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PoorMr. Dankworth

DOOR,poor, Mr. Dankworth!

What an awful future lies instore for him if Mr. Hannah's pre-diction (Letters) is realised. Surely itis enough for us to have one TedHeath ; please let us not be afflictedwith another !

As for everyone in the audience atthe Albert Hall being keen musiccritics, that I very much doubt. I doapplaud the NME though, for lettingus have the opportunity of seeing thisconcert.

BRYON JONES.Addington Grove, Sydenham,

London, S.E.26.

Full -Blooded BaronI FEEL I can't let Jack Bentley goI unchallenged with regard to his re-view of the Frank Baron Quintet.This view that a quintet does not givea full-blooded enough sound for amidday airing is surely a mistakenone.

Surely quality of entertainment isthe measure of any outfit's right toair -time ? Perhaps one may visualiseMr. Bentley's "rave review" if thegroup under the microscope had beena live broadcast by the George Shear-ing Quintet.

One last word. Congratulations toFrank Baron for having the courageto present -to my knowledge -theonly dance music programme steeringclear of the current plug list. Somegiritnick, eh ?

DENNIS JOHNSON.Burton Rd., London, S.W.9.

From BAOR/AN reading M. D. Py nn's letter

(NME, 6.11.53), I wondered howanyone with any musical knowledgewhatsoever, could sincerely writedown so much rubbish in so short aspace.

So you can't think of anyAmerican bands better than Heath,Parnell or Dankworth, eh ? Howabout these few, or have you neverheard of such "unknowns" : RayAnthony, Woody Herman, LionelHampton, Billy May. Harry James,Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey,just to name a few ?

Don't think I don't like Heath,Parnell and Dankworth, etc., I thinkthey are very good, but they justhaven't that "something" that putsthem on a par with the Americanbands mentioned above.

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Southern Music's Frank Bunn is seen here with his 1953 34 -litre Jaguar,which has a top speed of 110 m.p.h. With Frank is singer Maxine

Russell, for whom he is acting as manager.

As for vocalists, my opinions havealready been voiced in the NME.Sufficient to say that I'll go for Day,Stafford and Peggy Lee any time.

So you think Buddy de Franco isonly a moderate clarinettist 7 If youhad heard some of his MGM discs("Carioca," "Just One Of ThoseThings," etc.), you wouldn't writesuch stupid statements. A clarinettistlike de Franco, who can blow so fastand yet produce such a fine tone,must be great. I put him in the sameclass as Benny Goodman.

Don't forget to drape a UnionJack over your radio set next timeyou tune in, will you, dear Mr. Pynn,or you might accidentally hear AFNand consequently all those second-rate American bands and vocalistsyou so cheerfully under -rate ?

(Sigmn.) DAVID PADBURY.Wireless Regiment, Royal Signals,

BAOR 12.

Welcome to PollardIN your Modern Club Notes last

week, I was glad to read"Staffer's" welcome back to TommyPollard, surely one of the greatest ofmodern pianists. I, too, had theprivilege of hearing Tommy recentlyplaying with another musician whoserecent come -back to the jazz scene,after a considerable absence, seemsto have been almost unnoticed by thecritics. I refer to Buddy Featherston-haugh.

Anyone who has heard Buddy'smusic during the past few monthsmust surely be amazed at the way inwhich he has acquired perfect com-mand of the modern idiom, both inplaying and arranging, forsaking, onoccasions, his familiar tenor to blowthe finest baritone sax to be heardanywhere today.

Is it not news when a formerbandleader of Buddy's fame who"knocked out" jazz fans in the '30'sand '40's is again doing it in the'50's 7

JOHNNY BEHENNA.Gordon Close, Staines, Middx.

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More About CottonI,

TOO, should like to differ fromX Miss Akers, for to say that theCotton Band is a fine one, is like say-ing that Louis Armstrong has a silkyvoice -it's ridiculous. I have yet tohear one of his artists sing a popularnumber without "murdering" it.

To conclude, compare Alan Breezewith either Dickie Valentine orFrankie Vaughan, and I think, MissAkers, you will realise that he is not,by a long way, one of the finest thereis.

J. RICHARDSON.St. Oswald Rd., Lupset, Wakefield,

Yorks.

Never Say DieMUCH publicity is cast nowadays

on the subject of the orchestrasof Dankworth and Scott and also onthe no -so -new Parnell band. Of theolder orchestras, Heath, Geraldo,Mackintosh and the Show Band re-main in the public eye. What aboutthat old and ever-changing Vic Lewisband ?

Why ever-changing ? Vic's fault ?Not a bit of it, Mr. Lewis has oneprogressive ideal -one only -but somany times the gimmick -ridden andunprogressively-minded British Public(sorry -British Jazz Public) haveforced Vic to "water down and com-mercialise " his music to meet theirtaste. Lewis they think of as a manwho tries a " storm in a teacup,"does not like it, disbands and repeatswith a different " storm."

Vic has his musical ideals and hastried to present them many times as apalatable offering only to be howleddown and have to come back andtry again in a different guise.

This never -say -die attitude is to beapplauded, not despised. Mr. Lewis

A Jazz -starvedFan In Africa

MAY 1 make a plea to any ofyour readers, particularly

those overseas, who are willing totake pity on a jazz -starved fanand correspond with hint ?

Life here on the edge of thejungle is a very loneiy existenceand there is no other white manwithin several hours' travellingdistance. The Mau Man don'tappear to have "received themessage" at all and seem to befar more interested in lopping offheads than listening to the musicof Armstrong or Parker.

There are several local Africanrecords which are of interest tojazzmen, and I should be only tooglad to send some to anyone in-terested. They appear to be verycomplicated rhythmically, butsome of the vocals sound amaz-ingly like the Blues, and there areseveral interesting and highlyoriginal soloists.

J. M. HUDSON.Assistant Inspector, e/o Police

11.Q., Fort Hall, Kenya, EastAfrica.

is a pioneer, not a schizophreniac, assome would have us believe.

True, Vic's latter day orchestrashave left something to be desired,but one cannot afford top musicianswhen one has but a moderate fol-lowing. His present orchestra is verygood, not great, but more worthy ofthe mass. May it progress both asregards becoming A favourite with thefans and advancing musically.

Its policy and ideals are fine andgood for jazz, Modern Music andindeed for music in general. Theseare the policy and ideals of the greatStan Kenton and of his orchestra,and. while Vic must always fall shortof Stan's standard, his efforts are acredit to British jazz.

E. G. WOOLLEY,General Secretary,

Stan Kenton Appreciation Society.Bell Lane, Bloxwich, Walsall.

* * *Any Questions ?

Q. I would like to know the datewhen the song " You May Not Be AnAngel " first came out. (Mrs. I.Senior, 10, Modder Terrace, Armley.Leeds).

A. 1934. The correct title of thesong is " I'll String Along With You,"by the way.

Q. Could you please tell me whatPats become of that fine guitarist ofthe middle 'thirties, Albert Harris(R. Adams, 68, St. George's RoadEnfield, Middx.).

A. Albert settled in the States in1937, and Ire is now a doctor of Musicin California, concentrating mainly oncomposition.

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SUNDAYA.M. 8 Sunday Circus; 10.05 Tempel-

hof Choir; 10.15 Lucky U Ranch; 10.30Piano Playhouse; 11.30 Sunday Syn-copation.

P.M. 1.30 American Music Hall; 3.05Highway of Melody; 5 Bob and Ray ;5.30 Request Parade; 6.05 Red Skelton;6.30 My Friend Irma; 7.30 DancingParty; 8.05 Eddie Cantor ; 8.30 TwentyQuestions; 9 Stars From Paris ; 10.35Ray Noble ; 11.05 Luz DieLmar ;11.30 Knaves At Night; 11.45 The VocalTouch; 12.02 Midnight in Manhattan,3111NDAY

A.M. 6.05 Hillbilly Gasthaus ; 7.15Dave Garroway; 7.30 Bandbox; 8.02Forward March ; 8.15 Curt Massey ;9 Red Skelton; 9,45 Personal Album;10.02 Merely Music; 11 Meet Millie;11.30 Duffle Bag.

P.M. 1 Jack Kirkwood; 1.30 HowardBarlow Presents; 2.02 Strictly FromDixie; 2.15 American Metodeers; 2.45Paulena Carter; 3 Stickbuddy Jamboree;3.30 Bud's Bandwagon ; 4.02 OutpostConcert; 5 Off The Record; 6 JoStafford; 7 Music In The Air; 8 NewsWorld; 8.30 Arthur Godfrey; 10 TheWhistler; 10.45 Blues For Monday;11.05 Garmisen Revue; 11.45 LateDate; 12.02 Late Date.TUESDAY

A.M. As for Monday.P.M. 1 Jack Kirkwood; 1.30 Cinema

Music Hall; 2.02 Pops In Polka; 2.15Winged Victory Chorus; 2.45 Judy King;3 Stickbuddy Jamboree; 3.30 Bud'sBandwagon; 4.02 Outpost Concert; 5Off The Record; 6 Eddie Fisher; 7Music In The Air; 8.05 Amos 'n' Andy;9.15 Music's No Mystery; 10 The LineUp; 11.45 Late Date; 12.02 Late Date.WEDNESDAY

A.M. As for Monday.P.M. 1 Jack Kirkwood; 1.30 En-

chanted Hour; 2.02 Strictly from Dixie:2.15 Flashing Fingers; 2,45 Youth BringsYou Music; 3 Stickbuddy Jamboree; 3.30Bud's Bandwagon ; 4.02 Outpost Con-cert; 5 Off the Record; 6 Jo Stafford; 7Music In The Air; 8.05 The GreatGildersleeve; 8.30 Groucho Marx; 8.55Sergeant Jaeger; 10 the Great Story;10.45 Hot House; 11.05 Stars andStripes; 12.02 Late Date,THURSDAY

A.M. As for MondayP.M. 1 Jack Kirkwood; 1.30 Music

For You; 2.02 Pops In Polka; 2.15Organ Intermezzo; 2.45 Judy King;3 Stickbuddy Jamboiee; 3.30 Bud'sBandwagon; 4.02 Outpost Concert; 5Off The Record; 7 Music In The Air;8.30 Name That Tune; 9.15 DatelineN.A.T.O.; 10 Escape; 11.05 Late Date;12.02 Late Date.FRIDAY

A.M. As for Monday -

P M. 1 Jack Kirkwood; 1.30 Music

From America; 2.02 Strictly FromDixie; 2.15 Novelty Shop; 2.45 ChoralSymphony; 3 Stickbuddy Jamboree; 3.30Bud's Bandwagon; 4.02 Rias Sym-phony; 5 Off The Record; 6 Jo Stafford;7 Music In The Air; 8.05 Ozzie AndHarriet ; 8.30 The American Way ;10 F.B.I. In Peace War ; 10.45 Melodia;11.05 Keiler Dance Remote; 12.02 LateDate.SATURDAY

A.M. 6.05 Hillybilly Gasthaus ; 7.30What's New; 7.45 Special Fifteen;9 Bob Hope; 10.02 Merely Music; 11.30Duffle Bag.

P.M. 1 Hillybilly Gasthaus; 2.02Combo Corner; 2.15 Western Swing;2.30 Stan Kenton; 3.30 Encore ComedyTheatre; 4 Call Me Freedom; 5.50 LocalEdition; 6 Saturday Swing Session; 1

Music In The Air; 8.05 Grand Ole Opry;8.30 Record Parade Of Hits; .10 JazzNocturne; 11.05 Late Date; 11.30 LateDate.

MARY LOU ONTHE CONTINENT

THE date when U.S. piano starMary Lou Williams will

return to London has not yet beenfixed. It was originally plannedthat Mary would fly back toBritain immediately following herBelgian tour next month, but sheis now considering an offer whichwould take her to Austria for aseries of forty concerts extendinginto the New Year.

Meanwhile, Mary is playingnightly in Paris, both at the Ring-side and at a new club named inher honour, Chez Mary Lou Wil-liams, situated on the premises ofthe now -defunct Perdido. Maryis accompanied by Buddy Banks(bass) and Kansas Fields (drums).

CLAUDE LUTER'S Jazz Band,foremost French two -beat

group, will be making internationalappearances next month. Definitebookings include concerts inBrussels and Liege, both onDecember 20.' The Leiter Band is well known inthis country through its Esquireand, Vogue recordings with veteranNew Orleans reedman SidneyBechet.

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Friday, December 4, 1953 THE NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS 3

FRANKCHACKSFIELD has done it again !

This week he received a very welcome cable. Itread :

"It is with a great deal of pleasure that we of `TheCash Box' inform you that the Juke Box Operators ofAmerica have voted you `The Most Promising NewOrchestra of 1953' through their ballots cast in the 8thannual poll conducted by the `Cash Box'."

No wonder Frank is sitting on top of the worldjust now Not only did he win the NME Instru-mental Record Award of the Year, but this newhonour comes at a time when his recording of "EbbTide" has sold well over half a million in the States.And his latest disc-"Golden Violins"-is alreadybeginning to show strongly over there.

JOE MUDDEL tells me he has given up hisregular job with Winston Lee at the Cafe de

Paris so that he can get in more practice, as withhis daytime sessions he found he just about hadtime for the odd scale before he went to work atthe Cafe.

GEORGE FIERSTONE was rapidly getting fedup with would-be tambourine -playing -sax-

ophonists breaking the skins of his tambourine insambas.

So he cut out some plywood, nailed it on andpainted it the colour of drum skin. Everything isall right now, so far as George is concerned-butif you see any sax -players walking around withbandaged knuckles, you will know they have beenworking for George !

* * *CHATTING with Ralph Elman, who has the

Regent Sound Studios, he told me he recentlyrecorded a double -sided disc of a drummerplaying four to a bar, all the way. The record wasfor Lord Rothschild to play piano to at home !

* * *SAW Leslie "Jiver" Hutchinson dashing along

Bond Street. When I asked him what the hurrywas he replied, "I'm just off to be measured for akilt for my spell in Scotland with Geraldo."

I'm sure he was kidding, but that's something I'dlove to see. Make sure you get a McGeraldotartan, Leslie !

* * *

JOHNNYCROFT, altoist with the Andy Lothian

band at Dundee Palais, had a hectic time of itmaking arrangements for the Dundee Musicians'

Golf Tournament. The competition went off with-out a hitch over the Rosemount Course at Blair-gowrie, and winner was Duncan Whyte, bandleaderat the Empress Ballroom. The competition wasarranged by Johnny for members of local dance -bands, and guests were invited to enter. Secondwas Eddie Brown, well-known Dundee and Scottishsnooker champion, with Jack Low third.

Mrs. George Dundas, wife of the manager ofDundee Palais presented Duncan with a cupdonated by her husband, which will be put up forannual competition

TROMBONIST Jack Irvin has been a bachelorfor five days whilst his wife, singer Jean

Campbell was up North, doing some broadcasts.One morning he was asked to dep at the Aeolian

Hall studios, and when he got there the first personhe saw was Jean, who had travelled up by the nighttrain to sing with the band with which Jack wasdepping.

Nice timing, if I might say so !*

ID you hear about the song -plugger who wentalong to see a vocal group about his new num-

ber, and took with him a special recording of it toplay over to them ?

When the record had finished, he asked the groupif they liked the disc. They said they did-it wasone they had made for the label a few days earlier

* *MY paragraph last week about recording com-

panies supplying tea at either full or half -sessions has brought forth a comment from AlanFreeman that his Polygon company always has"tea up" for the boys on half -sessions.

Good work, Alan-I wonder which companywill start serving pastries with the tea ?

FRANKIELAINE

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Modernist Club NotesFive of the Ken Sykora Six, Band-box resident group. Guitarists arc(I. to r.) Sykora, Denny Purssord,Ray Dempsey with George Jennings

(bass), Pete Harris (drums).

IF you are a regular NMEreader, you will already have

seen in last week's news columnsthat changes have been made atFeldman's, all of them derivingfrom the fact that Jeff (Flamingo)Kruger has taken over the manage-ment of London's longest estab-lish_J jazz rendezvous.

Inaugurating the Kruger regime onSunday, the club's new resident groupshowed that it had the makings of asure-fire draw, and the guests couldn'tpossibly have been bettered.

The Feldman resident group com-prises: Kathy Stobart (tenor); DaveUsden (trumpet); Vic Ash (clarinet);Ralph Dollimore (piano); AshleyKozack (bass) and Tommy Jones(drums).

The Feldman guests were theubiquitous Tony Kinsey Trio withtenorist Tommy Whittle, plus theyoungest Feldman family member,Victor, on vibes.

With a talent bill like that nowonder the guests went home happy !

Clad to Have You Back Depart-ment today pays belated tribute toveteran tenorist Buddy Featherston-haugh, who left the business sometime ago, but who has been blowingprofessionally again for about a year.Buddy's name was already revered inmusical circles as long ago as 1927.In later years he recorded with SpikeHughes, with Benny Carter and, ofcourse, with his own broadcastingRadio Rhythm Club Sextet.

But though he's been around forlonger than some of us can remem-ber, Buddy can still show many oftoday's youngsters a thing or two !Give him a modern chord sequenceand he isn't baffled ; put him with a1953 rhythm section and he can cope.

Buddy has a regular week -end"commercial" job in Manchester,which limits his London club appear-ances somewhat. He has neverthelessbeen seen and heard at Studios 51,52 and 54 in the recent past, and alsoat the Flamingo and at the King'sHead, Wimbledon.

He sometimes plays baritone onthen: dates, but always on a borrowed

horn. "Because the model I wantnever seems to be on sale," Buddycomplains.

Music in the Lennie Tristanomanner was featured at the Limelightlast Saturday by Geraldo-ites DouggieRobinson (alto) and Roy Plummer(guitar) together with pianist MattRoss, bassist Martin Gilboy anddrummer Eddie Taylor. Douggie andRoy will be absent from the Londonclub scene between December 18 andJanuary 23, for these dates mark therun of the Geraldo Orchestra'sEdinburgh Christmas show.

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No Sooner Asked Than GrantedDepartment. We understand thatTommy Whittle and Don Rendell arealready rehearsing some two -tenorroutines for presentation at theFlamingo, as requested in this columnlast week.

And while we're on the subject ofFlamingo tenon-nen, may we put inan emphatic good word for BobEfford, who has been partneringRendell most effectively for sometime past. Bob is another Geraldosidesman, so we will be missing him,too, for a while, as from next week.

Shorter Notes. Watch out for Del.Birmingham, drummer with EricSmith's Monday evening group at theParkway Jazz Club, Welwyn GardenCity. He's really beginning to ride.with an evident Eric Delaney in-fluence. We hear that he makes hisin -town debut at Studio 51 on Satur-day, December 12. . . . Jazz is some-times where you don't suspect it.

On Thursdays, for instance, theMaygrove Club operates in Kilburn,and though this is not a much -publicised haunt, quite a few well-known musicians have been known todrop in. Last week we met GeorgeHarrington there, blowing a fierce,Bostic -styled tenor.

Supporting the full Ted HeathBand at the Bandbox this week, theJimmy Walker Group from Birming-ham's Club 13, will be coming totown together with about seventy oftheir club member -supporters.

"STAFFER."

by The

SliderTEDDY FOSTER will spend his first New Year's

Eve in London for twenty years this year.The last one, back in those halcyon days of 1933,

Teddy remembers vividly from the fact that he wasin that never -to -be -forgotten Billy Cotton brassteam - the job which undoubtedly did much to"foster" his reputation

This year - Teddy will spend Hogmanay at theRoyal Forest Hotel, Chingford. And next year-well, your guess is as good as ours, but we keephearing those rumours !

DROPPEDin at Ciro's last week to find Joe

Saye rehearsing his group for his Decca ses-sion, when he cut eight sides for an LP to beissued here and in the States.

As you know, Joe is blind, and one might thinkthat this would be a severe handicap, especiallywhen it comes to rehearsing intricate arrangements-but not so with Joe. He seems to have a remark-able sense of being able to memorise the wholescore, and checks the boys at the slightest fault.Two numbers I heard Joe rehearsing sounded great.

DRUMMER Mickey Grieve was on a NorrieParamor session last week and was asked to

play an off -beat on his side -drum case, as being thenoise Norrie wanted.

Everyone was delighted with the playback-Mickey went home in a blaze of glory-and witha side -drum case that had a large hole in it.

* * *CONGRATULATIONS to Eddie Calvert whose

recording of "Oh My Papa" is selling like madin the States.

* * *MAKING a satisfactory but slow recovery from

his recent illness, NME Editor Ray Sonin asksme to thank all the many readers and professionalcolleagues who were good enough to write to himwhile he has been away. It is impossible for himto reply to all the letters individually, but he wantsthe correspondents to know how their good wishes

:cheered him up in his illness.His recovery, incidentally, is being greatly helped

by the very good notices the Press are giving to hislatest novel, " Murder In Print," which HerbertJenkins published this month ; and also by the goodreaction of the bandleaders to his new song, " Play,Play, Play," which Yale have just brought out.

* * *POPPED along to see Dorothy Squires at New

Cross Empire last Monday, where she openedafter her U.S. visit. She received a wonderful ovationfrom the audience-and Diana Dors joined her onstage for the final curtain.

Afterwards there was a party backstage-usuallyDorothy invites twenty times as many people as adressing room can hold. This time she invited fortytimes as many !

Bruised, panting and almost crushed to a jelly bybeing pressed at what seemed hundreds of poundsper square inch into portly Geoffrey Everitt, Ifought doggedly on. determined to shake Dorothy's

Star singer Monty Norman (left) who was trained asa hairdresser, shows that he has lost none of his oldtouch in this specially posed picture taken during his

very successful variety tour.

hand and tell her how great it had all been. Butwhat a crush! You couldn't even put your coatdown for the solid mass of cameras.

Then Dorothy dashed out of the dressing room tocatch up with an impromptu photo call on the stage-and fell headlong over a massed battery ofcameras which were neatly parked on the passagefioorway.

In the midst of it the fireman, covered inepaulettes and shiny buttons, came on the scene.He said the passage must be clear and everyonemust remain inside the rooms. What a hope ! AgentJock Jacobsen appeared at the door of one room."Let's drive up to town and 'phone Dorothy fromthere," he shouted, as the fireman pressed him backin again. "Let's go," I said, appearing for themoment in the other dressing room doorway, before1, too, was sternly thrust back inside.

So that's how we thanked Dorothy eventually-we rang her up from Baker Street Station. But gosh,what a party !

Hare I had YOUR card yet?THE NATIONAL DANCE MUSIC CAMPAIGNMUST have a postcard from every one of you-

musicians and public alike.Take this opportunity of stating in full force :-"WE WANT MORE DANCE MUSIC ON THE BBC"

Tell all your friends gettheir signatures-spreadthis huge campaign in every possible direction.

Send your Cards IN THOUSANDS to :-LESLIE EVANS,THE NATIONAL DANCE MUSIC CAMPAIGN,275 COLNEY HATCH LANE, LONDON, N.11

Quote your name and address, stating :"WE WANT MORE DANCE MUSIC ON THE BBC"

To every Bandleader in the U.K., I sap.,"Thank you for your 100 per cent. support.Continue announcing and displaying my Address

at EVERY Public Dance or Concert"

WRITE NOW !This space donated by all the top band leaders of Gt. Britain and acknowledged with the

organiser's grateful thanks

4 THE NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS Friday, December 4, 1953

Beryl Booker (centre), Bonnie Wetzel (left) and Elaine Leighton, whoform the Beryl Booker Trio at The Embers, New York.

DIZZY WITH STRINGSMIKE BUTCHER reviews the new

Jazz RecordsDIZZY GILLESPIE WITH HIS

OPERATIC STRINGSORCHESTRA

" The Man I Love "" Ghost Of A Chance"

(Esquire 10-333)Gillespie (trumpet) leading concertensemble including Arnold Ross(piano); Joe Benjamin (bass) ; BillyClarke (drums). Recorded 5/4/52.

QUITE logically, since he wasvisiting Paris when these weremade Dizzy's horn brims over

with eclat, panache and insouciance.His flights of fancy will leave yougasping, but literally ! So much sothat a couple of inaccuracies can beoverlooked.

Daniel White's " Ghost " score isno Seine -burner, but Jo Boyer'spiquant woodwind writing on "Man"suggests that he has been diggingJacques Ibert, and profiting by theexcavation.

There's probably no need to tellyou all this, anyway, as you arelikely to know both the " Man " andhis " Ghost from their previousappearance on Diz's EsquireLP (20-003).

*GERRY MOORE TRIO" Just You, Just Bop "

" Now And Then "(Esquire 10-326)Recorded 1/8/53.

Moore (piano) leading John Hems(guitar) ; Bill Bramwell (bass).

SCOTTISH guitarist John Hemsis the virtual leader here, even

though Moore's better-known nameh given the main label credit.

It's hard to be hard on a sincere,conscientious musician, and Hemsseems to merit these adjectives. Hissolos on " Just You ' incorporatesuch Lennie Tristano-like harmonicdevices as the use of a G -flat chordextension on a basic E -flat major (inthe key of E flat). But he can pro-duce an original turn of phrase, likethe ear -catching one in bars 13-16 inthe penultimate chorus.

All too obviously, however, Johnhasn't yet reached a stage of develop-ment where his ideas will gush forthin a free -flowing stream. His presentmusical philosophy seems to be :

" When in doubt, run a scale."There's also a disagreeable tonequality about his work, and a lackof swing which is almost frightening.

Gerry slips a neat quote fromBilly Mayerl's " Bats In The Belfry "into his not -so -hot solo, Bramwell isunimpressive, and the unobtrusivefour -bar bridge between some of thechoruses will faze you, if you don'twatch out !

Now And Then " finds Hems inthe dual role of composer and instru-mentalist. The tune he has writtenis a fairly conventional ballad -typething, with its thirty-two bar thememade up of a twelve, an eight, andanother twelve -bar bit, instead ofthe usual four eights.

After some half a dozen spins Ilike it a good deal better than I did

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BENGT HALLBERG TRIO" Fine And Dandy "

" My Love Is Yours "(Esquire 10-332)

Hallberg (piano) leading LennartLarsson (bass) : Kenneth Fagerlund

(drums). Recorded 7/7/50.WHY, look who else is on a Tris-

tano tack this week ! You'dhardly think that a fine individualistlike Bengt would want to indulge insuch flagrant imitation, and I'm notsurprised to hear that he wasn't toohappy about " Fine And Dandywhen it came out in Sweden.

Not that it's a bad record-farfrom it ! But it decidedly lacks thedevastating charm of Bengt's" Dangerous Curves," a side which Ihope Esquire will release here if andwhen possible.

The slow -moving " My Love IsYours " does have charm, though itsjazz content is small, and some ex-tremists may find it supremelytedious. For those who can appre-ciated Hallberg's superb touch, perfecttaste and flawless artistry, however-and that, of course, means you-it's a plain but tasty morsel.

Fagerlund (on " Fine And Dandy 'only) and Larsson accompany withsuch discretion that one can but usethe old cliché, they are felt ratherthan heard. Ignore Esquire's printedinformation as to which of themplays on what, by the way.*

LARS GULLIN'S OCTET"Danny -O"

"All God's Children Got Rhythm"(Esquire 10-328)

Guilin (baritone) leading RoffeEricson (trumpet); Leppe Sunde-wall (tenor horn) ; Ake Persson(trombone); Jonas BengstrOm(alto); Mats Olsson (piano); BengtWittstrom (bass) ; Nils-Bertil Dah-lander (drums). Recorded 21/4/51.IN Sweden, where even the public

at large wants to know aboutjazz, "Danny -O" made the HitParade. It has the gentle simplicityof a lullaby and was, in fact,written by Lars in dedication tohis baby son, an astounding totwho now sings bop lines at the ageof three.

I find the theme quite captivat-ing and I am sure you will, too.but if our nation of chapel-cryerstakes to "Danny -O" like it took to"Swedish Rhapsody," I'll swallowmy sapphire I

The octet sounds Miles -inspiredas a unit, individual bits by Pers-son and Guilin himself are well -up to standard, Bengstrom emergesas a cool -school altoist to bereckoned with, and Ericson im-presses more than he usually doeswhen improvising. The latter'sensemble lead still lacks realauthority, however.

In the rhythm section, Dah-lander, who made a welcome visitto Britain not long ago, registersas a solider, swingier drummerthan many of his more widelypublicised brethren. Wittstromsustains the extraordinarily highstandards of Scandinavian bassplaying, and Olsson plays the rightinversions of the right chords atthe right time.

"Children" doesn't amount tomuch, either in comparison withits coupling or with other versionsof this much -recorded tune.Though some of the solos sparkintermittently, the overall impres-sion is one of stiffness and dull-ness.

,THEY LOOK LIKE GIRLS, THEY ACT LIKE GIRLS, BUT

They Don't Play Like Girls !MEET the Three Smart Girls

of Jazz - the BerylBooker Trio, who nightly de-light the jazz -hungry socialitesof New York with their ap-pearances at Manhattan'ssmart night-spot, The Embers.

For years, critics have decriedthe fact that women musicianshave made much tangible contribu-tion to jazz as an art form. Today,these same critics are laudingNegro piano -stylist, Beryl Bookerand her two blonde side -girls,bassist Bonnie Wetzel (the widowof famous trumpet -man RayWetzel, who died so tragically acouple of years ago) and drummerElaine Leighton.

Beryl's startThis brilliant little group was

formed last July by Joe Glaser.Joe, who knows most of the ques-tions and certainly all the answersthrough guiding the destinies ofsuch bands as Armstrong, Elling-ton and Les Brown, broke inBeryl's Trio at Lou Terrassi'ssmall club on New York's 47thStreet.

Within a month, Manhattan-and all points west-were talking,

LES PERRIN=gives a first-hand account of the

sensational American Beryl

and the girls moved over to TheEmbers.

Beryl has commanded therespect of male musicians formany years now, but it wasn'talways like this. She recalls howthe biggest affront to her sex wasfollowed by one of the greatestretractions.

It was back in 1946 in Phila-delphia. Slam Stewart was play-ing the Downbeat Club and Berylhad a very definite idea that shewanted to-and would-play withthis great bassist.

She walked over to the pianoat the Downbeat, looked acrossat Slam and invited him to jamwith her. Stewart was equallydefinite in his derision. Heshouted, "Me play with a woman ?Never !"

So the imperturbable MissBooker sat right down at the key-board and began to play-alone.

Stewart listened for thirty

AMERICAN AIR -MAILFROM NEW YORK

WOW ! Have I been snowedunder with your requests for

pen - pal contacts ! Listings willresume in a few weeks, so holdthe phone ! I guess many of youwill be interested to learn that thenames of your counterparts aremainly furnished by A. J. Valen-tine's magazine "Theme," whichis published in California.

Mr. Valentine has asked me tomention that any NME reader in-terested in receiving a sample conymay do so by writing to the NMEin care of this column I hope manyof you are planning to "Turn TheTables On Me" and submit yourimaginary interviews. We are formu-lating other contests in the nearfuture, and, as just a slight hint asto what the next contest will beabout . . . I'd file this column andforthcoming columns if I were you!

Our aim is to make this columnas interesting and informative aspossible, always with your interest inmind. We are open to any recom-mendations and/or criticisms. Thisis your column.

Mood MusicThere's been a quiet little revolu-

tion in the pop fan's music tastes oflate, The over -emphasis on vocalistshas made many switch to "MoodMusic." A general trend is develop-ing, and is beginning to loom largeon the "pops' " horizon.

Fans are showing more and moreinterest in the lush arrangements ofpop standards, with the net resultthat the "Big 4" (Capitol, Decca,Mercury, Columbia) are scurrying topact more "studio type" bands. Themood biz got its biggest boost viathe terrific hits by Frank Chacksfield,such as "Terry's Theme," "EbbTide" and of more recent date"Golden Violins." *

The following stateside bands ofthis type are getting the biggestplays: Jackie Gleason, Axel Stordahl,Richard Hayman, David Rose and

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20 extra guards to quell any possibledemonstration. Granz gave Europeanjazz fans a great tribute by sayingthat Europeans treat jazz like the artthat it is and are silent at shows.

Nat's LatestThe Ink Spots, who recently moved

to King Records, have released theirfirst sides for that label: "Ebbtide";the flipover is "If You Should SayGoodbye." Nat "King" Cole flew infrom the coast to fulfil his N.Y.date at the. La Vie En Rose nitsspot. Incidentally Nat says that thePresident of Mexico has invited himto be his guest in Mexico City !

Hazel Scott's hubby. CongressmanAdam Clayton Powell. was reallyfrightened when the plane carryingthe famous 88'er was delayed fourhours. Hazel later reported that oneof the engines had conked out mid-way. She insists she was kindascared too !

Phil Moore has signed a VictorRecords contract. If you thoughtStan Freberg's "St. George And TheDragonet" was a howl, wait'll youhear "Christmas Dragnet." The PiedPipers have announced reorganisationplans. They had been in semi-retirement since 1950. Teddy Wilson,who recently returned from a verysuccessful European tour, beamswhen he tells his friends of the greatreception European fans accordedhim. He said that Mary LouWilliams was of great help to him.Take a bow Mary Lou ! They'restill talking about his recent show atthe Meadowbrook !

This Week's Bravos: Louis Jordanand his Tympany Five at CafeSociety.

Paul Weston. One faction says that Best Records of the Week: Vicpeople are revolting against vocal Damone's Mercury "Stranger Indiscs because of the domination this Paradise." The flip side features heridiom has had on the rest of the nibs Miss Georgia Gibbs' "Baubles,field. Bangles, And Beads" with the

Still another school of thought wonderful Richard Hayman orkfeels that since no high-pressure backing up both sides.tactics are employed in "pushing" My, do some guys get angry ! Chetmood discs the fans are more apt Baker, who is getting a little tooto choose them over "pops," which is independent for his own good, re -a more highly competitive field and, fused to go on in the Black Hawkthereby, uses high pressure salesman- date, because the Stan Getz bandship to the annoyance of many was already playing when he arrivedthinking fans. somewhat late. Getz, who is a little* * * tough himself, not only didn't wait

for Chet to open, but what's moreEarl Fatha' Hines is sporting a Getz did not return after the second

new ring which is the envy of many show, leaving Chet holding the well-Broadwayites. It's in the shape of known bag.the baby grand he plays so well, Guy Caccienti, who owns the club.made up almost entirely of diamonds, is taking the case to the union inwith the keyboard made up in attempt to collect damages offlaming red rubies. Boy, is he get- $4.500.ting attention ! You'll be hearing a lot of Capitol's

San Francisco City officials have new record star Yvonne O'Day. Herbarred the JATP from ever appearing first disc is: "I Just Want To Bein its City Auditorium. This all With You." flip side features Yvonnecame about because several unruly and her sis Mary O'Day in "Snow -fans caused nearly 600 dollars in flakes.".damages to property. Fans threw Odd titles department: Ross Bag -bottles through rest -room windows, dasarian comes up with two in hisstaged fights and caused general new Mercury release "Zubbediya"bedlam during and after the show, and flip side "Not Since Nineveh."

It's unfortunate that so many have Armenian ? Who knows . . . Ito suffer for a few. Norman Granz don't, but they sound Feat !did ail he could to prevent this from Till next week cheerio and keephappening; in fact he had ordered them spinning !

minutes and finally could resist theurge no longer. He picked up hisbass and joined Beryl. What wasmore, before the end of the even-ing he had offered her the pianojob with his Trio. She took itand stayed five years.

if you ask Beryl how long shehas been playing piano, she willlook up and say " Nearly thirtyyears," but this doesn't mean thatshe is in the veteran class, for thatis actually her age. She is nearlythirty.

A brilliantly creative pianist, shedepends not on the girls' attractivelooks and gowns, but rather ontheir musicianship to get themacross. The Trio plays standards,show tunes and jazz numbers, butall with a subtle modern treat-ment.

Her two companions are bothvery jazz -conscious young women.Bonnie Wetzel, steeped in the

music through her deceased hus-band Ray, as played with CharlieShavers, Roy Eldridge and withthe Tommy Dorsey big band. Shetook up bass -playing eight yearsago after forsaking her childhoodlove, the violin.

Curvaceous, ex-" Sweetheart ofRhythm " percussionist ElaineLeighton is, at 27, a product ofthe progressive school of jazz.She once played with the JackieKane -Roy Kraal Group and is agraduate of famous drummer JoJones. She rates Jo, Buddy Richand Art Blakey among herfavourites.

No big bandIt had been Beryl's original plan

to form an All -Girls' big bandbut she could not find trumpetand saxophone players whomeasured up to her requirements.

Personally, I am very pleasedat that failure, or we would havelost the magic that is BerylBooker. She can only be fullyappreciated in such a small com-pact group.

I think Joe Glaser summed upmy sentiments about the Triowhen he said " They look likegirls, they act like girls . . . butthey don't play like girls."

Appearing at the Stagecoach niterie in New Jersey, the "Here In MyHeart Man" Al Martino gives his autograph to a charming fan andutilises her equally charming back as an extremely charming writingdesk I By die way, there is an article about Al Martino, with lots ofpictures, in the NME 100 -page 1954 Annual, which is due out nextweek. This is only one of dozens of profusely -illustrated articles aboutand by the stars that will make the Annual something to read andkeep. And it only costs 2s. 6d. at your bookstalls and newsagents. or

2s. 9d. post free direct from the NME offices.

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TONY BRENT"No Matter How You Say

Goodbye ""Honey Darlin'"(Col. DB.3356)

TONY BRENT is forced to givea good performance on this

side by the fact that the orchestrareally drives him along.

This is one of those ultra modernarrangements such as Tony had onthe NME Award -winning "HaveYou Heard ?"

Please don't think that I'm try-ing to take credit away from this"fine singer, for once again he doeshis job as a record salesman in afirst-class manner. I like this typeof backing even if at times it isnot 100 per cent. commercial.

This may not please the Mumsand Dads but Tony's many fanswill fully appreciate it.

How long will it be before"Honey Darlin' " hits the jack-pot ? Judging by the number ofrequests received lately. Tony andGary Miller are going to hae aterrific battle once the song startsto mean something.

I have already reviewed therecord of the latter -named artistand now let me state that TonyBrent has turned out a grand sidethat will stand up to all competi-tion. Go to it, boys, and let it bea good clean fight, and may thebest man win !

*OSCAR RABIN'S BAND

" Forgive Me""Crazy Man Crazy"

(Polygon P.1086)OSCAR RABIN and his Band

make a welcome return to wax own right, and she proves on thiswith one vocal and one non -vocal side that she can add the necessaryside. For many years the Rabin punch which can turn an ordinary

TONY + ALMA + OSCAR + VERABand has entertained dance fansall over the country, and on thisfirst side they sound competentwithout setting the world on fire.

Mel Gaynor sings without greatdistinction, but I fancy he is notat his best on this record.

I said that this second side wasnon -vocal and I did so not to mis-lead you in any way. There issinging on the record, but to methis side is strictly uncommercial.

I'm sorry that this was mademore for the fans than for thegeneral public, for I have alwaysliked the Rabin Band and thoughtthem most commercial in the past.Never mind-the boys in the bandenjoyed it all.

RUSS MORGAN AND HISORCHESTRA

"The Golden Years""The Tennessee Wig Walk"

(Bruns. 05202)

" MUSICin the Morgan

Manner " is both pleasingto the ear and a godsend to loversof simple tuneful arrangements.

Clyde Rogers carries off thevocal honours and is helped to nosmall extent by the Morganaires.

This disc will not make you situp suddenly or rush off to yourlocal record shop before it closes,but it will give you many hours ofpleasant listening. Mr. "SoTired " Morgan has not had a bighit record for several years in thiscountry, but he does provide uswith good commercial material.This melody is known to millions,so I need say nothing about themusic.

Luxembourg listeners need nointroduction to the bright andcatchy second side. For someweeks now they have been hearingBonnie Lou and her excellent re-cording of " Wig Walk."

Well, you will now be able tolisten to another first-class job, forI hand full marks to Miss BetsyGay for a most spirited vocal.Miss Gay is a recording star in her

REG OWEN'SRhythinRecords

DUKE ELLINGTON AND HIS horn team, and at the same timeFAMOUS ORCHESTRA very unlike Mr. Kenton's cele

"Give Me The Right" brated trombones."Boo-Dah"

(Capitol CL.14012)**ORCEFUL Jimmy Grissom

sings against a background oftypical Ellington sax scoring, butoh dear, why does he have to usesuch an excessive vibrato ?

The hand plays with great toneand feeling, C.e brass choir effectis fine, and the general soundthe band is very modern, but Ifeel that the vocalist (on records,at least) is out of place with suchan organisation.

"Boo-Dah" is a riffy little opushelped along no end by a fine,driving rhythm section. Behind theunison saxes the staccato brassfigures sound a bit dated, but thetrumpet solo in the second chorusis well worth listening to-inplaces this player sounds very muchlike our own Kenny Baker.

Some fine -toned clarinet playingfollows this, backed once again bya great beat from the rhythm, andthe side winds up with some fan-tastic high notes on trumpet whichwould make even Bobby Prattgreen with envy !*

STAN KENTON AND HISORCHESTRA

"Daddy""Hush -a -bye"

(Capitol CL.139981**THIS is a cute treatment of the

old pop "Daddy. I Want ADiamond Ring" and reveals JuneChristy singing below average andthe hand playing at a rather un-settled tempo.

The trombone section contrivesin places to sound very much likeMitch Miller's celebrated french

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Apart from the usual flashes ofbrilliance via the trumpet depart-ment, the side is disappointing.

"Hush -a -bye" commences with amale voice choir, presumably supplied by members of the orchestra;at least, it is much better than thi.;week's effn- by the Sauter -Finegan group.

The second chorus has legiti-mate -tone trombones playing somescoring that detracts from thebeautiful simplicity of this lovelyold tune. Obviously this numberhas to finish with the so-called' vocal ensemble," and althoughthis doesn't make a very inspiringrecord, I should think it would begreat material for a concert.

SAUTER-FINEGANORCHESTRA

"Now That I'm In Love""Lazy Mambo"

(HMV B10587)**

HERE is another reasonablyclever version of the well-

known theme from William Tell.It is taken at a very fast tempo

and starts, believe it or not, with avery dated introduction followedby an out -of -breath vocal from ayoung lady called Anita Boyer,who seems to have trouble in keep-ing up with things.

I suppose this side is liable tobecome popular if only for itsassociation with a well-known tune,but for me it's by far the worstthing Cat this advanced group hasdone yet.

From the minute the needle hitsthe opening groove you know thatthe second side is going to bebetter.

It is taken at a lovely slow LAtempo, and the rather cute themeof the second chorus is "sung" bythe whole band-why is it hatmusicians always sound self-conscious when asked to do this

Although the number finishes inthe same delightful mood as itstarts and possesses a fine coda, itis definitely .not up to the highstandards that this orchestra hasset for itself.

POPULAR RECORDS

REVIEWED BY

GEOFFREY

EVERITTThe Radio Luxembourg

-:- Disc -jockey

number into a hit. This is socatchy that you will not tire ofhearing it. You'll get good valuefor money if you purchase thisrecord. *

VICKI BENET"Mmm"

"Two Lovers"(MGM.682)

SENTIMENTAL -VOICED VickiBenet appeals to me, as I feel -

certain she will to millions of radiolisteners in the not too distantfuture.

This girl can really sell a songand at times she gives us the JeriSouthern treatment and we allknow how very pleasant that canbe, don't we ?

There's no need for me to addthat " IVImm " is a love song andthe lyric has all the necessarysentiment that will make this afavourite for late night listening.

Another very satisfying effortthat will claim attention fromlovers everywhere is the reverseside. Even grandad will sit up andtake notice when Miss Benet startsto sing. As for Granny-well, shewill probably say this is just sloppy

stuff. If that's what it's called, I'ma sloppy fan from now on !

ALMA COGAN"My Love, My Love"

" Wasted Tears"(HMV 8.10590)

LUXEMBOURGlisteners will

recognise this melody withoutthe slightest difficulty, for it waschosen a long time ago as a sig-nature tune by Peter Madren.

A lyric has now been added andMiss Cogan sings well, but I

prefer her on the more rhythmicnumbers. She is to me essentiallya singer who likes to give out infull voice and I don't think she isat home on this type of number.

Thank you, Alma, for helpingto prove my point. Friends, ifyou listen to this second side youwill quickly appreciate my pre-vious comments The side swings,and Alma sounds at home. Thereis also some excellent trombone.A first-class side.

JIMMY BOYD"Santa Got Stuck In The

Chimney ""Little Match Girl"

(Philips P13.187)TIMMY sounds rather moreJ pleasant and a good deal lesscunning than on some of his recentrecords. I must admit that I'mgetting a little fed up with MasterBoyd, but there's no denying thatthe boy is really popular.

It's a pity that we have to haveso many Christmas songs butJimmy has no need to worry forhis "I Saw Mummy Kissing SantaClaus " is selling like hot cakes.

I fancy the novelty will soonwear off and when it does Jimmywill have to try singing for a living.

In absolute fairness I cannot

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11 9 VAYA CON IHOSL. Paul -M. Ford (Capitol)

- 10 SWEDISH RHAPSODYRay Martin (Columbia)

6 10 I BELIEVEFrankie Lathe (Philips)

12 11 WISH YOU WERE HEREEddie Fisher (HMV):

- 12 MOULIN ROUGEMantovani (Decca)

Copyright by the New MusicalExpress, 1952.

This chart is compiled from weeklyreturns made to us by the largest recordretailers throughout the coimiry, based

on their aliquot sates figures.

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BY U.S. DISC JOCKEYSLast This

Week2 1 Rags To Riches Tony Bennett3 2 Ebb Tide Frank Chacksfield1 3 You, You, You Ames Eros.8 4 Ricochet Teresa Brewer5 5 Eh cumpari Julian La Rosa7 8 Many Times Eddie Fisher4 7 Vaya Con Dios L. Paul -M. Ford9 8 Love Walked In HIlltoppers

12 9 To Be Alone Hilitoppers9 10 Oh Pee Wee Hunt

19 11 You Alone Perry Como13 12 Istanbul Four Lads- 13 I Love Paris Lea Baxter- 14 Off Shore L. Diamond- 15 Changing Partners Patti Page13 18 Sweet Mama Tree Top Tall

La ncers15 17 Pa-Paya Mama Perry Como- 17 My Love, My love Joni James18 19 That's Amore Dean Martin- 20 Stranger In Paradise

Tony Bennett

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WeekI 1 ANSWER ME (Bourne)3 2 I SAW MOMMY KISSING SANTA

CLAUS (Morris)2 3 POPPA PICCOLINO (Sterling)4 4 SWEDISH RHAPSODY

& C.) 2a.6 5 WHEN YOU HEAR BIG BEN

(Box & Cox)8 6 ETERNALLY (LIMELIGHT)

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(L. Wright,21 23 HEY JOE (Robbins).23 24 SEVEN LONELY DAYS (Feist)

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Week1 1 Rags To Riches Tony Bennett2 2 Ebb Tide Frank Chacksfield3 3 Vaya Con Dios L. Paul -M. Ford4 4 Rh Comport Julian La Rosa5 5 You, You, You Ames Bros.7 6 Ricochet Teresa Brewer8 7 Many Tithes Eddie Fisher9 8 Oh Pee Wee Hunt

10 9 That's Amore Dean Martin6 10 St. George & Dragonet

Stan Freberg12 11 Istanbul Four Lads11 12 You Alone Perry Como- 13 Changing Partners Patti Page12 14 To Be Alone Hilltoppers15 15 Mission Of St. Augustine

Sammy Kaye18 16 I See The Moon Mariners16 17 Love Walked In Hilltoppers- 18 Velvet Glove Hugo Winterhalter- 19 Eighteenth Variation W. Kapell14 20 Story Of Three Loves

Jerry MuradU.S. charts by courtesy of

" Billboard."

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Week3 1 Ebb Tide2 S You, TOM You6 3 Rags Ts Welles1 4 Vaya Con Rios6 A ataxy Times4 II Crying In The Chapel

MUSIC (U.S.)

Two minds with but a single thirst! In between one of their manysessions, Bob Brown (right) and David Carey, of the Stargazers, take

some much -needed and welcome refreshment-NME photo.

give any marks for yet anotherChristmas song on the second side.Surely even the publishers mustrealise that however good the songis it becomes just another songwhen it is issued months after theobvious Christmas hit. Nevermind, maybe Santa Claus hasthought of a good present forJimmy Boyd-if not, give me aring, Santa, I've got some ideas !

*VERA LYNN

"If You Love Me '''"Beautiful Isle Of Somewhere"

(Decca F.10196)HIS is tip-top Vera and, to my

mind, her best effort since thewonderful " If You Go."

Charles Smart does his sharewith some excellent accompani-ment at the organ, and the orches-tra and choir are directed byRoland Shaw.

Given the right material Veracan outsing and outsell any femalesinger in the field of popu-lar recordings. We don't wave theflag half enough in praise of ourown British singers.

Let me say at once that Americadoes not possess a female singercapable of making a better recordof this song than that turned outby our own Vera. And by the way,

10 7 Ricochet0 8 In The blisslon Of St. Augustine7 9 Oh

- 9 Rudolph The Red -Nosed Reindeer13 11 I See TM Mono14 11 You Alone- 13 That's Amens-14 White Christmas13 16 1s Cwapart

when is the publisher going to pullout all the stops on this beautifulcontinental melody? It's beenkicking around for years.

There is just enough echo on theflip side to make it attractive, andas usual, Vera sings as only shecan.

The song is not as strong as" If You Love Me," but the lyricis good and the melody pleasing.

*MILLS BROTHERS

" Who Put The Devil In Evelyn'sEyes ?"

"Beware"(Bruns. 05220)

YES, sir, this is one of those veryrare and precious records that

crop up every now and then.The Mills Brothers have been

extremely popular for a goodmany years but it was their recentrecording of "Glow Worm" thatset record buyers talking aboutthem in such glowing terms.

Well, this new side is a beautyand I suggest to you that it is go-ing to be a big hit.

Again, here is first-class stufffrom a great group. In this caseit is certainly not a warning but amodel lesson to all vocal groups,It's really the tops.

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8 THE NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS Friday, December 4, 1933

NAME BAND DIRECTORY

STANLEY BLACKORCHESTRAS, LTD.

Telephone : I ZI11017tM 114.1die.Museum 308, Regent Street1402 and 8298. London, vv.i.

The Band with a Bent . . .

. . of Pariephame Recording la

JOE DANIELSAND HIS ALL STAR BAND

22. Ledway Drive,ARNold 4613. Wembley, 51kids.

BILLY TERNENTAND HIS ORCHESTRA

(Ali enquiries)Ed. W. JONES20. limn*ids ltd.New Maiden.

Surrey.Dement 2442

AL I IttPREMIER,

97. Charing XRoad, WC2GER 1092

Europe's Greatest Trumpet Star

FREDDY RANDALLAND HIS ALL-STARS

Direction & Personal Management :UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENTS

George Cooper,19, Farm Way, Bnelchurst Hill.Essex BCCithurst Mil 2829

Dance Music Plus Entertainment

MICK MULLIGANAND HIS BAND

GEORGE MELLY, JO LESSARDMICHAEL LAWRENCE

Sole Representation :JIM GODBOLT AGENCY,

3, Greek St.. W.I. GER 1240

A EUROPE'S GREATEST GIRLTRUMPETER

GRACIE COLEAND HER ALL-STA4 GIRLS'

ORCHESTRAFlat 13e, 36, Buckingham Gate,.w.I. Telephone: VICtorla 9304

BRITAIN'S BRIGHTEST BANDATTRACTION

HARRY GOLDAND HIS PIECES OF 8

AIRSHOWS LTD.,TATe Gallery 193, Victoria St..0188/9 London, - S.W.I.

LONDON'S BRIGHTEST SMALLBAND ENTERTAINMENT

George BIRCHAND HIS MUSIC

Currently : Dorchester HotelEnquiries: CHIS 3848

LET THERE BE NO PANICBooking Now

DickHIS HOOLDEIGANNNSYAND

Vaudeville X Danceland'SCraziest Musicians

87, WITHINGTON ROADMANCHESTER is

HARRY BENCEAND HIS ORCHESTRASole Rep

JIM GODBOLT, 3 GREER STREET,SOHO SQ., W.I. GERrard 1240

The .

ENTERTAINING BANDLEADER

JOHNNY FRANKSAND HIS ORCHESTRA

(or smaller combinations)Representation :

BERT WILCOX TEM 1762

FOR THE BEST IN MODERNDANCE MUSIC-plus Entertainment

THE

JOHNNY HAWKINSSEXTETTE

Now touring Continent. AvailableJan. 19th on-offers. PIA 254, Chat -worth Avenue. Cosham, Portsmouth.

LOU PREAGER'SAMBASSADORS BAND

Specially Chosen Combination.Ono -Night Stands Anywhere

1,0(1 PREAOI(R'S Preeentmtleni.69, GLENWOOD GDNS., ILFORD

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BARRITEAUALFRED PREAGER

97-99, CHARING CROSS RD.. WC2GERRARD 7092-3-4

TEDDY

FOSTERALFRED PREAGER

97-99, CHARING CROSS RD.. WC2GERRARD 7092-3-4

REGGIE

GOFFALFRED PREAGER

97-99, CHARING CROSS RD.. VICEGERRARD 7092-3-4

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97-99, CHARING CROSS RD.. WC2GERRARD 7092-3-4

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97-99, CHARING CROSS RD., WC2GERRARD 7092-3-4

Eddie "Task"MENDOZA

and his

`KRAZIE ORKESTRA'Summer Season :

I THE PIER, New Brighton, CheshireCUM.,

Enquiries Invited for . .SUNDAY CONCERTS

MALCOM MITCHELLTRIOAU commas. Sydney Grace, Lew &Leslie Grade, Ltd., 235, Regent St.,W.I. (REG 5821)

TOMMY de ROSAAND HIS ORCHESTRA

246, NORTH CIRCULAR ROAD,PALMERS GREEN, N.I3.

Palmers Green 6603

George 'Herr' Crow& HIS BLUE MARINERS

BAYswater 9, Queen's Mews,5053 London, W.2.

HARRY LEADERAND HIS ORCHESTRA(Now available for engagements on

Sundays)All enquiries: Astoria Dance Salon.Charing Cross ltd., London, W.C.2.

GERrard 1711,

Ah! There's Something in the Air !

SQUADRONAIRESDirected by RONNIE ALDRICH

ARTHUR AUDEN.Piccadilly House,

REGent 6507 Piccadilly, S.W.I.

book the sensational new

ronnie scottorchestra

sole agent-humid davison116. shrtftesbury avenue.

gerrard 7481-9

JIMMYCUMMINS

COLOURED RUMBA RANDrreativ I anutor CLUB W.1

7. RALLOGie AVENGE k.W.I1w.ALIITONIV aati

EDMUNDOROS

* ORCHESTRAS *177. REGENT ST., LONDON, W.I.

Telephone: REGent

" NEARING SHEARING

NORMAN BURNSQUINTET

RepresentationHAROLD DA VISON

UERrard 116. Shaftesbury Ave..7467 London, R.1.

- ENJOY YOURSELF!On EV Lin' uresti.lun with

JOHNNIE GRAYAND HIS BAND OF THE DAY 1

Sole Representation:HAROLD DAVISON AGENCY116, saAF"rEsnuay AVENUE,

LONDON, GERrard 7467

* KEN *MACKINTOSH

AND HIS ORCHESTRASole Represent.: RABIN AGENCY30, GLOUCESTER MANSIONS.CAMBRIDGE CIRCUS, LONDON,W.C.2. TEM 2810

VAN SNTRRATEN* ORCHESTRA *23 GOLDEN SQ., PICCADILLY,

LONDON, W.ITelephone : GERrard 0128/9

NOW IN FOURTH YEAR ATNEW COCONUT GROVE

JACK _NATHANAND HIS BAND

(Available for Sunday engagements)TELse Hill 171, Pullman Court,

3796 London, S.W.2

TITO BURNSAND HIS BAND

Representation:HAROLD DAVISON,

GERrard 116, Shaftesbury Avenue.7467 London, W.I.

IVY BENSON32, RIVERVIEW GROVE

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BIRMINGHAMBANDS BUSY

QYD JAMES, who has been asso-ciated with the Birmingham dance

music scene for some 17 years now,has made a change in his outfit'sdrum chair. Ray Ku kland is workingout of town and modernist PeteCater is now handling the sticks.

Another newcomer to the SydJames' band is 17 -year -old JuneStrain, a vocalist in whom Syd hasgreat faith. Syd also sings with hisband, and will double with June insome of the numbers.

Another popular Birmingham bandwith a change of personnel is that ofSydney Beere. Bill Bryon comes in ontrumpet to replace Len King, whorecently emigrated to Rhodesia. Billwas previously with the FrankDouglas Orchestra.

The full personnel of the SydneyBeere band is now Bill Bryon (trum-pet); Basil Stutley (alto); PeteHarper (alto and baritone); TassHobart (tenor); Dennis Kelly(piano); Benny Leiberson (bass) andMike Green (drums).

Syd's well-known modern jazzclub Club Six meets on Tuesdayevenings. The members of Syd's bandthen join other Midland jazzmen toform two small modern groups.

CLUBSThe Sydney Beere band is resident

at the Springfield Ballroom, but alsoundertakes many gigs. Among itsdates in the next few weeks is theMedical Ball at Birmingham Univer-sity, and dances at the James Motor -Cycle Co. and Messrs. Joseph Lucas,Shaftmoor Lane.

A club which is catering for thelarge coloured population in Birming-ham is the Afro -Caribbean Club. Itmeets every Sunday evening at theBirchfield Cafe, Perry Barr.

Providing the music is an all -coloured group led by alto manWillie Rogers. -The personnel of thegroup is: Willie Rogers (alto andclarinet); Johnny Bartun (tenor andclarinet), Clement Davies (trumpet);Ron Daly (piano); Bobby Desmond(drums); Jimmy Rogers (bass) andLloyd Grant (vocals).

A traditional jazz club has openedat Stourbridge (Worts.) under therather modern -sounding name ofClub 3.

Resident at the club is the Mer-maid Jazz Band from the BirminghamUniversity Rhythm Club. This group-all its members are universitystudents-is quickly forming a reputa-tion for itself among the Midlandtraditional fans.

As a compliment to their playing,they have been invited to play atOxford University Jazz Club, andNorth Staffs University College.

Famous Midland jazzman KenRattenbury will broadcast at 10.10p.m. on Wednesday, December 16, onthe Midland Regional wavelength.

MU CAMPAIGNICEERWICK-ON-TWEED is likely

to be the second town inwhich a new branch of theMusicians' Union is to be estab-lished as the result of the Union'sNational Recruiting Campaign.

The response of the musicians inthis area has been so good thatorganiser Ellis Miles has decided torecommend to the Union's NorthDistrict Council that permissionshould be sought to open a branch.

Final meetings in the first phaseof the campaign are due to takeplace on Sunday next. These are atMethil, where the principal speakerwill be Scottish District AssistantOrganiser John Young; Carlisle,where Ellis Miles is to speak; andChatham, where the speakers will beAssistant Secretary Harry Francis,and South -East District OrganiserKen Bennett.

The Methil meeting will be heldin the Millers' Welfare Institute,commencing at 2 p.m.; Carlisle, atthe County Hotel commencing et3 p.m., and Chatham, in the DoverCastle Hotel, at 11.30 a.m.

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Here is Len Beadle and his New Orchestra, a traditional band recentlyformed on Luis Russell-Fletcher Henderson lines. In its line-up, the

band includes trumpeter Ron Abbitt leading a swing group.

Joe Loss to break newground at Carlisle

ALTHOUGH Joe Loss and his Orchestra have been consistentlytouring Great Britain for more years than any other attraction,

it is surprising that they have never yet undertaken a dancingengagement in Carlisle.

Thanks to the enterprise of localborder promoter, Duncan McKinnon,this strange state of affairs has nowbeen rectified, and Carlisle fans willbe delighted to know he has securedthis attraction with Joe's full batteryof vocalists to appear at the MarketHall on Saturday, December 12.

SPECIAL TRAINSSo great is the enthusiasm for this

visit that special arrangements havebeen made for three trains to bringin large parties from the surroundingdistricts and the record attendance of2,600 recently established by TedHeath at this venue, is likely to beexceeded.

Duncan McKinnon has spcntseveral thousand pounds in convert-ing an old establishment into amagnificent ballroom which is nowthe dancing centre of the borderarea, and is sparing no cost in hispolicy to give dancers the best bandsunder the best conditions.

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DundeeDROPPED into Dundee Jazz Club's

session on Sunday night andfound the Pelican band playing somereally hot jazz (writes John McLeod).Resident at the club, the band hascome on by leaps and bounds duringthe past year, and rated byconnoisseurs as the best traditionaloutfit in town. Leader Jack Hutton,who blows some grand trumpet, frontsa bouncing, swinging assembly of CyMcNally (drums), Bert Powell (clari-net), John McHardy (piano), JimWallace (trombone) and Bill Beattie(guitar).

Club member Eleanor Ritchie is apopular request for both blues num-bers and pops, and newcomer BillAndrews also received a big handfor his share of the vocals. Jackand Cy also join in the vocal work.

Another popular Sunday nightrendezvous is the recently openedDundee Rhythm Club in LocheeRoad. Resident at the club isGordon Craig's Rhythm Quartet.Playing alto and clarinet, Gordonfronts Jim Hunter (piano), GeorgeWatson (trumpet) and Bill Mitchell(drums).

Bert Cooper, currently playing withthe Andy Lothian outfit at DundeePalais, has come out of semi -retire-ment to take the trombone chair.

For seven years he was with theBilly McGregor band at Barrowland,Glasgow. He wrote special dancemusic for Barrowland scenes in thefilm " Floodtide," which featuredGordon Jackson, Rhonda Andersonand Jimmy Logan, brother of Geraldovocalist Buddy. Bert also composedthe song sung by Jimmy Logan.

At the band's broadcasts and re-cording sessions Bert conducted, andwas also responsible for the arrange-ments. After being out of circula-tion for a year or two, he is stillblowing as good a trombone as ever.

NewcastleWHAT a city could not do, one of

its suburbs found quite easy-it formed a jazz club

Jazz fans in Newcastle-upon-Tynehave been trying to form a jazz clubfor seven months. There is no lackof support, with hundreds of enthu-siasts willing to join. But the PanamaJazzmen. a local jazz band whichoriginated the idea, have not beenable to find any premises within thecity suitable for such a club.

But Newcastle's suburb Heaton hashad no such trouble. There a localjazz band led by Clem Avery alsodecided to start a jazz club. Nosooner said than done . . . they hadno difficulty in finding headquartersor in persuading people to comealong. Their first performance wason Friday (27th).

Meanwhilet the city proper is stilllooking for its first jazz club.

BrightonENGLAND'S most prolific pro-

vincial broadcasters, Syd Deanand his Band, have yet another out-side airing from the Regent DanceHall, Brighton, this Saturday (Decem-ber 5th), at 11.20 p.m., sharing thelate -night dance music session withRoberto Inglez. Guest vocalists withSyd Dean will be Rita Williams andBob Dale.

The Syd Dean Orchestra recordedfor Decca last week, when they under-took two sessions with the Stargazers.

The Regent Ballroom continue withtheir guest band jazz policy on Mon-day evenings, featuring Mick Mulligan(December 7). Johnny Gray (Decem-ber 14), and Sid Phillips (January 4).

Ted Heath broke the box officerecord at Brighton Palais last Satur-day. Future name band bookingsinclude visits from Nat Temple(December 5), and the Tito BurnsSextet with Terry Devon (December12) Des Williams and his Band,presented by Lou Preager, are inresidence at this venue.

The Richard Ames Trio have re-placed Jeffrey Essex's combination atthe Norfolk Hotel. Leader RichardAmes plays tenor sax, clarinet andviolin, supported by bass and piano.

BournemouthTO aid the building fund of a local

Lads' Institute eight Bourne-mouth bands lined up with three"visiting" stars to present a Festivalof Jazz at the Winter Gardens onWednesday (December 2).

Tenor -man Jimmy Skidmore. 15 -year - old trumpet sensation NigelCarter, and German clarinettist NandoFranchi were billed as the specialguest stars.

-The Pine City Stompers and GerryBrown's Dixielanders - groups fromBournemouth Jazz Club-served uptheir usual brand of spirited music.Drummer Ken Longmore and pianist" Chick " Longley featured theirrecently formed Longmore-LongleyJazz Group, and the modern -styledAlan Donaldson Quintet from theRitz Ballroom gave their usual smoothshow.

Also on the bill were the JackDenovan Rhythm and Blues Band(playing all special arrangements byAllan Melley), the Freddie Shoe -smith Boogie Trio, and the Jazz atthe Winter Gardens Unit.

Addition to the original list wasthe appearance of Syd Fay vocalistGeorge Player, whose first record-as Sonny Player-was issued by Par-lophone recently and is selling well.

Whole show was arranged by SydFay and Jack Denovan.

SouthseaCONTINUING their policy ofN-Apre-senting Britain's leading attrac-

tions for one-night stands at theSavoy Ballroom, Southsea, everyFriday night, Barney Shine and HarryPearl continue with forthcomingvisits at this venue by the respectivebands of Carl Barriteau, FreddyRandall, Harry Gold, Teddy Foster,Ted Heath, Sid Phillips, JohnnyDankworth, Eric '.Vinstone, Ambroseand Ken Mackintosh.

All the bookings for this ballroomare in the hands of Keith Devon, ofthe Bernard Delfont Agency, andthere is a strong possibility thatMessrs. Shine and Pearl will extendtheir activity with further interests inother South Coast Ballrooms.

GlasgowTIC ABBOTT and Isis Orchestra,

V who recently took up residenceat the Locarno Ballroom, are seekinga permanent -girl vocalist and Vic in-vites enquiries by letter only at theLocarno Ballroom, together with aphotograph and, if possible, a privaterecording.

Friday, December 4; 1953 THE NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS 9

More broadcasts ? then more effort!ALL praise is due to the mag-

nificent effort at presentbeing expended by Les Evans andothers in their campaign for morebroadcasts

This movement is doubly grati-fying to me, in view of the factthat I have continuously pointedout things over the last year thathave now become the slogans ofMr. Evans and Co.

So intent on sneering at bands,who for their survival have com-mercialised themselves for radio,it seems that most of the criticshave failed to see over their ownlittle jazz backyard, and to realisethat the whole neighbourhood wasbeing threatened.

Still, maybe it's not too late.But there's one thing of whichI am certain. Although themusical press can lead the cam-paign and may have a certain per-suasion with BBC officials whohandle dance music, the VIP's whodecide how much dance music goes.on the air will not be swayed oneiota in favour, except by a posi-tive public clamour.

The reason ? Because, as I'vesaid before (and as it must beobvious to all), this music doesnot belong to their era, and there-fore they don't like it ! Conse-quently, in common with mostcivil service administrations, per-sonal opinions more often than notinfluence good judgment.

No need, then, to point the wayas regards public action. Mr.Evans, with slogan painted car andretinue, is making a full time pro-ject of that.

But what of the profession it-self ? Are we now to sit back andwait for the moment to decidewhether Mr. Evans has earned ourundying gratitude or our heartfeltcondolences ?

It's all very well to blame theBBC ; it would be much wiser tolisten to their side of the argument,and still bearing in mind the biasedantipathy, make doubly sure theyhaven't some very good groundto stand on.

Do our bands, with few excep-tions, sound all the same to thepublic ear?

Are our bands and vocalists justslavish imitations of Americanheadliners, and therefore inviteadverse criticism when discs of theoriginals are played ?

Do bands accept broadcasts fora full complement, knowing thatthey will have to augment withsessioneers to fulfil the contract,

with the consequent lack ofcohesion ?

Are there so few bands of first-class standard, that if the numberof broadcasts were increased itwould result in constant repitition?

Is it true that when bands likeCotton, Heath and a few othersmake a great hit the BBC portals

JAll RECORD REVIEWSby HUMPHREY LYTTELTONTO anyone not sated with the

music of Sidney Bechet, Irecommend a new LP just issuedby "Vogue" (LDE 025). Thevarious groups represented arelumped together under the head-ing of "Sidney Bechet's BlueNote Jazzmen." Two of the sides,by the Bechet-Nicholas BlueFive, date back to 1946, the restwere made some time in 1951during one of Bechet's returnvisits to the States from Paris.

Some of the titles are toorecent to be included in any ofthe extant discographies, so Iapologise for the absence of per-sonnels. Starting with those aboutwhich I have information, let'stake them track by track.

* * *I. "Jelly Roll"2. "Runnin' Wild"3. "Mandy"Wild Bill Davison (corner);

Bechet (sop.); Jimmy Archey(trnib.); Joe Sullivan (pno.); PopsFoster (bass); Slick Jones (drs.).rilHESE sides are mainlyJ-dis-tinguished by the solid beat in

the rhythm section and the unusualtightness of the ensemble. Wild Billplays quite a sociable lead, andBechet returns the compliment bysticking to the clarinet role andkeeping off the melody line.

I like Archey's trombone contri-bution to this group. He's a playerwho knows his job, and his toughand dependable third part down inthe basement does a lot to keep thepeace between the two rather vola-tile characters upstairs.

"Jelly Roll" is the composition

by Spencer Williams ("I Ain'tGonna Give Nobody," etc.), whichwas attributed to Mezzrow onMezz's recording, and is here com-posed all over again by SidneyBechet.

There is a chunky pi..r.) solo bySullivan, some subdued and senti-mental Wild Bill, and sixteen barsof elfin humour from JimmyArchey. Those who enjoy Wild Billin his anti -social mood will havetheir faith restored by a devastatingbreak at the end, which almostbrings the record to a prematureconclusion.

The rest is Bechet, featuredprominently here, and exclusivelyon "Runnin' Wild" and "Mandy."

I don't think this session foundBechet at his most inspired. By thethird chorus of "Runnin' " it's allbeginning to sound rather hardwork, and the phrases don't flow asreadily as they do on some of hisbest tear -ups. But the ensemble getsgoing.

4. "Bechet's Fantasy"5. "Old Stack 0' Lee Blues"Bechet (sop.) (4). clot. (5); Albert

Nicholas (clot.); Art Hodes Iptio.):Pops Foster (bass); Danny Alvin(des.)."11PANTASY " is a lovely, nostal-

-11: gic tune which Bechet playshere for all he's worth. Nicholashas little to do here except play aset harmony, which he does with agood mellow tone.

The opening melody, one of thosewhich strike the ear from the firstphrase, is itself worth the price ofthe whole LP.

"Stack 0' Lee" starts with avariant on the twelve bar pattern,then features choruses on the

are always open ?Well, there are a few of the

"cons" against the " pros," andas it's the maestros who willmainly benefit by the success ofMr. Evans' crusade, it would beas well if they got together withtheir consciences and made somerapid decisions.

straight blues harmonies. To my ear,Nicholas is less effective in thisBlues duet than Mezzrow on theKing Jazz sides. Mezz never playedmuch, but what he did play wasalmost invariably right.

Nicholas wanders rather un-happily, and there are more clarinetcollisions in the last choruses thanone likes to hear.

Radio Reviewsby JACK BENTLEY

GERALD() AND IDS ORCHESTRA1.40-2.15 p.m. 28/11;53, Light

IN view of the fact that Geraldo is.8- one of those leaders (by the newsof personnel changes) who is notgoing to let the grass grow underhis feet, it seems a point of interestto readers to keep them in touchwith the current position.

According to this show there werecertainly signs of great effort beingmade, but although some progress ispatent, not enough, I'm afraid, toreport that the Geraldo Rolls Royceis really rolling again, as yet.

Starting off with an arrangementof the "British Grenadiers," whichwandered in and out of Glenn Millerthroughout, they went on to a vocalby Roy Edwards. of whom I amdefinitely in favour, though not of

6. "Joshua Fit The Battle or, the trombone section with a goodJericho" 0 lead and some badly matched tones

7. "I Found A New Baby" 1 underneath.8. "Tailgate Ramble" Next, "Old Shanty Town" featur-

" JOSHUA " is one of the most }tog Leslie Hutchinson on trumpet.j successful sides. Bechet intro- Off to a bad start, Hutch didn't

exactlyduces the tune against off -beat.. catch up in this day and ageshowmanand thetrumpeters,handclaps, and then short solo °spots and rasping ensemble alternate Armstrong vocal either.for the rest of the track. Jill Day "Walked The Bull Around"

prettily enough.Judging from the blue -note bash- "Dragnet" was not exciting enough,

ing, it's Wild Bill again on cornet, in spite of a sharp tenor player, whobut the trombone is smoother than was trying to make it so.Archey. The piano section work is Buddy Logan sang much bettergood enough to be Art Hodes, that j than usual and his dialect numbersMezzrow of the keyboard, who is were done very well indeed.derided by the technically minded, The finale number was uneventfulbut who can turn in better accq,n- except I would have sworn that therepaniment work (especially on Blues) was only one trumpet and one trom-than many more facile players. bone throughout.Bechet sounds a happy man here. 1 Opinion: Still in the workshops,

"New Baby" is a Wild Bill- but there's great hope.Bechet duct. Davison seems thewrong man for this job. He spluttersangrily away like a sort of trumpetic ' TELEVISION. MUSIC FOR YOU.Gilbert Harding, never really gettinkS (ERIC ROBINSON).together with Bechet except in the 8.45-9A5 27/11/53.concerted riffs. oMThe result is just a two -man jam 0 MUSIC For You " might be

session, with plenty of crude drive rather a catchy title, butafter hearingbut no really good moments such and seeing this onehour epic of state television, it mightas jazz duet -work can provide. at least be said to be rather an over -

"Tailgate" is a nice tune and statement.goes with a happy swing. The odds If, on the other hand, you don'tare again on Wild Bill, though I like the heavy or light classics, dance,

jazz rumba. folk or chamber music,there's an an odds-on chance thatthe "you" might be applicable. Forthis was a programme of light look-ing and listening

Light music it was, and what anopportunity to give that medium aterrific boost. But no, for withoutany slur on the offerings of Mr.

feel a small element of doubt herein favour of Sidney de Paris. Hodesreveals himself by the hand-to-hand tremolo which is his trademark.

Summing up, I would rate this asone of the best all-round selectionsof Bechet music which you're likelyto get on a Long -Player.

Robinson and company, who madeefforts that were as gallant as theywere unavailing, I have never seen orheard a show where scrimping andsaving was so patently obvious.

Take the "Manhattan Tower," anAmerican composition with narrationwhich on record is truly inspiring.The.idea, which is a nostalgic episodeof a returning wanderer, was magnifi-cent TV material.

What did we get ? Mr. Robinsonvainly trying to bolster up, with anorchestra of 35, a score which .toportray the awesome beauty of askyscraper could hardly have donejustice with twice that number.

A choir that should have been ofcathedral dimensions, peeping in thebackground. backcloths of Manhattanthat looked like the makeshiftarrangements of a prison camp con-cert (one purporting to representBroadway I recognised from a "deadend kid" film in an East -side slum),and choreography from a juniordancing class.

Whilst on the subject of ballet,Ravel's "Bolero" was anotherepisode, which featured Anton Dolin.I'm afraid he merely took one'smind off the music by impersonatinga man going down to bathe oversome very sharp pebbles.

Gwen Gaffey was her thrilling self.Wilfred Pickles is another of those

artists whom you either like or dis-like immensely. Here, he might havepersuaded a few of the latter to hisfavour.

Opinion: An advertisement forcommercial TV.

PAUL ADAM AND HISORCHESTRA

12.15-12.45 p.m. 26/11/53 Light'HAT hag happened to that little

band that was so cutely pre-sented, with a slick sense of fun andalways a sense of novelty ?

Apart from some excellent butbadly put together dialect work onthe part of Russ Allen, and anoccasional natter between Mr. Adamand Miss Coupland, all this has goneand we were left with a small com-bination, the like of which can beheard anywhere.

This is a great pity, for Mr. Adamhad something the others hadn't rot.

Kenny Kaye was described as ablues singer. Now I've heard every-thing.

Opinion: No garden of Eden.

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10 THE NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS Friday, December 4, 1953

Susan Miller, the glamour vocalistwith the Don Smith Band.

MILLSTONESNEARLY a year has passed since

George Webb opened his HotClub of London at the "ShakespeareArms," Woolwich, and appropriatecelebrations take place this Sunday.

George has organised what promisesto be a most entertaining evening,and includes Humphrey Lytteltonamong the guests.

January 31 is fixed for the HotClub's Christmas party.

The many familiar faces that usedto frequent the old Delta Jazz Clubare providing promoter Pete Paynewith a broad smile these days. Re-opening of the Club, a bywordamong English jazz enthusiasts, hasattracted quite a few of the originalfollowers and Pete has re -admittedthem as members free of charge.

The Club's come -back looks strong.Since the first session a couple ofweeks ago there has been a full houseat 15, Wardour Street, where you canfind comfort as well as atmosphere.

* *

Bobby Mickleburgh and his Bob-cats make their first appearance inNottingham this Saturday.

Occasion is another session pre-sented by the Nottingham RhythmClub, which are proving most sue-ceksful, but secretary Ken Alison isnot too happy about the attendancesfor the Club's record recitals.

* * *

Last week's mention of NottinghamJazz Club's low admission fees hasattracted a number of letters fromsecretaries. New claimants to thetitle of "Club with the lowest admis-sion charges" is Swanage RhythmClub, 2/- per year and 1/- for eachweekly session.

Swanage R.C., incidentally, is oneof the few record clubs that havebeen in existence without a breaksince the war.

TONY MILLS.

MEET THE DON SMITH BANDFocus on a band new toLondon that is scoring at

Wimbledon" WELL, who IS this Don Smith,

anyway ?" That's what manyLondon dancers were asking whenthe announcement was made. Theannouncement that an out-of-townbandleader would be taking overfrom Ken Mackintosh at Wimble-don Palais when Ken's contractexpired in October.

It wasn't an easy assignment forDon to step into the shoes of oneof Britain's best-known maestri.but provincial fans knew in ad-vance that he was well equippedfor the job.

For two years trumpeter Smithhad wielded his pencil -slim batonat the important Samson and Her-cules Ballroom in N o r w i c h;throughout a further twelvemonths he kept the floor crowdedat Sherry's Brighton dance hall;and no less than two and a halfyears went by while he was residentat the Astoria, Nottingham; coin-cidentally, the venue of Mackin-tosh's pre -London triumphs.

ExperienceDon also has considerable ex-

perience as a trumpet playing instru-mentalist, though he is seldom heardin this capacity these days. He blewwith, and fronted, RAF bands forsix war -time years, after having ledhis first four-piecer at the age ofsixteen. And also while in the RAFhe produced in their entirety a coupleof Service shows, one of whichappeared before the Royal Family atWindsor Castle.

Upon demob he sat in the OscarRabin brass section for two years be-fore readying his own group in 1947.Right away he headed for the pro-vinces, and though he was born inStreatham thirty-five years ago hispresent Wimbledon post is the firstbig-time London position that Donhas held as a leader.

So much for Don Smith, the man.Now let us take a look at DonSmith, the band. Its musical policyis neatly summed up by the boss him-self when he says : 'It's not our aimto specialise. We look upon massappeal as our goal, and we try toprovide something to suit all tastes,with the needs of the dancers as ourfirst consideration."

Just how well the Smith policy isput into operation you. can tell as

msoon as you walk o WimbledonPalais. Look at the floor. It is jam-packed with happily gliding couples.Hundreds of them, even midweek onthe so-called "dead" nights.

EnthusiasmA typical session will comprise the

usual quota of quicksteps, foxtrotsand waltzes, with maybe a bit ofLatin Americana thrown in for goodmeasure.

But you can be always sure there'llbe at least one item by drummerFrankie King's bop contingent (TonyCookson, trumpet ; Harry Nicholsand Eddie Morris, tenors ; JohnSmith, piano ; Don Sanford, guitar ;Freddy Hooper, bass), and probablya full -band "Hawk Talks" spotlight-ing the same Mr. King's considerablepercussion technique.

Don himself, a pleasant fellow,who likes to make conversationalcontact with the crowd, splits thevocals with Birmingham -born SusanMiller, and bespectacled trumpeterKenny Woodman sometimes stepsforward from the back row for awell -received comedy routine.

Most of the arrangements playedare uncompromisingly commercial, asthey are intended to be, but thecunning way in which lower -registertrumpet and sax section sounds areused to make up for the absence ofa trombone team, is worthy ofhonourable mention.

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Also very much on the credit sideis the contagious enthusiasm radiatedby the Smith band, neatly summedup by lead altoist Ronnie Macauleyin one of the nicest tributes that canbe paid by a musician to his em-ployer:

"We're very pleased to work hard,because we're working with a band-leader who doesn't spare himself."

The loyalty of Don's sidemen isalso demonstrated by the fact thatfour of them-altoist Kenny Cumbers,drummer Frankie King, guitarist DonSanford and bassist Freddy Hooper -have been with him ever since nestarted out as a leader more than fiveyears ago.

We feel quite sure that they andtheir colleagues are all set for a verylong period of success and prosperityin the near and distant future !

Mr. Higurashi of theBlue Cubans, Tokyo,

writesAN unusual fan -letter reached Edmundo Ros this week from a

Japanese Latin-American bandleader in- Tokyo. It started:" I am a conductor of jazz band which is named Mr. Higurashiand Blue Cubans, as well as the commentator of the performanceof Latin-American music which is going on the air of NCB radiostation of Japan.

" We have few chances to hear a performance by foreign bands,except American bands. Recently, I was very pleased to hear theperformance of samba music by your band, and I am going tointroduce your band to our audiences."

In order to get the authentic lowdown on Edmundo's activities, Mr.Higurashi goes on to ask several questions about the history of theleader and the band, etc., as well as a somewhat peculiar request tobe told "The most self-satisfied piece of your band" I

He then goes on to give some information about the business inJapan. He says: "There are lots of lovers of Latin-American musicin Japan. The most famous band in the field of Latin-American musicis called 'Tokyo Cuban Boys' and this band is active on stage, screen,radio and TV.

"My band (Blue Cubans) consists of 18 members, and is not asactive as Tokyo Cuban Boys, as the career is rather brief. However,"adds Mr. Higurashi, "we are eager players of music, and our audienceare on the increase day by day."

He concludes his epistle (which, by the way, is flawlessly typed) bysaying: "I am very glad if I have the news about the situation ofLatin-American music in England. I expect that your reply will giveme a great deal of good to comment on 'Introducing Foreign Bands'and your music -lovers will be increased."

LATINFORMATIONBy Gourd Time Charlie

CALLED into a packed New Coco-nut Grove, Regent Street, W.,

on Saturday evening, and ran into afiesta of colourful music, exoticdancing, and a gay atmosphere.

The Edmundo Ros Orchestra, afterits very good broadcast, accompaniedthe cabaret, and what a sensationalLatin American cabaret it is thatBuddy Bradley has assembled for hisseason at the Grove ! This businessof clapping in time with the music,as was the case on the opening nightof " Brazilian," seems to be in-fectious

Up-and-coming vocalist RonnieHarris, together with guitarist DennyWright leave the Francisco Cavezgroup at the Copacabana on Decem-ber 8, to return to their old haunt,the Casanova Club on the 9th.

However, both Ronnie and Dennywill continue to sing duets on allfuture Cavez airings. Ronnie's trioat the Casanova will be completed byRev Terry on piano. Ronnie will beairing solo in a G.O.S. anniversaryprogramme on December 8.

* * *The Hermanos Deniz band are re-

cording film background music thisweek for a film short showing the

Queen's tour of the Bahamas. Thisfilm is being rushed through for anearly release.

* * *My apologies to Ronnie Brohn. He

will not be rejoining Santiago as re-ported last week ; instead he will bestaying on at the Albany Club withthe Rudy Rome band.

* * *Caught calypsonian George Browne

singing one of his own compositionson TV last Saturday called " I WasThere." I think that " I Am Every-where " would be more appropriate,for he seems to be continually crop-ping up in all sorts of programmesthese days -and very successfully, too.

Pat O'Day will be vacating thetrumpet chair with the Roberto higlezband this week -end to free-lance.

* *Pianist Benny Baker has handed in

his notice at the Pigalle Restaurant,and will be finishing at the end ofnext week. After this he will betaking a much -needed holiday beforecommencing a new assignment,rumoured to be outside of the Latinsphere. If this is true, it will meanthe loss of one of our foremost Latinexponents.

Don Smith in front of his popular band on the stand at WimbledonPalais. (Left) Singer Kenny Woodman takes a vocal number, to thedelight of the dancers. Don seems happy enough, too 1-NME photos.

Radio LuxembourgFULL PROGRAMMESSUNDAY

7 p.m. Made In Britain; 7.30 PrimoScala; 7.45 Winifred Atwell; 8 VeraLynn; 8.30 Michael Miles' Take YourPick; 9 Carroll Gibbons; 9.15 CurtMassey and Martha Tilton; 9.30 TheCase Of The Sinister Sister; 9.45 TedHeath; 10.0 Listen With Philips; 10.30Bing Sings; 10.45 The Answer Man;11 Top Twenty.MONDAY

6 p.m. Monday Requests; 7.15 DanDare; 7.30 Smash Hits; 8 Your Mother'sBirthday; 8.30 The Capitol Show; 9Evening Stars; 9.30 The Case Of TheSinister Sister; 9.45 Forces Choice;10 Your Record Shop; 10.30 Music ForEveryone; 11.5 The Bible ChristianProgramme; 11.15 Frank and Ernest;11.30 The World Of Tomorrow

Aleon Bennett's

HOLLYWOOD REPORTTHE famous Mocambo nitery on

Sunset Strip is doing such tre-mendous business with warblerEartha Kitt that patrons are prac-tically hanging from the rafters.It seems the harsh criticism thrownat this girl by Los Angeles Cityofficials after her performance forthe King and Queen of Greece hasonly brought her old fans closerto her, and given her many newones.

Earths is a great performer, andhas come through this thing withflying colours.

* * *Billy Daniels, after appearing at

the Chicago Theatre for two weeks,will help Sophie Tucker and HarryRichman dedicate their BeachcomberClub in Miami, and then trek backto Las Vegas in February for a standat the El Rancho Vegas.

* * *The Garwood Van Orchestra opens

at the Hotel Last Frontier in LasVegas next week, with Park AvenueHillbillie Dorothy Shay sharing thebilling.

* * *Dorothy Dandridge appearing on

Television on the Donald O'ConnorShow is a wonderful example tosingers breaking into this medium.This singer knows how to put every-thing into a song, and seems to stepright out of the TV set into yourliving room. Her style has changedsomewhat, with the sexier songsgetting 'the bigger play. We hope itwon't be long before Dorothy gracesthe West Coast niteries again.

Benny Strong and his Orchestranow at the Hollywood Palladium.This aggregation makes a point ofkeeping the old tunes alive, and thecustomers love it. "Goofus," "SweetGeorgia Brown," and the like aregiven lively treatments, and of coursethe latest swing numbers are givenfull play. Milly Coury, tiny singer,makes her debut with this orchestra,and does a mighty fine job.

Pete Pontrelli recorded "SeptemberIn The Rain " for Senate wi h allproceeds going to a fund for C audieBowen, the trumpeter on thesession, who has been ailingfor some time.

Saratoga pianist Jerry Mar-lowe signed with Capitol Re-cords for some more of hisfine renditions.

Recordings generally sellingwell along the West Coast, andwe hope this will continue farinto the New Year.

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6 p.m. Tuesday Requests; 7.15 DanDare; 7.30 Teddy Johnson; 7.45 GuessThe Name , 8 The Story of Dr.Kildare ; 8.30 The Capitol Show ;Evening Stars; 9.30 The Case Of TheSinister Sister ; 9.45 Melodies ByMairants ; 10 Music For Everyone ;10.45 Songs From The Screen ; 11Revival Time ; 11.30 Oral Roberts.

WEDNESDAY6 p.m. Wednesday Requests; 7.0 Max

Bygraves; 7.15 Dan Dare; 7.30 FamilyAlbum; 7.45 Soccer Survey; 8 PeopleAre Funny; 8.30 The Capitol Show;9 Evening Stars; 9.30 The Case Of TheSinister Sister; 9.45 Curt Massey andMartha Tilton; 10 Dreamtime; 10.15Music Of The Stars.; 10.30 The QueensHall Light Orchestra; 10.45 The AnswerMan; 11 Back To The Bible; 11.30Music At Bedtime.

THURSDAY6 p.m. Thursday Requests; 7 Musical

Round -Up; 7.15 Dan Dare; 7.30 TopicalHalf -Hour; 8 The Black Museum; 8.30Movie Magazine; 9 Norrie Takes AChance; 9.30 The Case Of The SinisterSister; 9.45 Melodies By Mairants; 10.30Music For Everyone; 10.45 ItalianMusic And Song; 11 Old -FashionedRevival Hour.

FRIDAY6.0 p.m. Friday Requests; 7 Beaver

Club; 7.15 Dan Dare; 7.30 Make 'EmLaugh; 8 Cavalcade Of Music; 8.30Hopalong Cassidy; 9 Evening Stars;9.30 The Case Of The Sinister Sister;9.45 Edmundo Ros; 10 Dreamtime;10.15 Forces Choice; 10.30 Old Acquain-tance; 10.45 Let's Dance; 11 The VoiceOf Prophecy; 11.15 Radio Bible Class;11.45 The Answer Man.

SATURDAY6 p.m. Saturday Requests; 7 Amateur

Football; 7.15 Irish Requests; 8 The BestOf The Best; 8.30 The Capitol Show;9 Scottish Requests; 9.55 Radio Theatre;10.45 Popular Melodies: 11 BringingChrist To The Nations; 11.30 '208'Supper Club.

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ANNOUNCING VEGA ! GeorgeIV, Brixton Hill, Monday, Les Con-don Group, plus ex -Club Eleventenor star, Johnny ROGERS.

BANDBOX ! BANDBOX! BAND-BOX ! Cafe Anglais, LeicesterSquare. SUNDAY 7 TILL MID-NIGHT. Denny Boyce presents thegreatest night in Jazz Club history.TED HEATH AND HIS MUSIC,with DICKIE VALENTINE, LITAROZA and DENNIS LOTIS. AlsoKENNY GRAHAMS' AFRO -CUBISTS, the JOHNNY ROGERSBAND, the KEN SYKORA SIX,guest band - JIMMY WALKERGROUP from Birmingham, JAZZat the BANDBOX UNIT. You mustnot miss this great night-COMEEARLY. BANDBOX - AFTER-NOON SESSION. Sunday, 3 till 6.All the latest records-Dancing-Refreshments. Admission 2s. 6d.Send 2s. 6d. and S.A.E. for annualmembership to Bandbox, 6, DenmarkStreet, W.C.2.

CLUBS --MODERN (Centd.)

ROBIN'S NEST CLOSED thisweek, RE -OPEN Tuesday 15th.

SUNDAY STUDIO '53, WhiteLion. Edgware 7 p.m. Toni ANTONAll -Stars with Tommy POLLARDetc.

WEEK AT Studio 51, 10/11 GreatNewport Street, W.C.2. FRIDAY,8 p.m., Skidmore, Brown, All -Stars.SATURDAY, 3-5, Records, dancing.7.30 p.m. First appearance of Britain'sgreatest trumpeter KENNY BAKERand his QUARTET with Don Law-son, Cliff Ball, Stan Tracey, alsoThe Critics' choice SKIDMORE,KLEIN, BROWN, EYDEN, MUD -DEL, and METCALFE. SUNDAY,3-6 Your kind of Jazz, Records.Dancing 7.0: the '51 6, Skidmore,Klein, Brown, Muddel, Eyden, Met-calfe. TUESDAY Night is RecordNight, Dancing. WEDNESDAY, Firstappearance in any West End ClubJAKKI ELLENS Group, also thatgreatest Group '51 6, Skidmore,Klein, Brown, Metcalfe, Muddel,Eyden,

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(Benelux Restaurant, 14, WardourSt., W.I.-Piccadilly end); THISSATURDAY, Dec. 5, and hear twoof the greatest jazz groups "In TownTonight"; 7.30-Midnight. Britain'sNo. 1 Clarinettist VIC ASH ALLSTARS, spotlighting the colossaltenorman DON RENDELL plusRALPH DOLLIMORE (prior to hisSwedish Tour), Eddie Taylor -Charlie Short, etc. . . . and . . . TheTerrific Threesome TONY KINSEYTRIO with the sensational TOMMYWHITTLE . . Dill Jones . . SammyStokes EXTRA ! "Mr. Excitement"AL TIMOTHY. We offer youlicensed bars, wonderful atmosphere,ideal surroundings . . but essentiallyTHIS IS THE CLUB THAT JAZZBUILT! . . and all for

MEMBERS 4/- , GUESTS 5/ -Yes, we said "Members 4/-; Guests5/-." All pay at doors.

CARLTON CLUB, UxbridgeRoad, Shepherds Bush, Monday at 8.Gerry McLoughlin, Sextet.

DELANEY JAZZ CLUB, CHEL-SEA. 143, Kings Road, entrance inFlood St., SATURDAY, 8-11 p.m.,3/-, MODERN RHYTHM FOUR.SUNDAY CLUB, 8-11 p.m., 3/-,DAVID PETERS' SWING GROUP.MONDAY, 8-11 p.m., PETEHARRIS, GEORGE JENNINGS,TIM WHITE Trio. Wednesday, 8-11 p.m., 2/6. Beginners taught to Jive." JAZZ AT THE FLAMINGO "

beneath Mapleton Restaurant, cornerCoventry/Whitcomb Streets, Picca-dilly-still Britain's greatest jazz club.Sundays, Wednesdays : 7-11. Resi-dent : Tony Kinsey Trio, TommyWhittle; Don Rendell Quintet, DerekSmith Trio ; Tony Hall-PLUS (Sun-day 6th) KENNY BAKER QUAR-TET; (Wednesday, 9th) Geraldo'sDouggie ROBINSON, RoyPLUMMER. Free membership be-fore 8.30 (Wednesday).

FABULOUS FELDMAN'S, 100.Oxford Street. Sunday, 7.30. 3 starbands ! Kenny Baker Quartet . . .

Tony Kinsey Trio with TommyWhittle . . . Geoff Taylor, his altosax and Quartet. Your compereEdgar Jackson. Real value formoney ! Only 4/ -.for members, guests5/-.

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M.I.M.A. See under SpecialNotices.

INSTRUMENTS FOR SALE

BUFFET, Bb Clarinet completelyoverhauled £27. Hayes 4475.

MALCOLM MITCHELL wishes tosell 3 of his GUITARS: Epiphone"Emperor"; Epiphone "De -Luxe"electric ; "Hofner." All in excellentcondition. Offers please phone duringweek commencing December 14th,between 9 a.m.-11 a.m. EALing 2523.

SUPER -OLDS Trumpet almostnew, E70.-Thatcher, TUL '6466.

CLUBS-TRADITIONALCHARLIE GALBRAITH'S

BANDSHOW Thursdays 8-10.30"New Crown Hotel." St. Paul's Road.Highbury.

COOK'S FERRY INN I I Again,his Sunday 7.10 p.m. Geoff Wattsand the Terrific CHARLIE GAL-BRAITH'S JAZZMEN.

CY LAURIE Jazz Club, Mac's, Gt.Windmill Street (opposite WindmillTheatre). Sundays. 7.30-11.

DELTA JAZZ CLUB, BeneluxRestaurant, 14, Wardour Street (opp.end of Gerrard Street), SUNDAY,7.30-11. direct from B.B.C. Broad-cast-the great MIKE DANIELS'JAZZMEN plus the ALBEMARLEJAZZBAND. Licensed bars, buffet,etc. Atmosphere ! Members 3/6,Guests 5/-.

EALING FRIDAY'S, "Fox andGoose," Hanger Lane, SOUTHERNSTOMPERS.

GLEN(X)E ARTS CLUB-SailingBarge Glencoe now at Harts Boat -builders. Portsmouth Road, Kingston -on -Thames. Bar open daily from 5o'clock to members and guests.Dancing Wed., Ihurs., Fri., andSats

HOT CLUB OF LONDONPARTY NIGHT. Sunday, 7 p.m.HUMPHREY LYTTELTO N,WALLY FAWKES, ERIC SILK'SSouthern Jazzband. JEREMYFRENCH Jazzmen. Your hostGEORGE WEBB, ShakespeareHotel, Powis Street, Woolwich.

HUMPHREY L VETE!. TONCLUB meets every Monday, Wednes-day and Saturday. 100, OxfordStreet. - Details of club from 84,Newman Street, W.I LAN 5861

SOUTHERN JAZZ CLUB, Leyton-stone, Fridays. ERIC SILK'SSouthern Jazzband.

SOUTH LONDON JAZZ CLUB.Fellowship Inn (next BellinghamStn.). SUNDAY, 7 p.m., BOBBYMICKLEBURGH'S BOBCATS.

WOOD GREEN, "Fishmonger'sArms," Sunday, KEN COLYER'SJAZZMEN. Tuesday, MIKEDANIELS' BAND. Broadcasting thisSaturday, Jazz Club.

ENQUIRIESare invited from Jazz Clubs,Dance Promotersand Organisers, etc., for hire ofthe " LIMELIGHT ROOM"of the Benelux Restaurant,Wardour St., London, W.1.Spacious Dance Floor, FullyLicensed Bars, Air Conditioning,Grand Piano and Microphone,etc. Available Monday to Fri-day (evenings 7.30 to 12) or forrehearsals, mornings and after-noons. Reasonable Terms.

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HARRY HAYES for the finestsaxophone and clarinet tuitionBeginners to advanced sectionscoached Success guaranteed. 20.Romilly Street. W I GER 1285

MAURICE BURMAN teaches allaspects of singing ; s.a.e. 293 WhiteHouse Albany Street. N W.I.

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RECORDS FOR SALEFIG AND Bop S.A.E. for list

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JAZZ RECORDS and booksbought and sold-best prices fromthe best shop. - THE INTER-NATIONAL BOOKSHOP, 52, Char-ing Cross Road, W.C.2. PhoneTEM 2315-Ask for Jimmy Asman.

PERSONAL

NOTIFICATION OFVACANCIES ORDER. 1952

Engagement of percents answeringthese advertisements must be madethrough the local office of theMinistry of Labour, or ScheduledEmployment Agency if the applicant.r c a man 1844 inclusive, or a womanaged 18-59 inclusive, unless otherwise,,tcepted from the provisions of theNotification of Vacancies Order, 1952.

ENGAGEMENTS WANTED

ACCORDION/PIANIST. Acorn1025.

ARTHUR SPILLING, drummer96, Clarendon Way. St. Paul's Cray.Kent.

BERT CROME (Drummer) reader.modern Transport. NOR 3811

BILL SUTCLIFFE, BASS. BAY6710.

CHARLIE WINTERS (Bass &Sousa) Freelance or Perm. RELiance2132.

DRUMMER, experienced. RUlslip3167.

GERRY McLOUGHLIN, DrumsVibes, Transport. Weddings, Divorcesand Hedge Cutting a speciality, BAY6710.

PIANIST, December 26th / 31st(Romford District) CAN 1799 (day).

PIANIST, HAMpstead 2558.VOCALIST FOR Gigs or Perm,

Box No. 262.YOUNG, KEEN Drummer requires

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MUSICIANS WANTED

SOLO FLAUTIST urgently re-quired for a famous Scottish MilitaryBand. Promising boy musicians, 15-17 also needed. Must sign a RegularArmy engagement. Apply Band-master, Streatlam Camp, BARNARDCASTLE.

TWO KEEN young Clarinetplayers and Flautist wanted forRoyal Artillery Orchestra (andMilitary Band). Musical duties only.Apply Director of Music, RoyalArtillery Band of Office, Woolwich.S.E.18.

WANTED for THE ROYALARTILLERY MOUNTED BAND.Pianist and Drummer. Vacanciesalso exist for young String Playersbetween the ages of 15-16f yearsWind Instruments also consideredDuties entirely musical. Apply toDirector of Music, R.A. MournedBand. Mons Barracks. Aldershot.

SITUATIONS VACANT

ORCHESTRAL MANAGERwanted with experience for leadingWest End Music Publisher (popular),preferably with knowledge of Piano.State age, experience; etc., to BoxNo. 261.

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DRUMSnot.. trus.r says :"Early Sow, EarlyMow"-so get In quickfor the Doe's ChristmasClub Knockout Drops"Elwood Vibe, Clockwork, clean and

sound (Goes like a bomb) ...£10Premier 3 oct. Vibe, new cases,

electric (it's a super-dooper) £55Set of Levin Swedish: gear com-

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FELDMANS CHRISTMAS SUCCESSESALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS

MY TWO FRONT TEETHDON'T TAKE YOUR LOVE FROM ME

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *AIN'T WE GOT FUN

BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOONBoth from the Warner Bros. film "By the Light of the Silvery Moon"B. FELDMAN & Co., Ltd., 125-7-9 Shaftesbury Ave., London, W.C.2

Telephone : Temple Bar 5532

I HEAR from Johnny Stewart, theShow Band producer, that the

formula used on the Saturday showwill soon be transferred to Mondays.

This is great news, as I've alwaysthought that it was a shame to losea certain section of the public whoalways listen to football on Saturdays.I'm sure this is also great news forBob Monkhouse, the resident comicin the show. It could really put himin the high brackets.

Other alterations we can.expect inthe. New -Year are that the Mondaynight show will be an hour insteadof 45 minutes, and the Saturdayshow will be at 1.10 instead of 3 p.m.

* * *FOLLOWING

the other cod ver-sions of "Dragnet," Stan Freberg

has now made a record of a "XmasDragnet " It entails a gent who isrun' in for not believing in SantaClaus or Easter Bunny. So watchout, you sceptics !

* * *INEVER

thought I'd see a WestEnd show use TV as an advert.

openly, but sure enough, the ArthurAskey show at the Palace, "The LoveMatch," has on the hoardings "THESHOW YOU SAW ON TV," andbelieve me the business is sensational.

WinifredATWELL

writes her own story in the

1954 NME ANNUAL

betails are on page 7.

LESBAKER, the popular violinist

who we'll be hearing a lot ofsoon, told me a great story.

He was doing a Grand Hotel typeof concert, and during one- of theintervals OM of the audience, bornwell within the sound of Bow Bells,came up to tell Les how much hewas enjoying the programme.

Les thanked him very much andasked whether there was any specialitem of music he would like to hear.The man replied, !`Yus, 'as a matterof fact I'd like to hear you play'Bolero'."

"Which Bolero," asked Les."Oh, I don't know what it's called

exactly," countered the man, "but ifI remember, it starts off with thedrum, then you bring in the piano,then the double bass, after that Iforget what happens, but I knowyou all finish up playing 'ell forleather . . ."

Any suggestions ?* *

IF I'm any judge at all, PeterMaurice have another big con-

tinental hit in that new song "OhMy Papa."

Previous to this, they have pro-duced "Auf Wiedersehn," "C'est sibon," "Autumn Leaves" and "IfYou Go," and now this, which is aSwiss song. It comes from a Swissmusical comedy written by PaulBurkhard, and called "Fireworks."Up to yet, they have nine records.

To me, the best I've heard to dateis the recording by the RadioRevellers, which is an excellent per-formance. I'm sure, however, theEddie Fisher fans won't be dis-appointed with his version. If on theother hand, you would like the songsung by a native of Switzerland, LysAssia has also recorded it. I haven'theard the others but I can't see any-one making a bad record of such alovely song.

* * *DLEASE - will someone do some-

thing about the appalling lightingthat we are having on our TV setslately ? It spoilt an otherwise interest-ing programme of Music For You.last, week. It began to look like anexercise in*

*hieroglyphics,

*LAST

Friday, a crash at the end ofTin Pan Alley brought a fair

representation of the street out oftheir- offices. It appeared that twocars stopped at the Zebra crossing,but a bus following didn't.- The carin 'the middle was in a bad way. Inoticed in the back of - the car amusical instrument.

I doubt if that gig was done at aprofit !

* * *BY the, way, Tin Pan Alley. is aone-way street-so I thought I

was doing a certain cyclist a favourwhen I pointed this out to him.as hepedalled .his, way, serenely in thewrong direction.

His reply was classical, "Wellmate, let's face it, I'm only goingone way !"

Why don't I keep my big mouthshut ?

* * *CERTAIN

members of the Alleywere surprised to see the Michael

Reine exploitation man Ronnie Beckwalking down the street wearing along red flannel nightdress. I havesince found out that he did it fora substantial wager.

It's no good, Ron. If you wantto be a hearthrob, you have to wearthe proper attire, even if it is a bitcold.

* *VERY sorry to hear that Mrs. SydV Green is at present in hospital -

suffering from a nervous breakdown.I do hope it -won't be long before youare up and about again, Mrs. Green.

Also a "get well quickly" messageto arranger Alan Bevan, who is onthe sick list at the moment. Lookingforward to seeing you in the Alleyagain soon, Alan !

* *.ITHINK the Southern Music

arranger, Frank Barbour musthave set up an, all-time record lastFriday.

It all started with Freddie Salesdeciding to do " Begorrah " on hisVariety PlaYhouse- broadcast. Anarrangement was done, and everythingin the. garden was rosy. But tragedy-the arrangement was lost on the dayof the recording. The commercialparts were tried over, but they provedentirely unsuitable. This news arrivedat Southern at 2.30 p.m.

It was then the record breakingeffort started. Frank got together witha copyist, and between them they didanother arrangement and were downat the studio with it by 4.45 p.m. Itwas rehearsed in front of the already

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THE ALLEY CATMusic Business News & Chatter

Sonelll (left) gets together at rehearsal with his pianist and vocalists,prior to opening as MD of London's May Fair Hotel, next Monday(7tb). The pianist is Jack Marshall (no relation to the rotund NMEscribe), and next to him is singing bassist Ivor Rich. The little lady ispetite Lynn Mason who, after a long spell at Hatchett's, plus some

broadcasting, has recently been singing in Spain.

seated audience, and was on wax by5.10 p.m. Fast work, boys.

* * *RAN into the one and only HarrySA Roy the other day. He is still asirrepressible as always. During ourconversation he told me that hehadn't seen any of the music boys forages-he wondered if it had anythingto do with the number of broadcastshe has not had lately !

Mind you, it could also be that theboys find that their expense accountsdon't run to the Copacabana thesedays. -Whichever way it is, let's hopethat Harry is on 'the air soon andregularly.

JUST got wind of a new singinghope. His name is Don Peters and

he is appearing at the East HamGranada this week. Apparently, hewas a sensation on the first night andhas already landed himself some airdates.

He is an Irish boy who has beendoing a lot of work' in Scotland,appearing for some time in' the LoganFamily stage show. Watch out for thename.

* * *REG

CONNELLY left London onWednesday by air for New York,

where he expects to be for severalweeks.

Take it from AlmaSULTRY - VOICED Alma

Cogan, featured vocalist inthe "Take It From Here" radioseries, is a young lady who hascome a long way in a short time.

Only two years ago sheapproached Walter Ridley,Artists and Repertoire managerat HMV records, for an audition.Though she wasunknown a n di n e x perienced,Walter agreedto listen to her.

Realising thatshe had talent,but lackedpolish, he ad-vised Alma tostudy hard fortwelve months,then come andsee him again.This she did-and the resultwas a solo con-tract' to recordfor His Master'sVoice.

Alma's very first disc, " To BeWorthy Of You," found a placeon Jack Jackson's " RecordRound -Up " show for threeweeks in succession. So did hernext release, " To Be Loved ByYou."

At this time, she had made nolive broadcasts, but Miss Cogan'ssuccess on wax soon led to herbeing co-starred with Dick

Bentley and Josephine Crombiethronghout the first run of theBBC's " Gently, Bentley " pro-gramme.

Early last winter, Alma com-menced a variety tour with PeterBrough, but the strain of over-work began to take its toll. Shewas told by a throat specialist

that she mustrest, and notsing at all forfive months.

After recuper-ation, Almaplayed the MossEmpire circuitas from May,I 9 5 3, alsomaking concertappearances forHarold Fielding.She resumed herrecording career,a n d currentlyhas a newcoupling of "IfI Had A GoldenUmbrella " and

" Mystery Street " on the market.Twenty-one years old and

single, Alma Cogan has herbiggest radio break to date in"Take It From Here." Thoughactress June Whitfield (from the"Love From Judy" show) alsohandles some of the dialogue,Alma is featured in speaking aswell as singing parts. In un-guarded moments, she can oftenbe heard practising her dialects !

BAR

see next week's issue

He tells me to look out for BobMerrill's new song which he isshortly bringing out, "Cuff Of MyShirt," the lyric of which tells of aguy going through the laundry tofind the shirt with a girl's telephonenumber written on the cuff !

How's that for an idea ? You canadd this to Merrill's other winnersof 1953, like "Red Feathers," "LookAt That Girl," "Chicka Boom,""Doggie In The Window," etc.

* * .*SORRY,

in fact, deeply sorry tosee that Michael Bentine has

shaved off that beautiful beard ofhis ! He tells me that he finds he getsbetter reaction to his visual gags with-out it, but I must confess I mournits departure.

I feel that it would have been a,real thrill to have let him loose onBarbara Kelly . . .

* * *CONGRATULATIONS to Dennis

Main Wilson and Maki* Scott -Johnson, the BBC producers Of thetwo new big comedy shows "Top ofthe Town," and the Hankie HowerdShow. Both are really first rateshows and must make people doubt-ful about watching second-rate TVshows on the same evening.* *ISEE

there are big alterations goingon in the Peter Maurice building.

Last year the Leeds Music depart-ment was modernised and re-decorated and now they are doingthe same to the Peter Maurice floor.

Although I subscribe to the viewthat you can have hit songs in acupboard, it's still nice to have themin comfort !

* *LOOK out, Frank Sinatra-I have

just heard the record MontyNorman has made of your latest hit,"From Here To Eternity." I cantell you it's really out of the topdrawer. I can't see anything stop-ping Monty on this form.

BAND CALLNORMAN BURNS QUINTET

Saturday, Weybridge; Thursday, KingEdward Hall, Windsor.

TITO BURNS SEXTETTonight (Friday), Metropole Hotel,Minehead; Saturday, Empire Hall,Taunton; Sunday, Colston Hall,Bristol; Tuesday, Broadcast. Thurs-day, New Theatre Ballroom, Ames-bury.

JOE DANIELS' BANDTonight (Friday), Ice Rink, Falkirk;Saturday, Ice Rink, Kirkcaldy; Mon-day, Cameo Ballroom, Carlisle;Thursday, Town Hall, Watford.

RAY ELLINGTON QUARTETTonight (Friday), Slough; Saturday,Dorking; Monday, Manchester; Thurs-day, Norwich.

REGGIE GOFF SEXTETTonight (Friday), NCO's Club, BushyPark; Saturday, NCO's Club, Sealand;Thursday, NCO's Club, Burtonwood.

HARRY GOLD'S PIECES OF EIGHTTonight (Friday), Savoy Ballroom,Southtea; Saturday, Locarno Ball-room, Swindon; Monday, Corn Ex-change Bedford; Tuesday, Palais deDanse, New Cross.

JOHNNIE GRAY'S BANDTonight (Friday) Coventry; Saturday,

Week- beginningDecember 4

NCO's Club, Burtonwood; Sunday,London Palladium; Tuesday, KingsHall, Stoke.

VIC LEWIS ORCHESTRA -

Tonight (Friday), Plaza Ballroorta,Derby; Saturday, Samson & HerculesBallroom, Norwich; 'Sunday, De Mont-fort Hall, Leicester.

MICK MULLIGAN'S MAGNOLIANSSaturday, Bodega Restaurant, Man-chester; Sunday, Corn Exchange,King's Lynn; Monday, Regent DanceHall, Brighton; Tuesday, Club duFaubourg, London, W.1; Wednesday,Royal College of Art, South Kensing-ton; Thursday, Town Hall StokeNewington.

RONNIE SCOTT ORCHESTRATonight (Friday), Town Hall, Batter-sea; Saturday, Civic Theatre, Poplar;Sunday, Colston Hall, Bristol; Mon-day, Town Hall, Bristol; Tuesday,Broadcast.

GEOFF SOWDEN'S BANDSaturday, NCO's Club, Ruislip; Wed-nesday, NCO's Club, ktrize Norton.

NAT TEMPLE'S BANDTonight (Friday), King's Hall, Derby;Saturday, Palais de Danse, Brighton.Thursday, Brent Bridge Hotel.Hendon.

*GREATnews for the fans who aregoing to the EMI concert at the

Albert Hall on Sunday. MGMRecord Company have persuaded theenchanting French star, Leslie Caronto sing the theme song from herlatest picture, "Lilli," as a duet withRoland Petit.

As you probably know, Leslie is atpresent the leading lady in Roland'sballet at the Stoll Theatre.

I happen to know at first hand thegood work that is being done by theLondon Federation of Boys' Clubs,so I certainly shall not miss thisConcert, which is in aid of that verygood cause.

Charity and Leslie Caron, too !What more could one want ?

Carole Brooke, the cabaret singerguitarist who alternates her datesbetween London and the Southof France, has just returned totown after a three months' seasonIn Cannes. Last Monday sheopened at London's 21 Room. InCannes, Carole has been appear-ing in cabaret at the two smartrestaurants, Le Drap D'or, andLe Voile an Vent. During herstay she broadcast several timesfrom Nice. At Cannes everywinter, Carole has also appearedat many resorts here, includingthe 500 Club, and the CafeAnglais. As can be imagined she

sings in several languages.

The " NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS" presents the

RECORD' CONCERTIn aid of the London Federation of Boys' Clubs at the

ROYAL ALBERT HALLThis Sunday, Dec. 6th

at 7 p.m.featuring Leading Recording Stars of the Columbia, Parlophone

and HMV Record Companies

SPECIAL GUEST ATTRACTION-

LESLIE CARONStar of MGM films 'American in Paris' and 'Lilli'

The following are some of the Stars who have agreed to appearat this Concert (subject to alteration).

MAX BYGRAVES ISSY BONN TONY BRENT DICKJAMES GERRY BRERETON GEOFFREY EVERITTSTUBBY KAYE BILL HURLEY ALMA COGAN BILLYTHORBURN LIZBETH WEBB MICKY ANDREWSRAY BURNS BILLIE ANTHONY-plus the Magnificient

E.M.I. CONCERT ORCHESTRAdirected by . . .

RAY MARTIN, GEORGE MELACHRINO, RON GOODWLN,NORRIE PARAMOR and PHIL GREEN

TICKETS : 6/-, 7/8, S/8 & IWO. Obtainable from Royal Albert Ha I(KEN 8212); all leading Theatre Ticket Agencies; the London Federationof Boys Clubs, 222, Blackfriars Road, S.E.1, or the New Musical Express,

5, Denmark Street, W.C.2.Seats will be available at the doors on night of Concert.

Printed for the Publishers, New Musical Express, Ltd., 5, Denmark Street, London, W.C.2, by The Walthamstow Press, Ltd (T.U. all depts.), 644, Forest Road, E.17.