME(6) CLIFF(-) LOOK TO YOUR HEART

Frank Sinatra, Capitol(9) SONGS BY TOM LEHRER
(8)

Decca

SONGS TO SING IN YOUR BATH

Russ Conway, Columbia

unshaken. He played as muchand as well as ever: his spirits
were at their perennial ebullient level.
Chatting backstage withLouis during

learned,the interval, I

Souvenirs

not to my surprise,that he had been the least

1.

2.
4.
5.
6.
7.

(1) LIVING DOLL
(2) DREAM LOVER(3) BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS(5) LIPSTICK ON YOUR COLLAR(9) A BIG HUNK 0' LOVE(-) A TEENAGER IN LOVE
(7) THREE STARSPERSONALITY
ROULETTEPETER GUNN/YEPI

8. (6)
9. (8)
10. (10)
11. (15)LONELY BOY

M. (12)I

12. (13) WATERLOO
13. (11) GOODBYE, JIMMY, GOODBYE
14. (16) THAT'S MY LITTLE SUZY
16. (14) POOR JENNY/TAKE A MESSAGE

Cliff Richard, Columbia
Bobby Darin, London
Lonnie Donegan, Pye
Connie Francis, MGM
Elvis Presley, RCA

TO MARY

Everly Brothers, London
Neil Sedaka, RCA
Perry Como, RCA
Little Richard, London

GO APE(-)

Pat Boone, London

U. (18) I'VE WAITED SO LONG
Anthony Newley, Decca
Compiled from the returns from 2,000 MUSIC MAKER
jukeboxes throughout Britain.

This copyright list of the 20 best selling songs for the week ended August
1959, is supplied by the Popular Publishers' Committee of the Music
Publishers' Association, Ltd. (Last week's placings in parentheses.)
1. (1) ROULETTE (B) (2s.)
Mills
2. (3) LIVING DOLL. (B) (2s.)
World Wide
3.
(2) SIDE SADDLE (B) (2s.)Mills
4.
(4) A TEENAGER IN LOVE (A) (28.)
West One6. (9) LIPSTICK ON YOUR COLLAR (A) (2s.)
Joy Music
11.
(8) GOODBYE, JIMMY, GOODBYE (A) (2s.)
Bran
7. (5) DREAM LOVER (A) (2s.)
Alden
16,

MAY YOU ALWAYS (A) (2s.)(15) THE HEART OF A MAN (B) (2s.)(8) BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS (A) (2s.)(11) THE WONDER OF YOU (A) (2s.)(12) PERSONALITY (A) (2s.)(10) TRUDIE (1) (25.)(14) I KNOW (A) (2s.)
(7)

(16)
(13)

Barbara Evansneeded to."

RCA -1143

Dion and Belmonts, London
Ruby Wright, Parlophone
Anthony Newley, Decca too hard -cut into the middle
Russ Conway, Columbia of my vacation, making me
Duane Eddy, London
a private performance for
Paul Anka, Columbia play
Mudlarks, Columbia somebody's, party.
" I needed a little rest, that's
Ruby Murray. Columbia
Ritchie Valens, London all. I lost 15 pounds, but I

17. (17) I KNOW
18. (19) KANSAS CITY
19.
TWIXT TWELVE AND TWENTY

8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
16.
16.
17.
18.
19.

concerned of those affected byhis illness.
" I keep my body up good I wasn't never in doubt about
getting well. And I knew allalong it wasn't my heart. What
happened was, they worked me

EssexDavid Toff

Acuff -Rose
Leeds
Leeds

WATERLOO (A) (25.)
TRAMPOLINA (B) (2s.)(-) TWIXT TWELVE AND TWENTY (A) (24.)

But along with the discus
sions of his health there had
been a renewed concern with

The first conclusion to be

drawn from a close association
with Louis over 27 years is that
he is not neurotic. This immediately sets him apart froman alarmingly high percentage
of today's greatest young jazz-

men: it also gives him an advantage that they resent.
Not by coincidence is Dizzy
Gillespie one of the few musicians of the modern genera-

shoulder, deriving a perverse
satisfaction from a natural
hatred of Jim Crow, Louis
walks erect, takes people asaround with a chip on thethey are and tends to look forthe best in all.

Indignant

1.

2.
3.
4.
IS.

O.

7.

(8)
(8)
(1)
(5)
(9)
(2)
(7)

As lasted by " Variety "-issue dated August 19, 1959.
SEA OF LOVE
Phil Phillips (Mercury)
LIPSTICK ON YOUR COLLAR
Connie Francis (MGM'LONELY BOY

LAVENDER BLUE

WHAT I'D

SAYPaul Anka (ABC -Paramount)

Sammy Turner (Big Top)
Ray Charles (Atlantic)

MY HEART IS AN OPEN BOOK .... Carl Dobkin.% ..1nr. (Decca)
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES
Dinah Washington (Mercury)
BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS
Johnny Horton (Columbia)
TIGER
Fabian (Chancellor)
THE THREE BELLSThe Browns (RCA Victor)

Nevertheless, Louis h a sstrong views -particularly on
the racial level -many of which
he keeps strictly to himself

until rare occasions arise when
the breaking point is reachedand the boiling indignation

runs over, as was the case in
the school integration crisis acouple of years ago.
When his manager attempted
to deny that Louis had made(-)
the statements attributed tohim. Louis denounced the man
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Johnny Restivo

showman?

Mills

A -American; B -British.
(All rights reserved.)Shapethe many disputed questions of
his personality.
What kind of person lies
behind this unique combinationof consummate artist, constantindomitable
andcomediantion to have become his friend,for Diz, clearly, is a happy andwell -adjusted human being.
Where others prefer to walk

Spoone MusicIRIRICOINDS

Personality

Henderson
FeldmanSouthern

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Bron(-) ONLY SIXTEEN (A) (2s.)(18) LONELY BOY (A) (2s.)(-) CHINA TEA (B) (25.)

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RCA -1122

If Louis feels that it is un-

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performer to become involvedin politics, that is his business.
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August 22, 1959. MELODY MAKER-Page 3

and every time he raised hisstrongly demonstrated by Louis
than in these delightful sheaves by .
of correspondence. Most of theletters are on large yellow
sheets with " Satchmo " printed
Leonard Feather
diagonally across the corner.

elbow-I raised mine rightalong with him. And er'werump-I gotten so full of champagne until I thought I was
seeing two floats with a gangof kings and Satchmos on it.
Haw Haw Haw...."
When Louis was himself
elected in 1949, it was the firsttime the club had ever reached

One letter, which I received
back in the days when he wasstill touring with a big band.
consisted of 14 closely -written,
single-spaced typed pages-a
total of nine or ten thousandwords - and covered, among
other topics :Page 1: an opening bonus in
the form of four lines of comicverse. Apology for lateness of

LOUIS-" the show business symbol."out to bring a non-resident
member home, instead ofcrowning a local merchant, a
porter or undertaker.
The Mayor of New Orleansgave Louis the keys to the city
at a ceremony that would havebeen even more impressive if
he'd explained just where theletter, followed by a lengthy discussion of Negro musicians' useof hair -straighteners.

keys would admit him.
Louis, as the King of theZulus, was a memorable sight.
His face had been completely
hidden by a travesty of music hall blackface, with huge whitecircles around his eyes andPages 2-5: details of concert
and dance the band played forsoldiers in Pensacola, Florida(including long anecdote about
coloured soldier who told Win-ston Churchill he wanted tofly in Royal Air Force).
Pages 6-7: Louis's latest tenday diet chart and what's happening to everyone who's usingit.
Pages 8-9: description of amouth.

He wore a crown, a long
black wig, a red ,velvet tunictrimmed with gold sequins, ayellow Cellophane grass skirt,
black tights and high golden

Taken on July 18, this isfriend's alligator farm in Penshoes.
sacola.
one of the first pictures
He had a big cigar in his
Page 10: account of visit to published of Louis sincemouth and a silver sceptre in
comfort sick soldiers at Post
hisleft hand.
his illness. With him is the
Hospital.
writer, Leonard Feather.
Page 11: details of letter reHugged
ceived from Chaplain at Fort
Barrancas, Fla., and of dinner gradual deceleration against After parading down thedate with Bunk Johnson in New the rhythm section when he streets in a wagon, bowing to
Iberia.
of Negroes who
Page 12: recent visit to New repeats four descending notes the thousands
the sidewalks, he edged
Orleans, meeting with Paul after the long -held one toward lined
his
way
into
a
funereal homeend of his original " WestBabarin, stories of Creole food thethat had been converted into
End Blues."
and music.
And if some of his ideas seem headquarters for the Zulus.
trite or stale today, it is only A frail old woman stepped
New Orleansbecause of their very origin- up to embrace him: it was Mrs.
led to their being Josephine Armstrong, his 91 Page 13: more reminiscences ality, which
ad nauseam by lesser year -old grandmother, who
about New Orleans, Louis's sis- imitatedmen.
continued overleaf LOUIS-" collectors' idol."ter and grandmother.
LOUIS-"hometown boy."
The sincerest form of flatPage 14: more family recollechas had the ironic effecttions; details of letter from terytaking some of the gloss off
W,//g YEAR
England (secretary of the Dews- of
the original, genuine article.
bury Rhythm Club).
Thus, when you, as a com- OVER ONE MILLION SOLD YIN THE U.S.A.
Can you imagine any of the,

newcomer, listen to an
cool cats writing a letter on parative
record made 10
subjects like this without any- Armstrong
before you were born,thing to gain but the interest years
you must hear it in the con-of the recipient?
in which it was conceived.
What annoys me is not that text
And when you hear Louismusicians and fans become out- today,
you must also take into

NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THISCOUNTRY . . .

account that no matter how

much you dig Picasso or Utrillo,

you are digging a Rembrandt.
Perhaps the most appropriate

analysis of Louis is one that I
made in an article about him
a few years ago, describing him
as a triple personality.
Louis I is the kid, the New r ELECIR/CA1111
Orleans hometown boy, the
OPERATEDNegro among Negroes.
.70STPLOO INLouis II is the musical idol, AND/ 4.4
the Louis of whom record coi-f46 PA NTASTIC FARFNA

amm0Pqmst
EVEN THOUGH

YOU HAVE

1 ectors, students and historians
like to believe.

NEVER PLAYEDA MUSICALThe Zulus

And Louis III is the show',asiness symbol to whom theandadjectives" beloved"
inimitable" are applied-the

INSTRUMENTBEFORE-

clown whose antics have been
immortalised by Hollywood.
In 1949 I saw Louis realise a
Earl Hines
lifelong ambition when he wascrowned King of the Zulus in
raged by specific incidents, but the Negro segment of thethat they tend to be conde- annual Mardi Gras parade. A
scending and supercilious about couple of years earlier he hada man who has done more for written me about the club:
jazz, and perhaps in his oblique" The Zulu Social Aid andway more for brotherhood, than Pleasure Club was the firstany of those who have belittled coloured carnival club to gethim.
together in New Orleans. The
Which brings me to the most club has been together forimportant aspect of his story. generations and consists of theWhat, exactly, did Louis do for fellows in my neighbourhood.

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To the average fan today, drivers, bartenders, waiters,
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circa 1928-9-and compare them some day."with the rest of the jazz thatA gas

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empty, rhythmically clumsy,
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Louis (and Earl) will standout like pearls in a sea of mud.
time.

Writing of his participationin the 1947 parade, two years
before he himself became theking, he wrote: " This year
they had around six or seven. the king rides in the
floats. I was on thefirst float
Louis's tone is a pure trumpet float with the king and theysound-the kind that is no really did gas me no end .
longer produced by jazzmen you should have seen me bowwho are more busily preoccu- ing and waving to the folk andpied with the production of cats as they cheered at thestrings of sixteenth notes sight of me (their home boy).
(semi -quavers).
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ON THEAMERICAN trade circles are awaiting with cynical interest the
public's reaction to the latest Platters disc, released there thisweek. They're wondering just how much (if at all) its sales will beaffected by their involvement (reported last week) in a Cincinnati
hotel raid.
They recall the case of

Jerry Lee Lewis, whose career is only now recoveringfrom public condemnation
when his marriage to a 13 year -old was revealed.
The question of quality of in Propaganda, the Royal Com- cessful with this format. And,
entertainment-Lewis versus the mission on Nasal Stoppage in to me, jazz is an inclusive musiceight -gold -discs Platters-does Juvenile Variety Artists, and, in and should not be restricted toby PAT BRAND

1976, was chairman of the one style or another."
not enter into this.
What is pinpointed once again World Health Organisation InWill they ?
is, as Ren Grevatt puts it, " the vestigating Committee into the PERSONALLY,
I think Buckcircus atmosphere which at Incidence of Varicose Veins inwill blow himself into swift
once prevails when the identity Tight Jemas.
with even the furof the individuals involved is But he has also found time to acceptancepen several important works, thest -out modernist at thesemade known.
concerts.
" Had the four Platters been including " My Talks with the
But whether the trad. diefour itinerant businessmen, the Kremlin " and " The Funda- hards
will bother to try tomatter would not have become mental Desiderata of Economic listen to
Brubeck is another
Equilibrium."the subject of scrutiny."
The case, as Grevatt rightly Tommy-you have a busy matter. .
points out, again stresses the time ahead. . .
'Blue' complimentPeculiar responsibility carriedOh, no !
'\yHFN a musician of the calby the public performer (andibre of Coleman Hawkins
bandleader
Particularly one whose work is BIRMINGHAM
Hedley Ward took one dedicates a tune, it's somethingof especial interest to theat the muscle -men for to be proud of. And proud isyounger element) to avoid pit- lookappearance on ABC -TV's the girl whom he caught singing
falls to which everyone, star or whose
Songwriter and satirist Paddy Roberts sings "Strictly for"
Holiday
Parade" his band at the Blue Note in Paris.
Grown -Ups" on a new Decca LP issued this week. And in his
layman,issubject
duringalifeFor among the tracks of theforeword to the words -and -music album Essex Music have put
had to play last week.
time.
out under this title, he describes the contents as "publishedAnd then led the boys into " Blue Saxophones'!" album heEligiblemore in pity than in hope." (See " Low and Twisted.")-" Thank Heaven for Little made with Ben Webster is thenumber, " Blues for Yolanda."
AN organisation of people Girls."
It's the same actress -singer
interested in collecting'Inclusive' music
Yolanda who is currently undersheet music has been formed
WITH memories still fresh of studying one of the leads in thein the U.S.
the ill -manners shown by West End production, " raisin in
I know a number of music
publishers who qualify (against a number of traddies towards the sun."their will) for honorary mem- Ted Heath at the Beaulieu Jazz The same Yolanda, in fact,
Festival, I was interested in a whom Quincy Jones has offeredbership.
note from promoter George a scholarship at the Berklee
Punch lines
Wein this week anent the forth- School of Music, Boston, next
THIS week's " Punch " takes a coming Newport Jazz Festival spring... .
peep into " Who's Who " for Package show.
Low and twisted
1979-and prints the extract re- This, of course, presents the THE
hit -writing (" Heart of aand TV commercials for Coca lating to:Reports REN GREVATT
Dave
Brubeck
Quartet,the
The coke deal reportedly
Man," " Softly, Softly," etc.)
STEELE, Sir Tommy.
Dizzy Gillespie Quintet, the Vic
NEW YORK, Wednesday.- Cola.
carried an unprecedentedly highAmong the eight -and -a -half Ash Quintet-and the Buck enfant terrible of Tin Pan Alley,
British TV and radio star price tag.
Paddy Roberts, has done itinch resume of his career, I Clayton All Stars.
Glen Mason was a hit in hisnotethat in 1966 he marries Says Wein : " The interest- again. He has swiftly followed
guest stint on the Dave KingU.S souvenir
Lady Millicent Henrietta Violent ing thing is that, I think, it is up his " Tinpanalley book ofshow here last week.
Catherine Swyng-Boyes and has the first time a programme in- satirical verses with a discHe was immediately offered
ON
the
eve
of
her
departure
noted as a " vocalist and volving both traditional and aimed directly at the off -beatfour guest shots on Jackfor England, Connie Francis's become*orker for world understand- modern jazz featuring Ameri- section of the record -buying
Paar's late -night NBC-TV show newest
disc was released here. ing."
can name artists will be pre- pu,
and GAC people were courting Sides are " Plenty Good Lovin',"
Strictly
litcr. ietly for Grown -Ups " onhas served on such bodies sented in Britain. I am interhim with offers for other TV and " You're Gonna Miss Me," asHe
theBritishCouncilWorking
Decca contains thirteen of what
ested to see the results.
two
of
her
strongest
efforts
tooutings including the Ed Sul- date.
Party on Personality Projection" Jazz Festivals prove sue - he describes as "somewhat low
livan show.
and twisted songs," sung by
Mason told me this week that
himself with accompaniment
present commitments in England
will prevent him from accepting
directed by pianist Dennis
these offers now but he hopes to
Wilson.
return later this year.
I doubt if many will pass theBBC.
Anka-actor & composerfrom previous pagewhat
helpedThis was the Louis I foundto make Louis
Wider in range than the Alley
MGM's " Girls' Town " hasbook, this nevertheless contains
him while the newsreel on a visit to his comfortable himself a world figure.)
1 been set for October release. hugged
home
in
Long
Island,
where
he
Louis
II
likes
nothing
betteraswipe
at that director of teencameras
rolledandthechamThe picture stars t e en a g e
lives with his fourth wife, than to sit around reminiscing age taste, " The Big Dee Jay "Canadian chanter Paul Anka, pagne swirled.
LucilleWilsonArmstrong,
a
"
I
get
the
new records as soonwithmusicians,
fans
orcritics" This was not Broadway's
who also composed a number of
the tunes in the pic.
King Louis," I wrote then. former "Blackbirds " and Lew he feels are sympathetic. as they're in, then pick out the" Nor the Louis who had played Leslie chorus girl, whom he Louis III, on the other hand, is ones that create the most din.
Judy in Hollywood
And the fools go and buy everyfor Europe's royalty. Nor the married at Velma Middleton's never present at these times.
HOLLIDAY has reported Louis for whom they had lined home in St. Louis in 1942.
This is the on-stage Louis- thing that I spin "-but my favto
MGM
on
the
Coast
for
JUDY
Not surprisingly, I found the one who faces the news- ourite (unprintable here) isstreets of Tokyo withfilming of her smash Broadway the
Louis seated in front of the reels and the movie makers and " Love in a Mist."show, " Bells Are Ringing." flowers.
phonograph,engrossed in a the festival followers.
"
This
was
the
coal
-cart
runSquare ?
Co-star for Miss Holliday will be
Lombardo record. " I've This is the Louis who shocked TN a foreword
ning kid they used to call Guy
Dean Martin.
to the album ofbeenaLombardo
fan ever since a national TV audience when -IDippermouth before he went up
words and music simultanHave a Coke !
to Chicago to join King Oliver's he started in Cleveland back in he cracked a dirty joke on the eously
publishedby Essex
he told me.
old Dorsey Brothers show
McGuire Sisters, one of band and start on the road to the" '20s,"
When we were working in (though people chuckled and Music, Paddy describes himself
THEthe most successful sister fame in 1922.
acts in the record business, have
" This was the king who had Chicago we'd always rush back said: " That old rascal Satchmo, as " a square in musical circles,
been signed to a new long-term returned to his own castle and home to catch the late night he'll never learn! "-and in- unable to `dig' the trends in
Man, dulgently overlooked the inci- today's jungle music."
pact with Coral Records. The was its elected, honoured Lombardo broadcast.
girls have never appeared on any master."Don't you believe it! No one
those Lombardos are helping to dent).
other label.
This is the Louis who, in his not " with it " could so surely
Louis II, of course, is a much keep music alive and fighting
Currently at the Desert Inn in morehitboth the Hit Parade fansown theme song (written byfamiliar figure to his fans them damn beboppers!
Las Vegas, they are being heard
Negroes) for many years used and those to whom Hit Parade
every day in a series of radio abroad than Louis I.
the word " darkies," either material is anathema.
because he thought that was
Logical ?
" They're my inspirators! what the public wanted to hear
THERE seems to be a thread
When
I
had
my
big
band
25
hadn'torbecauseit
simply. . .
logic in theyears ago we tried to get our occurred to him that anybody careerofofgrotesqueguitarist -vocalist Wallysax section to sound like Lom- might resent it.
Hecame
to promiWhyton.
bardo's-listen to our records It is this Louis who allowed nence as leader of the
TROMBONE STAR OF THE
Vipersof ' When You're Smiling ' and to be printed in a book thatskiffle group, idol of the jeans .

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The Three Armstron

Tape library

CLARRY BAINES

Sweethearts On Parade.'"was published under his by-duffle -coat cellar -dwellers
Later he showed me round line the servile statement: " I andat the 2 I's coffee bar.
histapelibrary-he
has
spent
have
always
loved
my
white
week, he began a series
PRAISES HIS
endless hours transferring thou- folks "; the Louis who argued onThisAR-TV-singing
sands of jazz records on to tape with Benny Goodman on a rhymes to the tiny nursery
tots inand has become close friends concert tour about letting "Small Time."with Charlie Graham, the hi-fi Velma Middleton do the splits
Shortlyafter
leavingthecelauthority who helped to set up at Carnegie Hall-and finally lar, he made an impact withaLouis's elaborate equipment.
had his way.
horror disc (just released in
After a beautiful creoletheStates)
under
the
name
of
gumbo dinner prepared by'All men'
Sharkey Todd and his Monsters.
Louis's sister, who was in town
As I said, there seems to be aa visit, I gave Louis a blindBb & F TROMBONE on
This
Is
the
Louis
who,
thread... .
fold test.
asanAmericancolumnist
onceThis versatile instrument is warmly praised
was observed, " Mixes in his own
time
the
Eh ?
Becauseby Clarry Baines who finds it ideal for the approaching for him to prepare person all men, the pure and THIS really happened to afora
one-nighter,
the
test
was
L well-known pianist -leader.
many varied arrangements he is called
the cheap, clown and creator, He'dconducted under unique condi- god
managed to procure (atand buffoon; Louis, like theupon to perform with the famous Cyril tions.
Mississippi River, pure like its considerable reduction) a new
CYRIL STAPLETON ORCHESTRA

esso.n.

Stapleton Orchestra.
With its greater depth and facility than thenormal Bb Trombone it can greatly widen
every player's scope. Difficult passages
are much simplified by using the F trigger,
and for solo or section work it has every
advantage.

source, flecked and choked piano for the ballroom. A Steinwith jetsam like its middle, way.
" Good," said the ballroom
broad
and triumphant like its manager.
At various points during the" We'll instal it asinterview he was in the living - end."Those of us who have known soon as it's been sprayed white."

For musiciansroom, the recording room and and loved Louis through thethe bathroom, sitting down or years are proud to have folstanding in the shower, and lowed the career of Louis I,
commenting on the records as I grateful to have learned a little
moved the tape -recorder and
See your dealer, or write to
the background of Louis II.
record player around after him. of
Beason for descriptive leaflet and details
happy to overlook the" Now that's what's causing andof the models available.
of Louis III.
music today to go bad," he said solecisms
If the crown seems tarnished.
after studying a performance maybe
it's just a matter of
BESSON HOUSE,by Shorty Rogers. " Didn't any
looking at it in a different
BURNT OAK BROADWAY. of those guys end up theirsolos on the nose. They tried light.
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history of government or of art,
playing for musicians."(It never occurs to him that few kings have worn a crown
the reaction of musicians was, longer or more nobly thanmore than any other factor, Satchmo The Great.

" Sprayed! " cried the pianist
in horror. " You can't do thatto a Steinway! "The manager was amazed.
What's so" Why ever not?
special about this piano, anyway? Let's have a look at it."He walked round it. Sniffed.
when,"
he
" And
since
sneered, " have they stopped
threemaking them withpedals? . .".

Guess who said ...
"THEY should play a little
1
morechoruses."

face/

in

their

August 22, 1959. MELODY MAKER-Page 5

HANDS OFF SINATRA!

NAT NILE

I

Brown'ssuspect Tonyvicious arti

mediocre films, his performance is usually worth watch Certain of Sinatra's recent

records
revealoccasional
errors of pitching, but thegreat majority of tracks areflawless.

If everyone in Show Business possessed an ounce of

Stordahl orchestra,son, Sale, Cheshire.

.:readers MI TONY BROWN

de on Frank Sinatra last
week was written to stir up
controversy, I feel some of principles, it would be a far
his remarks deserve com- healthier place.-Harry G,
ment. He says that to speak Lock, Cockfosters, Herts.
of Sinatra as a genius is
IWOULD like to exridiculous. So it is. But itpress my gratitude
is equally ridiculous to refer for Tony
Brown's recent
to his success as the biggest enlightening article onconfidence trick of the cen- Frank Sinatra.
I don'ttury.
He is a very good know if you realise what
actor and, even in otherwise a truly wonderful ex-

there's

only

one

Sinatrawrong

note.-D. Adams,

and he's at the very ton.- London, S.E.11.

E. Truckle, Amesbury, Wilts.

WE couldn't
hoots about

two

pages

to

so

ALTHOUGH Sinatra's voice
has definitely coarsened

care

two
the

all
drivel Tony Brown devotes

WHO does Tony Brown
think he is tojudge Frank Sinatra?R. Begley, Alderley Edge.
Cheshire.

ofcourse!).-John B. Daw-

long

as

Sinatra continues to give us
great records.-F. Breakwell
Birmingham.

over the years, it still retains warmth and sincerityon the slow ballad.
complaintThe

regarding " Day

In, Day Out " on the "Come
Dance With Me " album is
no more heartbreaking than

the revival of oldies by
Tony Brown.
perience it is to pick up WELLIt'ssaid,
singers who turn them into
about time some- I COULDN'T agree more a pantomime,an article and find it one put Sinatrawith Tony Brown.
in proper
expresses your exact
cannot agree that SinaThe stuff Sinatra is traI prefers
opinions. - Miss Hilary perspective. - F. Rodgers. churning
swinging tempos

Norman, London, S.E.23. London, N.W.6.

no

out

today
they disguise his vocal
comparison as
deficiencies. If he prefers

1 voice has coarsened
In Love Too Easily,"is rot. I have played a Fall
The Things We Did
recent EP of his four "Last
Summer," etc. (withtimes and have notheard either a coarse or the wonderful Axel

Tony Brown are ten a penny(excluding Race, Humph,

his talon, personality and Morgan and Horricks).

bears

his 1945-47 recordTO say that Sinatra's withings of "Nancy,' "I

let's face it, soDAD,
called popular music
and jazz columnists likeButthem at all it is because
they are what the majorityof his followers demand.Dennis Stone, Frank Sinatra Appreciation Society,
Derby Branch.

Monk didn't
even nod!
THERE are certain spots
in New York which
will always hold for mea unique kind of glamour.

Thelonius

American Journal -3

Monk ignored
applause.

the applause, and finally slunk offstage. Strange, since indirectly

we were employing him.

noticeable throughout the band
Priest or not, I felt that
spot-and by no means absent heHighmight have spared us a curbfrom the Miles Davis LP nod of recognition.
One of them - narrowalready mentioned - merely
minded jazz fans had better
I have explained elsewhere
underlined the fact that askip this paragraph-is thereally inspired writer can sur- that the angular, nagging piano
RKO Palace on Broadway.
ofMonk is not my cup of tea,
vive even the poorest performThe Palace was the home of a golden page in the life of Gil Evans - whom many ance.
or even my glass of castor oil.
those great Variety acts in
Axidentals presented a His tenor player, however,people mistakenly imagine is The brash
fabulous performer.
Variety act, though gave me one of the greatest
the days when vaudeville that
There's glamour, too, in coloured-led the band from an good,one
felt
their billing should in- jazz pleasures on the whole
was a living thing, not just merely
inadequate miniature piano, clude thestanding
atthecornerdedication: "To the trip. Though the work of
a Hollywood excuse for of Broadway and looking along edging nervously to the centre
Charlie
Rouse
has
been
period musicals.
52nd Street. Here modern jazz of the stage at the end of each Hi -Los, without whom...."
familiar in England for many
It was also the scene of Judy was born.
number.
years,
I
have
never
beforeconGarland's phenomenal comeMost of all there's glamour
Never in the history of iazz
Swingingsidered him to be one of the

by STEVE RACE

back: one of those historic in Broadway itself. By night has there been a greateroccasions in show business, and it has been the scene of the arranger, in my view, or a worse
most exciting premieres in showman. But if one has to be

Blonde -haired Dinah Wash-

great modernists.
Now his beautiful,round -

one or the other, thank good- ington, with the inventive toned improvisations take aness Gil Evans decided to be Beryl Booker at the piano and high place in my affections. As
the Gil Evans band swinging an original jazz thinker hean arranger.
Glamour
His trombone feature on happily in the rear, made more deserves a place not far behind"Summertime " (it appears on of an impression on the eye the great Sonny Rollins....
ear.
By day, its ticker -tape flut- the Miles Davis " Porgy " LP as than on theMonk
BUT THAT'S ANOTHER
did not seem
tered down on young Charles a trumpet solo) is one of the toThelonius
beawarethat an audience STORY. IF YOU'D CARE TO
conceptions
I
mostbeautiful
Lindberg and a dozen interwas present, as he hunched JOIN ME, I'LL TELL IT NEXTnational heroes. Broadway at have ever heard.
theatrical history.

two

DINAH WASHINGTON - impression

on the eye.

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One afternoon on my lastvisit I found glamour inanother part of Manhattan
Island.
The taxi took me north from
Times Square, through thatstrange mixture of green parkland and hell-bent driving
which is Central Park.
Scattering picnickers andsquirrels to left and right, we
sped through the network ofCentralPark

finally entering
decaying mainthroughways.
the wide,streets ofHarlem and pulling up outside
the Apollo Theatre.
From the street it might havebeen Chiswick Empire or Hulme
At first glance
Hippodrome.

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Page 6-MELODY MAKER. August 22, 1959

MEET 'MR. MUSCLES'*-

This singer fills a
45 -inch chest!

AMERICA'S latest teen-

age singing rave,

Johnny Restivo, has been

voted by a U.S. muscle building periodical as "themost perfectly propor-

tioned teenager of 1958."

His gym instructor evenpredicts that Johnny could

POP SINGLES

become "Mr. America of
1963."

Why the five - year

lad is dolled up with cooing
choral effects.

Bill Shepherd'VVHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY
delay? Because Bronx -born biceps. In five years' time Louis Prima and
MADE/Stardust (Pye-Nixa
Restivo is only 16! He al- the build-up should be comBill Shepherd has
7N15214).
taken
twooldies and given themready sports a 45in. chest, plete.
Keely
Smith
a
lush
orchestral
setting plus aa 27in. waist and 15in.
Johnny appropriately makes
BEI MIR HIST DU SCHON/I danceable beat.
his disc bow here with " The
Don't Know Why (London
Shape I'm In," backed by " Ya HI,D8923).
Back in the 'thirties,
Bill HaleyYa" (RCA1143).
the Andrews Sisters won fame
with
"
Bei
Mir."
" Mr. and SHAKY /Caldonla (Bruns. 45And what vocal shape is Mrs. Las Vegas " Now
dust off the
There's a DuaneJohnny in? Pretty good, too. oldie in their own
inimitable Eddy05805).
touch about the Haley inHe shows his vocal "muscles" fashion.
strumental
treatmentof Shaky,
to good effect in the rocking " I Don't Know Why," another which packs a powerful
guitar"Shape," which seems a sure revival, swings along to a foot - beat. Bill, who steps front
andshuffle beat, with Keely centre for the vocal, revives
contender for Hit Parade teasingastealing the vocal honours.

Olahonours.

Tommy Edwards
I'VE BEEN THERE/I Looked at
Heaven (45-MGM1032).
Tommy Edwards sings wistfully
about a lost love on " I've Been
There." This one has a haunting melodic and vocal motifthat could click with the romantically inclined.

The Mark IV

Woody Herman speciality on thereverse.
Woody's memorable
version is still tops.

RING. RING, THOSE BELLS/
Mairzy Boats (Mercury
AMT1060). Another vocal grouppresents itself at the disc counters. Although the first title
looks the "A" side, I would put
my money on the novelty revivalof Mairzy Doats.

Leading disc jockeys give theirdiscs.

DAVID JACOBS - Russ
Conway, " China Tea,"

Columbia(P ersonal
choice:Jeri Southern,

for You (Columbia DB4336).

"Run," Capitol.)
PETE MURRAY - SammyJOHNNY RESTIVO-in good shape.

CIAO,

GOLDENI GUINEAS I
rrHIS week, the Pye label in-

troduce their first crack at E
the low -price market. They have E

CIAO,

BAMBINA/Zon,'ion, Zon (Pye International
7N.25031). The first title is arather brief introduction to thisby E

= the recordings are excellent.

E" Lavender(JeriSouthern, " Don't Look At

Blue,"RICKY NELSON-has a double chance.

Miki and Griff

Watch these

L o n d o n.

Me That Way," Capitol.)

RAY ORCHARD -N a t" King "Cole," Mid-

night Flyer," Capitol. (JeriSouthern, "Run," Capitol.)
BOB DANVERS-WALKER

RICKY NELSON:
Just aDEEDLE - DUM-D00 - DIE Too Much / Sweeter
stylish French accordionist. But
DAY/Hold Back Tomorrow titan Little
You (London HLP8927).
it's nice to hear the accordion (-George Jones, " WhoUsually this
7N.15213).
Nelson boy brings off acompeting for the pop record team isheard backing Lonnie That
Shot Sam?"
Mercury.
" double " with titles that havefavours again.
Donegan. This time Donegan re- clicked in the States.
(Jose Melis, "Melts At
turns the compliment.
DUANE
EDDY:
Forty
Miles
of
Midnight,"
LP,
Oriole.)The result: A good folksy discRoad (London HLW8929).
with plenty of teenage appeal. Bad
Another " twangy guitar " instru- PATRICK CAMPBELL
Jane Morgan
mentalthat has hit the U.S.
Carl
Dobkins," My
best-sellers.
WITH OPEN ARMS/I Can't
LLOYD
PRICE: I'm Gonna
Tedd
BrowneHeart Is An Open Book,"
Begin to Tell You (London
Get
Married
(HMV
POP650).
Brunswick. (Henry ManHIR8925). Monday's " Juke Box
THE EVERGLADES/A Corner The " Personality " guy comesup
Jury " did not exactly go over(Capitol with another potential hit
cini, "Peter Gunn," LP,In Paradiseboard about Jane Morgan's ('.L15059).
Browne
Tedd
The
RCA.)
" With Open Arms." But perunder the direction of parader.
haps Jane will have the last Orchestra,
Sid Bass, takes a bow with twobrought out a " Golden Guinea" =brand and have budgetedE £30,000 on a TV advertising E= campaign to launch it.
E After hearing the first three = laugh. Our verdict is that thisB albums I think Pye's confident B fetching and lilting song will
E budget is well justified.
E All three are performed

Turn e r,

ANERSHAlitheitinsfart

Jacky Noguez
EIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEDISC
JOCKEYCHOICE
sonal preferences front the new

LIFE IS A CIRCUS/For You" bite " to spell " Top Ten."gets a vetotips for the top plus their per-Michael Holliday
Both these numbers are fromthe current British film release" Life Is A Circus." Both are
lively and pleasant, but somehow
seem to lack the necessary

RUSS CONWAY-his 'China Tea;

make the Hit Parade.

= the " 101 Strings "-an orchesE tra which varies between 128 E
E and 141 players according to the E.
= arrangements - and technically =pleasant numbers which makefor easy listening.

Phil Phillips
SEA OF LOVE/Juelle (Mercury
AMT 1059). Disc newcomera lively beat coupling.

fff
LA.s.&.1A4

Phillips enters in nice style withPRECISION

Addrisi Brothers

The album
album I found most enjoyable was George Gershwin's =" Porgy And Bess." The orches- B
tra captures the depth of the E
unforgettable tunes with ease E
and precision.
Besides " Porgy And Bess," Ethere is an album of standards E-" There's A Small Hotel," E.
" The Nearness Of You," " TheGrow
CHERRYSTONE/Lilies(London HL8922).
HighFirst title should have the jivers
kicking their feet in happy

abandon. Lilies has an engaging
folksy quality.

Brook Benton

Way You Look Tonight," etc.- =and an LP of Gypsy music.
Altogether the new Pye re- =provided a pleasant =leasesmorning's reviewing. Bring on =the next batchl-BILL HALDEN.

MBANK YOU PRETTY BABY/
1 With All My Heart (Mercury
Brook Benton
45-AMT1061).
JANE MORGAN-the last laugh ?

puts over the blues -styled Babyto telling effect against a string
studded rock beat. Backing bal

New Dance Band Arrangements !

SONG OF INDIA
Arr. REG OWEN
HAPPY CHA-CHA
Arr. CHAQUITO
backed with

WON'T YOU TELL ME WHY

Arr. KEN MOULE

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'7;1,,,,taikAAz/frz/WARM RESPONSE FOR MR. B
BILLY ECKSTINE started his four -week tour of Britain
at Glasgow by singing to a half-filled Empire, at firsthouse on Monday. But what the audience lacked in numbers they made up for in the warmth of their response.
Mr. B., nattily dressed in a dark mohair suit, interjectedhumour with his music.
" I have been getting threatening letters from Fred
Astaire," he cracked while doing a soft-shoe dance.
"My right tonsil," he said, introducing pianist Bobby
Tucker to the audience. Assisting Bobby are bassist Ken
Palmer and drummer Tony Carr, making their fifth tour
with the singer.
Billy drifted smoothly through a repertoire which ranged
from a moving " Gigi" to his own terrific presentation of"Porgy And Bess," which brought out all the jazz in him.
He also gave one of his favourite impressions of Louis
Armstrong and went through a few acrobatics with themike as he sang the old Sinatra favourite, " This Is A

Lovely Way To Spend An Evening."
It was indeed. I was only sorry that more people were
not there to enjoy it.-LARRY CANNING.

BIG BILL, SMALL AUDIENCE
AFTER visiting the first house at Finsbury Park Empire
on Monday, my sympathies go out to Moss Empires'
chief Leslie Macdonnell.
Although he deserves congratulations for providing agood -class bill-escapologist Dill -Russell, Arthur Worsley,
the Tanner Sisters, Tony Fayne and Mike and Bernie
Winters-his guns had been spiked by TV.
All the acts are no strangers to the TV screens, but as
Tony Fayne and Mike and Bernie Winters had appeared in
the weekend's peak -hour shows. it was hardly surprisingthat only a handful of customers left their TV sets for the
first house.-BILL HALDEN.

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INII111111111011111111111111=111'MR. B' was gulping

down a breakfast
cup of coffee when the
MELODY MAKER callcame through at his

Glasgow hotel on
Monday.

We

may tour Britain

together, says Mr B.

" Laurie Henshaw! " he exclaimed. " I was thinking about you only fiveminutes ago. Say buddy, when are we going to get some golf? "With Billy Eckstine, swinging on the golf course comes second only to swinging on
the halls, TV or records. And only recently he has done plenty of thelast-named-with the one -and -only Count Basie.
" I've just finished an album with the Count," glowed Billy. " It's one hell of adisc-nothing but the blues.
" Man, I cut my teeth on that sort of music. It took us about four months to
do. I had to fit in my tours to catch Basie. We finished the last numbers justbefore I 1...ft for Britain.
" I wrote four of theBysongs. I was glad to get
the chance to write again.
we have included
titles like ' Song Of The

But

LAURIEHENSHAW

Wanderer' and ' Stormy Monday Blues' and ' Jelly
Jelly '-both of which I did with Earl Hines.
" It's all good, moody blues-just my kind of
material."

Quite a switch, in fact, from " Gigi," which put
Mr. B. back in the Hit Parade. " I sure was happy
about that." says Billy. " It shows there is still amarket for good ballads. The public hasn't turned
completely to rock-'n'-roll."

To be released here

The album, with Basie, recorded In the States for theRoulette label, is scheduled for release in Britain.
Columbia could give no date at press time. Knowing
what Eckstine and the Count can do with the blues, wehope it won't be too delayed.
Signing off with a " hello " to all his admirers, Billy
revealed he may be back in Britain again next year.
Possibly with Sarah Vaughan and the Basie Band.
" Harold Davison is hoping to fix us all on a jazzconcert tour," he said.
That should be something well worth waiting for. Then,
Mr. B. will really be swinging-golf clubs or no golf

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BILLY ECKSTINE-likes blues

FRANKIE AT 1HE
NOT everyone can taketime off for an evening
at the London Palladium.

Thousands did, of course,
during Frankie Vaughan's
successful season at the
As is usually the case withmecca of London show biz theseon -the -spot recordings,
earlier this year.
thedisc is packed with atmoAnd, both to those who sphere. Audience participation
cherish fond memories of and the artist's own engaging

Frankie is heard singing suchhits as " Kewpie Doll." "ComeSoftly To Me" (with the Kaye
Sisters). " Green Door," "Give
Me The Moonlight. Give Me The
and " Happy Days And
Frankie's debut there-and to personality-at its sparkling best Girl,"
Lonely Nights."
the many who were unable toattend personally-the Philips
LP "Frankie Vaughan at the
London Palladium" must undoubtedly rank as a highspotof the latest releases (BBL
And that itinerant band ofstreet musicians, the Happy
7330).
Wanderers,
areaccomFor here is a timeless record
an occasion such as this- panying the singerheard
in a medleyof an event that ranks as a on
combine
to
make
this
an
inof
his
most
requestedsongs.
highspot in the scintillating
mementoforallcareer of Britain's "Mr. Show valuable
The King Brothers are here,
Vaughan admirers.
Business."
too. And some sterling work is
This is a full Palladium show also put in by Raymond Long
neatly packaged-with black - at the piano. the Beryl Stottand -white and colour photos on Singers and the London Palla-

Medleysleeve inset and cover-for home dium Orchestra directed by Reg
entertainment.
Cole.

NAT COLE-fresh

JUDY GARLAND-exciting

FRANKIE VAUGHAN-Scintillating

NEW IDEA FOR JUDYJUDY GARLAND, JOHN IRELAND: a romance-interspersed with ten backings, gets my vote as one of his" The Letter " (Cap. T.1188). All numbers from Miss Garland.
very best performances.
too seldom, something really new iscreated on record, especially in the*
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Packaged and sung by the same Too often, Nat Cole's albums have GLP302). This sounds like a younger
seemed so stereotyped they have Lena reminiscent of when she firstartist.
But this latest Judy Garland LP is almost verged on boredom.
visited Britain. The songs are a colmore than that. It is an exciting,
But this one --composed of brand- lection of jazz standards and everromantic musical composed and con- new ballads-cannot be bracketed in greens, including " Blue Prelude,"ducted especially for an LP by the same mould. It has a freshness " Beale Street," " Whispering," andMaestro Gordon Jenkins. Narrated about it that practically jumps off the a Horne favourite. "Frankie andby John Ireland, it tells the story of record and, with the Nelson Riddle Johnny "--with choral assistance.
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RECORDED BYFRANKIE VAUGHAN (Philips PB. 930)
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It's goodbye to the
BEFORE concluding a BBC"Jazz Club" programme

last week with the aptly
titled "Embers," Ronnie
Scott announced the dis-

banding of the Jazz
ONCE upon a time the racks in a music publisher's Couriers.
exploitation department were stacked full of " proThe loss of the best
fessional " song copies-specially printed editions, without

Jazz Couriersgroup in British
the coloured frontispiece or other trappings-which were regular
jazz is as sad as the reason
distributed to artists tofor the break-up-boregauge their reaction.

From this survey, a publisher
plan his exploitation
campaign, decide how long he
could

by HUBERTW.
DAVIDThe Jazz Couriers, led by poll -winners

Ronnie Scott and Tubby Hayes, aresplitting up. "It will be a long time,"says Bob Dawbarn, in this feature,

dom with the continualround of the same old jazz" before we hear two British horns

clubs.
was going to plug a song andhow much money he should
spend on it. A song which
Change needed
became a hit in the summer
Says Ronnie: " I just don't
could easily last over Christ- Chappells, incidentally, did notmas, so a publisher needed to enter the pop field in a big think there is the right typeplan only two campaigns a way until the 1930s.
of work in this country toyear, a policy which paid hand-

But nothing changes quite sosome dividends.
as the music business.
This is how the vast cata- quicklyRadioand television have
logues of Lawrence Wright, gradually shortened the lifeofFelclmans, Francis Day and a song. One broadcast can put
Hunter, Ltd., and Campbell a number in every home andConnelly were built up-and create a hit overnight.
when an old hit is revived by No longer do we see thoua current recording star it is sands of " pro" copies in aa safe bet that it can be traced publisher's office. Today a song
to one of these catalogues. is often a hit before a single
copy is printed.

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playing with such cohesive sympathy
and drive."

give you the incentive tocarry on.
in

" There is a living to be made
jazz

now,

but we haveplayed every venue there is tobe played and the clubs can't

really afford to pay a lot of" It is difficult to give concrete reasons for packing up

money.

the group. We have been together for two -and -a -half years
If a publisher is working on and everyone wants a change.
an American song, he most There is not much left for us
likely has an American record to do that we haven't alreadyat his disposal.

He dubs adone."

couple of dozen discs from thisTubby
co -leader,
Scott'sand these go the round of the Hayes was equally vague.
recording companies.
"It's just one of those
things," said Tubby. " We justfeel we are getting a bit stale.
Deejays
We have had a very good run
If no record is available, he and it has been very enjoygets a couple of dozen copies able."run off by photo -repro, andthese, too, find their way to therecording managers' desks.

QuartetTubby is forming a quartet
If the disc has already beenreleased, he arranges with the with the three remaining
Shannondisc jockeys to get as many Couriers - Terry(pno.), Spike Heatley (bassi
radio spots as he can in the andPhil
Seamen(drs.)-andshortest possible time.
Personally, I think the days has already been offered a Satat the Nationalof the disc jockey are num- urday residency
Marqueebered. He has had his uses, Jazz Federation's
but today he does not do a Club.
" I fancy playing with apublic service. As like as not
he only chooses to play records quartet and hope it will give
which fit the " shape" of his me some fresh ideas," added with a quartet if, and when, I
programme and foster some Tubby.
can."Ronnie was less certain about
gimmick which will give him
That the Couriers will be
the edge on a rival disc jockey. his future.
missed in the jazz clubs is
If I could find someone who underlined by the 1959 MELODY
The new " big boys" in theindustry are the juke box could use a group five or six MAKER Readers' Poll in which
operators, who must select nights a week in the one place the group was voted the bestrecords long before any disc I would like to form a new small combo in the country.
jockey has spun them on his group," he told me. " There is Tubby was acclaimed BriPHIL SEAMEN
programme. So it seems that one possible place but things
best tenorist, camea recording company's promo- are all in the air at the tain's
buzzingwith good reports
second among the vibists, andtional interests are fast swing- moment.
on his recently acquired about the Couriers."
Otherwise I shall just free- sixth
ing over from the deejays to
The last date for the Jazz
lance as a soloist and work flute.
the jaybees.
won't even be in any
Scott, a veteran poll -topper Couriersofthe group's regular London
himself, was fourth among thehaunts-it's a dance in Cork on
tenors.
30.
The band's manager, Pete August
There is, however, theKing. was patently upset by group's
final recording-an LP
the decision to quit, although tentatively" The Last
he will be handling the Hayes Word "-dueentitled
for release on thequartet.
Tempo
label
in
October.
I, personally, can underOut of the ashes of thestand musicians getting tired of Couriers
there may rise two
playing with each other and in new groups,
I feel it will
the same old places, but this be a long timebut
we again
is a great shame," Pete told me. hear two Britishbefore
CHET BAKER tells Henry Kahn
horns playing
"
It
takes
at
least
a
couplewithsuchcohesive
sympathy
FESTIVALS have come to amateurs or smaller groups their of years to get a band really and drive.
stay, but I think the time chance.
and only last week I wasThis would not be popular going
Bob Dawbarn
has come for promoters and withthe radio audiences but I hearing that the Continent isThis is what's wrong
with jazz festivals

fans to take another look at am quite sure that the fansthem.
I have played at many
festivals, including Newport,
the Stuttgart Light Music

would have no objections.

But radio should rememberthat much of the music played
at Festivals is pretty roughthe musicians do not
Week and, more recently, at because
each other. Jam sessions
the Comblain-La-Tour Bel- know
are fine when steeped in thegium International
Jazz atmosphere of a Festival but
Festival organised to help they are not so good when theyrebuild a church damaged dur- come, stone cold, over the air.
A certain amount of roughing the war.
playingisinevitable, but

No time

My knowledge of Festivals may

rehearsed,
polished playing is. of
course. vital.
At Newport and in the States
this is understood. In Europe
promoters are inclined to plug
too much for the jam session.

not be as extensive as some but
at all the Festivals in which I
have taken part I discovered thatmusicians find it difficult to giveof their best.
The reason is quite simple.
Musically we have practically notime to warm up. There are too
many people around and too
much confusion.
Of course the nut may bedifficult to crack but I believe it
can be cracked if promoterswould bear one or two points inmind.
It is reasonable, I suppose,
CHET BAKER
that they should want to get as
For my own part, I have modimany names into the programme fied
my playing. It has taken
as they possibly can. But 10 or me fouror five years to produce
12 big groups are too many.
a bigger sound, with a fatterpunch, but without changing
the lyrical approach.
Warm-up
I think there is too much
The names at the top should finesse in contemporary jazz
be kept down to four or five. This playing and not enough drive.
would give each big group about Many players complain that the
40 minutes' playing time, with rhythm section drowns them, so
the result that the music would that the fans only hear the
be really warm-for the art of drums. But if more drive were
getting into the swing is in pull- put into playing this would not
ing along with the rhythm sec- obtain.
tion, and that cannot be done in
Finally, a word to photoa few minutes.
graphers attending festivals. We
In clubs the routine is love you and we need you, but it
generally 40 minutes on arld 20 is terrible at a Festival-or any
minutes off. Why cannot Festivals other time-to play surrounded
use the same technique? The 20 by half a dozen photographers
minutes in between the big so that the musician loses sightnames could be used to give Of the audience and the leader`ONLY SIXTEEN'
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WHEN I did the virtually impossible recently, and managed

to corner him on the set at the Twentieth Century Fox
film studios, Bing Crosby was-once again-starring as a
Roman Catholic priest in "Say One For Me."

Knowing I would have very little time, I launched straight in.
" The biggest influence on my singing style?
Al Jolson," said Bing without hesitation. " I
used to get all Jolson's records and study them
HOLLYWOOD
in detail.

XX X X X X X XX X X X X X X X X X X X X" They've said a lot of fellows sound like me, but
it's all from Jolson really. I'm a sort of carry-overfrom Al."" How about musicians? " I queried. " Were you
influenced by instrumentalists at all? "TARZAN TAKES" Well, you know, I did have
Lucraft with
my own band, in which I Howard
played drums," he replied. "I Bing on the set ofstarted as a drummer in high "Say One For Me"X HOLLYWOOD, Wednes- x school. Then I studied at law for one of the few
school and played engagements
HEADLINES

TO JAllinterviews the singday.-Shorty Rogers is X
er has ever given.
x doing a jazz background jsc at night.
" A whole lot later I camex score for the latest " Tar- x
I turned to Robin and RainX zan " picture . . . The first x under the influence of Bix andger, the songwriting team rethe others in the Whiteman
X annual Los Angeles Jazz X band."sponsible
for many greatx Festival, on October 2 and X
Crosby film tunes.
X 3 at the Hollywood Bowl,"Ralph Rainger was killed
x will feature the Count jX'
Rhythm Boys
in a private plane crash atinterviews the singer who
x Basie orchestra, the George x
Palm
Springs," Bing recalled.
X Shearing Quintet, the Cal x
Mention of Paul Whitemannever gives interviews"To me, it was a great perX Tjader
Sextet, the big X reminded Bing of the Rhythm
sonal
blow-and it was a terxShorty Rogers orchestra, X Boys-his first professional venloss to music."x the Hi-Lo's and Sarahture into the vocal field=and we went to the Paramount you know, we got the job ..." rible
We got on to Sinatra then,x Vaughan.
he reminded me that it had Theatre in New York and laid
How about Eddie Lang, the and Bing insisted he wasn't aa duo before becoming a a souffle-a dozen eggs," Bing guitarist
associated
with
Bing
yji CA VICTOR is throwing X beenbitsurprised at Frank's leap totrio, with just Al Rinker and grinned.
x 11, a champagne dinner for X himself.
for so long?
fame before the war.
Harry Barris wasx the local deejays to intro- x
After
that
we
auditioned
for
"He
had
a
fantasticear,"
x duce " Angeltown," the new x added later.
Paul Whiteman in his private Bing told me. "He didn't read
'Very big'x Livingston and Evans song x"
TheRhythmBoys
wereasuite.
Dressed
in
a
robe,
he
but
he
alwaysplayedwiththe"I
met Frank even before hex about Los Angeles that has x real big hit on their first en- sat on a pouffe, drinking cham- Columbia. Broadcasting System
was with Harry James and
X been recorded by Jane x gagement, in Chicago. Then pagne and eating caviar. As orchestra."Tommy Dorsey," he said. "I
X Powell with Bob Thomp- x
x son . . Paul Anka will x
always knew that one day he
X write his third movie title x
would be very big," he added
X tune when he does Platt- x
emphatically.
x num High School" for x
When I tried to draw him
X MGM.
out of modern ,jazz, Bing adsinger
x ROCK - 'N' - ROLL
mitted he was intrigued " byFabian (he's being XX
the sounds of Brubeck, Kenton")
taewed " the new Elvis toand Miles Davis. " Today'sXx took film star Sandra Dee ^X
jazz requires a lot of techx Tommy Sands's opening at
nique," was his only comment.
x the Cocoanut Grove ... The ,RWe were interrupted by anx Lambert - Hendricks - Ross x
urgent call on the set for " Mr.
x group, will be " singing x
Crosby, please." As we shookx MCs ' at the forthcoming x
x Monterey jazz festival with x
hands, I shot my parting quesNCE upon a time-so the story goes-a famous jazz musician tion:
x special Hendricks lyrics to x
x introduce each group.
was asked to define jazz. The gist of his reply was that if roll? " " What about rock-'n'X

Howard Lucraft.

Jazzmen aren't freaks, so'

let's drop the mystiqueX

columnist ;44x
11 Bill Kennedy reports:
XHOLLYWOODOLLYWOOD"It's nothing new to me,"you had to ask you might as well forget it. You were square and Bing
shot over his shoulder.

x " Gene Norman, who has athat was that.
x whippet dog and the Whipx pet Record Co., now wants
Well, great jazzmen are not necessarily great philosophers, and it is
x to buy a Whippet car. They X
Willysx were made by You
can ..; our own fault if we choose to make a legend out of a piece of goodx Knight in 1927.
x reach him at the Crescendo ;4' natured blarney.
x or the Interlude and if ahistoriansLetthex whippet answers, hang up." x
X
X
X
X
X

'LILY'S PRESLEY may get _X

rack

their

brains"It's been going on in thehe added, with a grin, " they
are rather overdoing it these

United States for years. But,"

days, aren't they? "to$100.000 to sing three '` recall who first threw offsongs in a TV spectacular
this pearl of wisdom. Was
is released _))cc

here when he
it Fats? Or Louis? Orx from the Army and there
him X Chris?
x is a deal cooking fortour ofx to do a five-day
Or merely some ambitious
x Australia . . Jazz bassist
young reporter trying to
x Red Callenderinhasthe
a rockbest
x 'n' -roll tune
find a market for his
x sellers called " Primrose X imagination?
Is-and we're still asking, in
X Lane."Whoever it was, he was 1959-then the jazzman has
plainly talking through his failed to explain himself and
XHOWARD LUCRAFT;`,
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More and more, jazz development is becoming dependent on
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Page 10-MELODY MAKER. August 22, 1959

Cyril Stapleton scouts

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japy Nie,601

OF PROVINCESFRANKIE VAUGHAN will

ham Brownies," which hewrote in conjunction with
NDO arranger Pat Nash.

star in four provincial
concerts on the eve of his

Vegas. on September 10.

with a six -piece for his fourth
winter at the Hotel Metropole,

RUSS CONWAY PLANS
DUSS CONWAY,' currently ridingin the Hit Parade with
CONCERTO LP
switch in a recorded

Dennis Roberts,

bassist with saxist-leader Danny
Teasdale at Worthing AssemblyHall, has been appointed secretary of Brighton and Hove Albion
Football Club.

"Roulette," plans a nova

THE Heclley Ward Trio,appearing with Charlie
Chester in " Pot Luck " atthe Winter Gardens
Pavilion, Blackpool, flies tothe Isle of Man for a Sunday concert with Ivy Benson's Band at the Villa
Marina, Douglas, on September 6. In November, thegroup 'planes to Germany
for a two-week cabaret
season at the Von Steuben

day-The Platters are

return tour next month.
Dates had been set to starton October 25, but now there
is a move to bring the trip
forward to late in Septem-

ber.
The only hassle remaining on
the junket is the matter of paid
fares to Britain.
The current involvements of

Are you the entertainer he is
If so, drop a line to Cyril, c/o
Futurist Theatre, Scarborough,Research station at
Aldermaston, on October 9.
But first Eric will find himself
back with the RAF at Bridge north Aerodrome, Birmingham.
AtomicYorks. This may be your oppor-

tunity.

and first appearance in his home-on October 8.

GARY MILLER IN
Llandudno's Grand Theatre, Show, and on the 9th will be PALLADIUM XMAS
to where he is spending the sum- heard playing, his new recording,theatre.
record -buying public."
Appearing for the summer with
ALMA COGAN IS pop
When his Welsh season ends
on August 29. Russ will spend has new symphony Bruce Forsyth at Weymouth,
three days at the EMI studios in JOHNNY DANKWORTH has Gary made a 600 -mile round trip
Blackpool on Sunday to playworking on the LP. He
been commissioned by the to
ADDED TO BILL London
concert at the Opera House
will also fit in an appearance at London
Philharmonic Society to awith
Bassey, Petula
the Radio Show on September 2. write anotherwork for jazz band Clark, Shirley
Joe Henderson and thesymphony orchestra.
FOR 'POP PROM' Two days later, he makes his andThis
Kentones.
follows his " Improvisawas Gary's first appearance
tions For Jazz Band and Sym- at Itthe
ALMA COGAN has been added
Opera House since-as a
Orchestra," written in boy ofto the all-star bill for the Nat Gonella back phony
took part in acollaboration with Hungarian musical 12-he" Pop Prom " concert at thefestival there.
composer,MatyasSeiber.
This
Royal Albert Hall.
was played by the DankworthandGeraldo will be two of thejudges at Morecambe's Bathing

Beauty Finals on August 26. . .
Trumpet -leader Les Jowett is
experimenting with late -night
jazz sessions (11.30 p.m. to3a.m.) every Saturday at
Brighton's Parris Buttery. . .
Alto -violinist Jack Croft is
deputising for Stan Osborne at
the Pavilion Ballroom, BourneThe show is at 2.15 p.m. on
mouth, while he recovers from an Sunday,
September 20-not theoperation.
24th as printed last week.
will be Marty
With
Alma
Ivor Bradshaw Wilde, Billy Fury, Dickie Pride,
NEW.-The
Jazz Band is resident at a Duffy
Power,
Terry
White, Craig
new Friday -night jazz club at the Douglas, Bill Forbes,
the Mud RAFA
Club,
Blackburn. .
larks, Cherry Wainer, Don Storer,
Brighton bandleader Ken Lyon Bert Weedon, the Vernons Girls(former MM correspondent) and Neville Taylor and the Cuthas been presented by his wife ters. All the stars will be accomValda with a son, to be called panied by Lord Rockingham's 1st
Peter. . . . Another ex -MM and 2nd XIs, directed by Harrycorrespondent, Frednie Somer- Robinson.
ville (alto) is now lelicling at the
The concert Is in aid of the
Woolacombe Bay Hotel, near National Playing Fields AssociaIlfracombe. .
Dolores O'Keefe tion.
(nee Rockett), who represents
Ticketsriced from 3s. 6d. to
the MM in Dublin, recently 155.
6d. can be obtained frombecame the mother of a the Albert Hall and ticket
daughter, Charlotte Alison.
agencies.
.

in record stakes

and London Philharmonic

Orchestras at the Festival HallNat Gonella makes his major in June and is to have two morerecording comeback when Colum- performances at the Royal Albert
bia issues an LP entitled " Tri- Hall on November 27 and Decembute To Satchmo " in November ber 4.
as part of the label's Lansdowne The new composition, being
Jazz Series. It will be Nat's first written with Malcolm Arnold,
issue on a major label for

Vic Ash has three
Sunday 'breaks

North v. South

plays London's Flamingo Club.
Vic (clt., tnr.l leads Ian Hamer(tpt.), Alan Branscombe (pno.),Bill Sutcliffe (bass) and DavePearson (drs.).

in trad battle

Family outing

other dates which the

Tivoband will play are at Wisbecia,
Cambs., on October 10, and thefollowing night (11th) at the
Astoria, Charing Cross Road, W.

TV viewers have had quite a pin-up session thisweek.
On Saturday, Jayne Mansfield-America's" girl with the mostest "-made her ATV debut in" Starlight Hour." She is pictured (above) with Cliff
Richard, who provided the song spots on the show,

HOLIDAY TIME
The Mick Mulligan Band starts
its annual holiday this weekend,
returning to work at Welwyn
Garden City on September 7.

...ON BOTH CHANNELSThe Vic Ash Quintet has been

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Tribute to Billie

show's booking at Glasgow on
Jazz writer Vic Bellerby will
October 26, insisted that Scot- present a " Tribute To Billie
land's Clyde Valley Stompers Holiday " on Monday, in theshould replace Lightfoot for the series of record recitals run byconcert.
He told the MM last Doug Dobell at the White Bear,week that, apart from Chris Lisle Street, Soho.
Barber, Ken Colyer and Alex
Welsh, " England has not oneon

WHEN SHADOWS FALL...
An all-star group led by Ken
Ayer clarinettist Ian Wheeler
will be featured for an all-night
session at the_ Ken Colyer Club
tomorrow (Saturday). Guests include guitarist Diz Disley.

BBC viewers on Monday evening saw glamorous actress Diana Dors on the panel of"Juke Box Jury." Diana and her comedian -husband Dickie Dawson joined panellists
Pete Murray and Sheila Buxton in reviewing the latest record releases. Diana and Dickie
are pictured (above) listening to the juke -box at the TV Theatre, Shepherd's Bush Green.

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Terry Lightfoot's New Orleans
Jazzmen are booked into Kings
Hall, Stoke, tomorrow (Satur-day), returning to London for asession at Woolwich Jazz ClubOn September 28, the groupplays the annual Riverside Caron Sunday.

John Grej,ASE

BACK IN BUSINESS

Nigel Carter, who at the ageof twelve surprised London jazzclubs with his -trumpet -playing,
was last week demobilised fromRoyal* Signals Band. He isSons'(London) Ltd., 79/85 Paul Street, London, E.C.2 thenow 20 and intends forming his
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where the Platters were to have (bass) and Bob Smith (drs.).

Acker Bilk Band

Twenty -seven -year -old South

African singer Virginia Lee

arrived here last week " totry her luck in Britain."
And already she has fixed aseason at Le Condor Club,
Wardour Street, with theFrank King Band, opening
on September 1.
For the past 18 months Virginia has been working at
the Diamond Horseshoe Clubin Johannesburg.

TO TEACH
on TV Bandstand STARSAT HAWKSWORTH" BANDSTAND "-a new Thursday evening jazz series for
Granada TV-tees off on September 17. Starring in thefirst four programmes are the Acker Bilk Band and the Ray
Ellington Quartet with Valerie

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Remainder of the line-up isMike Peters (tpt.), Alan Cooper(clt.), John Barton (bjo.) andTony Goffe (bass).
The new group starts a two months residency at the New
Orleans Beer Bar, Dusseldorf, on
August 30 and is consideringoffers for a ten-day tour of Denmark and Sweden to follow Germany.

Ken

Mackintosh's

13 -week

series of BBC broadcasts, " Flying Standards " which was due
to start on September 11, hasbeen postponed until October 9.
With his band, singers andguest stars, Ken will broadcast
every Friday from 7.30 te 8 p.m.,and not from 9.30 to 10 p.m. as
originally arranged.

'RECORDS MAGAZINE' There's a full colour portrait of Duane Eddy on the cover of the September issue. 16 pages of pictures andfeatures; details of all Decca-group stereo and mono releases; your monthly guide to the best of the new records. Sixpence from your dealer or newsagent.

S E IIGood players are relaxed
players, and the quickest

Seven, it will now be a sextet way to relaxed playing
known as the Graham Stewart
New Orleans Jazz Band.
Pianist Johnny Parker has left is with a Brilhart. By
theband and will not be replaced. Drummer John Cox has
also left to return to his home choosing Brilhart you

starts Oct. 9

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and Acker Bilk, to mention only
Enamel finish £2711/3 (Tax Paid) three.
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with the Clyde Valley Stompers
in Bournemouth on September
20. People will be able to compare the two groups then.
" National pride is all veryOn the other hand, there

police are not expected to affect

GRAHAM STEWART

Wednesday

week Lightfoot retorted:enamel, silver, " IThis
think it's a bit strong. There
gold or red glitter.

On bail

New jazz club in
Tottenham Ct. Rd.

Platters with the Cincinnati

Meanwhile in Britain, Dave's
latest recording, " High Hopes,"
is proving a fast seller. Reports
Pye Records: " Although it has
been on sale only about a week,
it is going great guns."

American husband -wife singing team Jack Cassidy and Shir-werebooked to tour Britain with the
Kid Ory package show in Octo-

the four male members of theances.

Jones arrived in Britain thisBANDLEADER Terry Lightfoot this week hit back at Scots ley
for two ATV appearances.
jazz promoter Clifford Stanton for what he considered " an week
They star in " Saturday Specinsult to English bands."
tacular' this week -end and in
The England v. Scotland jazz wax started when the LightfootNew

Date for the jury trial of thefour Platters has been set forAugust 28 in Cincinnati.

Masters.
BRITAIN'S top modernists areshows will be transmitted
DAVE KING SIGNS at The
to teach at a new school of
6.15 p.m. and also featuremusic which opens today (Friweekly guest stars.
" The programmes have been day).
The school has been formed
for at least 16 weeks
FOR U.S ENCORE scheduled
and will probably be taped everY by Ted. Heath bassist Johnny
Wednesday at the Granada Hawksworth and operates fromin Manchester," says Suite aa, 119, Oxford Street, W.1.
OF HIS TV SHOW Studios
Dave Warwick,one - time Already signed for the teachdrummer
who directs the series. ing staff are saxists Benny Green,
DAVE KING has scored*such a
Harry Klein and Ronnie Chamhit in America with hisberlain, trumpeter Eddie Blair,current coast -to -coast TV show
'Big guns'
clarinettist Vic Ash and tromthat he has been signed for anAnd
Keith Christie.
I
hope
to
introduceallthe"other big U.S television series big guns of the modern and bonist
Hawksworth
is fixing more starnext year.
jazz world," he added. musicians to cover all instruHis agent Leslie Grade told the traditional
like Humphrey Lyttel- ments.
MM on Wednesday: "No dates " Names
He told the MM: " I have
Chris Barber, Tony Kinsey
have yet been fixed for the start ton,
started the school in response toandDill
Jones."of the programmes, but I can tell
The Zenith Six, a trad group hundreds of inquiries fromyou that Dave is definitely going from
Manchester, and Warring- amateurs and semi -pros. In addiback for another top series."
ton's Eric Pepperell Quintet tion to learning instruments,
Tremendous
Swhich launched both Edna pupils will be taught the theory
and Barbara Law) will of music, harmony-the lot. And
The 29 -year -old comedian - avage
part in a closed-circuit trial every lesson will be supervised
singer has won a tremendous takeby myself."following through his TV shows programme of " Bandstand."in the States. Hard-bitten critics
have all raved about his perform-

famous for such outstanding signed for three programmes inmusic as "The Bridge on ABC -TV's " Sunday Break" series,
Backing Nat on the session film
the River Kwai," will feature before starting its nationwide
were Tony Coe (alto. elt.), Lennie Johnny on alto sax, but can be tour with the " Newport Jazz
Felix (pno.), Jack Fallon (bass) played by any solo instrumenta- Festival " package on Septemberand Lennie Hastings (drs.).
19.
list.
The TV dates are August 30,
September 6 and 13.
Tonight (Friday) the group
12

Years.

bit.

GREVATT

The men were arrested in a
The Allan Leat Jazz Stars
Cincinnati hotel last week and open
a new West End jazz club
NEW 'ATOMIC
released on bail following an at the
Roebuck, Tottenham
alleged vice charge involving Court Road, W.. tonight (Frifour is -year -old girls.
day).
The
club
will operate every
ERIC DELANEY
Outside of the local Cincin- Friday.
nati
area,
the
Incident
received
The
group
has
been resident
When Eric Delaney's " New surprisingly small play in the for the past four years
at BrampLook " Band returns from its aPress
over
here.
Some
new
York
ton
Jazz
Club,
DraytonArms,
two -month visit to Germany, one
completely ignored the South Kensington, which is open
of its first dates will be at the papers
story.
on Thursdays.

seeking,?

boatd technique, aims
China Tea, on Jack Parnell's
GARY MILLER is to appear
record an LP of popular mer season, he told. the MM: "" Disc
Break " programme.
with Harry Secombe in" These works will be recorded
concertos. Titles will in"
HumptyDumpty " at the Lonclude " Warsaw Concerto," in light-hearted fashion in an
don Palladium this Christmas. It
attempt to bring the rather ...and Dankworth will be Blackpool -born Gary's
better type of number to the,first appearance at this famouscancelled them out.
He has assured the manager ofthe group, Buck Ram, however,that he wants them back at alater date when things cool off a

From -REN

due to visit Britain for atown, Bristol. with a charity" Dream Of Olwen."offering next month.
concert at the Colston Hall
Russdeniesthat
heintends(4th). On the 6th, he has a TV
Russ, who won fame for to " go Straight " musicwise. At spotin the BBC's Billy Cotton
his bar -room styled key-

Hotel, Weisbaden.

.

" Cornish Rhapsody "appeared at an early date, has

NEW YORK, Wednes-

mercial contractors."
Is Cyril Stapleton right. Does
the country abound with experienced, unexploited star material?

high

FLYING HIGH

Loss

his

port on September 1 andopens
for a season at the
famous Dunes Hotel, Las

thorpe. . . . Piano -leader Phil
Cleary opens in September

Amateurs

On his own admission he had
professional standards.
amateur talent-that's not no less than 14 times.
Jackpot
my idea," he told the MM
STARLIGHT SPECIAL from Scarborough where he " But immediately he was prein the right spot-he hit
American singer Mauri Leigh- is appearing for the summer sented
the jackpot. And there must
ton, who opened at Ohurchills at the Futurist Theatre.
be many like him-solid peron Monday of last week, has had " I am certain that around formers,
with lots of talent, justher season extended until
the break.
country there are lots of waiting
September 5. She stars in ATV's the"IfI
can find the rightsingers,
musicians
andcomStarlight Special" on August
he continued,`I29.
edians who are first-class per- material,"
would be prepared to have a shotwith them on TV. I am certainthat I could sell the programmeeither to the BBC or the com-

Allan and Bobby Joy.
Frankie is due to fly to
New York from London Air-WINTER.-Ken Turner andhis Band, currently at the
Palace Ballroom, Blackpool, againtransfer for the winter season
to the Baths Ballroom, Scun-

CHARGE.-Joe

and

NEWCOMER I

on many occasions in his act.
areout
But they must be up to" I am not interested in played one Yorkshire theatre

Orchestra will be featured
at all four dates. The bill at
Manchester and Sheffield
will Include Lorne Leslie,David Fontaine and Clive

*

.

Weir

PLATTERS FOR BRITAIN
NEXT MONTH

formers but have never had thebreaks," he added.
" At this time last year, who
hid heard of Bruce Forsyth?
Yet there must be thousands oftheatregoers who had seen him

wants to, give them startreatment on television.

Frank Weir backing

Leach) and "Parade of thejelly Babies.".

artists and musicians. He(August 27),
Manchester (28th), Sheffield(29th) and Bristol (30th).
Newcastle

Frank

is

seeking unknown

Lined up are shows at

The disc is to ire released on
Parlophone in two weeks'time.
On September 5, Alyn records
four more of his own compositions - "Golden Mile "(written with guitarist Dennis
Newey). " Lemon Candy," " 18th
Century Rock " (with Jimmy

Leeds.

CYRIL STAPLETON

return to America.

IF FARES HASSLE IS SETTLED

TV GLAMOUR.

for TV talent

VAUGHAN TOURALYN AII3SWORTH, conductor of the BBC
Northern Dance Orchestra,
recently recorded " Bucking-*August 22, 1959. MELODY MAKER-Page 1 11

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Page 10-MELODY MAKER. August 22, 1959

Cyril Stapleton scouts

NEWSBOX
japy Nie,601

OF PROVINCESFRANKIE VAUGHAN will

ham Brownies," which hewrote in conjunction with
NDO arranger Pat Nash.

star in four provincial
concerts on the eve of his

Vegas. on September 10.

with a six -piece for his fourth
winter at the Hotel Metropole,

RUSS CONWAY PLANS
DUSS CONWAY,' currently ridingin the Hit Parade with
CONCERTO LP
switch in a recorded

Dennis Roberts,

bassist with saxist-leader Danny
Teasdale at Worthing AssemblyHall, has been appointed secretary of Brighton and Hove Albion
Football Club.

"Roulette," plans a nova

THE Heclley Ward Trio,appearing with Charlie
Chester in " Pot Luck " atthe Winter Gardens
Pavilion, Blackpool, flies tothe Isle of Man for a Sunday concert with Ivy Benson's Band at the Villa
Marina, Douglas, on September 6. In November, thegroup 'planes to Germany
for a two-week cabaret
season at the Von Steuben

day-The Platters are

return tour next month.
Dates had been set to starton October 25, but now there
is a move to bring the trip
forward to late in Septem-

ber.
The only hassle remaining on
the junket is the matter of paid
fares to Britain.
The current involvements of

Are you the entertainer he is
If so, drop a line to Cyril, c/o
Futurist Theatre, Scarborough,Research station at
Aldermaston, on October 9.
But first Eric will find himself
back with the RAF at Bridge north Aerodrome, Birmingham.
AtomicYorks. This may be your oppor-

tunity.

and first appearance in his home-on October 8.

GARY MILLER IN
Llandudno's Grand Theatre, Show, and on the 9th will be PALLADIUM XMAS
to where he is spending the sum- heard playing, his new recording,theatre.
record -buying public."
Appearing for the summer with
ALMA COGAN IS pop
When his Welsh season ends
on August 29. Russ will spend has new symphony Bruce Forsyth at Weymouth,
three days at the EMI studios in JOHNNY DANKWORTH has Gary made a 600 -mile round trip
Blackpool on Sunday to playworking on the LP. He
been commissioned by the to
ADDED TO BILL London
concert at the Opera House
will also fit in an appearance at London
Philharmonic Society to awith
Bassey, Petula
the Radio Show on September 2. write anotherwork for jazz band Clark, Shirley
Joe Henderson and thesymphony orchestra.
FOR 'POP PROM' Two days later, he makes his andThis
Kentones.
follows his " Improvisawas Gary's first appearance
tions For Jazz Band and Sym- at Itthe
ALMA COGAN has been added
Opera House since-as a
Orchestra," written in boy ofto the all-star bill for the Nat Gonella back phony
took part in acollaboration with Hungarian musical 12-he" Pop Prom " concert at thefestival there.
composer,MatyasSeiber.
This
Royal Albert Hall.
was played by the DankworthandGeraldo will be two of thejudges at Morecambe's Bathing

Beauty Finals on August 26. . .
Trumpet -leader Les Jowett is
experimenting with late -night
jazz sessions (11.30 p.m. to3a.m.) every Saturday at
Brighton's Parris Buttery. . .
Alto -violinist Jack Croft is
deputising for Stan Osborne at
the Pavilion Ballroom, BourneThe show is at 2.15 p.m. on
mouth, while he recovers from an Sunday,
September 20-not theoperation.
24th as printed last week.
will be Marty
With
Alma
Ivor Bradshaw Wilde, Billy Fury, Dickie Pride,
NEW.-The
Jazz Band is resident at a Duffy
Power,
Terry
White, Craig
new Friday -night jazz club at the Douglas, Bill Forbes,
the Mud RAFA
Club,
Blackburn. .
larks, Cherry Wainer, Don Storer,
Brighton bandleader Ken Lyon Bert Weedon, the Vernons Girls(former MM correspondent) and Neville Taylor and the Cuthas been presented by his wife ters. All the stars will be accomValda with a son, to be called panied by Lord Rockingham's 1st
Peter. . . . Another ex -MM and 2nd XIs, directed by Harrycorrespondent, Frednie Somer- Robinson.
ville (alto) is now lelicling at the
The concert Is in aid of the
Woolacombe Bay Hotel, near National Playing Fields AssociaIlfracombe. .
Dolores O'Keefe tion.
(nee Rockett), who represents
Ticketsriced from 3s. 6d. to
the MM in Dublin, recently 155.
6d. can be obtained frombecame the mother of a the Albert Hall and ticket
daughter, Charlotte Alison.
agencies.
.

in record stakes

and London Philharmonic

Orchestras at the Festival HallNat Gonella makes his major in June and is to have two morerecording comeback when Colum- performances at the Royal Albert
bia issues an LP entitled " Tri- Hall on November 27 and Decembute To Satchmo " in November ber 4.
as part of the label's Lansdowne The new composition, being
Jazz Series. It will be Nat's first written with Malcolm Arnold,
issue on a major label for

Vic Ash has three
Sunday 'breaks

North v. South

plays London's Flamingo Club.
Vic (clt., tnr.l leads Ian Hamer(tpt.), Alan Branscombe (pno.),Bill Sutcliffe (bass) and DavePearson (drs.).

in trad battle

Family outing

other dates which the

Tivoband will play are at Wisbecia,
Cambs., on October 10, and thefollowing night (11th) at the
Astoria, Charing Cross Road, W.

TV viewers have had quite a pin-up session thisweek.
On Saturday, Jayne Mansfield-America's" girl with the mostest "-made her ATV debut in" Starlight Hour." She is pictured (above) with Cliff
Richard, who provided the song spots on the show,

HOLIDAY TIME
The Mick Mulligan Band starts
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returning to work at Welwyn
Garden City on September 7.

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Jazz writer Vic Bellerby will
October 26, insisted that Scot- present a " Tribute To Billie
land's Clyde Valley Stompers Holiday " on Monday, in theshould replace Lightfoot for the series of record recitals run byconcert.
He told the MM last Doug Dobell at the White Bear,week that, apart from Chris Lisle Street, Soho.
Barber, Ken Colyer and Alex
Welsh, " England has not oneon

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An all-star group led by Ken
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BBC viewers on Monday evening saw glamorous actress Diana Dors on the panel of"Juke Box Jury." Diana and her comedian -husband Dickie Dawson joined panellists
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John Grej,ASE

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Nigel Carter, who at the ageof twelve surprised London jazzclubs with his -trumpet -playing,
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Twenty -seven -year -old South

African singer Virginia Lee

arrived here last week " totry her luck in Britain."
And already she has fixed aseason at Le Condor Club,
Wardour Street, with theFrank King Band, opening
on September 1.
For the past 18 months Virginia has been working at
the Diamond Horseshoe Clubin Johannesburg.

TO TEACH
on TV Bandstand STARSAT HAWKSWORTH" BANDSTAND "-a new Thursday evening jazz series for
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Ken

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With his band, singers andguest stars, Ken will broadcast
every Friday from 7.30 te 8 p.m.,and not from 9.30 to 10 p.m. as
originally arranged.

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Seven, it will now be a sextet way to relaxed playing
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GRAHAM STEWART

Wednesday

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think it's a bit strong. There
gold or red glitter.

On bail

New jazz club in
Tottenham Ct. Rd.

Platters with the Cincinnati

Meanwhile in Britain, Dave's
latest recording, " High Hopes,"
is proving a fast seller. Reports
Pye Records: " Although it has
been on sale only about a week,
it is going great guns."

American husband -wife singing team Jack Cassidy and Shir-werebooked to tour Britain with the
Kid Ory package show in Octo-

the four male members of theances.

Jones arrived in Britain thisBANDLEADER Terry Lightfoot this week hit back at Scots ley
for two ATV appearances.
jazz promoter Clifford Stanton for what he considered " an week
They star in " Saturday Specinsult to English bands."
tacular' this week -end and in
The England v. Scotland jazz wax started when the LightfootNew

Date for the jury trial of thefour Platters has been set forAugust 28 in Cincinnati.

Masters.
BRITAIN'S top modernists areshows will be transmitted
DAVE KING SIGNS at The
to teach at a new school of
6.15 p.m. and also featuremusic which opens today (Friweekly guest stars.
" The programmes have been day).
The school has been formed
for at least 16 weeks
FOR U.S ENCORE scheduled
and will probably be taped everY by Ted. Heath bassist Johnny
Wednesday at the Granada Hawksworth and operates fromin Manchester," says Suite aa, 119, Oxford Street, W.1.
OF HIS TV SHOW Studios
Dave Warwick,one - time Already signed for the teachdrummer
who directs the series. ing staff are saxists Benny Green,
DAVE KING has scored*such a
Harry Klein and Ronnie Chamhit in America with hisberlain, trumpeter Eddie Blair,current coast -to -coast TV show
'Big guns'
clarinettist Vic Ash and tromthat he has been signed for anAnd
Keith Christie.
I
hope
to
introduceallthe"other big U.S television series big guns of the modern and bonist
Hawksworth
is fixing more starnext year.
jazz world," he added. musicians to cover all instruHis agent Leslie Grade told the traditional
like Humphrey Lyttel- ments.
MM on Wednesday: "No dates " Names
He told the MM: " I have
Chris Barber, Tony Kinsey
have yet been fixed for the start ton,
started the school in response toandDill
Jones."of the programmes, but I can tell
The Zenith Six, a trad group hundreds of inquiries fromyou that Dave is definitely going from
Manchester, and Warring- amateurs and semi -pros. In addiback for another top series."
ton's Eric Pepperell Quintet tion to learning instruments,
Tremendous
Swhich launched both Edna pupils will be taught the theory
and Barbara Law) will of music, harmony-the lot. And
The 29 -year -old comedian - avage
part in a closed-circuit trial every lesson will be supervised
singer has won a tremendous takeby myself."following through his TV shows programme of " Bandstand."in the States. Hard-bitten critics
have all raved about his perform-

famous for such outstanding signed for three programmes inmusic as "The Bridge on ABC -TV's " Sunday Break" series,
Backing Nat on the session film
the River Kwai," will feature before starting its nationwide
were Tony Coe (alto. elt.), Lennie Johnny on alto sax, but can be tour with the " Newport Jazz
Felix (pno.), Jack Fallon (bass) played by any solo instrumenta- Festival " package on Septemberand Lennie Hastings (drs.).
19.
list.
The TV dates are August 30,
September 6 and 13.
Tonight (Friday) the group
12

Years.

bit.

GREVATT

The men were arrested in a
The Allan Leat Jazz Stars
Cincinnati hotel last week and open
a new West End jazz club
NEW 'ATOMIC
released on bail following an at the
Roebuck, Tottenham
alleged vice charge involving Court Road, W.. tonight (Frifour is -year -old girls.
day).
The
club
will operate every
ERIC DELANEY
Outside of the local Cincin- Friday.
nati
area,
the
Incident
received
The
group
has
been resident
When Eric Delaney's " New surprisingly small play in the for the past four years
at BrampLook " Band returns from its aPress
over
here.
Some
new
York
ton
Jazz
Club,
DraytonArms,
two -month visit to Germany, one
completely ignored the South Kensington, which is open
of its first dates will be at the papers
story.
on Thursdays.

seeking,?

boatd technique, aims
China Tea, on Jack Parnell's
GARY MILLER is to appear
record an LP of popular mer season, he told. the MM: "" Disc
Break " programme.
with Harry Secombe in" These works will be recorded
concertos. Titles will in"
HumptyDumpty " at the Lonclude " Warsaw Concerto," in light-hearted fashion in an
don Palladium this Christmas. It
attempt to bring the rather ...and Dankworth will be Blackpool -born Gary's
better type of number to the,first appearance at this famouscancelled them out.
He has assured the manager ofthe group, Buck Ram, however,that he wants them back at alater date when things cool off a

From -REN

due to visit Britain for atown, Bristol. with a charity" Dream Of Olwen."offering next month.
concert at the Colston Hall
Russdeniesthat
heintends(4th). On the 6th, he has a TV
Russ, who won fame for to " go Straight " musicwise. At spotin the BBC's Billy Cotton
his bar -room styled key-

Hotel, Weisbaden.

.

" Cornish Rhapsody "appeared at an early date, has

NEW YORK, Wednes-

mercial contractors."
Is Cyril Stapleton right. Does
the country abound with experienced, unexploited star material?

high

FLYING HIGH

Loss

his

port on September 1 andopens
for a season at the
famous Dunes Hotel, Las

thorpe. . . . Piano -leader Phil
Cleary opens in September

Amateurs

On his own admission he had
professional standards.
amateur talent-that's not no less than 14 times.
Jackpot
my idea," he told the MM
STARLIGHT SPECIAL from Scarborough where he " But immediately he was prein the right spot-he hit
American singer Mauri Leigh- is appearing for the summer sented
the jackpot. And there must
ton, who opened at Ohurchills at the Futurist Theatre.
be many like him-solid peron Monday of last week, has had " I am certain that around formers,
with lots of talent, justher season extended until
the break.
country there are lots of waiting
September 5. She stars in ATV's the"IfI
can find the rightsingers,
musicians
andcomStarlight Special" on August
he continued,`I29.
edians who are first-class per- material,"
would be prepared to have a shotwith them on TV. I am certainthat I could sell the programmeeither to the BBC or the com-

Allan and Bobby Joy.
Frankie is due to fly to
New York from London Air-WINTER.-Ken Turner andhis Band, currently at the
Palace Ballroom, Blackpool, againtransfer for the winter season
to the Baths Ballroom, Scun-

CHARGE.-Joe

and

NEWCOMER I

on many occasions in his act.
areout
But they must be up to" I am not interested in played one Yorkshire theatre

Orchestra will be featured
at all four dates. The bill at
Manchester and Sheffield
will Include Lorne Leslie,David Fontaine and Clive

*

.

Weir

PLATTERS FOR BRITAIN
NEXT MONTH

formers but have never had thebreaks," he added.
" At this time last year, who
hid heard of Bruce Forsyth?
Yet there must be thousands oftheatregoers who had seen him

wants to, give them startreatment on television.

Frank Weir backing

Leach) and "Parade of thejelly Babies.".

artists and musicians. He(August 27),
Manchester (28th), Sheffield(29th) and Bristol (30th).
Newcastle

Frank

is

seeking unknown

Lined up are shows at

The disc is to ire released on
Parlophone in two weeks'time.
On September 5, Alyn records
four more of his own compositions - "Golden Mile "(written with guitarist Dennis
Newey). " Lemon Candy," " 18th
Century Rock " (with Jimmy

Leeds.

CYRIL STAPLETON

return to America.

IF FARES HASSLE IS SETTLED

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Neglected Carter is
BENNY CARTER (LP)" Jazz Giant "Old
Fashioned Love (a):I'm
Coming Virginia lb); A Welkin'
Thing (c); Blue Lou (a); Ain't
She Sweet (d); How Can You
Lose? (el; Blues My Naughtie
Sweetie Gives To Me (d).
(Vogue Contemporary 12 in. LAC
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Leroy Vinnegar (bass); Shelly Manne(drs.). 11/6.57. Los Angeles. (Am.

organ, drums and string bass anexperiment.
What we have are bright, sensible professional treatments ofold songs and jazz evergreensplus two originals.

(Do.).

tomary accuracy

Contemporary).
(b) -Same except Carter (tpt.);
Jimmy Bowles (pno.). 22./6,57. Do.
(b)(alto). Do. Do. (Do.).

exceptCarter(d) -Same as (a) less Webster and21/4/56.
(e) -Same as (a) except Carter(alto, tpt.). 7/10/58.
Rosolino.

HAVING admired the poise,

structure and melodic content of Carter's playing fornearly three decades, I turnedto this release with considerable
expectations.

Carter has been neglected ofgreat melodistsof jazz.

still at top(tnr.); Frank Rosolino (tmb.) Barney
Kessel (gtr.); Andre Previn 1prio.);.(e) -Same as

Benny Carter-one of theNewman plays with his cusand distinc-

tively squeezed tone; though heis muted much of the way, andgenerally under wraps, he keeps
a jazz and blues feeling upperPrevin, Rosolino, Carter's alto most.
He is extremely purposeful on
and Kessel.
On " Virginia" the trumpet is " Too Marvellous," " Moonglow,"" andgently lyrical, Bixian, and per- Shirley Scott's " Scotty
haps a little sweet for some jazz Buddy Johnson's " Save Your
ears. Ben Webster caresses the Love For Me."On " Organ Grinder's " hetune in his most voluptuous
utilises a favourite Newman riff
fashion.
severaltimes before leaping into
All in all, a delightful set
Armstrong's
from
solo
which should bring renewed a"
MahoganyHall." And " Rosetinterest in Carter, one of thegreat melodists of jazz. -Max ta " includes some of his mostenterprising playing.
Jones.
At the request of the A&R
man, Joe insists, he takes vocals
Healthy swingon "Whoopee," " Small Hotel,"late, and his improvisations here
show that he still commands abeauty of phrase that compares
well with anything we hear fromthe younger alto men.
Though the record isn't everything I expected in the way of"I Let A Song " and "Farmer's
RAY BRYANT (EP)arrangements, it has a fresh
hisUndeniably,
Daughter.""Sounds of Jazz"
modern -mainstream sound, invoice is a limited instrument.
ventive solos and a pretty
Cubano Chant; You're My Thrill; But he spaces the words like a
propulsive beat, only occaGoodbye; Off Shore.
natural trumpeter.
sionally marred by Manse's
Organs are organs, and those(Fontana TFE 17118-12s. 3d.)cymbal work.
Bryantwho cannot tolerate them should(pno.);
Wyatt
RutherBlue Lou," the Edgar Samp- (bass); Jo Jones (drs.).
dodge
this LP. But little Miss
son number, and Jimmy Johngets almost as much jazz
ONE of the more crabbed Scottson's " Old Fashioned Love "asyou'vea right to expect from
Britishcritics
have graceful solos by Carterrecently
dread box.
castigated Fontana's " Sounds of theShecontributes
solos to every
Jazz " series for including too track and regularly
blips out
many lesser jazz names.
noises.
backgroundnourishing
If he was referring to Ray Often she anticipates Joe inone
Bryant I couldn't disagree more. of his Edison -type riffs.
This EP upholds the general exBass
work
anddrumming
arecellence of the lengthy and conducive to high swing, andBrown. I only hope Ross, Mangelsdorff and Guerin
varied series.
nice. un- Marshall
help
to
make
this
a
that American listeners don't just don't play anything like as
Although not in the very top
rank of jazz pianists, Bryant can spectacular jazz 12. -Max Jones. accept it as representative of well as one has heard them inEuropean jazz.
the past.
always be relied upon to come
There is just about everything Much of the blame for a disup with a thoroughly enjoyable
Youth Bandwrong with it. Poor recording, appointing record must go to theperformance enriched by a sendull
arrangements, muzzy arrangers -Brown, John La Porta,
THE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH
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Only Sandole's "Too Marvelpersonnel was drawn fromOn this EP he plays a rocking
Wait For Henry; Don't Blame 16The
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which the other front -liners "SaveProbably 1958. (Am. Coral.)drop out.
Though we hear the effect of TOE NEWMAN says that heParker's impact on his tone and CI wanted to do " a soft,
phrase -making, we still hear the ' after-hours ' type of album;

polish, calmness and mastery of something quiet but moving."
form that were Carter essentials This Just about sums up thelong years ago.
music here, except to add that
Carter's own " How Can You it isn't all that quiet, it swings
Lose?"
bringshim
inon
trumconsistently
and it isn't experipet for the ensemble choruses; mental -unless you consider
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no flippin' good
" IT'Stunin'
the pianner,"said the lugubrious caretakerin a voice borrowed from" All thesePeter Sellers.

jazz bands come 'ere andknock it art of tune agine."
It could have been the co-op
Hall, Upper Spagforth, or the

BritishLegionAssembly
Rooms, Boulge-I don't remem-

ber. But it makes no difference.

Dust offthat
old piano
says Humphrey Lyttelton

Throughout the length andbreadth of the country, there
is, in the lower' and upper vivalists have abandoned the
The popularity of pianolessreaches of the concert business instrument altogether,
jazz raises a further
a deep-rooted belief that jazz I believe that one of the traditional
problem for pianists.
was invented solely as a means brightest moments in Sidney
Doing the rounds of the jazzof putting pianos out of action. Bechet's last tour of Britain clubs lately, I found several in
was when a local trad leader which the piano had suffered

told him that the piano in a a) long from neglect that it

Justifiedjazz band was " obsolete."sagged a full semi -tone below
Nowadays,most jazzmen concert pitch.
who approach the piano at alld,o so with a touch and techOut -of -tune
nique which would do credit toa straight pianist-with the
The tuner had apparently
possible exception of Dave been stood off as redundant.

At a certain stage there
might have been a glimmer ofjustification for this suspicion.
There used to be a New
Orleans -style pianist who, likethe Abbe Liszt in the rhyme,
I never saw anyone
It's time that full-scale war"beat the piano with his fist." Brubeck,such devastating pun- was declared on premises
When a recording engineer inflict
ishment on a piano as Mark which expect
bands to use

asked him, in the interests of Hambourg.
clarity, to move his righthand a little further up the

keyboard away from his left,
he retorted indignantly: " Wot,and sound like flippin' Teddy
Wilson?"Artisans of this calibre arescarce today. Ever since Ken
Colyer or somebody discovered
through painful experiencethat you can't march with apiano. earthy New Orleans re -NEW YORK NOTES

out -of -tune pianos.

To this end, I herewith initi-

ate a Black'Other piano'
But still the old myth per-sists,

andwhenevera

jazzgroup looms over the horizon,
the " best " piano is often
wheeled hurriedly away and aclose
relative ofWinnieAtwell's " other piano" put inits place.

... From BURT KORALL

List, in which
offending locations will be published. For a start, let me cite
the Dancing Slipper Ballroom,
used by the Nottingham Jazz
Club, The Cavern in Liverpool
and the United Ex -Servicemen's Hall, Watford, used by
the Watford Jazz Club.

Hour's delay
Further instalments will be

Published later.
Meanwhile, bands could wellfollow the example set by John
Lewis at Brighton, when a"Oscar Peterson? I've a big collection."

MUSCOVITES SAY`YES' TO JAll

WHEN

visited the recent Moscow International Film Festival with
the British delegation, one Muscovite watched Tommy Steele perform and then said to me:" We do not usually like rock-'n'-roll singers. Elvis Presley is not
popular here as we feel his songs put too much emphasis on sex. But
Tommy seems to have a fresh, individual talent and we like particularly
the clean way he puts over his songs."
If an unsuspecting visitor to the Russian capital asked a passer-by
where he could find some good jazz, the chances are he would
enthusiastically be told " All over town!"
The trouble is that, to young Russians, jazz covers just about everything outside a classical choir or a piano concerto.
But this does not prevent a widespread and growing interest in the
genuine article. Although to all young people all over Moscow Glenn
Miller, and Dorsey are contemporary names, they are also very muchaware of Kenton, Ellington, Georgia Gibbs and several French trad.
outfits which are heard over the air.
One young Muscovite startled me with her answer when
asked her
if she had a favourite instrumentalist. " Oscar Peterson," she said," I've got a big collection of his work."
The " collections " nearly always take the form of tape recordings
made from radio transmissions, since Western records are virtuallyI

I

impossible to obtain.
A brisk trade goes on in tape swaps, and musical evenings are popular,

where friends can meet and catch up with any tapes they may havemissed!
Pop singers are less favoured, though Paul Anka's latest record wascirculating (on tape) and Doris Day is in demand. One boy told methat probably the most popular American singer in Moscow is Nat" King " Cole. " His singing is very much to our liking," he explained," because he has a lot of feeling in his voice; it is smooth and melodious. And he sings with soul."
P.S, to disc fans --a 12in. LP. in Russia costs between 7s. and 9s.

Lee Langley
EDDY DUCHIN JNR. an. hour until the piano was
BOWS AS PIANIST JUST ARRIVED AT BELL'S
MJQ concert was delayed forsatisfactorily tuned.

FROM AMERICAFirst Delivery of the

NEW YORK, Wednesday.- appropriate to such a project, theThe late Eddy Duchin's set musically covers the 21 -yearofGershwin's career.
son Peter makes his debut as a spanBa.ssman, who has been
pianist on August 30 in the Ed George
writingandarrangingin HollySullivan Show. . . . Dakota wood for years, penned
theStaton was a guest performer arrangements and was musicalat the African Heritage Exposi- director of the project. This one
tion in the New York Trade is a must for Gershwin fans all
Show Building earlier this over the world.
week. . .. They say when Eddie
Fisher plays the Las Vegas IT Is reported

clubs again, he will add drum-

that HarryCONNTRUMPETSTROMBONESSAXOPHONES
etc.

Instruments including

Foster, an independent pro- World Famous
ming to his act. . . Barney ducer,
to film the story of
Kessel has just signed a new singer plans
Johnnie Ray's life.
.

exclusive long-term contract Johnnie will portray himself if
with Contemporary Records. current negotiations with his
are concluded.
Currently, the poll -winning representatives.
.
Drummer Kenny Dennis,
jazz guitarist is setting up a Who
has worked with Miles
10 -week tour for the Fall.
Davis, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stittand others, married Oklahoma
City oil heiress Jean McNiff. .

*JOE TERMINI, who owns and Artie Shaw may come out ofruns the Five Spot in Green- retirement and form a new band.
wich Village, plans to open another jazz club a couple of blocks
away some time next month. .
ATLANTIC RECORDS is putFrank Sinatra may play theting out a jazz version of
Copa during the Christmas holi- " Gypsy,"
Broadway's
latestdays. . . . Louis Armstrong musical smash.
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Let's cut out the
mystiquefrom page 9

says BRUCE
TURNER

visiting musicians because ofstantly eulogising over the the feeling that " after all, it'speople of Austria simply be- their music and they should
know best."
cause Haydn was born there.
I think I would be more
In a recently published book
we read of men and women embarrassed than flattered at
Who " only have to open their this special consideration.
mouths or lay their fingers on Unfortunately, too many ofstrings or piano keys for feel- today's tired box-office draws
ing to flow with the ease of are no longer able to offer theirwater from an open faucet."music on its own merits, and
But into this secret society they are beginning to rely on
we may never be admitted be- the mystique and on thecause of our pigmentation, or glamour supplied by thesebecause our thoughtless delirious journalists.
mothers bore us here instead of I don't think it is going toin the USA.
help America's jazz scene toplay down its many shortcomings.
And I, for one,
Race -conscious
As a direct result of this type would lijce to see British critics
alittlebitmore
critical whereof literature, the British critic
is becoming acutely race-con- American jazzmen are conscious-though he would be the cerned.
After all, they are notlast person to admit it.
Often it seems as if we are brilliant freaks, but ordinary,afraid to point out the faults in fallible human beings.

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American tenorman Stan Getz flourishes in Denmark these days withhis wife, two daughters, two sons and, of course, his saxophone. Above(left) Stan and part of the family take to the Danish sea. (Right) Getz
plays in a Copenhagen club. Behind him is Oscar Pettiford.

STAN CETZ has been

living in Denmark

for nearly a year now,and shows no sign ofmoving in the near
future.

Last autumn he settled

o race bias here'
Stan Getz

Is it not time we allowed one

in a northern suburb of

two foreign musicians to
Copenhagen, then he orwork for longer periods in thismoved to the town of country?
Hamlet, Elsinore.
Lately he moved south Al Williams

again, into a big white

IAST week's paragraph abouthouse on the Sound, abouta change in the Clayton
surprised a good many
20
kilometres
outside line-up
readers.
Copenhagen.
Jimmy Rushing is an addition
Getz says he and his
pleases everybody.
Alfamily-Swedish wife Mon- who
Williams is a different proposi-11-A

him, and Ken Colyer has
promised to help."
Jazz musicians of Collins's
generation seem to get very

ica and his four children- tion because very few people
here know his name.
will stay at least another over
Here are some facts about
year in Denmark. Then he him.
was born on Decemwill consider what to do, ber 17,He
1919, in Memphis, Ten-few of the breaks, but I am

sure there are numbers of collectors, here and in the States,
who will do something to help
right these cases of neglect.
You can write to Collins-who
signs his letters to me " Papa
Lee "-at 1424, East Marquetteand the choice will be diffi- nessee,and named Alfred;cult.
to Chicago when he was" My records are selling well taken
two,raisedthere, and taught
in the USA. On the other piano at the age of six.
hand, living in Denmark I can He started professionally at The first, Ernest Punch Miller, Papa Lee tooplay not only here, but in Nor- 16, forming his own 13 -piece has not been in good health for ALSO in need of encourage- Road, Chicago 37, Ill.
way, Sweden, Germany and-in band the next year for local years, but was playing last
ment is Lee Collins, theItaly, too. I like it dances. Later he moved to New January.
that way.
Jazz writer Tony Standish, admirable Crescent City trum- Newton wonderYorkandstudiedorgan,
which
petplayerwho came to Europe" I enjoy being here. In my
met Punch in New Orleans
AUTHOR Francis Newton,
calls " the king of instru- who
opinion people are more civil- heearly in '57, tells me that the with Mezz in 1951.
whose book is reviewed
ments."
ised, and there are no race In 1943 he joined Henry Allen 61 -year -old trumpeter recently Collins, too, has been in bad opposite,
writes about jazz
problems.
As I am of ten in Chicago, and has since came out of Charity Hospital, health for some time, and he is under a pen name.
working with coloured musi- worked extensively with Red in and has been recuperating at now in Chicago expecting any
In private life, at London
cians it is an obvious advan- New York, Bermuda and else- his niece's house.
day to go back into hospital for University (where he lectures
tage.
where.
"
He
cannotblow,
becauseofthefourthtime.
Treatmentishistory), on the BBC and at" I should like to be alive in, Al has also played with Louis his physical condition," says taking all his money, and any on
Manchester University Press hesay, 500 years when we'll all be Benson,
Standish. " They are unable to kind of help would be put to is known by his real name, EricRoy
Eldridge,
Colemanone race, all be mixed. I hate Hawkins. Jimmy Rushing. Stuff meet the house rent, and I vital use.
Hobsbawm.
the racial thing.
Erskine Hawkins, Sonny understand an eviction notice Miss Rae Wittrick--of 5,This double identity is not" Then life can be soft here. Smith,has been served.
Stitt,Sam
Taylorand
LuckyWhitefriars
Crescent,
Westcliffsecret But I doubt if any
The summer has been hot and Thompson. Last year he was at " Punch is not eligible for on-Sea, Essex - corresponds close
readerwhy he chose thewe go bathing, or chat in the the Metropole with Cozy Cole. Welfare Relief, as one has to regularly with Lee and says he nom -deknows-plume Francis Newton
garden. I have never been so
He
plays
piano
on
Clayton's
have
lived
in
the
city
for
three
is
in
low
spirits
becausehewhen he began his " New
fat in my life, and my wife latest Philips release, " Songs consecutive years to qualify.
his trumpet so much.
Statesman " chores three years
scorns me. But I love to eat." For
Swingers," and (with Red " Bill Russell has set up a misses
ago.
"
He
has
told
me
how
he
sits
Allen) on ,.he Langston Hughes fund to help him, and those and waits for the post, as
No, it has nothing to do with
Exquisite" Weary Blues " LP, not yet wanting to contribute should letters from friends are his main apples
or science.
It came
FOR the past six weeks or so, Issued here.
send money orders, payable to pleasure these days," she says. about as the result of his long Getz has been playing at
Bill, to 600, Chartres Street, " I am trying to arrange a held admiration for trumpeter
the Montmartre in midtown Powerful
ccuple of benefit nights for F'rankie Newton.
New Orleans, 16, La."
Copenhagen.
On four nights a week he QTANLEY DANCE tells me
led his quartet at this res- k--7 that Williams was intaurant, and on those nights- fluenced by Duke Ellington's
Harald Grut reports - has band and piano, and by Art
played the " best jazz to be Tatum's artistry.
heard in this part of the world." " He always sounds like a
The personnel varied from well -schooled musician,"time to time, but the constant Dance, " and he plays adds
infactors were Getz and bassist ventively with plenty of drive."
Oscar Pettiford.
Albert McCarthy recorded" Getz is as wonderful as Williams in
York last
ever, and the resounding sup- October with aNew
Vic Dickenson(Times: BST/CET)and his Band from Stockholm's FRIDAY, AUGUST 28:

port he got from the nimble group, and the album will be out

Pettiford gave him inspira- soon in the States on Atlantic.
tion," writes Grut. " His ballad Mac describes Al as " a solid
playing is among the most ex- player and fine section man who
quisite sounds in jazz."
plays extremely good boogie
The quartet's music was lis- among other things.
tened to with the attention it " He's a big, powerful man,"deserved, says Harald. And says Mac, " and plays that way.
Getz declares: " I have not met He has worked a lot witha finer audience in the whole modernists, like Stitt and Getz,
of my career."and done masses of rock-andThere is evidence that the roll records. His first discs, bywork of Getz, Pettiford, Quincy the way, were made for Allen."Jones, Kenny Clarke and othervisitors acts like a supercharger
on the European bands. The y HEAR that two respected
New Orleans jazzmen are
Herman experiment suggested
ill and in all sorts of trouble.
what could happen here.

Punch poorly

SATURDAY, AUGUST 22:
12.20-12.45 p.m. A 1: Andre Francis.
4.20-4.50 Z: For Jazz Fans.

6.35-7.0 DL: Steve Race.
8.15-9.0 T: Popular.
9.0-9.30 W: Jazz Time.
9.5-10.0 J: America's Pop Music.

T: Newport: MJQ, Th.
Monk -Art Taylor, Sam Jones Charlie Rouse,
10.5-10.30 J: Bandstand USA.
9.15-10.0

10.10-10.55 F I: Jimmy Lunceford.
10.20-10.35 F 3: Jam Session.
10.35-11.0 Y: Jazz Gallery,
11.5-1.0 a.m. J: Dancing on Two
Continents.
12.30-1.15
T: Repeat of 9.15
luightly).
12.30-1.0 Q: Jazz.

SUNDAY. AUGUST 23:
5.30-6.0 p.m. J: Hollywood Music
Views.
8.15-9.0 T: Popular.

The

SCHOOL of MUSIC(Oxford Street
REGent 0889

W.1)

(nightly).

TUESDAY, AUGUST 25:

p.m. K: Bengt Hallberg's
Jazz.
Condoli.
8.15-9.0 T: Popular.
Programmes subject to change.
9.15-10.0 T: Newport: Herbie Mann,
Jimmy Smith Trio, Jazz MesKEY TO STATIONS AND
sengers.
WAVELENGTHS IN METRES
10.30-11.0 J: Jazz Workshop.
10.30-11.15 I: Modern Bop.
A: RTF France 1: 1-829, 48.39
11.0-11.15 A 12: Mahalia Jackson.
2-193.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26:
B: RTF France 2 280, 218, 318, 359,
2.30-3.0 p.m C I: " From Slavery
379, 445. 498.
5.25-6.0

to Birdland."4.15-4.40 C I: Pim Jacobs Trio with
Rita Reys.
5.0-5.30 Y: For Jazz Fans.
6.30-6.55 F I: Carlos de Radzitzky.

6.30-7.0 DE: Jazz Session.

9.15-10.0 T: Newport: Monk, Gillespie Band.
10.10 S: For Jazz
Fans (news8.15-9.0 T: Popular.
9.15-10.0 T: Newport: Jazz Messengers.
Barney Wilen-Toshiko

10.37-10.58 B: Jacquet Edison.
11.0-11.12 Z: Jazz Actualities.
Benny Carter.

9.30-10.30 F 3: Jazz for Everyone.

T: Newport: Diz, Herbie
Mann Sextet.
9.30-10.0 I: MJQ with Stuttgart
John
Symphony,
Conductor:
Lewis. Soloist: R. Ross.
10.10-10.30 E: Jazz with Edelhagen.

8.15-9.0 p.m. T: Popular.

10.30-11.30 app. K: " Jazz Under
The
BurmanStare "-Anders

Guide plays Jazz.
12.10-1.0 a.m. E: World of Jazz.

Akiyoshi.

C:
D:
E:

F:

I:

J:

Hilversum: 1-402. 2-298.
BBC: E-464 L-1500, 247.

NDR/WDR: 309, 189, 49.38.
Belgian Radio: 1-484. 2-324.

3-267.
SWF B -Baden:

41.29.

295,

363,

195.

AFN: 344. 271, 547.

SSC Stockholm: 1571, 255, 245,
306, 506. 49 band.
L: NR Oslo: 1376, 337, 228, 477, 19,
25 or 31 bands.
10.40-11.20 Q: Louis-Jazz Singer
11.5-11.30 J: International Band.
0: BR Munich: 375, 187, 48.7.
No. 1.
stand.
P: SDR Stuttgart: 522, 49.75.
11.15 W -1293m: Charles Delau'nay.
Q: HR Frankfurt: 506.
11.15-12.0 0: Jazz Journal.
MONDAY, AUGUST 24:
12.10-1.0 a.m I: Jazz Festival, Coin- S: Europe 1: 1622
6.45-7.0 p.m. C 2: " Zaans Ritme "blain-La-Tour, Belgium 1959 (I). T: VOA: 8.15 and 9.15-13, 19, 31,
Quintet.
49, 75 (Sat Sun. only) m. bands.
8.15-9.0 T: Popular.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27:
break 10.30)

JOHNNY HAWKSWORTH

4.30-5.0 p.m. K. Jazz from USA,5.30-6.0 L: International Jazz.
7.0-7.30 C I: Jazz Music.
8.15-9.0 T: Popular.
9.15-10.0 T: Newport: Mingus Sex.
tet, Newport Youth Band.
9.30-10.0 B -258m: The Real Jazz.
10.30-10.55
J: Pete and Conte

Solliden.
11.0-11.12 Z: Jazz Actualities.
11.0-11.30 V: The Jazz Corner.
11.5-1.0a.m.
J: D -J Shows

9.15-10.0

10.10-11.0 S: As Sunday.

K:

10.0-10.30 U: Jazz Studio.
10.10-10.30 E: Jazz with Edelhagen.

T:
WilenNewport:
Akiyoshi, Mingus Sextet.
9.30-10.0 F I: Summer Jazz.
10.25-10.43 B: Atomic Mr. Basie.
10.40-11.30 DL: Jazz Club.
11.0-12.0 P: Lester Young is 50;
9.15-10.0

12.30-1734m.

(L.W).

Bremen: 221.
Saarbrucken: 211.
W: Luxembourg: 208, 49, 26,
Y: BBC Lugano: 568.6.
Z: SBO Geneva/Lausanne: 393,
band.
U:
V:

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August 22, 1959. MELODY MAKER-Page 15

A book to get your
ANYONE who is in the
habit of reading

teeth into!

Francis Newton's articles

in the "New Statesman"would expect a book of
his to be serious, well written and thorough.

Newton's first book about" The Jazz Scene "(MacGibbon and Kee, 21s.),is all these things. And its
best chapters should add
appreciably to most people's it " may be safely skipped by
He discusses the motivation
knowledge of what jazz the informed reader "-but I of the young, educated jazzplayers and audiences are confess I made slow going of man's stiff dress and behaviour,
the early stretches.
contrasts the new, rebellious
like.
Negro musician's outlook withThis is no string of legends
that of his Southern pre4 Brighter
from the New Orleans, Chicago
decessor, and speaks of theand Kansas City eras; nor is it

by MAX J'ON'ES

j azz,

a book about the personalities
With " The Musical Achievein jazz.
" he begins to take off
It is a careful scrutiny of the ment
andbook then gets brighter
nature of the music, its expon- and themorevaluable. The chapents and exploiters, its public, ters on musicians,theand its powerful appeal to the business, and " Jazzpublic,
as a proyoung.
test
"
are
very
thoughtfulandThe book is sufficiently adultand wide in scope to be lent to informative.
Newton considers the social
intelligent " squares," though andintellectual standing of
the jacket design-utterly in- American
European fanscompatible with the author's (statistics andincluded, also
erudite approach, I think-may an appendixare
onthe British jazz
give another impression.

with a small " n " throughout

the book).
He concludes that, though
the new intellectual Negro
wishes to challenge white cultural supremacy more effectively than the pioneer jazzmen did, his very challenge" assimilates him to the white
pattern."

4 Substantial

modernists' mass conversion to
Mohammedanism.

Newtondescribes

Bessiewas

He

This choice fragment of re- Smith unnecessarily as " thehearsal -room dialogue is re- most impressive artist propeated. Gil Fuller (on the duced in any branch of jazz,"says Mahalia Jackson
Prophet's bop followers): " It's and" only began to record in 1945."

the last resort of guys who (Actually it
don't know which way to turn."

1937.)

also to be 10 years late
They seems
with his riverboat shuffles, andwrong on several dates.
Newton has much to say When you pay 21s. for a jazz
about colour prejudice - in book you want something subreverse and the usual variety- stantial. This one isn't fastfan, 1958), and the smallness of and the status -seeking of moving, but you can keep yourthis public.
AmericanNegroes(spelled teeth in it for a long while.

4 Expansion
A great deal of ground has

Dizzy Gillespie: "East.
turn East."

THE BEST OF BOTH

been covered: " How to recognise jazz "; a section on its hisauthor of any jazz essay§ixteen pieces of this sort are
tory and expansion; one on THE
always faced with abound to vary in interest andthe music, its styles and basicisproblem:
to writequality.
If I prefer the essays
achievements; another on an analysis ofwhether
the subject's
most liberally littered with anpopular music and jazz busi- music, or consider
vast Mingus and Martin Williams on ecdote, it is a personal rather
ness; a fourth on the people majority of his readers thewho prethan a critical choice.
Rollins.
who play and listen.
to hear about the man him- Sonny
Horricks explains his choice
After all these years, it is ferofsubjectsasboth" men ofhard to write anything new self.
Revealing
In his new book, " These Jazz- our time " and men " who haveabout the properties of jazz, theIparticularly
enjoyed the
men
Of
Our
Time,"
publishedits
defied time." Jazz, he points
instruments used, oron Monk, Gil Evans,development from ancient to by Victor Gollancz at 18s., out, reached a crisis point with pieces
Raymond Horricks has the best the deaths of Charlie Parker in Sonny Rollins and Quincy
modern.
Francis Newton does his best of both worlds. He and his con- 1955 and Clifford Brown the Jones with top marks going toHentoff's revealing portrait of-and says of Chapter Two that tributor's examine both the following year.
work and personalities of 16 He adds: " The work of the Mingus.
The book is indexed with
contemporary musicians.
men described in this book has"I believe that jazz music is allowed jazz to look beyond this Horricks's usual care and inmuch more the result of an in- crisis point. Of all the musi- cludes 13 first-class photodividual's personality than any cians who inherited the vast, graphs by Herman Leonard.
other music," explains Hor- sprawling theatre once mono- Compared with the prices ofricks. "If you know the man polised by Parker theirs has most jazz books these days, thisthen you can know his music been perhaps the most indivi- is excellent value for 18s.better."dual and interesting use of it." Bob Dawbarn.

WORLDS

Spotlight on
the teenage

Generalisation

problem

All about hi-fi

A generalisation that is truer
THERE can be few more penetrat- than most of its kind.
ing observers of the contemporHorricks, himself, writes pro- IN the 1959 edition of " Hi-Fi the facts, what is true hi-fi andary scene than Colin Maclnnes.
This was evident from his last book, files of Thelonius Monk, J. J. -11- Year Book " (Miles Henslow what is not. For the less wellPowell, Milt Publications, Ltd., 99, Mortimer informed, suffice to stress that
" City of Spades," which discussed Johnson, Bud
the coloured immigrant question.
Jackson, Max Roach, Art Street, London. W.1; lls. 6d. quality costs money and there
It is no less true of his latest novel, Blakey, Dave Brubeck, Gigi post paid) the enquirer has at is no short cut to high fidelity.
" Absolute Beginners " (MacGibbon Gryce and Quincy Jones.
his finger tips an exhaustive
Scope of the Year Book is
and Kee, 15s.) in which he examines
Alun Morgan writes on Miles guide to all audio products, revealed by some brief but vital
the teenage " problem."fromminiaturetaperecordersstatistics.
There are 240 pages
Davis.
Max
Harrisonon
GerryHere, through the eyes of an 18 -year Old, is London-Bayswater, Mayfair, Mulligan, Charles Fox on Gil to the most costly and advanced containing more than 1,000
Notting Hill, Soho-above all, Soho. Evans, Benny Green on John hi-fi installation.
directory entries, 450 pictures
Yet it is difficult to believe that Lon- Lewis. Ed Michel on Jimmy
The reference book, the only and 25 diagrams.
don carries quite such a high per- Giuffre. Nat Hentoff on Charles one
Illustrated editorial features
of
its
kind,
is
therefore
incentage of whores, lesbians, pimps,
valuable when planning a new include authoritative articles
junkies and homosexuals. Praction
hookupormodernisingexisting
radio tuners, amplifiers,
cally every occupant of the houseequipment.
speakers and enclosures, andin which the hero lives comes into
One of these categories.
the use of microphones, and a

Disadvantages

WEAKNESS
And this spotlights the book's basic
Mr. Maclnnes has so
weakness.
much of real value to say that 223
Pages are not nearly enough two,Or even three volumes would beneeded to do the subject justice.
That, however, is about the only
criticism of an admirable book.
The plot --the teenager's efforts topersuade his " spade -crazy " girlto break with an elderly (white)queer and marry him-is only thevehicle on which is based much extremely acute observation of Teddy
Boys, debs and their delights,

weirdies of every description, and

FORTHRIGHT
racial violence in Hotting Hill. Mr.
this question are more than wel-

CLIFFORD BROWN-crisis point

newspaper

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name as author and is published, at 12s. 6d., by The
World's Work (1913) Ltd.,of Kingswood. Surrey.
It is subtitled " Pat Boone
talks to teen-agers " but I
can't envisage anyone over
the age of 12 managing toread more than two pages

at one sitting of such incredible goo.

PETTING

Teenagers are instructedin all the most important
subjects of this modern
world from prayers to petting, from the necessity ofbath to thea dailyon" Maxim's
author's
Marriage."
Mr. Boone's literary style
can be gathered from thefirst sentence of the intro-

duction.
chummy " Hi," isAfollowed by a blank and the

explanation " Please write
your name in here because
this book is dedicated toyou, and has been written
for you." My blank will
stay that way !
RETARDED

Whilst not doubting Mr.
Boone's sincerity I canonly assume that American

teenagers are more mentally retarded than Europeans-although this cannot be said for their
physical development judging from a revealing little
chapter on " going steady,"
titled " April Love."
Recommended to those
MM readers who are begin-ning to tire of fairy tales
and Dave Brubeck.-Bob

Tenders are invited for a

The four, each including
available from
CURRENTLY
notes
by
Dobell's Jazz Record Shop, biographical
Writers and politicians-not to menKnud
H. Ditlevsen, are77,
Charing
Cross
Road,
Lontion some of our more mossgrown
1
Armstrong
Vol.
Louis
don,
W.C.2,
at
6s.
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are
the
clergy.
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A little more understanding of theteenage mind might result in lesslous discographies by Danish 1923 to 1931), Charlie
talk of corporal and capital punishjazz writer Jorgen Grunnet Parker, Miles Davis andment-for there might well be a
Stan Kenton.
Jepsen.
good deal less crime to " punish."The full series, publishedJEFF SMITH.
in Denmark by Debut
Records,
also
includesDuke
Ellington(threevolumes),
Jelly
Discographies e/ PARKER, MILES, BASTE, KENTON,
Morton (three volumes),
ELLINGTON (3 Vols.), ARMSTRONG (3 Vols.) and to 'allow
Count Basie and Lester
constables,

PAT BOONE might makean avuncular storyteller on " Listen With
Mother " but as an author
he is not in the Enid Blyton
class.
and" 'Twixt Twelve
Twenty " bears Boone's

Dawbarn.
ties has not been overlooked.Inevitably, however, there are A. S.
disadvantages. In my view
these are (1) the " language "difficulty; (2) the speed withwhich new techniques anddevelopments are introduced
tends to " date " a directory;and (3) the manufacturers'
specification sections are in
BOURNEMOUTH CORPORATION
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But those interested in goodquality reproduction quickly
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MacInnes's forthright statements oncome after so much vacillation anddownright hypocrisy by newspapers
and politicians.
It is to be hoped that the book willawide
readershipachieveespecially among magistrates, chief

geographical list of hi-fi dealersoffering demonstration facili-

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teenagers in general.

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Page 16-MELODY MAKER. August 22, 1959

HEATH BACKINGFOR LANZA FILM

TED HEATH on Monday
signed the contract toprovide the soundtrack
sequences in a new film
starring Mario Lanza andcontinental song star
Caterina Valente.

'Crooked Mile' LP

exterior sequences will, be filmed
in Salzburg, Austria."

Spohansky's many film comhave included "TellRecordings mitments
Me Tonight," " Sanders of theRiver,"and " King

Solomon's

Mines." He is currently workingon "North-West Frontier," starring Kenneth More and Lauren
Bacall,Ted Heath's forthcoming
tour of the States in
the music for the film three-week
February is now being finalised.
The film will be shot in record
The Heath band starts recordthe Decca studios.
Germany and Austria, and atTeda new weekly series for Radio
Heath told the MM on ing
is scheduled to go before the Tuesday:" The band will be Luxembourg on September 3.

in Britain

cameras at the end of Sep- heard accompanying Caterina
tember. Mario Lanza and Valente and will back a big

Caterina Valente will be jazz ballet sequence.
New City Gent
"I was approached throughvisiting Britain shortly to composer
Drummer Ernie O'Malley has
Mischa Spoliansky as
the producers wanted a Euro- joined Dick Charlesworth's City
pean band that was well known Gents and plays his first date

DISC BREAK

in America."

Triple bill
Mischa Spoliansky, prolificfilm -music composer who is writing the score for the new picture,adds: "The film-as yet untitled-will provide a triple

record bill with Lanza, Caterina
Valente and Ted Heath. It is amusical story, and the opening

JAll ON VIEW

with the group at the Humphrey
Lyttelton Club on Sunday. It
will be the band's first date after
its annual holiday.

Mudlarks to lead
pop cinema tour

An exhibition of jazz photographs by Eric Jelly and Marc
Sharratt opened on Monday at
Selfridges, the Oxford Street
MUDLARKS are lined up for a one-night tour of thestore, for 14 days. The exhibi- THE
cinema circuits from the middle of October. Touring
tion was shown at this year's with major
themwill be Craig Douglas and Bert Weedon.
Beaulieu Jazz Festival.

STOP PRESS INTERNATIONALSTAR U.S BANDS
Singer Lorie Mann featured
her latest Top Rank recording "Just Keep It Up"
when she appeared on ATV's" Disc Break" on Wednesday. Appearing with her on
the show were Ronnie Carroll, the Polka Dots andBobbie Britton. Lorie has atentative booking for AR TV's "Cool For Cats" on
September 4.

Miss A. Mitchell
Malcolm Mitchell's wife Ednagave birth to an eight -pound girlto be named Alison at St. Mary's
Hospital, London, on Tuesday.

The Mitchells already have aboy, Andrew, aged five.

OBITUARY

PHIL TRIX DIESIN RETIREMENTTHE Duke Ellington

Orchestra will spark off
of Europe by American jazzstars.
The Duke and his men will

the usual autumn invasion

on the Continent from
September 18 to October 30.
beIncluded in the itinerary will

be concerts in Holland, France,
Scandinavia, Germany, Austria
and Italy.
Kid Ory's six -piece opens inGermany on September 19 andat the end of October both Art
Blakey's Jazz Messengers and theModern Jazz Quartet will be in
Europe.
The MJQ starts its
second British tour at the RoyalFestival Hall on November 21.
Others in line for Europe
include a package starring Anita
O'Day and the Benny Goodman
Orchestra and a new big band
formed by arranger -trumpeter
Quincy Jones.
Quincy's bar.d includes Phil
Woods, Sahib Shihab and Jerome
Richardson (saxes), Benny Bailey

keller, Stuttgart.
YORK.-B arbara Lyon is(tpt.) and Melba Liston (tmb.). /VEW
III to appear on Ed Sullivan'sTV
show
in February. Barbara,
MONTREAL. - On his own

alto-saxist andPHILacrobatic
TRIX, dancer,
who waswith Jack Payne's Band forseveral years. has died at Bognor
Regis, aged 66.
weekly CBS -Radio TransPhil, whose real name was
Network series, bandTheodore Pinder, was a cousin Canada
leaderHolmes is revivof Richard Hearne, better known ing theJohnnysounds of the famousas " Mr. Pastry." Born into a swing bandsof'30s and '40s.
circus family, Phil entered show - Sheila Grahamtheis handling thebusiness as a child of four.
vocal
side
of
the
shows.
For many years he toured theworld, with his wife, Violet, inan aoroba tic dancing act, called
Phil and Phlora.
Phil gave up his theatricalcareer two years ago, on medical
advice, but had been hoping to
make a come -back in pantomime
with Richard Hearne at Coventry
this Christmas.

Pier,

the resort on October 5-with apossible extension to the 12th-

after
which they take a fortnight's holiday.
Following a short Variety tour,

16,000 -seater

NEWS IN
BRIEF
SOUTHERN TV MD Eric Win -few weeks. Heat winners
Deutschland Aller next
will be seen on Southern TV andfinalists get prize money ranging

in November or December.

from £100 to £25.

HOLLYWOOD.-An all-star 20piece jazz group will pre- SWEDISH jazz singer Monica
record 15 numbers for Columbia
Zetteriund flies to London
IAS VEGAS. - Gary Crosby, Pictures' " The Gene Krupa on August 30 for a spot in Alan
1..4 currently starring with his Story." As well as Krupa, the Melville's " A -Z " BBC -TV series
three brothers at the Sahara band will include Benny Carter, on September 2.
Hotel, told reporters this week Eddie Miller and Dave Pellthat he and his father, groaner (saxes); Pete Candoli, Conrad A ME RIC A'S singing Peters
Bing, " just don't get along any Gozzo and Clyde Hurley (tpts.): LA. Sisters have been offered amore." He has refused to ask Jess Stacy (pno.); Barney Kessel season at Blackpool Palace next
Bing along to see the act.
(gtr.) and Shelly Manne (drs.). summer for George and Alfred
Black.

GEORGE(Week commencing August 2.3.)
B illie ANTHONY

Season: Regal, Great Yar-

mouth
Shirley BASSET

Season: Prince of Wales, W.
Season: Pier Pavilion, Llandudno
Eve BOSWELL
Season: Alhambra, Glasgow
Max BYGRAVES
Season: London Palladium
Russ CONWAY
Season: Grand, Llandudno
Jill DAYHouse.
Season:Opera
BEVERLEY Sisters

Blackpool
Lorrae DESMOND
Season: Aquarium,

Yarmouth
Season: Aquarium,
YarmouthLonnie DONEGAN

B illy ECKSTINE
Week: Hippodrome,minghamRonnie HILTONTHE Betty Smith Quintet ends
its season at Soutrisea's

South Parade Pier Ballroom on
September 19 and starts a onenight -stand tour at Darlington
on September 24.
DTZ DISLEY'S Soho

Great
Bir-

Season: Queen's, Blackpool
Season: Floral Hall, Soar and

Teddy
JOHNSON
CARR

Pearl

Season: Pavilion. Torquay
KAYE Sisters
Season: Hippodrome.
Brighton
KING Brothers
Season: Wellington

Pier,

Great Yarmouth
Season: Alexandra Gardens,

Gary MILLER

Weymouth

MUDLARKS

Season: North Pier, Black-

MURRAY
RubypoWeek: Royalty, Chester
Joan REGAN
Season:Wellington Pier.
are,at, Yarmouth
Lita ROZA
Season: King's Southsea

Marion RYAN

Season: Palace, Blackpool

Shirley SANDS
Season:Futurist,borough

Scar-

Rosemary SQUIRES

Season: Hippodrome, Black-pool
Malcolm VAUGHAN

Season: Britannia.
Yarmouth

Hedley WARD Trio

Season: WinterBlackpoolGreat

Gardens,

StringQuintet on Monday starts aseries of weekly " Guitar Club "sessions at the Ken Colyer Club,
Leicester*Square.*
ACCORDIONIST Gerald Delmondi and drummer Charles
Cooper are

Great

Michael HOLLIDAY

boroughstone and programme conwho went to school with Ed's trollerRich are organising adaughter, is scheduled for two talent Roy
search throughout thereturn concerts at Berlin's

THE BEST NAMES IN BRITISH JAll
MIcKpresstime.
appearing at

MANNHEIM.-E ggy Ley's Jazz-men will spend September_At

Dates with
The Mudlarks, currently
the Stars
the NorthBlackpool, end their season atthat the promoters lost over Gaumont, Salisbury(Sunday,
30,000 dollars in the week.
6th) and the BBC's "Saturday
Club" (12th).
OHANNESRURG. -RobertBert Weedon makes his debut0Earlstarts a four -week in "Saturday Club " on the 12th,
season at Ciro's, Jo'burg, on leading a quartet completed by
September 11. He has also had Jock Cummins (drs.), Tim Belloffers for seasons in Australia, (bass) and Tommy Sanderson(pno.).
Spain and Greece.

at the Schwabinger Jazzkeller,
Mannheim. They return to Hamburg in October to appear at the
Pigalle.
They are currently
appearing at the Atlantic Jazz-be released next month.

The tour will take in the
Granada, ABC and Gaumont
cinemas.
Details were being
fixed by agent Bunny Lewis at

Paris season
they star at the Paris Alhambra
4 for approxiReports say that part of the from December
three weeks, returning totrouble is that the boys turned mately
Britain for their pantomime
down an offer to appear on season in Babes in the Woods,"
Bing's TV show on September 30 which opens at Gloucester.
-choosing to guest on Bob
Craig Douglas has Sunday conHope's show on October 8 certs at the Essoldo, Clacton,
instead.
this Sunday and at the Essoldo,* reports on Brighton,
on August 30.
On the 31st he appears at theShow. Other dates in1TORONTO.-Latest
the First Canadian
Jazz Radio"Song Parade " f o rFestival, held in July, estimate clude
Granada TV (September 4), theHEAD FOR EUROPE

The cast of the new musical,
rently playing at Manchester's Opera House. came
down to London on Sunday
to cut an LP of the show for
HMV. Here, the three stars-Millicent Martin, Jack
MacGowran and Elizabeth
Welch-are pictured during
the recording. The disc is to"The Crooked Mile," cur-

060*P4V3,

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BOBBY HARRISON, trumpeter
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has joined Eric McDermott's
Quintet at the Bag o' Nails,
London, W.1.
PARLOPHONE singer Lorne
Lesley flew to Berlin on
Tuesday for a TV
engagement.
*
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WRIST
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EMI top brass L. G. Wood andC. H. Thomas left London
on Sunday for a business trip to
America.

THE Lana Sisters appear on
the Celebrity Stand at the

TREMOLODAMPER LEVERA
2L". ,-.gr. SOUND

Radio Show on August 27.
*
FOLK singer and guitarist

NO ELECTRON/L'
WORRIES,Ten -Forty Club " on August 31.

DALLAS B LB G., C LIFTON ST.,LON DON.E.C.2

Tony Harman will be heard
in the Light Programme's "The

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DRUMMER, experienced, transport,
Colchester, giving age and experience,
PIANISTS seeking permanent or gigs/perm.-Bri,
8809.
etc.
week -end lounge work
DRUMMER,
BAND. 1st Dn. The Loyal Regt. temporary
modern, beat/taste
shouldcontact
Clayman's.
Immediate
ability. -Box 6978 " MM."
(NL), has vacancies for Trumpet, vacancies.-Bishopsgate 5531 (day).
DRUMMER, reliable deputy, -Sid.
Saxophone. Drums and Piano players.
Comperes,PIANISTS.
VOCALISTS.
Also vacancies for Junior Bandsmen Drummers, Electric Guitarists re- Adv. 2071 (messages).
with some musical knowledge, age 15- quired. -'Phone; Gro. 5913. after
DRUMMER, transport.-Lar. 5094.
DRUMS, car, accept lounge work.17.
Band now completed Far East
Mountview 3312.
tour and returning U.K.-Apply now 6 p.m.
The
MiddleREGIMENTALBAND.
DRUMS. car, now free, pro. -Reto Major D. Crawley, MC., Fulwood sex Regt. (DC0), serving in Ger5218.
Barracks, Preston, Lancs.
many. has immediate vacancies for nown
BAND. 2nd Bn, Parachute Regi- Tenor Sax/Clarinet, Pianist, French
EXPERIENCED ELECTR IC
ment, now serving in Cyprus, has Horn, and Trumpet/Cornet players. GUITARIST. VOCALIST. - Box 6996,
vacancies for experienced Clarinet- Other players considered. Men due " MM."
EXPERIENCED LEAD Alto/Clar.
tists and Dance Pianist, Re -enlist- for National Service and re -enlistments and transfers especially con- ments considered. -Apply, Brigade and soloist. -Bat. 8174.
sidered. Extra pay for parachuting Bandmaster (Dept.- 6), Wemyss BarGUITAR. solo/rhythin.-Tul. 7391,
which is purely voluntary. -Apply, racks, Canterbury, Kent,
GUITAR1ST.-Cun. 5736.
Bandmaster. 2 Para, B.F.P.O. 53.
GUITARIST/Guitar-bass, all styles.
RHYTHM/DANCE group forming,
BANDSMEN and BOYS. Vacancies: all instruments, N.E. London. -Box read/busk. German. for abroad. -Bob
Oboe, Clarinet. Bassoon, Cornet, 6992, " MM."
Stockwell. Rheine Westf Krummestr,
French Horn. Euphonium, Strings.
ROYAL ARTILLERY Staff Band, 19, Germany.
Boys from 15, Bandsmen from 171. Park
KEEN MODERN Bassist, transport.
Hall Camp, Oswestry: Training -Bay.
Permanent station. Re -enlistments vacancies
1327 (evenings).
for
15 -year -oldboys,

good readers; showmen. -4, St. Mary'sGate, Nottingham (55715 daytime).
ALL INSTRUMENTS wanted, Dixieland band forming, N.E. London. Box 6991, " MM."
ALTO/OLAR.
formainstream
group, keen, willing rehearse; work
available. -Box 6983, " MM."

accepted. Apply: RAMC Staff Band,
Crookham. Hants.
BASSIST for modern quintet. 'Ruislip 5313.

" CAMBRAI " STAFF BAND has
vacancies for Brass and Reed Instrumentalists. Vacancies for Boys, 15-17
years. wishing to take up a first-classmusical career. -Apply to Band President. Royal Tank Regiment, Catterick Camp, Yorkshire.
CELEBRATED BAND of The Buffs
now have vacancies for Clarinets.
andCornets
Saxes,
Alto -Tenor
Pianist, - For further particulars,(3).
apply Brigade Bandmaster
Wemyss Barracks, Canterbury.
for
DRUMMERCOMPETENT
amateur Dixieland group. -Box 6979.

Strings, Woodwind, Brass, Percussion. -Details from Director ofMusic.
ROYAL ARTILLERY Staff Band.

Park Hall Camp, Oswestry: National
Service and Regular vacancies on
Strings. Clarinet, Bassoon, Oboe,
Cornet, Bass -Tuba. - Details from
Director of Music.
ROYAL SIGNALS BAND has vacancies for Vocalist,
French Horn.
Pianist, Drummer. String Bass andBassoon.
Transfer or re -enlist,
National Servicemen considered. Apply, Director of Music. Royal Signals, H.Q. Training Brigade, Catterick Camp, Yorks.
TENOR/CLAR,
required, perm.;
good reader. some ad lib. -Write,
MM."
JohnnyWollaston,
Majestic BallCOMPETENT DANCE PIANIST re- room, Leeds.
quired urgently by a famous Irish
TENOR SAX, Trumpet and Bass
Regiment now in Cyprus, returning requiredfor one month. September;to the United Kingdom in February, good money.
- Suite 19, 38. John
1960. Vacancies also exist for other
instrumentalists. -Application should Bright Street, Birmingham 1.
THE BAND OF THE COLDSTREAM
be made to Band President, Royal GUARDS
HAS VACANCIES FOR: A

Ulster Rifles, British Forces Post
Office 53, or to Officer Commanding
Depot. The Royal Ulster Rifles. Ballymena, Co. Antrim.

first-class Orchestral and Dance
Pianist. Also Alto and Tenor Saxo-

PIANIST, able. -Pro. 4542,
PIANIST,
doubling
Accordion.

transport. -Brixton 7233.
PIANIST doubling Vocals.-Amh.
0714.
PIANIST,
excellent. - Primrose
2956.
PIANIST, experienced. -Can. 1874.
PIANIST. good reader/busker.D'Souza. 116. Main Road, Sidon°.
PIANIST, -Hendon 9128.
PIANIST, modern, free Saturday. Wax. 4782.

PIANIST, professional, very
with or without group:
mainly busk. -Hit. 9250.
SMART LADY Violinist/Viola/Alto
Sax, experienced all lines, - Kin.
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Records taken in part exchange.
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Alto, Selmer, 13/A, perfect

Alto, Manhattan, grand order ..

Alto, Verona, sound order..
Tenor, New King, F.A.M., as newTenor, Kohlert, F.A.M., perfect
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85 ens.

.. 30 K..
28 ens.

.. 60 ens.
.. 44 gm.
50 gull.

Trombone, Selmer Paris, in brand new
condition, with lot quality case.. 48 ens.
14 gm.
Trombone, Paramount. Perfect.. 30 gm.
Trombone. Reynolds, American
Amplifier, Westminster, 10 watt, with£24 10tremolo
Amplifier. 15 watt, 2 speakers, tremolo £35 0.. 14 ens.
Supersound, 2 inputs.

.. 30 gm.

TV 18, in perfect onier
22 gm.
Guitar, Club 40, perfectgns.
Guitar, Tuxedo, electric
35 ens.
Hoiner, Committee, blonde..
Dallape, Organtone. 140 B, 8 couplers 80 ens.
52 gm.
Settimio Soprani, multi grand, 120 B.. 42 ens.
Settimio Soprani, 4 coupler, 120 B

Regent, By Boehm system, clarinet. 14 ens.
Musson, By Boehm system, clarinet .. 13 ens.
.. 9 gm.
Trumpet, Dixie, with shaped case.

25 gas.

Trumpet, King Liberty ..

DRUM KIT. 22" B.D., S.D., 12" T. Tom,Hi -Hat,Cymbals,

Easy H.P.

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Stand,

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Alto. Mahieu "Paris," G.L. ..
Alto, Lewin Martin, G.L.
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Alto, Dearman "Super," G.L.

Alto, Selmer Cigar -Cotter. G.L.
Tenor, Selmer Karl Meyer, G.L.

.. £27 1.. £35.. £37 1.. £40.. £55- £55

Tenor. Pennsylvania "Special," G.L. £60.. 165Tenor, King "USA," G.L. ..
Clarinet, Hans Hager, By Boehm .. £22 1
Clarinet, Hans Hager, full Boehm.. £27 1.. £14
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16 gns. to 25 ens.
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Buisson " Paris," Clarinets.. 17 ens.
..222
Flutes, Boehm, outfit in case..
Amplifiers, Westminster 14 gm. to £35
Drums & Vibes, Ajax, Carlton, Autocrat
Guitars, Hofner, Ennuis, Zenith, Levin
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CATALOGUES.

TENOR. -Can. 3427.
TENOR/CLARINET,-Duncan 0779.
TENOR/CLARINET. ex -pro.. someSaturdays vacant. -Gerry
Wembley 2911.
TENOR/CLARINET,-Mac. 2060.
TENOR/VIOLIN, experienced; gigs.

HARRY HAYES

Large stocks of new and second-

Alto, Martin, G.L., silver keys, F.A.M.,
perfect order, bargain

8643.

-Brixton 1447.
TENOR would welcome new gig conphone players. Only fully experi- nection.
read or busk. -Jack Brenchenced
musicians
need
apply
to:
The
ley.
Tid. 4488.
DRUMMER/VIBES/VOCALS, young, Director
ofMusic,
Coldstream
keen boy required for Jersey winter Guards, Duke
TROMBONE,read/busk.
VD.,
ofYork'sHeadquarters,season. -Photo and full particulars to Kings Road, London, S.W.3. Tele- library and transport. -Fla. 0665.
Box 6996, " MM."TROMBONE/Trumpet.-Bec. 4632.
phone: SLOane 1720.
EDDIE JACKMAN requires experiTROMBONE. read/busk.-Tul. 7391.
THE BAND of the 1st Bn. The
enced Lead Trumpet (Dixieland jazz) Dukeof Wellington's Regt. have
TRUMPET, experienced, - Wax.
at Locarno Ballroom, Bristol 6. Com- vacancies
for all instrumentalists. 3520.
mence Wept. 5. -Write full details.
Willanyoneinterested
pleasewrite
ELECTRIC GUITARIST and Pianist
Bandmaster B. Bowyer, LRAM,
8d. per word
required for lounge, -'Phone: aro. to
The Duke of Wellington's Regiment. SITUATIONS VACANT
5913, after 6 p.m.
GRAMOPHONE
RECORD
PalaceSalesman
Barracks,
Holywood,
Co.
EXPERIENCED TROMBONE andto take charge counter new shop,
N. Ireland.
Euphonium players wanted for Down,
THE FAMOUS BAND OF THE DUR- West End; suit young person, keen:solo positions in the Band of the HAM
LIGHT INFANTRY HAS A FEW scope promotion; salary according
Royal Scots. String players also re- VACANCIES
FOR
BRASS
AND experience. -News Kiosks. Ltd., 282,
quired. -Apply. Bandmaster. Royal WOODWIND PLAYERS.
- Apply to Vauxhall Bridge Road, S.W.1. Tate
Scots. B.F.P.O. 45.
Mr. L. Bently, L.R.A.M., L.T.C.L., Gallery 8252.
FLUTE and DRUMS, start mid -Sep- L.C.S.M..
A.R.C.M., Bandmaster. The
PACKERS REQUIRED with experitember. -State any doubles, age and Durham Light
Infantry. Regimental ence of parcelling and export crating;experience, Box 6990, " MM."
Depot,
BrancepethCastle,Co.
Durwould
suit ex -bandsmen; five-day
required
immediFLUTE PLAYER
week with occasional Saturdays.
ately for R.A. Band and Orchestra. ham.
PARACHUTE
THE
REGIMENT Please telephone for appointment:
Vacancy is for Solo Flute and offers JUNIORBANDSMEN SCHOOL has a Personnel Officer, Boosey and Hawkes
excellent prospects for fully experi- few vacancies
intelligent boys
Ltd.. Edgware 5181.
enced player. -Apply to Director of keen to make afor
career as Military Engineers,
RECORD SALON: Young Man reMusic. R.A. Band, Woolwich. S.E.18. Musicians. Age limits:
to 16. no quiredin
Ilford. also Burnt Oak
GENE MAYO requires Lead Alto/ experience necessary; 16 15
to 171, some area, interested
and experienced in
Olar, Pianist, Second Tenor (doub- instrumental experience required.
Ex- sale of records. -Apply,
giving details
ling Flute advantage), commence as pert tuition on all instruments.
age, experience and salary resoon as possible; young and modern. Courses available at Kneller Hall. ofquired,
to
Box
6985.
"
MM."
-Letters only: Palais, Nottingham.
Excellent prospects far right type ofRECORD SALON: Young Lady reGOOD CLARINET player required,
Syllabus includes educational quiredin Ilford, also Burnt Oak area.
prepared to double Saxophone. -For boy.
up to GCE level if required. interested
and experienced in sale ofdetails write to Bandmaster, Seaforth training
etc..
and
Plentyofsport.
camping,records.
-Apply. giving details ofHighlanders, Fort George, Inverness- generous leave. -Apply for full partiage, experience and salary required,shire.
Reginiental
Bandmaster,cularstoto Box 6986, " MM."GUITAR and BASS for resident
Barracks. Aldershot.
instrumental/vocal group; read and Maida
SHORTHAND -TYPIST with good
THE ROYAL ARTILLERY BANDS knowledge
busk; commence approx. Sept. 9. - (Symphonyof figures required imOrchestra,
Military
Band
State age. photo appreciated, Box and Dance Orchestras) have vacan- mediatelv.-Apply, Shaw, 17, Berners
6989, " MM."
Street,W.1.
Perciesforcompetent
musicians,
HAMMOND ORGANIST required,
be of a high standard.
YOUNG SALESMAN required forfull-time, for light and church music. formance mustNational
Servicemen instrument shop. Sales experience-Application by post, stating experi- Outstanding
Vacancies
also
for
boys.
and good refs. essential. -'Phone:considered,
ence: Boosey and Hawkes, Ltd., 15-17 years, offering opportunities of She. 0126.
Sonorous Works, Deansbrook Road, an excellent musical career. -Please
Edgware, Middx,
apply to Director of Music. Royal SITUATIONS WANTED 8d. per word
Artillery Band. Woolwich. S.E.18.
YOUNG MAN (22), good education.
TRAD. GROUP forming. RaVes
enthusiast, urgently seeks interarea, will require Trombone, Clarinet jazz
Position. -Box 6981, " MM."and Bass; enthusiasm essential; no esting
YOUNG MAN (25), good education.
characters, please. -'Phone: Hay. musicteacher. Guitarist, seeks good
4778 (Sunday morning).
permanent position,
TRAD./MAINSTREAM Piano. Clari- remunerative
instrument sales or similarnet, Bass, Guitar doubling Banjo, for musicalwork, Manchester area. -Box 6984.
band
going
to
Germany.
-Box
6997.
for
BASS,
required for " MM."TRUMPET,
amateur semi -pro. trad. band. Croydon
area.
-Box
6994,
"
MM."
BANDS WANTED 8d. per word
JAZZ & JAZZ VOCALURGENTLY REQUIRED for the
COLOURED BAND wanted. -Box
Band of the Welsh Guards, Clarinet- 6973.
" MM."

RECORDSLEW DAVISSUMMERBARGAINStists, Strings and Pianist. ExperiNINE -PIECE Band with attractive
enced players only. - Apply to the Girl
Vocalist and personality leader
Director of Music, Welsh Guards, required
for Saturday evenings from
Birdcage Walk, London, S.W.1.
October
to March (including ChristWANTED FOR FRANCE: Piano
and New Year), for smart balldoubling Accordion, Electric Guitar. mas
room in North-West town. -Full destart August 31. Other instruments
tails, photo. to Box 6987, " MM."that can make this date write in.
TENDERS are invited from six -piece
Passports needed. -Calvin Gray. 50, Bands
to play at New Year's Eve
Stella Street. Mansfield. Notts.
Dance,
9 p.m. to 1 a.m., at Leavesden
requiredfor
YOUNG BASS PLAYER
formation of young jazz group in the Hospital, Abbots Langley. Herts.to W. J. Williams, Hon. Sec.,Nat Allen Orchestra. -Apply. Nat Replies
Entertainments Section.
Allen. Streatham Locarno.

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We now have 3 Phone lines:
We
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SPECIAL NOTICES 11- Per word
ACKNOWLEDGED AS THE BESTever written: Jimmy Grant's POSTAL
Gilder's
PIANO
COURSE:
Eric"MODERN HARMONY," "THEORYOF MUSIC " for beginners: IVORMAIRANT'S POSTAL GUITARCOURSES (PLECTRUM OR FINGER
STYLE). -Particulars, C.S.D.M., 195,
Wardour Street, W.1. Regent 0644.5.

BAND, able, available. -Pro. 4542.

ABLE BAND. Saturdays. -For. 6512.
ALAN ASHLEY Trio/Quartet.-Woo,

7919.

A.1 BAND WANTED? -RING FOR.
CLIFF ROGERS Bands, all functions.-Larkswood 1519.
DENNIS H. MATTHEWS Agency forthe finest DANCE bands in all
9780.

TED CARTER and his Music, now

London areas. We have just the band

the Winter Gardens. Ventnor.
for your function. - MOUNTVIEW at
I.O.W., available for resident engage9881.

WILKINS'GEOFFJAZZMEN.

based on tradition. -Kit. 0526.
HOWARD BAKER Bands and Cabaret -one-night stands or resident. 69. Glenwood Gardens, Ilford, Valentine 4043.
IDO MARTIN Orchestra. -Valen-tine 2463.

TRUMPETERS!
TROMBONISTS!
the opening of JOHNLIVESEY BALHAM BRASS STUDIOS.
Thorough course in lip -development,

Announcing

theory. playing by ear, sight-reading.
-Appointment: Tul. 7391.

Ambassadors

PREACER'S

LOU

ment after Sept. 12.

Band, especially chosen combination,
one-night stands anywhere. - Lou
Preager Presentations. 69. Glenwood
Gardens, Ilford. Val. 4043.
THE LEW GREEN BAND, 3/8 piece,
aid functions.-Emb. 2028.
THE ROY KEY Band, 4/8 -piece. 38. Crossfield Road, Southend. Phone
68538.
WESTBURY QUARTET free Saturdays. -Mac. 5944; Ger. 3995.

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ALL BRASS instruments taught,
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TENOR, Buescher 400, G.L., latest model 2.90
TENOR, Selmer Mark VI, G.L., bargain .. 003

TENOR, Senator, G.L., lateet, u br. new ISO

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ALTO, Karl Meyer, 0.L., very little used.. 230

ALTO, Penn " Special," 0.L., and. oct. .. 235
ALTO, Dearman New Super, G.L., bargain £32
CLARINET. Ban Imperial, By, Bhm, now 135
Cl-SPINET. B&B Regent, BO, Ilion, pert. 215
CLAIL, Selmer Sterling, B e. Bhm., ben... STIS

TRUE/PET/CORNET. Benson, G.L., as new £21
TROMBONE, BAH Varsity, G.L., cam .. 812

BASS, f glee, reinforced edges, brand new £40
GUITAR. Butner Pre., Elec., blond, b/n. 23B
Hofner 'Committee' with p/u A case, bgn. 037
DRUM KIT, all white Olympic; bargain .. 026
AMPLIFIER, Selmer T.V.18, good cond... 021

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Pennsylvania Special, 13.11, as new, full

Selmer 585., (1.1.., in) new, full..
.. 147 10
Buescher Aristocrat. 0.1.., am new, fullCO., ad new, G.L., full artist..
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Selmer Mark VI, G.L., as new, full arthrt,
Ind niti tiguiehable from new, in de -luxer) Selmer B.A.. G.L., ae new, full artist .. 270 0
Selmer S.A., G.L., . new, full artier .. 275 0
Selmer Cigar Cotter. CU,. se new, full £52 10)

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Selmer Mark VI, indistinguishable fromnew, shop soiled only, in de -luxe case 092 10>

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Amplifier, T.V.10, 10' speaker, 1 high,
1 low input
15 gue.
Amplifier, TV.18, 12' speaker, big output,
2 high inputs, as new ..
35 gm.
Amplifier, U.12, 2 speakers, mike, stand,.

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Baritone, Elkhart. G.L., with itand.. 58 gns.
Soprano, Rene Guenot, gold lacquered .. 22 gin.
Electric Bass, "Arco," indisidual pickups, vol ume control, with cover.. 46 Ras.

Trumpet, King " Liberty," U.S.A., 0.1o,
Chromatic Areordion, Galardi, 5 Roweriled -bore model, bargain..
28 gni,buttons, 7 treble, 3 bass couplers, black
Trumpet, "Cleveland,' U.S.A. model, In
and white nee.. 92 ens.
gold lacquer..
Fontanelle, 41/120, red, 6 elfin... 40 mos,
15 me.
Trumpet, Emperor by B. & H., G.L., nice 20 gm. P.Aae., Hohner Contemn " 1IM, 41/120,
Trumpet, Buescher, slender model, newly
white, 2v, 3 couplers
59 gnu.
gold lacquered, may blowing ..
.. 23 ens. P./Ace., Cant, 41/120, red, 7 entre., 4 voice 52 gas.
Trumpet/Cornet. Beason Clare A, G.L. .. 17 gm. P./Aes..Tombollnl, 91/120, red glitter andImperial 23" MASI,
Trumpet, B. &white, 11 cplre., ideal show model .. 45 gni.
gold lacquered, large bore.. 35 Kea P./Arm., Marinucei, 41/120, black, 6 suns.,
Alto, cairn, famous U.S.A. model, G.L... 45 gm.
absolutely an new48 gas.
Alto, Lewin, gold lacquered, nine lasts, .. 45 ens. Guitar, Colletti, large brunette body, deep 12 gm.
Alto, Dearman, ' Master -Model," dy G.L. 40 Knit Guitar, " Roger," blonde, double unit
Alto, Kohlert, newly gold lacquered.. 42 KM
fitting, Luna. ultra -cutaway model,
Alto, Arcadia, full artist, newly (LL.
.. 35 em.
with case, original price £112, a. new.. 75 gag.

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Clarinet, Robert Malerne, ebonite, boebm 22 Kos.
Tenor, " Broadway." gold lacquered .. 45 gns.
Tenor, Lewin, gold lacquered, nice COWL 45 B.f,
Tenor, Buescher, fantotta U.S.A. model,
newly gold lacquered ..
85 mu.
Baritone. Pennsylvania, gold lacq., withstand, complete with care..
45 ens.

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Alto, York (USA), full artist, nly. G.L. 135 0
Alto, Buescher, fall artiste, lily. G.L... 049 10
Alto, Selmer Cigar Cutter, USA Mod.,BP TRUMPETS IN CAB=
B. @ H. Imperial '23' Model, CLL., as new 135

Getter) (American), G.L., nickel mount... 140
Reason New Creation, G.L., large bore .. £38
B. & H. Regent, late model, med. large bore £15
Stylist, med. large bore, G.L., bargain .. 114
TROMBONES IN CASES

B. &R. Imperial, G.L., nickel rote., as new.. £36
Beason Academy, large bore, G.L...
£38

B. @ H. Regent, large bore, G.L...

£15

Dixieland model
ALTO SAXOPHONES IA CASES£1.2

Lafleur Valve Trombone, G.L., bargain ., £30
Coon BM, late model, ex, condition, G.L. £80
Selmer WA., G.L., bargain
Martin (American), F.A., G.L.
. £45
Dolnet EA., G.L., excellent condition. £35
Conn Conqueror, late model, 0.1..
..

085TENORSAXOPHONES IN CASES

Corm Mc. 10, exicllent condition, G.L.
895
Selmer B.A., CLL., bargain
085
Conn, large bore model, G.L.
Huey P.A., G.L.. good bargain£55
B. & H. XX Century, P.A., G.L.
CLARINETS (BOEHM) IN CASES
B. iik H. Imperial, best model, a, new .. tA2
Lout., eveellent model, bargain
Beeson 831, soli,) nickel keywork
Malborough, excellent condition.. £15

B. & H. '77' model ..

BARITONE SAXOPHONES IN CASES£14

Selmer F.A., G.L., excellent condition .. £75
Adolphe EA., G.L., good bargain.. 265
New Super Dearman, P.A., G.L. ..
Selmer A.M., S.P., no case..
..
NEW BOEHM FLUTES IN CASES
Varsity, closed G Sharp, metal ..
£23 14
Lane., closed G Sharp, metal..
£27 13
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Tenor. Adolphe, full artist, sly G.L.
£52 10Tenor, Selmer, newly G.L., good cond. £75 0
Baritone, Adolphe, CLL., full art., stand 259 10
Clarinet, Console Student, BP Boehm .. £15 0
Clarinet. Leblanc new wonder quality 52 gns.
Flute, Cabart Boehm, metal, good .. £17 10
Trumpet, Newly G.L., m.l, bore, good.. £30 10
Trumpet, Buescher Aristocrat, nly. C.L. £35 0
Trumpet, King fitilvertone, Sliver bell .. £59 10

Trombone, Beason Academy 403, as new £39 10
Trombone, Olds 7M, G.L. A nickel, good SIvi 10
Bass, Czech swell back, laminated .. £35 0
Bass, German swell book, fine Instr. .. 169 10
Bass, Kay model Ml, good tone & cond. £72 10
Bass, Hawker Paeoemo mod., fine cond.1115 0

Guitar, Burns solid electric, tine model £52 10
Guitu, Levin Jumbo round hole model £33 13
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Monty Babson celebrates
EVERY FRIDAY 6d.

AUGUST 22, 1959

I

Ory Band line-up
is completed
VETERAN trombonist Kid Ory has completed theline-up of his Creole Jazz Band for its first
British tour.

more
names
Three
RANK EXECUTIVES announced
this week are

Cedric Haywood (pno.), ex Armstrong bassist
Louis
Gersh, and drummer
THE top brass of the Rank Squire
Alton
Redd
who has been
Organisation went dancing
on Tuesday. They attended a associated with Ory over thepreview of their new £38,000 past 25 years.
Finsbury
Majestic Ballroom,

GO DANCING

Previously set are veteranPark, which opened yesterday trumpet
Red Allen andAmong Rank officials present clarinettiststar
Bob McCracken.
were Ivor Smith, Director of
The band starts its tour at the
Operations, and Len Fancourt, GaumontState. Kilburn. on
Ballroom Controller.
October
17.
The resident band is fronted

As exchange group for Ory,by Eric Galloway, who has just Britain's
Jazzmakers will extend
finished a season at the Queen's their American
tour for a further
Ballroom, Wolverhampton.
16 days.
With the Humphrey Lyttelton
He leads: Des Champ (pno.,arr.), Gordon Keates, Babe Wads- Band, the Jazzmakers leave
worth, Ken Lack and Johnny London on September 1 andFrancis (saxes), George Boocock, open 16 days of concerts at New
Ron Fenner and Norman God- York's Carnegie Hall on Septemdard (tpts.), Stuart Parker ber 4. Billed in the same show(tmb.), Bill Wayne (drs.) and will be George Shearing's new big
Monkband, the Th elon ins
Ray Duddington (bass).
Quartet and singer Anita O'Day.
The Jazzmakers-Lyttelton tour
is in exchange for the DaveDon Phillipe deps Brubeck,
Buck Clayton and Dizzy
Gillespie groups which open at
the Royal Festival Hall on Sep-

at Savoy Hotel

Don Phillipe and his Latin-

American Orchestra are again
acting as holiday relief band at
the Savoy Hotel, W., and will continue there until next Saturday(29th). Francisco Cavez returns
with his group the following

Monday. Don Phillipe's orchestia
is doubling the Savoy with Mon. day appearances at the Dominion
Theatre, Tottenham Court Road.

tember 19.
The Jazzmakers, co -led by
Ronnie Ross and Allan Ganley,
hold a special farewell session attheir Tuesday club, The Plough
Inn, Ilford, next week. Deputising at the Club in theirabsence will be the Jazz Committee group.

It was " welcopte home" to British singer -drummer Monty
Babson on Sunday at Al Burnett's Stork Room, W. For Montywas opening a short season, at the club where he had worked
for eight years as an " unknown." Since he was heard at theclub last April by American agent Lee Magid. he has beenplaying top TV and club dates in the States. Monty (secondr) is pictured at the welcome home party with (l -r) Jackie
Buckland (London Records), Reg Owen and Bob Crabbe(Decca). Babson returns to the States on September 6 for TV,
cabaret and recordings and will stay until the end of the year.

KAY STARR AND
LENA HORNE IN
PALLADIUM TVSTEELE TV SHOWSATV have already moved into
top gear in their race
against the BBC to win the
Autumn and Winter TV stakes.
On Wednesday, agent Leslie
Grade announced that Kay Starr

IN COMO STYLETOMMY STEELE'S four " Saturday Spectacular " productions
this autumn will be on the lines of America's "Perry ComoShow." The first three Spectaculars have provisionally been set
for September 19 and October 3 and 24.
Steele's manager, John Kennedy, told the MM on Wednesday:"Five star names will be booked for each show and Tommy
will introduce and gag with them in the Perry Como style.
" Each show will be rehearsed for three weeks to get everything

HIS LAST DATE IN BRITAIN

would debut on " Sunday Night

at the London Palladium " onSeptember 27.
And the " Wheel of Fortune "and " Rock -'n -Roll Waltz " girlwill be followed on the commercial TV spot by Lena Horne on
October 4.
Lena Horne arrives in Britain in
September. to open a four -weekcabaret season at the Savoy
Hotel from the' 21st.
Kay Starr played the London
Palladium six years ago.

NEXT WEEK

perfect to the last detail.
" Tommy threatened that hewould skip the shows altogether

ARTHUR KIMBRELL presents

get plenty ofmake the shows something extra
special."On November 28, Steele starts

SUMMER LP
SUPPLEMENTTHE SENSATIONALFRANKIE VAUGHAN SHOW

Soldier Steele

Presley's manager

appearance

Last

for

Las

rehearsal time so that he could
work on his fifth film.

prior to leaving

COL. PARKER

The film-a comedy based onrecent West End play
" Touch It Light "-will be for
Eros and will be completed on
Christmas Eve. Tommy will becast as a member of an Army

U.S.A.

Vegas,

if he did not

the

FRANKIE
VAUGHANtalks to the MM

searchlight unit.
Due to this film and TV dates, Dave Lee deps for
Steele has been forced to cancel
a six -week Variety tour which
was scheduled to start at the
beginning of next month.
ScanA tour of Australia,
Pianist Dave .Lee is currently
dinavia and Germany in the New deputising. with the JohnnyYear is being negotiated for him. Dankworth Orchestra-for pianist Dave Lee.
Officially,' Dave left the bandlast week -end to lead his own trio
as.Johnny has not yet fotind
CLIFF RICHARD but
a replacement, Dave is filling inon as many dates as possible.
Harry South and Bill Le Sage
EARNS MORE TV havealso helped Johnny to fill
thegap.
CLIFF RICHARD made such a-Dave LeeAt the Piano

RAYMOND LONG
Supported by-

FRANK WEIR

Et HIS ORCHESTRAOther Artistes

includeTONY FAYNE
CLIVE ALAN & BOBBY JOY

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Ernie Bragg is pictured with American singer Jane Morgan
during an ATV "Saturday Spectacular" show in March.

LORNE LESLEYDAVID FONTAINE

Ernie Bragg dieswhile on holiday

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He had been admitted to thehospital only a fortnight before
suffering from a back ailment.
Ernie Bragg started his careerwith Teddy Foster's Band in

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told the MM on Wednesday: " I
am meeting Columbia's Norrie
Paramor with Cliff on Friday to
discuss the titles for his new LP."

Victor Borge tourof Rank cinemas
Danish - American entertainer
Borge plays one-night

Victorstands for the Rank Organisation at the Odeons, Blackpool(August 31). Manchester (September 1), Glasgow (2nd), Birmingham (3rd) and the Gaumont.
Bournemouth (4th).

On (Song) Parade
Ronnie Carroll starts a seriesof four weekly appearances on

Granada -TV's " Song Parade " on
BIRTHDAY HITOctober 13.
American lyricist L. Wolfe
Gilbert celebrates his 73rd birthJOINING MELLINS
day or. August 31.
His
many
hits
Len Black leaves Chappell's" Ramona," " Marta," "include
Peanutthisweek to join the exploitation
Vendor," " Green Eyes," and departmentof Robert Mell in

Lew Stone, Norman
On October 1, Gala will also
Burns and Paul Adam.
flooding the chain stores
Among the many solo ;artists startwith 2s. 6d. discs. These will behe had accompanied are Denny 6 in. 78s. Although aimed at the
Dennis, Larry Adler, Diana children's market, they feature
Decker, Bonar Colleano, and stars with such adult and teen- " Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee." Music, New Bond Street.
Teddy Johnson and Pearl Carr. age appeal as Bing Crosby, RoyHe joined Jane Morgan as her Rogers and Dale Evans.
regular MD -accompanist in 1955.
JAZZ SELECTION FOR SMALL COMBINATIONS
He came to Britain every year,
Star names
C Book 1/6 Eb Book 1/6 Bb Book 116 PIANO 2/6
and was on holiday here when Bing Crosby
other major
he was taken ill. He was due to U.S artists are andContents:featured on
return to America next month. the new Gala 4s. all
Winsingles.
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The funeral takes place at 2.30 ners in the TV " Find
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DOWN
YONDER TEMPTATION RAG
p.m. at Streatham Park Cemetery contest have been recorded. And
Postage 3d.
ETC., ETC.
today (Friday).
other British artists are being FROM YOUR
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Telephone: TEMple Bar 2468.

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September 5.
Following his current work on
the film " Expresso Bongo " atShepperton, Cliff will complete
his 26 -week contract with the
Lew and Leslie Grade agency for
Varietyand one -night -standbookings.
He has about 10 or 12 weeks to
VRNIE BRAGG, MD -pianist for American song star Jane go with the Grades, who released
Morgan, died of cancer in King's College Hospital, East him for his film commitments.
Dulwich, in the early hours of Tuesday morning. He was 38.
Cliff's manager, Tito Burns,

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1939. He joined the RAF in 1940
and, following his demob in 1946, pennies and halfpennies. It
played with a series of name would require too vast an overbands. They included Roy Fox, haul of their organisations."

SHEFFIELD,

smash -hit bow on ATV's" Starlight Hour " on Saturdaythat he has been immediately
rebooked for another show on

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These low -price 45s will beheralded by a £10,000 TV campaign. Some 60 " commercials "have already been lined up.

And Gala have now won theirfirst outlet, through a provincial
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I wedge.
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