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This week's Beatlemania

Helicopter

hello forBeatles

AHELICOPTER salute to the Beatles as they leavetheir plane at New York on February 7 wasbeing planned this week as Beatlemania continuedto sweep the States.

With five records in the U.S. hit parade-unprecedented for British artists-the Beatles arefixed for new shows in America.Their first Stateside concerts will be in Washing-

ton Coliseum on February 11 before moving to NewYork next day for con-certs at the CarnegieHall.

On February 13 and 14,the group goes to MiamiBeach for a rest beforecontinuing with Ed Sulli-van TV shows and per-sonal appearances.

A gala reception in theVIP Room of New York'sKennedy International Air-port is planned for imme-diately after the Beatles'jet flies into the airport.

Queues"I want to hold your

hand" is top of the Ameri-can hit parade. "She lovesyou" and "Please pleaseme" are at 21 and 68, and"I saw her standing there"is at 117 in Billboard's"Bubbling under the hot100" chart. The LP "Meetthe Beatles" is 97 in theLP division.

In PARIS, the Beatlescontinue to pack hugecrowds into the Olympiaand t h e r e are ticket -hungry queues at the box-office.

Last week the grouptook time off to visit theBlues Club and hear Mem-phis Slim. They politelyrefused Memphis's invita-tion to perform, cablesMarie Jose Vloberg.Paris is invaded byBeatle wigs, and alto-gether their success hereis unequalled by a visitingact.

George Martin has beenrecording the Beatles inParis for a new single

They have five ...

. . . discs in U.S. charts

record release as well assongs for their film.

Two British soldierstravelled from Berlin lastweek to Paris specially topresent the Beatles witha 700 - signature petitionpleading with them to visitGermany.

Petition"Berliners would rave

as you are not unknownin the divided city," saidthe petition.

The Beatles said theywould try to visit Berlinin May.

P.S. from AMERICA-Capitol has issued a recordcalled "My boy friend gota Beatle haircut", sung byDonna Lynn, which re-ceived a trade "spotlight".

Top jazz sellers1. JAZZ SEBASTIAN BACH (LP)

Swingle Singers, Philips2. ROCKIN' THE BOAT (LP) Jimmy Smith, Bluenote3. ONE WORLD CONCERT (LP)

Erroll Garner, Philips4 WHAT THE DICKENS! (LP)

Johnny Dankworth, FontanaWEST SIDE STORY (LP) ... Stan Kenton, Capitol

6. IMPRESSION (LP) John Coltrane, HMV7. ENCORE (LP) Woody Herman, Philips8. SILVER'S SERENADE (LP) Horace Silver, Bluenote9. PLAY BACH Vol 3 (LP)

Jacques Loussier, London -Globe10. ELLA AND BASIE (LP)

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STAN KENTON- "jazz is dead!"

rflE tragic death of Jackeargarden robbed the

jazz world of a possible re-newal of his great partner-ship with Louis Armstrong.

Shortly before he died, hewas offered his old chair inthe Armstrong All -Stars, re-cently vacated by TrummyYoung. Big T had delayedhis decision because of hishealth.

Leonard Feather attendedthe funeral in HollywoodHills and reports that thepallbearers were drummerRay Bauduc, clarinettists BobMcCracken and BarneyB i g a r d, pianist -composerSeger Ellis, deejay SammyTaylor and Jack's friend andneighbour Adam Bell.

"I never once knew Jack tolet down. He was tireless andalways inspired," BarneyBigard told Feather.

Said trumpeter MuggsySpanier: "This man was thecomplete musician-and one

It might have been

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STAN KENTON declared in New York lastweek that "jazz is finished." He added:

"Jazz stars will simply not rise as they havein the past. We have seen our last Elling-ton. There are no more contributions tomake."

DENNY DENNIS was reunited withCHARLIE SHAVERS in Manchester lastweek. The British singer and Americantrumpeter hadn't met since both were inthe TOMMY DORSEY band in 1949.

MM advertising man TREVOR HALLINGscored four goals in the combined MM-DECCA football teams 6-2 defeat ofJOHNNY JONES Jazz XI on Sunday. Decca'sALAN DONALDSON scored the other twofor the winners. Appropriately Johnny gotboth his team's goals. MM plays PHILIPSat Finsbury Park next Sunday.

BERT WEEDON may fly to the States tohelp launch his new guitar tutor there . .

BERN ELLIOTT is threatening to bring backa kilt from his Scottish tour.

t'THE ANIMALS drew nearly three times

the usual Thursday crowd for the first R&Bnight at London's Jazzshows Jazz Club . . .

Composer -arranger JOHNNY MANDEL is inParis working on the score for a new film,"The Americanisation of Emily."

The ACKER BILK fan club received anapplication for membership from CHRISBARBER. Turned out to be a girl of thatname from Sittingbourne, Kent . . .

SELMER chief BEN DAVIS has hired publi-cist LES PERRIN.

A certain music publisher is still kickinghimself for turning down the BEATLES'songs when they first started . . . LOUISARMSTRONG has cut his first single inyears. "Hello Dolly", theme of the newBroadway hit musical.

RUSS CONWAY is Chairman of a com-mittee setting up a "Tribute to MICHAELHOLLIDAY" concert at London's Prince ofWales Theatre on April 19. Proceeds will goto Mike's 14 -year -old son.

WORLD MUSIC BEATby the Raver

of the few who were admiredby the old guard and theyoungsters alike."

And from Trummy Young:"There isn't a trombonist liv-ing who doesn't owe some-thing to Jack. He had perfectcontrol. He could play softlyand still have complete com-mand."

Last word from Ben Pol-lack, with whose band Big Tspent his formative years:"This is the end of an era."

US BeatlemaniaTHE Beatles last week rated

the rare honour of aneditorial in the AmericanCash Box, which comparedBeatlemania in the Stateswith the early days of ElvisPresley.

"The group's significance,as far as the U.S. discindustry is concerned," saysCash Box, "is that they repre-sent a sort of Old Worldrevolution.

"Deepseated as the groupis in the made -in -Americaheritage of rock -n -roll, it hasset itself apart from our basicsounds with ingredients of itsown-the Liverpool or Mer-sey sound."

The Beatles, it says, are "areminder that much of whatis being marketed today byU.S. labels seems rather staleand unoriginal."

Cash Box hopes that theBeatles, and other successful"foreign" groups, will stimu-late "the development of anumber of new sounds fromthe U.S's own masters of therock -n -roll idiom."

Bruce to disband ?BIGGEST British jazz news

of the week is that BruceTurner is disbandinig hiJump Band at the end ofFebruary.

Bruce was somewhat vagueabout future plans when Iquestioned him over a beer atChelsea's Six Bells on Satur-day-to be accurate I wassupping the beer while Bruceworked his way through abox of chocolate -coated nuts.

"I think the current bandis fine but we are not playingwhat I want to play, jumpmusic," Bruce told me.

I don't think anybody inBritain plays it and I may endup with a band that is just anaccompaniment for me.

"Another thing that has abearing on my attitude is thatI get embarrassed in front ofan audience that doesn't digwhat we are playing. I can'tstand not giving the custom-ers what they have paid for.

"I am thinking of having aband that does two differenttypes of music.

"We would play thwamein jazz clubs,Jatrb on otherjobs I want to play a broadermusic-perhaps where jazz

MELODY MAKER, February 1, 1964-

Dennis Tanner keeps abreast of show -business news in Granada'sCoronation Street . . by reading Melody Maker. Viewers sawthis shot of Philip Lowrie, who plays Dennis, in last week's

show.

coincides with things likeboogie woogie and realrhythm-and-blues.

"I'm afraid it's all a bitvague at the moment and Imay not do any of it-I mightgo the the States instead."

Dramatic TempsTHE Temperance Seven are

to appear in their secondSpike Milligan -John Antrobusplay, "The Royal CommissionRevue," which opens"' atLondon's Mermaid Theatre onMarch 11.

Brian Innes, of the Temps,tells me that John Antrobuskeeps stopping him in thestreet, showing him scraps ofpaper and saying: "I havewritten in a new bit for you."

"If this keeps up we shallhave all the speaking parts

and they will have to getsomebody else in to play themusic," says Brian.

Marian McPMARION McPartland writes

to tell me she has takenover from Teddy Wilson withLondon's Establishment com-pany in New York-and sheis very impressed with singerCarole Simpson.

Marion has just finished analbum with strings, doingoriginals by Billy Taylor, KaiWinding, Coleman Hawkinsand Al Cohn.

"Hawkins' tunes," she says,"are some of the most beauti-ful melodies I have heard."

She also reports that DillJones is very enthusiasticabout the new Bob Wilbergroup which he has justjoined.

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Four of the Ray Premru Quin-tet - Eddie Blair, BobEfford, Premru and KennyClare - are pictured duringthe BBC "Jazz Club" airingof the first of Peter Burman's"Jazz Tete-a-Tete" shows tobe sponsored by MelodyMaker. The large new hall ofthe Chelsea College ofScience and Technology waspacked for the airing onSaturday, which was prece-ded by a two-hour concert -cum -dance. The show provedto me that Johnny Scott iscurrently Britain's most in-teresting jazz composer, hisgroup proving highly stimu-lating. Other highspots wereEfford's fine tenor, Blair'sconsistently good trumpetplaying and, the smoothmainstream of the DannyMoss Quartet.-B.D.

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has cost 6d since 1951.Threepence more in 1964 is a small increase to

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Today's price change means that MM will be ableto offer its readers more news, more features, more pic-tures and more behind -the -scenes gossip.

TOPS IN JAZZ AND POPS, MELODY MAKER RE-MAINS UNBEATABLE VALUE, AND AT 9d WEEKLYA PAPER NO MODERN MUSIC FAN CAN AFFORD TOMISS.

CRYSTALS' "Little boy", due forrelease in Britain tomorrow

(Friday) has been withdrawnbecause it is considered "not up totheir usual standard", says Decca

. HELEN SHAPIRO for Polishtour from October 1, plus visitsto Mauritius, Nairobi and Mada-gascar . . . U.S. singer HELENMERRILL flies into Britain thismonth to record LP. -

HEINZ for Rhyl summer seasonfrom June 26. He starts tour ofFinland on April 20 . . Americanorganist FRANK RENAUT currentlyon British tour to promote popu-larity of LOWREY organs . . .

PETER JAY and Jaywalkers forATV's "Arthur Haynes show"(February 22) and ABC -TV's"Lucky Stars" (29) . . . ETHELMERMAN for cabaret season atLondon's Talk of the Town fromFebruary 19.

"Black Nativity," gospel playstarring MARION WILLIAMS andALEX BRADFORD Singers, returnsto Europe in July or August andmar play Britain again . . . ALEXWELSH 'band' records LP forColumbia today (Thursday). Guestartist is clarinettist ARCHIESEMPLE. Guitarist DIZ DISLEYwill play guitar with the Welsh

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FLLA FITZGERALD, ac-companied by the Roy

Eldridge Quartet, plus theOscar Peterson Trio, opensa British tour at London'sFinsbury Park Astoria onMarch 21.

The quartet comprises Eld-ridge (tpt), Tommy Flanagan(pno), Bill Yancey (bass) andGus Johnson (drs).

The Peterson Trio, which willhave its own spot on the tour,comprises Oscar (pno), RayBrown (bass) and Ed Thigpen(drs).

Other tour dates are Odeon,Hammersmith (March 22), Birm-ingham (25), Sheffield (26), NewVictoria, London (Good Friday),Brighton Dome (Easter Satur-day), Leicester (29).

Newcastle (April 2), Glasgow(3), Nottingham (4), Leeds (5),Manchester (8), Cardiff (9),Bristol (10), Croydon (11),Belfast (14) and Dublin (15). Thelast two dates will be Ella'sfirst Irish shows.

An Ella -Eldridge -Peterson TVspectacular is being planned.

Getz at Scott'sAMERICAN tenor star Stan

Getz opens a month'sseason at London's Ronnie ScottClub on March 3.

He will fly to Britain directfrom the States after ending a

band on in -London dates, replacingTONY PITT, who leaves Welshsoon to join MIKE COTTON.

SWINGING BLUE JEANS forChannel Islands in March for con-certs. They are on TV's "For teen-agers only" (February 6) and"Crackerjack" (12) . . . NewSouthern TV series, "Tuesday discdate," starts February 4 withSEARCHERS. DUSTY SPRINGFIELDfollows (11), plus DAVE CLARKFive (25) . . . In New York, SAMCHASE, former editor -in -chief ofBillboard music magazine, hasbecome editor -in -chief and pub-lisher of the weekly MusicReporter.

Guitarist BILLY KINSLEY quit-ting MERSEYBEATS after their EPrecording session next week. "Iam physically whacked" he toldMM. Group seeking replacement

. . First signing by independentrecord production firm run byLARRY PARNES and BILLY FURYis TRENDS beat group. Their firstrelease is BEATLES' "All my loving". . . CHEYNES R&B group takingover Monday residency at London'sMarquee from MANFRED MANN.

GERRY MARSDEN has writtennew TOMMY QUICKLY record re-lease "Prove it," out on Feb. 11.Gerry and Pacemakers for TV's"Five o'clock club" on February 3and "Ready steady go" tomorrow(Friday) . . Ex -NAT GONELLAdrummer BOBBY SMITH leadingquartet in London shows "Nights atthe Comedy Theatre" . . . ROGWHITTAKER and Companions forLight's "Easy beat" on February15 followed by Irish TV shows.

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THE Searchers - whose"Needles and pins" hit

the top of the MM Pop 50this week-have been offeredmore overseas dates.

Their agent, Tito Burns, iscurrently negotiating a proposedtrip for the group to Israel andSouth Africa in June.

The Searchers' German visithas been extended to threedays.

They go to Berlin for TV onFebruary 14 and the followingday will be in Hamburg formore TV and a one-nighter atthe Star Club where theyplayed three seasons beforehitting the bigtime.

They return to Berlin onFebruary 16 for a concert atthe Deutschland Halle.

Instead of a resident summerseason this year, the groupplays a series of Sunday seasideconcerts. Set so far are dates atGreat Yarmouth, on July 19,August 2 and 16 and September6.

Work on their third film maynow be postponed until April.The group will have straightacting roles as well as singingand playing. Tentative title ofthe film is "The Givers".

The Searchers star in the newBBC -TV series, "Hi There" onFebruary 18. They air in "Go,Man, Go!" (7) and "SaturdayClub" (29).

tour datestour in Toronto, on February 29.

Ronnie Scott told MM: "Weare awaiting permission fromthe Home Office but otherwiseeverything is settled.

"We shall give Stan a choiceof accompanists but we expecthe will be backed by the usualgroup, the Stan Tracey Trio.

"Because of the cost of suchan attraction we shall be charg-ing 30s to hear Getz?'

Getz entered the pop chartslast year with his collaborationwith guitarist Charlie Byrd on"Desafinado." Byrd will be inEurope around the same timeand may be in London to seeGetz.

Lee Lewis datesFIRST dates for the British

tour by Jerry Lee Lewisnext month were announced thisweek.

On March 19, Lewis willtelerecord his own TV spectacu-lar for Granada, for screeninglater.

Next day, he stars at Birm-ingham, where the rest of thebill comprises four local beatgroups.

Other venues fixed includeBloxwich, Staffs (23), London(24), York (25), Kingston (26),Coventry (28) and ManchesterBelle Vue (29).

The Paramounts, the Animalsand the Flintstones will beamong other acts on variousLewis shows. The NashvilleTeens, a British group whichwill probably accompany ChuckBerry during his forthcomingtour here, will back Jerry Lee.

More dates are now being setup.

Cotton goes R & BMIKE COTTON has formed

n R&B group which willoperate in conjunction with hisJazzmen.

All the current members ofthe Jazzmen are included in thegroup except bassist DerekTearle who will still be usedon jazz club dates. GuitaristTony Pitt, from the Alex Welshband, joins Mike in two weeks.

Line-up of the R&B group willbe Mike (tpt, harmonica, vcls),Johnny Beecham (tmb, pno,vcls), Johnny Crocker (alto, tnr),

Dave Rowberry (organ, pno),Tony Pitt (lead gtr), Stu Morri-son (bass gtr) and Jimmy Gar -forth (drs) .

Mike will lead the R&B groupexclusively on ballroom andrhythm-and-blues club dates.For jazz club dates both groupswill be used.

Billy J. backAMERICAN songwriters Mort

Shuman and Doc Pomus,who have penned dozens of hitsincluding some of Elvis Pres-ley's, are the composers ofBilly J. Kramer's new single,out on February 14.

It is "Little children."Kramer returns from his

Scandinavian tour on February16. His TV dates include "Luckystars" (February 22) and "Readysteady go" (28), and he broad-casts on "Easy beat" (23).

Kramer and Cilia Black joinAmerican hit -maker Gene Pitneyon a British tour, opening atNottingham on March 28.

Matt: CopacabanaMATT MONRO is in line

for his first cabaret seasonat New York's famous Copaca-bana nightspot.

Impresario Vic Lewis, whofixed the appearances at NewYork's Carnegie Hall for theBeatles and Shirley Bassey, fliesto the States on February 10.

"I plan to fix the date forMatt's opening at the Copaca-bana as well as other businessdetails," says Lewis, who alsoarranged the Caravelles' Ameri-can tour.

Monro, currently starring incabaret in Sydney, Australia,returns to London next Monday(3) to start rehearsing for hisrole in the Eurovision SongContest. Matt goes to Copen-hagen to represent Britain in thecontest final on March 7.

5-4-3-2-1' for USANFRED MANN'S "5 -4 -3 -2 -

IT -B- 1" hit is to be released inAmerica soon.

The group this week signedan agency contract with Lon-don's Blackburn -Lewis agencywhich represent in BritainGeneral Artists Corporation -

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America's most powerfulagency.

"We will be setting up anAmerican trip for Manfred soon"Lewis told MM.

The group is on TV's "Luckystars" on Saturday (Febuary 1)and "Ready steady go" (7).

On February 16 Mann joinsthe Crystals -Joe Brown tour.

Ball -man's fallRON WEATHERBURN, plan -

ist with Kenny Ball's Jazz-men fell 30 feet in an Edinburghhotel last Thursday and wasrushed unconscious to hospital.

He suffered a cut right eye,when his spectacles broke, andhis body is severely bruised.Ron was expected to be suffi-ciently recovered to return toLondon yesterday (Wednesday)and it is hoped he will rejointhe Jazzmen by next week.

Former Charlie Galbraithpianist Pat Mason has beendeputising for Ron, includingthe band's Pye recording sessionon Wednesday, and this Satur-day's BBC "Jazz Club."

The Ball band flies to Italyfor TV dates in Milan on Febru-ary 12 and 13.

US votes MilesREADERS of America's Play-

boy magazine, voting in itsannual jazz poll, gave tophonours to Miles Davis (tpt), J.J. Johnson (tmb), CannonballAdderley (alto), Stan Getz (tnr),Pete Fountain (eh), Dave Bru-beck (pno), Charlie Byrd (gtr),Gerry Mulligan (bari), RayBrown (bass) and Joe Morello(drs).

Brubeck also took the Comboprize, and the singers wereSinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. Asecond poll, voted in by lastyear's winners, came up withseven artists who scored doublevictories-Sinatra, Ella, Getz,J.J., Mulligan, Brown and theBrubeck Quartet.

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Any tour by Ellington islikely to be the musicalevent of the year forjazz - minded musiclovers.

Over the transatlantic tele-phone, I naturally askedabout the men Ellingtonwould be bringing withhim. The same band as

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last time, he told me,with the exception oftwo trumpet players.

The trumpets are again ledby Cat Anderson, who hasleft and rejoined the sec-tion since we last saw theorchestra in January '63.And Cootie Williams?

"Yes, Cootie's in," said Elling-ton. "And Rolf Ericson andHerbie Jones are the othertrumpets.

"Ray Nance is out-he's goingto stay in New York. CatAnderson, yes, sure! Catwas with me at BasinStreet."

I reminded Duke that I hadnever seen him in Europewith any post-war group-even his miniature Palla-dium troupe of 1948 -which didn't have RayNance on board."Yes, I know, he's been

with me a long time,"Ellington said. "Wemiss him-a wonderfulman."

So the rest of the brass willbe, barring accident, Law-rence Brown, Buster Cooperand Chuck Connors.

SingersAs before, the marvellous

reeds comprise Hodges,Procope, Hamilton, Gon-salves and Carney.

Ernie Shepard is on bass, andSam Woodyard at thedrums.

No singers then? Not badnews so far as I am con-cerned. I asked the reason.

"We decided against a singerthis time," Ellington ex-plained.

"As you know, Milt Graysonleft us some while ago andwe have no singer at pre-sent. Sylvia DeSayles justworked with us at Basin

Street East. She isn't withthe band.

"You see, we haven't beenencouraged by Europeanaudiences to use a singer. . by the European jazzaudience, that is.

"It's no use having a vocalistdo just one number. Youhave to present him or herin a worthwhile way.

Guests"In the States they are con-

sidered as entertainment,but European jazz audi-ences seem to be againstentertainment . . ."

Ellington laughed a little atthis point and finished hisexplanation . . . "or some-thing like that."

I assured him the majorityof our jazz people wouldprefer to hear band musicin place of singers, or per-haps some Ellington piano.Would he be featuringhimself?"Oh, I don't know . . .

do you think they'dlike that?" Duke asked."Columbia just re-leased my 'Piano in theforeground' album, andthey're trying to makea piano player out ofme."

Might we hear any of thepieces he recorded withMax Roach and CharlieMingus?

"You know, very many ofthose were spur-of-the-moment things. If I'm go-ing to do anything likethat, I'll have to startpractising."

Ellington mentioned his other"with guest" albums, thosewith Hawkins and Coltrane,and I asked if he intendedrecording with other stars...with singers, for example.Had he ever thought of writ-ing for Sarah Vaughan?

AN ORCHESTRA INYOUR POCKETEVEN before the current

beat craze increased thepopularity of the harmonica,more than a million weresold every year by Hohner,who have specialised in theinstrument for over 100years.

Sales are now prodigious.Teenagers regard the mouth -organ as an expressive newsound.

They like it because it isinexpensive and handy, easy toslip into the pocket. They feelthat they are carrying theirown orchestra around withthem.

Which harmonica should youchoose and how do you learnto play it? Ace soloist TommyReilly offers these useful tips:

With a little perseverance,anyone can play a harmonica,without musical knowledge,sufficent to provide personalentertainment.

With hard practice, you canbecome very capable.

If it is any encouragement,both Larry Adler and myselfare entirely self-taught. How-ever, you shouldn't try to copyprofessionals. Every playershould endeavour to develophis own style.

The diatonic harmonica,which originated many yearsbefore the chromatic, is stillconsidered by many artists tobe more suitable for certaintypes of music, like folk, blues,rock, etc.

It requires less technique thanthe chromatic harmonica. Thesecret of making it sound reallyeffective-as demonstrated byartists like Sonny Boy William-son, Sonny Terry and the lateCyril Davies-is largely "feel -

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ing". But the chromatic har-monica has far greater possibili-ties and is used by a wide rangeof artists, including myself,Larry Adler, Frank 'field, LittleStevie Wond er, the Beatles,the Rolling Stones and theThree Monarchs.

ChordsMy own choice is the Super

Chromonica, and I use onlyone model, in the key of C.

I don't believe in usingseveral models in differentkeys. Anyone who does so willnever become proficient.

To meet the prevailingtrend, I have designed a simplediatonic harmonica, called theRhythm -and -Blues, inspired bymy 16 -year -old son, David.

He told me that present-dayteenagers did not take to theharmonica because the chordsplayed, when they picked itup and blew a handful ofnotes, were not those theyare accustomed to hearing inmodern pop music.

There are two versions of;he six -chord R and B har-monica, which is purely arhythm instrument, ideal foruse in groups, or accompany-ing singers.

One is for rock, blues, folkmusic, etc. The other is fortrad, Dixieland, etc.-CHRISHAYES.

"It's funny," he said, "we weretalking about that not longago. I'd like to write some-thing for Sarah, but the diffi-culty is labels. We'd have tohave it done between labels.

"Right now, with Reprise, it'sdifficult. As for new recordsby the band, we have otherthings in the can with Re-prise."Then there's the 'My

People' cast album wemade between labels forContact. There's a lot ofgood stuff in it, and a lotof good singers includingJoya Sherrill and LilGreenwood.

"We've got the spirituals, somegospel, and we've got theblues in it-'Come Sunday'from 'Black, Brown andBeige,' with a new lyric."

I had asked Ellington a littleearlier about the FreedomMovement, and whether ithad inspired any composi-tions, and he pointed out thathis show, "My People," hada socially significant theme.

Symphony"It ends with the direct ques-

tion: 'What colour is virtue,what colour is love?' We re-corded it originally for MercerRecords, and it was releasedon Contact.

"We've got some new materialin there, and I hope you willhear some of it when wecome over. Another new re-lease is 'The SymphonicEllington' on Reprise, whichwe made in Europe last yearwith four orchestras in Ham-burg, Stockholm, Paris andMilan."Our 'Night creatures' is

on that LP. Yeah, we'veperformed that withmany of the symphonyorchestras around the

States. Oh, it has threemovements and lastsabout fifteen minutes."

I'd heard that Duke wrote somenew material while he wasconvalescing in the East.

"No," he said, "but I've beenplanning like crazy. Themusic's not written yet,though I hope to have itready by the time we getto Britain.

"I was inspired by all that Iheard out there. We went toSyria, Jordan, Afghanistan,Ceylon, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon,Kuwait, Pakistan and India.We spent four and a halfweeks in India.

"Through most of the placesyou hear this tremendoussameness of sound in themusic. It has this exoticflavour; it's a general feeling,and I didn't know about it.

"It's like our stuff upside down. . beautiful, strange, com-plex and vast. Their wholeworld is like ours upsidedown.

"Oh yes, I hope to have thatready. I'd like to premierethat at my first London con-cert."

Duke's Middle East tour wascut short by the death ofPresident Kennedy, whichwas a sort of double blow forEllington.

"It was originally for fifteenweeks," he told me, "andwe did eleven or twblve.

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UBBY HAYES is stillBritain's top jazzman

- and pianist Brian Augeris its fastest rising star.That is the verdict of MMreaders in the 1964 JazzPoll.

Tubby retained all four ofhis titles - Musician of theYear, leader of the bestcombo, top tenorist andvibist. In addition, his occa-sional large group was votedfourth among the big bands;he was rated fifth on alto andbaritone saxes, two instru-ments I haven't heard himplay in the past year; secondon flute; and second in the

arranger and composer sec-tions.

If he grew an extra headI'm sure he would get intothe top three vocal groups.

Auger's rise has been im-pressive. Not only is he theNew Star, but he also justpipped Stan Tracey for thenumber one pianist spot andhis Trinity were placedsecond to the Hayes Quin-tet among the small groups.

Tubby still top hut Augeris rising fast

Johnny Dankworth, asalways, chalked up a seriesof wins - top big band,composer and arranger -although Joe Harriott re-gained the alto crown whichhe lost to Dankworth lastyear.

RESULTS British sectionMusician of

the yearPer cent

1 TUBBY HAYES 33.512 JOHNNY DANKWORTH

18.643 RONNIE SCOTT 6.404 Humphrey Lyttelton 4.33

Kenny Ball 4.33Brian Auger 4.33

7 Joe Harriott 3.768 Ted Heath 2.639 Ken Colyer 2.07

Big band

2 TED HEATH3 JOHN WILLIAMS4 Tubby Hayes

Per centJOHNNY DANKWORTH

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Per cent30.44

2 BRIAN AUGER 10.72 5 Elaine Delmar3 RONNIE SCOTT 10.26 6 Jeannie Lambe4 Humphrey Lyttelton 6.92 7 Millicent Martin5 Alan Elsdon 6.74 Rosemary Squires6 Joe Harriott 6.05 9 Beryl Bryden7 Kenny Ball 3.11 10 Mavis Taylor8 Sandy Brown/AI

Fairweather 2.949 Chris Barber 2.76

10 Bruce Turner 2.07

Male singer1 MATT MONRO2 GEORGE MELLY3 MICK EMERY4 Bobby Breen5 Long John Baldry6 Barry Keith7 Clive Peterson

Vocal group

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Per cent1 POLKA DOTS 70.332 MICK EMERY GROUP 9.56

Per cent 3 VELVETTES 5.7634.4824.6611.147.694.542.912.3i

Female singerPer cent

1 CLEO LAINE 27.162 ANNIE ROSS 23.593 OTTILIE PATTERSON

12.104 Joy Marshall 2.88

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18.503 SHAKE KEANE 9.664 Kenny Ball 9.435 Kenny Baker 6.936 Alan Elsdon 6.767 Ken Colyer 4.098 Pat Halcox 2.849 Ken Wheeler 2.13

10 Bert Courtley 1.77

TrombonePer cent

1 GEORGE CHISHOLM 19.952 KEITH CHRISTIE3 CHRIS BARBER4 Phil Rhodes5 Don Lusher6 John Picard7 Ken Wray8 Johnny Mumford9 Roy Crimmins

10 John Bennett

Clarinet1 SANDY BROWN2 VIC ASH3 ACKER BILK4 Johnny Barnes5 Monty Sunshine6 Archie Semple7 Dave Jones8 Tony Coe9 Henry McKenzie

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Per cent27.5421.82

8.687.837.455.503.172.962.75

Per cent1 JOE HARRIOTT 31.492 JOHNNY DANKWORTH

21.343 BRUCE TURNER 15.694 Tony Coe 6.885 Tubby Hayes 4.626 Graham Bond 4.18

Johnny Barnes 4.188 Alan Branscombe 3.52

Tenor1 TUBBY HAYES2 RONNIE SCOTT3 DANNY MOSS4 Dick Morrissey5 Don Reticle!!6 Tony Coe7 Jimmy Skidmore8 Tammy' Whittle

Baritone1 RONNIE ROSS2 JOE TEMPERLEY3 HARRY KLEIN-,4 Glen Hughes5 Tubby Hayes

Flute1 JOHNNY SCOTT2 TUBBY HAYES3 HAROLD McNAIR

Piano1 BRIAN AUGER2 STAN TRACEY

Per cent50.2815.947.695.254.544.122.251.87

Per cent63.1911.569.393.882.89

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LENNIE FELIX5 Arthur Wood6 Dave Lee

Terry Shannon8 Dudley Moore9 Bill McGuffie

10 Bill Le Sage

Guitar1 DAVE GOLDBERG2 DIZ DISLEY3 ALEXIS KORNER4 Ray Dempsey5 Tony Pitt6 Mick Emery7 Ken Sykora

Bass

WEATHERBURN7.167.166.603.963.963.792.682.26

Per cent45.0118.736.326.085.355.101.74

Per cent1 JOHNNY HAWKSWORTH

27.602 SPIKE HEATLEY 17.503 RICK LAIRD 14.404 Mick5 Malcolm Cecil 9.856 Kenny Napper 6.757 Vic Pitt 5.758 Coleridge Goode 3.259 Lennie Bush 3.0

Brian Brocklehurst 3.0

Drums1 ALLAN GANLEY2 PHIL SEAMAN

Per cent18.2312.24

3 RONNIE STEPHENSON10.78

4 Phil Kinorra 8.275 Tony Kinsey 7.706 Keith Webb 5.457 Lennie Hastings 4.888 Ronnie Verrell 3.19

Ron Bowden 3.1910 Johnny Richardson 3.0

Vibes1 TUBBY HAYES2 BILL LE SAGE3 LENNIE BEST

Per cent59.6532.12

1.51

MiscellaneousPer cent

1 SHAKE KEANE(flugelhorn) 29.72

2 ALAN HAVEN(organ) 18.06

3 JIMMY DEUCHAR(mellophonium) 7.20

4 Graham Bond (organ) 5.855 Humphrey Lyttelton

(tenor horn) 4.956 Cyril Davies

(harmonica) 4.507 Don Rendell

(soprano sax) 4.05

ArrangerPer cent

1 JOHNNY DANKWORTH44.53

2 TUBBY HAYES 15.463 KENNY GRAHAM 4.794 Johnny Keating 4.265 Dave Lindup 3.19

ComposerPer cent

1 JOHNNY DANKWORTH39.54

2 TUBBY HAYES 18.973 KENNY GRAHAM 4.51

SANDY BROWN 4.515 Joe Harriott 3.956 Bill Le Sage 3.38

New star1 BRIAN AUGER2 SHAKE KEANE3 MIKE FELANA4 Graham Bond5 Mick Emery

Per cent33.33

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George Chisholm is an-other who regained his crownafter coming second to KeithChristie among the trombon-ists last year.

There were two morechanges at the top -JimmyDeuchar taking over as bosstrumpet man and Allen Gan -ley as top drummer. Both,incidentally, being membersof the Hayes Quintet.

Apart from Hayes andDankworth, those who re-tained their titles were MattMonro (Male Singer), CleoLaine (Female Singer), PolkaDots (Vocal Group), SandyBrown (clt), Ronnie Ross(bari), Johnny Scott (flute),Dave Goldberg (gtr), JohnnyHawksworth (bass) and ShakeKeane (Miscellaneous Instru-ments).

Last year, the Poll had aspecial section for trad musi-cians. How did they fare thisyear when thrown back inthe general melee ?

EasiestOf last year's trad win-

ners, George Melly (MaleSinger), Ottilie Patterson(Female Singer), Chris Barber(tmb), Acker Bilk (clt) andRon Weatherburn (pno) allmade the first three of theirsections, and Kenny Ballmade fourth trumpet.

But the Barber Band could

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only make ninth among thecombos, Lennie Hastingsseventh among the drummers,while Mickey Ashman (bass)and Eddie Smith (bjo) van-ished from view altogether.

The easiest victories? ThePolka Dots among the vocalgroups and Ronnie Ross onbaritone.

The closest were among thepianists and trombonists,while Cleo Laine had herclosest battle yet, with AnnieRoss just losing out.

In the World Section of thePoll (see overleaf) there wereseven different winners fromthe previous year.

Duke Ellington oustedCount Basie from the top bigband slot, adding this to hisother crowns as Musician ofthe Year, composer andarranger.

The Modern Jazz Quartettook over from Dave Brubeckas leading world combo.Other new winners were theFour Freshmen (VocalGroups), Cannonball Adder -ley (alto), Ray Brown (bass)

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The world New Star istrumpeter Freddie Hubbard,currently with Art Blakey'sJazz Messengers.

SecondIt was no change for Frank

Sinatra (Male Singer), EllaFitzgerald (Female Singer),Miles Davis (tpt), J. J. John-son (tmb), Jimmy Giuffre(clt), John Coltrane (tnr),Gerry Mulligan (bari), FrankWess (flute), Erroll Garner(pno), Wes Montgomery (gtr),Joe Morello (drs) and MiltJackson (vibes).

Roland Kirk's British visitobviously impressed votersfor, in addition to his Miscel-laneous Instruments win, hecame second to Ellington asMusician of the Year andsecond to Frank Wess onflute.

World results overleaf.

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Thanks to all our British fans and friends foragain voting us your favourite American jazz

combo in Melody Maker's 1964 Poll.

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*this Spring in Great Britain and on a fourteen-country concert tour ofEurope, with guest soloist Laurindo Almeida on guitar.

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Musician ofthe year

1 DUKE ELLINGTON2 ROLAND KIRK3 MILES DAVIS4 John Coltrane

Count Basie6 Stan Kenton

Louis Armstrong8 Erroll Garner9 Dizzy Gillespie

Gerry Mulligan

Per cent27.7211.096.474.634.634.254.253.142.962.96

Big bandPer cent

1 DUKE ELLINGTON 38.182 COUNT BASIE 26.863 STAN KENTON 11.654 Woody Herman 6.255 Quincy Jones 3.556 Gil Evans 3.047 Gerry Mulligan 2.198 Ted Heath 1.69

Small groupPer cent

1 MODERN JAZZQUARTET 15.15

2 DAVE BRUBECK 12.413 OSCAR PETERSON 10.954 Cannonball Adderley 8.38

CANNONBALL ADDERLEY-new alto award

RESULTS -world section5 Miles Davis6 Art Blakey7 Gerry Mulligan8 John Coltrane9 Thelonius Monk

10 Louis Armstrong

7.664.934.744.384.203.58

Male singer1 FRANK SINATRA2 RAY CHARLES3 JIMMY RUSHING4 Joe Williams5 Mel Torme6 Louis Armstrong7 Oscar Brown

Tony Bennett9 Buddy Greco

Per cent27.52

20.212.876.145.554.753.963.963.37

Female singerPer cent

1 ELLA FITZGERALD 35.162 SARAH VAUGHAN 22.893 PEGGY LEE 9.164 Nancy Wilson 5.495 Anita O'Day 5.136 Annie Ross 3.667 Mahalia Jackson 3.488 Dinah Washington 2.949 Carmen McRae 1.83

FREDDIE HUBBARD-New Star

Duke takes bigband honoursVocal group

Per cent1 THE FOUR FRESH-

MEN 26.432 LAMBERT-HENDRICKS-

BAVAN3 H I -LO'S4 Swingle Singers5 Raelets6 Sonny Terry and

Brownie McGhee

22.1417.1416.436.19

3.1

TrumpetPer cent

1 MILES DAVIS 33.912 DIZZY GILLESPIE 22.433 LOUIS ARMSTRONG 14.094 Clark Terry 4.185 Freddie Hubbard 2.966 Maynard Ferguson 2.61

Buck Clayton 2.618 Art Farmer 1.91

Harry James 1.91

TrombonePer cent

1 J. J. JOHNSON2 BOB BROOKMEYER3 JACK TEAGARDEN4 Kai Winding5 Curtis Fuller6 Jimmy Knepper7 Kid Ory8 Trummy Young9 Lawrence Brown

32.9317.1711.117.685.454.653.842.632.02

ClarinetPer cent

1 JIMMY GIUFFRE 17.832 PEE WEE RUSSELL3 BENNY GOODMAN4 Jimmy Hamilton5 Buddy De Franco6 Woody Herman7 Edmond Hall8 George Lewis9 Pete Fountain

10 Tony Scott

15.4215.188.197.716.514.82

4.13.623.37

7 Ben Webster8 Tubby Hayes9 Zoot Sims

10 Sonny Stitt

Baritone1 GERRY MULLIGAN2 HARRY CARNEY3 PEPPER ADAMS4 Ronnie Ross

Flute1 FRANK WESS2 ROLAND KIRK3 YUSEF LATEEF4 Leo Wright

Eric DolphyBud Shank

7 Herbie Mann8 Johnny Scott

Alto Piano1 CANNONBALL

ADDERLEY2 JOHNNY HODGES3 PAUL DESMOND4 Phil Woods5 Sonny Stitt

Ornette Coleman7 Art Pepper8 Eric Dolphy9 Benny Carter

Per cent

25.223.8316.996.253.913.913.323.121.95

3.893.122.931.95

Per cent73.8914.575.473.44

Per cent38.0827.27

5.655.45.45.44.432.47

Per cent1 ERROLL GARNER 22.582 OSCAR PETERSON 16.63 THELONIUS MONK 16.234 Bill Evans 6.535 Dave Brubeck 5.226 Duke Ellington 4.667 Horace Silver 3.178 Count Basie 1.87

Vic Feldman 1.87George Shearing 1.87

Tenor GuitarPer cent

1 JOHN COLTRANE 26.652 STAN GETZ 17.513 COLEMAN HAWKINS

12.264 Sonny Rollins 10.55 Johnny Griffin 4.08

Paul Gonsalves 4-08

Per cent1 WES MONTGOMERY 29.372 BARNEY KESSEL 14.693 JIM HALL 13.174 Charlie Byrd 11.235 Herb Ellis 6.266 Freddy Green 5.47 Kenny Burrell 4.99

8 Grant GreenTal Farlow

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Bass

1.941.94

Per centRAY BROWN 35.98CHARLIE MINGUS 25.65PAUL CHAMBERS 8.15Sam Jones 5.57Percy Heath 4.17Leroy Vinnegar 2.98Gene Wright 2.39Red Mitchell 1.99

Drums1 JOE MORELLO2 ART BLAKEY3 SONNY PAYNE4 Shelly Manne5 Philly Joe Jones

Max Roach7 Elvin Jones8 Gene Krupa9 Buddy Rich10 Ed Thigpen

Vibes

Per cent16.2910.619'857.956.636.636.444.163.223.03

Per cent1 MILT JACKSON 57.342 LIONEL HAMPTON 21.643 VIC FELDMAN 13.094 Terry Gibbs 2.185 Tubby Hayes 1.786 Red Norvo 1.39

MiscellaneousPer cent

1 ROLAND KIRK(manzello, stritch)

2 JIMMY SMITH(organ)

3 JOHN COLTRANE(soprano)

4 Stephane Grappelly(violin)

5 Clark Terry(flugelhorn)

6 Miles Davis(flugelhorn)

37.34

18.99

9.81

3.8

3.48

3.16

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ROLAND KIRK topped theMiscellaneous Instruments.

ArrangerPer cent

1 DUKE ELLINGTON 27.69GIL EVANS 19.12QUINCY JONES 16.26Oliver Nelson 4.83Neal Hefti 4.62Stan KentonCount BasieNelson RiddleBilly Strayhorn

Composer

4.182.421.981.98

Per cent1 DUKE ELLINGTON 39.772 THELONIUS MONK 10.573 OLIVER NELSON 5.524 Quincy Jones 5.065 John Lewis 3.916 Bobby Timmons 3.45

Stan Kenton 3.458 Gil Evans 2.99

Charlie Mingus 2.9910 Dave Brubeck 2.76

New starPer cent

1 FREDDIE HUBBARD 6.322 GARY McFARLAND 3.95

JUNIOR MANCE 3.954 Clare Fischer 3.565 Oliver Nelson 3.166 McCoy Tyner 2.767 Jimmy Smith 1.98

Cabe Baltazar 1.98Gary Peacock 1.98

THE WARM ENTHUSIASM OF

"MELODY MAKER" READERS IS

TRULY GRATIFYING AND WILL INSPIRE

OUR CONTINUED EFFORTS TO BE WORTHY OF IT

Cove you madly,

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WHAT CAN WE SAY ?EXCEPT

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TUBBY Hayes

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ALLAN Ganley* *

JIMMY Deuchar* *-* voted Top Trumpet

and all members of the

voted Musician ofthe YearTop Tenorand Top Vibes

voted Top Drummer

TUBBY HAYES QUINTETvoted Top Small Group

(TUBBY HAYES, TERRY SHANNON, FREDDY LOGAN

JIMMY DEUCHAR AND ALLAN GANLEY

wish toThank M.M. readers for a

really tremendous year and fortheir support in the Jazz Poll

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The Searchers have been picked to sing the title song for a new British film, "The Comedy". Theyare seen here with director Michael Winner.

WHAT NOW FOR THE SEARCHERS ?

This hit may open upfresh horizons

THE Searchers are morethan pleased with the

success of "Needles andpins," which this weekshook the pop world byjumping to top spot in theMM's National Chart. Theybelieve it means they canescape the type -castingwhich afflicts many beatgroups.

"We wanted to do some-thing different - something weliked ourselves," Chris Curtissaid when I saw them at the"Ready, Steady, Go!" studio.

"The fact that it has gonedown well might mean a bitmore freedom for everybodyelse, too. It was quite differentfrom anything else we haverecorded.

Amazing"We liked the tune and

played it to ourselves. Wedidn't put the top voice onuntil the actual recording ses-sion. It's the quick ideas thatare often best, but on a recordsession it doesn't alwayshappen.

"When we first tried it outwe each sang it on our ownfirst. It's amazing how differentthe four versions were. We allhave different styles of singingand we just have to mould themall together.

"It was a joint arrangement.We always get the chords offfirst and then get the instru-mental bit right before we starton the singing. When you start

The 'Needles and Pins' boys

tell Bob Dawbarnbuilding it up from the chordsyou sing it your own way andthat's the way new thingscome."

A TV studio seemed a goodplace to ask for views on mim-ing.

"It's gear," Chris assured me."It's a safeguard that theviewers will hear the rightnoise. They spend so muchmoney on cameras and yet thesound on TV programmes isoften so bad.

"Not all programmes are bad.The sound was great when wedid 'Crackerjack'. They let ushear the balance ourselves -the first time that has hap-pened.

"On radio they go all out toget the right sound - 'SaturdayClub', for example, is great thatway - but on TV they areconcentrating on camera anglesand don't seem to worry if itsounds terrible.

"Anyway, mime shows givethe best entertainment."

A number of overseas trips

are being lined up for theSearchers. I asked whether itmight not be dangerous to beaway from the fans too long.

Hamburg"The way it's being planned

we won't be away for long oneach trip," said Mike Pender.

In February, the group goesto Germany for TV in Berlin.It may also revisit the StarClub in Hamburg where it hasalready had three seasons.

"We played opposite RayCharles there once," said Chris."It was terrifying. Apart fromthe fact that we had beenlistening to his records for solong, his in -person image is sodistant. He's guarded all thetime."

One Searcher who viewsContinental trips with suspicionis John McNally. "I don't likeflying, it hurts my ears," heexplained.

"We shall be doing a film in

The man who created the Ronettes hit sound

PHIL SPECTOR is a 23 -year -old American

record boss - the million-aire creator of the hitsounds by the Crystals andthe Ronettes. He is thenearest thing to a geniusthat the world's pop discbusiness has produced.

On Friday he flew here andinvited me for a ride aroundLondon in his hired Rolls-Royce.

He's slightly built, has anout -of -tune voice, and be-lieves firmly in the sledge-hammer technique to drivehis way to the top. He hassucceeded.

My only luxurya bodyguard

Says PHIL SPECTOR

IMAGINATION

"Yes," he replied, when Iasked if he was a millionaire."But I don't know exactly whatI'm worth. All I know is thatsomebody once offered me threemillion dollars to buy out mycompany, Philles Records, andI turned that down."

Spector, who plays piano andguitar, went on to explain howhe came to evolve the Crystalsand Ronettes hit sounds thatcaptured the imagination ofrecord buyers in America,Britain and many other coun-tries.

"The instrumental sound getstop priority when I come tothink of a session," he began.

"I got the idea for this big,rolling beaty sound from watch-ing and hearing symphony "I just concentrate on oneorchestras. hit at a time - not like the

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"I tried, when I started thisthing in October 1962, to changethe whole conception of popmusic and offer the publicsomething different.

"I decided the way to get abig sound was to mould to-gether more than one of eachinstrument.

"So the line-up on thoseCrystals and Ronettes sessions,for instance, was made up offour pianos, three guitars, threebasses - two electric and oneupright - and one centredrummer and one additional atthe side.

The Rolls-Royce glided to-wards Buckingham Palace."That's were the Queen lives,"said Spector's chauffeur. "It'sbig enough," said Phil.

ANIMOSITY

"To continue. This sound Iwas working on. I felt it hadto be dynamic enough to over-come any bad material sopeople would respond to thesound rather than the song."

Spector is proud of the factthat his is the only Americandisc firm without promotionmen or merchandising men onthe road.

major companies shooting outdozens of records a week andhoping one will click.

"I KNOW my records willclick, so I just make fewer.

"Of course, this sound I'mcreating is going to die oneday, I realise that," said the ex -court reporter who was a mem-ber of the Teddy Bears vocalgroup ("To know him is tolove him").

"Yes, it will die because ofthe natural animosity in therecord industry on the part ofdeejays. I guess they get a bitresentful of a guy all on hisown doing so well.

"But more than anything, Ifeel they're jealous because I'mso young to have made so muchmoney in a business theythought they knew everythingabout.

"They never seemed to be-lieve what I always thought -that every record can be a hitif you concentrate on itenough.

"I've issued fifteen recordsand had fifteen hits withsingles. It speaks for itself."

I asked him about his per-sonal tastes in music. "Jazz,"he replied. "Jazz and anythingelse that's good, from Wagnerto the Beatles.

"The Beatles have brought jealous of his success.-RAYAmericans something new, and COLEMAN.

the early part of February,"Chris told me. "We don't knowtoo much about it yet but wehave straight dramatic parts.That should be a laugh - wecan't do anything straight, ordramatic.

"Our next record? We alreadyhave a couple in the can but,now that 'Needles and pins' isa success, we may do differentthings.

"With records you can onlydo what you are known for atthe time. Now we are knownfor something a bit differentwe can vary it a bit.

Concerts"We may do another LP but

we've used up all the stuff weever knew - and I'm not jok-ing."

All the group agree that theyprefer concerts and TV to otherforms of work.

"One nighters drive us nuts,"admitted Chris.

"It's better now, we travelby train," said Mike. "Lastnight we even got three hourssleep."

As I left, Chris had unpackeda portable gramophone and wasplaying their current favourite- Dionne Warwick's version of"Anyone who had a heart."

PHIL SPECTOR-refused $3 million

as a record man I'm here tospeak to the people who havebought my records and thepeople who market them.

"The English market is fastdeveloping into one of the mostimportant in the world."

Spector has an office in NewYork and all his discs are madein California. His administra-tive staff comprises one secre-tary.

JEALOUS

Tile only major luxury Spec-tor has bought himself with hisfortune is a bodyguard. "Heisn't with me at the moment -he missed the plane," said Phil."But he'll be here, I guess."

Why did he need a body-guard?

"To keep me company, keepthe groups company and takecare of them, and make surewe are none of us bumped off!"he replied.

As he said, some people are

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OP MUSIC, as we know it, hascome of age. American jazzmenvisiting Europe in the 40s and 50swere amazed at the detailed

knowledge that fans, followers andwriters displayed even about record-ing dates the jazzmen had long forgot-ten. Now the same thing is happeningin the pop world. Presuming thattoday's beaty music forms began -from a commercial point of view-withthe first rock record to enter the Britishhit parade, the pop era is a mere 12years old.

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OVERNIGHT CRAZES, names thatflared and faded in a matter ofmonths ("whatever happened to . .")scratchy 78s (usually beloved ofthe jazz fraternity), and scrap -booksand stories, perhaps autographs ofthe household names of the middle 50steenagers. They all fall into place in thepop jigsaw puzzle, which was begun inthe heyday of Haley, and is still beingpieced together by the Beatles and theircontemporaries. Although I am onlytwice as old as the history, I often feelgreybearded in the presence of theyounger Beatle generation, who onlyvaguely remember Chuck Berry and havenever heard of Sanford Clark or LarryWilliams. Who are the pop greats? Thepeople whose reputations still stand tallagainst the swirling river of pop pro-gress? The first one must be the man

THE ORIGINAL GENE VINCENTBLUECAPS CUT "BE BOP A LULA"

hit parade at one time in 1956. TheComets' style was far more musicianlythan succeeding beat combos. Bill him-self had generations of music in his blood,and when he formed the group, theyplayed everything from modern jazz torhythm-and-blues. Which was probablytheir downfall. They were just goodmusicians, a good stage act, who hadrealised the value of a power -packed 12 -bar blues number - and used it. Inaddition, Haley was nearing 30 and afamily man at the peak of his career-no qualifications for a sex symbol-andthe cult of youth in music was beginningto grow. It more than grew, it explodedwhen THE biggest name in rock came onthe scene in the midst of Haleymania.The raw -voiced ex -truck driver fromTupelo, Mississippi, was still a teenagerhimself, and a natural idol for the young -

HALEY HITS BRITAIN-ANDTHE FANS GO WILD!

who has sold, it is estimated, 25 millionrecords -11 million for one release. Hisname is Bill Haley, and he is now threeyear> away from his 40th birthday, anda hundred years away from the hitparade. Unless a miracle happens, Haleywil never have another hit record, be-cause his style-after 10 years-is sodated, as to be laughable. But when hisfirst big hit "Shake rattle and roll" cameto Britain in 1954, he was the King ofrock to thousands of teenagers convertedto the "new" music. And his 11 -millionseller "Rock around the clock" remainsone of the world's great record achieve-ments. The sound of Haley, and hisComets, was heard in this country on thesound -track of "Blackboard jungle", afilm which started waves of riots, fosteredthe Teddy Boy movement, and connectedrock with juvenile deliquency for the

sters musically stirred by Haley and Co.So the living legend of Elvis Presley wasborn. His slurred Southern accent, aspecial way of shouting bluesy vocals,and hiccupping his way through pre-viously sedate country-and-western num-bers; the way he sold himself on stagewith his controversial bump and grindroutine; and his sensual, and Greekly-handsome looks, with Southern sideburns.Those were Presley's attributes whichset him on the road to billion dollarearnings, a never-ending stream of hitrecords, and stardom in films galore. Thematured, sophisticated entertainer heappears to be today is a long way fromhis original image. His songs and sing-ing style have softened, his hits are lessspectacular, but he is still a great name-this despite two years in the US Army(admittedly under an only slightly -

first time. Cashing in later, theyappeared in "Rock around the clock", and"Don't knock the rock"-two low -budgetmusicals. The reign of the chubby, kiss -curled guitarist lasted for about fouryears-from 1954 to 1958. Then, moresuddenly than most recording artists whosereached similar heights, he was as dead;',as vaudeville. But during the period, hestirred up fantastic fan followings. Whenhe toured Britain in 1957, the demand foiltickets was phenomenal for that time, and:".riots approached Beatlemania standard.Even in late 1958, when he starred in'two

concerts at Paris Olympia music,

hall, there were 50 arrests after riots,with over 100 policemen trying vainlyto control the crowds. The Beatles didn'tbeat that! Altogether, Haley and theComets had 13 world-wide hits whilethey were at the top, five in the British

YOUNG ELVISCUTS HIS FIRSTMILLION SELLER-

"HEARTBREAK HOTEL"

diminished spotlight)-and over ten yearsin the pop world altogether. WhereverPresley admirers gather in this country-particularly the older beat musicians-they talk about, his first records, hanker.after their atmosphere-"That's alright 11Mama", "I forgot to remember to forget","Crying heart blues", "Mystery train"-and argue the merits of Presley's Nash-ville musicians Scotty Moore, ChetAtkins, Bil Black, Floycl Cramer, apprais-ing the performances like jazz fans.The overdone echo effects used by Elvison records like "Heartbreak hotel" wereeven more apparent on releases from"other singers of the time, including leancountry guitarist Carl Perkins. Hisoriginal version of "Blue suede shoes"(he wrote the rock classic) is still corn-,pared with the winning Presley version,amid heated argument today. Carl, who

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emerged in the rock race, shoulder -to -shoulder with his country cousin, was un-fortunately overshadowed by the growingPresley image. But he turned out somerock classics - "Wrong yo yo", "Honeydon't", "Money honey", and "Glad allover" to name a few-and is still activein recording to my knowledge. Staccatoecho chambers again . . . for the debutof a Virginian rocker who won hisCapitol Records contract in a talent com-petition-Gene Vincent. The thin, pale -faced youngster and his Bluecaps group-including another talked -about rockguitarist, Cliff Gallup - notched multi-million sales with "Be bop a lula", fol-lowed up with "Wear my ring", "Bluejeanbop" and many others in 1956. Hisdecline started after about two years, for,by then, rock had taken a grip, never tobe broken, on the music industry. Poten-

tial stars were twinkling right left andcentre of the record buyers' bemusedgaze. There were one -hit wonders bythe score. Gene, now living in England,is still a very popular artist-and thehigh voice is still instantly rocognisableas the one on his greatest hits. Hisrecording activity has only been partlysuccessful, and this is a puzzle. Couldit be that the younger fans who know theVincent story are unconsciously againstbuying the work of a "dated" artist-the cruel, but inevitable blockade sufferedby Haley and so many singers since. Ifthat is the case, Chuck Berry and JerryLee Lewis are exceptions, for they bothhad hits outside their own era. Moreof them later. It might be that Geneneeds a song which caters for the beat -happy teenagers, but is tailor-made tohis own style. For, above all, the pop

greats standing head and shoulders overcompanion artists are stylists. The Mperiod between the demise of the balladsingers in 1955 and the real rise of rock giin 1956, produced hundreds of names on erecord. I can recall only a few-LittleWillie John, Peanuts Wilson, SanfordClark, Larry Williams and even the re-doubtable country artist Johnny Cash f4-who left their mark in a less spectacu-0lar fashion on the rock -mad scene. Thereare other names, probably cherished by ,a few enthusiasts. But the fact remains 0that Haley, Presley, Perkins and Vincent i)were the first four trendsetters in beat. gThey were followed . . . followed soclosely that memory tumbles years to-gether and confuses dates-one reason tobe thankful for files, and, heavy 78sgathering dust.-CHRIS ROBERTS


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they never sang another note in public, John Lennon and Paul McCartney would still collectfive -figure salaries every year. Running parallel with their world-beating success withTHE group, is an equally powerful talent for great pop songwriting. Great? They are notthe Rodgers and Hart, the Lerner and Loewe of 1964; but they have captured in their

bouncing songs the easy effervescence of the young generation - in other, plaintive writing,the simple voice of spurned young love without the maudlin embellishments of yesterday'sweepies.

Did the Beatles make the songs, or did the songs make them? Easily answered. The songs ARE theBeatles, with a style so recognis-able as to be flattered continuallyby imitation.

Lennon and McCartney maintain theydo not know how to write hit songs, asensible point when you hear their argu-ment.

"We don't know how to write a hit."said Paul. "If we knew, we wouldn'ttell you, and if we told you, Britainwould have a great new industry, kindof hit factories all over the place."

For the talented two of the fabulousfour, it is a dizzy look down from theirpop peak to the Valley of the Shadowof Liverpool in the scratching days.

Even now, the story of their early at-tempts to "flo something" with theirsongs has a piathetic tone, and it doesn'ttake much imagination to hear them talkover a hundred crazy ideas to launchtheir efforts on the pop world.

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As a publicity stunt, they once in-tended to swim the Mersey. They de-cided to write to a national newspaperwith a plea for the use of a big record-ing studio for a day, incorporating achallenge to the stars of the moment.Neither plan came off."And there we were with a big exer-

cise book full of songs, wondering whatthe hell to do with them." John said.

How did John and Paul come to writeover 100 songs between them beforethey knew what the inside of a record-ing studio looked like? And how dothey set about creating the structure ofa composition which might, the follow-ing month, be sung in factory, shop,school and office all over Britain?

Before they left for their triumphantParis visit, they spoke to the MM abouttheir songwriting life-the first time ithas been fully spotlighted.

JOHN: It started in school holidays. Iwas about 15, I suppose. We knew eachother, yes. I would've looked funny sit-ting in Paul's house without being intro'duced. At that time we did "Likedreamers do", followed by "Hello littlegirl", and "Love of the loved" and"Please please me".

The first song I ever wrote was called"I lost my little girl", then "That's mywoman" and we used to do one "In spite

In an interview with CHRIS ROBERTSof all the danger". The bulk of the num-bers was written between 1956 and 1961,when we were at the Cavern doing alot of the songs. We'd do two together,then I'd do "Please please me" and Paulwould do "I saw her standing there" and"PS I love you" all in a normal hour'sprogramme.

PAUL: We were influenced by BuddyHolly, and the Everly Brothers, and alot of the numbers are Holly-ish. Butwhen we came to do them at the club-we had hitherto only heard them withguitar or piano-the sound changed withthe addition of bass and drums, and theycame out differently.

We both wrote words or music as wefelt like, although we'd suggest changesto each other in different numbers.

We don't think we write very hipwords. We try to write words that wewould like and not laugh at. Not moonand June stuff.

JOHN: What do you mean, moon andJune? We had moonlight and Junelightin "I'll be on my way".

PAUL: That's different. You knowwhat I mean. Not corny.

JOHN: On the music side, as far as Iwas concerned, if I found a new chord,I'd write a song round it. I thought ifthere were a million chords I'd neverrun out. Sometimes the chords got tobe an obsession and we started to putall unnecessary ones in.

OYES YOU + PLEASE PLEA

PAUL: They started to get too compli-cated, and "chordy". No, not like modernjazz, but just dripping with chords thatweren't supposed to be there anyway.

JOHN : We decided to keep them simple.and it's the best wity. It might have soundedokay for us, but the extra chords wouldn'tmake other people like them any better.That's the way we've kept it all I along.

We never consciously write 'B' sides torecords. We don't just sit down and say"right, let's whip off a 'B' side," just likethat. Quite a few of our 'B' sides couldhave been 'A' sides, I suppose, but some-thing has to go on the back, so we justchoose.

PAUL: The best time to write, I find, issitting down. Seriously, sitting down on ourown with a guitar or piano. Smoking helps

too. Why guitar all the time? Not always.Sometimes your ideas get blocked on guitar.

One night I was trying to write one, witha guitar, and I couldn't get it on the thing.I tried it with piano, and it worked.

JOHN. We don't sort of think of a catchphrase and write around it. It could be quitenice if a catch phrase comes to you, butit doesn't happen often.

ME + ALL MY LOVING +4

PAUL: I don't think we write for thisidiom of the moment or anything. All ournumbers could be adapted, you know, tomeet each style. Our arrangements are inthis idiom, yes. But, for instance "I saw herstanding there" could be a country-and-western thing, with a big country sound.We don't write for any particular idiom.

None of us read music, still. As far as Iam concerned, music is to be enjoyed and ifwe started studying, it wouldn't be.

JOHN: We have always done our songsand written them down in a weird sortof notation, using chord names like A flat,C, and Dm, and writing the notes separately.It would be much easier if I knew music,yes. After writing the words down and thechords in a night, you can generally re-member the tune the next morning. There'smore fun in that.

PAUL: Musically again, I don't think thestuff you do chordwise is quite as import-ant as the tune and the words and thefeel of the song. I heard two fellers in aclub last night, doing one of our numbersand in one place they did the wrong chord-but it didn't matter. The song was there.

JOHN: We though "From me to you" wastoo way out, although we have always hada fair bit of confidence in our own stuff,always thought it would make it somewhere.

PAUL: I played it on the piano andthought "No, no one's going to like this",so I played it to my dad and he thoughtit was a lovely tune, and that's how itwas. You value other people's opinions.

TO ME + LOVE ME DO +

You know, we have always written forourselves. We don't-we can't write down.If we don't like the songs ourselves, howcould we put up with them? People under-estimate the intelligence of a lot of therecord buyers. The're not so thick.

Our lyrics aren't more intelligent thanothers have been, but we always try to saysomething different in the way a songshould say it, you know.

'-g-F anyone knew theI formula for a hitrecord, he'd be a million-aire overnight," said DaveClark, who has made asmall fortune from his ownchart -topper.

Dave Clark and the groupcan't tell you how to make ahlt-but they CAN tell you theirrecording routine when they goall out for that elusive com-mercial sound, and its pro-bable trail of success.

As most people know, theirrecords-including the No. l-ore all do-it-yourself releases,recorded in London's Lans-downe Studios and leased toColumbia for distribution.

They control their ownsessions, with a skilled record-ing vngineer, working hand inglovd with them to produce theexact results they want.

A typical Dave Clark sessionis born weeks in advance whenthey decide on recordingmaterial.

"For 'Glad all over' we hadrehearsed in the ballroom, tillwe knew it off backwards."Dave said. "Then there was no

'Simplicity is the answer'bother about changing minds, ortrying to do an arrangement onthe spot. in the studio.

"We arrive at the studio,which is in a basement, carrythe instruments and amplifiersdown and start setting up.When we've finished that, therecomes the tuning of the gear,and the microphone balance.

"In the studio, the perform-ance is not as important as theright sound. If we've done, say,three versions of a number onthe trot, we'll listen to them tohear and pick the best.

"Perhaps two of them will bemusically perfect, without afault. But the third one swingslike the clappers, although it'sgot a slight fault in it. We'dgenerally pick that one, be-cause it has created that 'feel'you want on a record, as longas the fault isn't noticeable toanyone except us."

What special problems didthe Five face in the studio?

"You can't afford to have any

hums from amplifiers what-soever, for a start. I get aproblem with drums sometimes-I have to put a blanket infront of the bass drum if it isbooming too much on the mike.

"Generally the drums-or mydrumming rather-is easier torecord than other drumming.The on -beat style I use neverpresented any problems in thestudio, because the sound is souniform and easy to balance.

"Simplicity is really theanswer. The group's sound issimple and yet it's full. Onceyou start overloading withideas, you lose the feel of thenumber."

Where are the actual recordarrangements for the sessionworked out? Do they ever do"head" arrangements - on thespot.

"No, Mike and I do themround my house, and when weget to the ballroom for rehear-sal, we soon find out howmessy they sound.

"You might go to the studiofully prepared, and waste hoursover nothing. Sometimes youcan do two numbers in an hour.The difficulty is in not beingtoo critical of what you do.

"Actually, we were morepleased over the commercialsound of 'Do you love me' andthe performance, than 'Glad allover, but of course we didn'tmake it with the first one.

"There is no formula for ahit. We don't have one anyway.You just have to go into thestudio and do your best, don'tyou?"

"One thing we DO stick to inmaking a record. If we don't doa number right in one session,we'll book another one, go backand do the whole thing again.If it doesn't come off then,well . . . we scrap it."

The Dave Clark Five havemade sure - and their pro-fessional approach has paid offhandsomely. From "Glad allover" sales alone, they areexpected to collect somethingin the region of £25,000 betweenthem.

For that sort of money, re-cordings are worth takingtrouble over.-CHRIS ROBERTS

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PAUL ANKA flew to Rome last weekend to record analbum for RCA Victor. The LP will include songs

by Italian composers as well as several Anka compositions.The whole set will be recorded in Italian.Itet""ntokeetwesoneemees,

After nine months at NewTHELONIOUS MONK is takingEurope at the end of February.inoloolesegetootermateonne

York's Five -Spot Cafe,off for a swing rounJ

Clarinettist -tenor saxist FRANK "BIG BOY" GOUDIEdied in San Francisco last week, age] 57. Goudie workedin Europe from 1926 until 1939.weeitonolleireserWeemet

MARY LOU WILLIAMS is playing piano in Manhattanfor the first time in several years. She has opened witha trio at the Hickory House.olissoteMoessAsoftatoa

TIMI YURO is off on a new trek, 30 days in Japan,Okinawa and Formosa . . . FRANKIE AVALON plans tovisit Europe to tie in with the release of his film, "BeachParty".

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Trumpeter KENNY DORHAM is currently in Stock-holm, Sweden. He then moves to Oslo, Bergen, Berlinand Paris . . . NANCY WILSON and OSCAR BROWN Jnr.headlining at the Empire Room of New York's Waldorf-Astoria.

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Jazz trombonist BILLY BURNS died of cancer inNew York. He was with the SAM WOODING and WILLIELEWIS bands . . tenorist BEN WEBSTER sitting in withhis old boss, DUKE ELLINGTON, at Basin Street East.yeeementonesolenoWeeeo

JIMMY GIUFFRE'S "Piece for clarinet and stringorchestra" will be performed by the Belgrade SymphonyOrchestra on February 3 . . . altoist EARL WARREN nowwith the MON-ROE trio at the Nag's Head Inn, Manhattan.

New BUDDY RICH group in for lengthy spell at theThunderbird, Las Vegas. The group includes HARRYEDISON (tpt), SAM MOST (clt, flute), Mike Mainieri (vibres)and Buddy's sister ROSETTE SHAW (vets).goolowkiomirw

Line-up of the current CHARLIE MINGUS Quintethas ILLINOIS JACQUET (tnr), TOMMY TURRENTINE (tpt),JAKI BYARD (pno) and DANNY RICHMOND (drs). Thegroup was augmented for the opening night.

Former DUKE ELLINGTON singer JOYA SHERRILLsang for President Johnson at the National Press Club'sdinner on January 18 . . . LENA HORNE and LENNIEHAYTON are selling their New York home and movingto Los Angeles.

"In these days of novelties-rock -n -roll, freak instru-mentals and all kinds of gim-micked music-I'm the firstsinger to sell with straight-forward music.

"The people who sing mykind of songs usually sellabout four hundred records.They go to "in" typeaudiences.

"Four of the tunes in myfirst album weren't even intempo - I just sang ad lib.

"They told me: 'You can'tsell that kind of thing!' I saidthat was the only way Iwanted to do it."

It proves an importantpoint, says Barbra: "Anythingthat's truly real, musicallygenuine, is commercial.

"Hip people dig it, but the

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people in Arkansas dig it too,because the songs arebeautiful.

"And I can get additionalgroups of people interestedby doing unexpected pieces ofmaterial, like 'Who's afraidof the Big Bad Wolf'-whichI did just because it's the lastthing you'd expect to hear inthe sophisticated settingswhere I work.

WILD GIRLWILD SOUNDOUT of nowhere she leapt to eighth place in last December's

Down Beat poll, with as many votes as June Christy andDinah Washington combined-yet no one has ever called her ajazz singer.

Almost a complete un-known three years ago, to-day she is the hottest newsinger in America, with thegreatest personality, thefullest sound and the mostdramatic style of all thenew singers of the Sixties.

She's only had two albumsout, on Columbia, but bothare among the ten top recordsin the USA; the first one hasbeen a best seller for tenmonths.

Genuine"You know what I like

about it?" says Barbra Strei-sand, who is as uninhibited as "People yell 'You gotta beas she is unbashful. commercial!'-but they forget

that when Harry Belafontefirst sang folk songs, thatwas considered a way-out,uncommercial thing to do.

Audition"Why are Da Vinci and Van

Gogh famous all over theworld? You don't compromisewith quality, that's theanswer."

Miss Streisand looks likejust what she is -a 21 -year -old Jewish girl from Brook-lyn, who looks so attractivelyunglamorous that she wouldnot dream of having her nosefixed.

She went to several Man-hattan acting schools andBroadway auditions. Her firstaudition song was "AlleghenyMoon".

Says Barbra: "They don'twrite songs like that anymore. At least, I hope theydon't."

Finally she won a talentcontest in a GreenwichVillage night club, and wentto work at smart clubs likethe Bon Soir and the BlueAngel.

At the latter a Broadwayproducer saw her and signedher for an acting -singing rolein "I can get it for you whole-sale". She was an overnighthot property.

"But you know," she says,"they originally turned medown at Columbia Records.RCA Victor turned me down,too.

"But then I was in theoriginal -cast album of 'I canget it for you wholesale' andthat established me indirectly.

"I became a personality onrecords. The New York Timessaid I was the only goodthing in the album, eventhough I just did a comedysong and not much else.

"What's been happeninglately is a wild thing, and agratifying experience.

"I'm not the dedicatedsinger type, you know. Inever even had a phonographat home. I just got to heara bunch of records through

Springfields"last stand

THE problems of a "ghost" recordin the hit parade set a few show -

business minds spinning this week -especially the three ex-Springfields'.

It is their great, gospellishversion of "If I was downand out," from the pop film"It's all over town," that iscausing the headache.

Not only is the single get-ting great reaction - it wasvoted a hit on BBC -TV's"Juke box jury" - but thegroup's appearance's in thefilm are two of its highspots,months after their break-up.

Now. Sort that one out.Which is the job of publicistKeith Goodwin, who dealtwith the group, and nowhandles Dusty Springfield,brother Tom, and MikeHurst separately.

"This is one thing wedidn't bargain for, "Keithsaid in slightly desperatetones.

"Dusty's high in the charts,and if the record gets plug-ged, she could easily findherself fighting herself, ifyou see what I mean."

"Mike's doing well with'Banjo song,' Tom is busywith his writing interests, sothey are all well on theirway to solo ambitions.

"No, it won't be a badthing if the record is a hit,except that I'll go up thewall. Dusty, Tom, Mike all

have big things happening,and with this on top of it,well . . .

"It wouldn't be so bad ifit were a mediocre record,but I think it's a knock -out."

Tom Springfield, who wroteboth sides of the record,spoke differently.

"I don't think much of it"he said. "By the way, that'snothing new-we are alwaysvery critical anyway, andsaw a lot wrong in all therecords.

"I was very surprised tosee anything happening to it.Dead, but it won't lie down."

Were Philips Records plan-ning release any other Spring-field material?

"There are more sides,"said Tom. "I think there areplans for a double album tocome out in future, andthere is another single we'vedone."

A case of "the Spring -fields are dead-long live theSpringfields."

Tom's own plans include avisit to Brazil-he left thisweek-for a holiday and to

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After the run of the show,Barbra started playing majornight clubs, and before longshe was on the real big-timecircuit, which means placeslike Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe,the Cocoanut Grove of LosAngeles' Ambassador Hotel.

Audiences went into some

Robertsbuy a few new instrumentsfor recording purposes whenhe returns.

"It's mainly different sortsof guitars I'm after. There isone 12 -stringed thing, there

of the most incredibly en-thusiastic raves imaginable.She has been compared withJudy Garland, Lena Horneand Ethel Merman, whichdoes her an injustice.

She is not over -melo-dramatic, as Garland some-times tends to become. She israrely strident like Mermanor sultry like Lena.

She is, though, the corn- tple1.e actress -singer.

To me - and this is thekindest compliment I can payher-she sounds like a com-bination of Barbra StreisandBarbra Streisand and BarbraStreisand.

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RAY CHARLES-welcome return

MARKETTS: Out oflimits" (WarnerBrothers).

TOUCH of the Tor-nados about this one.

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IT is a very special talent that makes a much -mauledsong something different.

The talent, the magic, of Ray Charles in fact, who made awelcome return to the Pop Fifty last week with "Luckyold sun."

He transforms it from its concert hall image, as Robesonmade it famous, into a meaningful, and sombre blues-as it was meant to be.

It is almost certain that Ray himself had a hand in con-ceiving the arrangement, for he has made a speciality oftaking unlikely songs and doing even more unlikely thingswith them.

Those who were fortunate enough to see him in person onlast year's visit, will remember his lazily rolling interpre-tation of "Without a song," blues to the extreme.

Another example of his imagination-"You are my sun-shine", 'B' side of "Your cheating heart", one of his hitslast year.

"Sunshine", with its snappy brass figures and wailing Rae -lets deserved an 'A' side for originality alone.

In fact, it sold heavily on its own account in America,reaching high in the charts.

In this country, few record fans who disliked the syrupy"Heart" and turned away from the record, ever knewabout that great 'B' side-one of Ray's best -ever per-formances on a single.

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...and this weekit's GEORGEliked the intro but afterthat nothing happened.I've no idea who it is andI don't think it will domuch.

GERRY LEVENE andAvengers: "Dr. feelgood"(Decca).

THAT'S Dr. Feelgood. Isit Tommy Bruce or

Georgie Fame? Sounds likeTommy Bruce to me. It'sgood.

The organ's good. It'sgot an unusual backing andI like this one. It could bea minor hit if it breaksthrough all the other beatrecords. Nice.

DAVE BRUBECK Quartet:"Cable car" (CBS).el_REAT. At least, I like the" first couple of bars. De-

pending on what mood I'min, I don't mind modern jazz.But I'm not very well up onit.

I quite like this but Iwouldn't buy it. I wouldn'tmind hearing it late at night.It doesn't stand a chance asa commercial single, andwon't be a hit.

AL SAXON: "Who wasthat girl?" (Mercury).rpHE intro was like "Can't

get used to losing you."Sounds Gene McDaniels-ish,but I know it's not him.

This isn't commercialenough to be a big hit. It'slacking something. Soundslike the "Magnificent seven."

(Halfway through): That'senough of that. Can you takeit off?

KEN DODD. "Eight by ten"(Columbia).WEN DODD is it? Hasn't he

got a nice voice? He's a

The best ofMike Holliday

DISREGARDING tincontroversy abou

his being a Bing Crosb:copyist, the fact remainsthat MICHAEL HOLLI-DAY was one of Bri-tain's best singers.

His tragic death lastOctober robbed us of anartist who could handle aballad with sympatheticease, and swing onmedium -tempo songs.

Now, Columbia issueswhat amounts to amemorial album, "Thebest of Michael Holliday",featuring 14 of the songsthat made him famous.

It traces his career fromhis first record, "Theyellow rose of Texas," in1955, through to "Starryeyed" and "Palace oflove" (1959).

"The gal with the yallershoes," "Nothin' to do"and "Hot diggity" wereother songs that Mike de-livered with that noncha-lant, yet sensitive, stride,and they have certainlystood the test of time.

Perhaps the best trackon this LP is the delight-ful "Old Cape Cod," taste-fully sung by Holliday,who had a warmth oftimbre rare in a Britishsinger.

For Mike Holliday fans,as well as for admirers ofsimply good singing, thisLP can be safely recom-mended as a nostalgic tri-bute to a fine artist.

CRAZY WORLDJOE BROWN and his

Bruvvers, SusanMaughan, Marty Wildeand Harry H. Corbett wereamong the cast of the"What a crazy world"film, the songs of whichpop up on the Piccadillylabel.

But it doesn't mattermuch if you've not seenthe film. The songs aresufficiently entertaining tostand up on their own

NEW LPsmerits. There's Joe's bright"Sally Ann," plus "Whata crazy world we're livin'in" and "A layabout'slament," sung with hischaracteristic charm.

Susan Maughan's"Alfred Hitchins" is goodfun, and she handles theballad "Please give me achance" with sensitivityand rare tonal variety. Infact, it's the LP's standouttrack.

Throughout, StanleyBlack's Orchestra providesfirm backings. Pleasantlistening.

PARTY L -AJOE LOSS'S Orchestra,

always bang up todate with trends andmusicianly good taste, isfeatured on a new HMVLP, "Go Latin with Loss."

Perfect for parties, thealbum contains L -A styledtreatments of such songsas "Guitar tango," theShadows hit; "Sucu sucu,""Nicola" and "La Bamba,"the great Ritchie Valenscomposition in the "Twistand shout" mould.

Joe's resident singer,Ross McManus, providessome competent vocalwork, and the LP is upto, the high standard ex-pected from one of thecountry's brightest bands.

BLUES FEELRAW R&B from recent

album newcomerMary Wells on "Bye ByeBaby" (Oriole).

The tracks have a same-ness of treatment and themelody lines are-to saythe least-uninspiring. ButMary has a real feelingfor the blues, and shesings with that innate in-tegrity of the AmericanNegro.

This girl could come upwith a big hit.

George Harrison-the dry Beatle.Like his father, hehas the sardonicLiverpool sense ofhumour, but with-out a trace ofmalice. A fineguitarist, his lean-ing towardscountry style isencouraged by agreat liking forthe work of ChetAtkins, althoughhe has developedan individualtechnique, easilyrecognisable onthe Beatle releases.

good friend of ours, youknow, but I won't let thatinterfere with what I say, Ipromise. He's a Mum andDad sort of singer you know.

I wouldn't buy it but it'sOK. He had a big hit with"Still," and that might sellthis one a little, but notenough for it to hit big.

SHARADES: "Dumb head"(Decca).

T CAN'T stand it. Horrible.I don't like these voices,

like you hear on that thing"Mr bass man." No, I reallyhate this. Take it off.

BILLIE DAVIS: "That boyJohn" (Columbia).I DON'T know who this is,

either. They're trying forthat American vocal groupsound with that double -track-ing. Not bad, but not quitegood enough.

It won't be a hit and Ican't stand that deep voiceon this. No.

CLEO: "To know him is tolove him" (Decca).ILOVE the song. We used

to do it, with "her" inthe words. I prefer theoriginal by the Teddy Bearsand Nancy Sinatra.

This is OK but I can't seeselling much. P 1 ea santenough, really.

CASCADES: "For yoursweet love" (RCA).IS this American? Sounds

rather Ricky Nelson-ishquite nice. I don't think itwill mean a lot in sales.

Don't like the backing.They don't seem to haveproper balance. In fact thedrummer sounds like SoftArthur!

CONNIE FRANCIS: "In thesummer of his years" (MGM).f LIKE the intro but not-11- the rest of the record.Americans always seem toget peculiar songs high inthe charts.

With the exception of"Dominique" they go forsome funny things. I don'tlike it. It's corny. Enough.

Joe Morello wins with

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Suddenly Monksounds normal !

LISTENING to thesetwo new Monk re-

leases 1 find it odd toremember that he wasonce considered verydifficult to listen to.

In the light of the NewWave, Monk's own brandof musical logic soundssimple, inevitable and firm-ly based in the blues. Thefact that he no longersounds weird does not, infact, detract from the im-pact he makes.

DIFFERENT

These are two delightfulalbums presenting, in themain, tunes which havebeen recorded by Monk onmany occasions, but alwayswith a quite differentapproach.

His current quartet hasbeen together for someyears now and has an in-tegration lacking in someof his earlier groups.Rouse, who replacedJohnny Griffin in 1958, is, Ibelieve, the most sympath-etic of all Monk's partners.

INDIVIDUALITY

On both these LPs, Rouseplays fine jazz-dovetailingadmirably with Monk and yet

Guide to

British

trad CHRIS BARBER

pYE'SGolden Guinea series offers an inexpensive

guide to latter-day British trad in "Jazz Britannia"(GGL0247), which runs through the idiom from A toW. A is for Micky Ashman-whose "Tin roof" and"Pagan love song" sound thin for their length-andW is for Bob Wallis, whose "Travelling blues" at leasthas guts.

Making up the half -dozen bands areAcker Bilk ("Marching through Georgia" and"Delia gone"), Terry Lightfoot ("Tisho-mingo" and "One sweet letter," wronglylabelled on record and sleeve), Kenny Ball("Dinah" and "American patrol") and ChrisBarber ("Petite fleur" and "Whistlin'Rufus").

Much of the music is an attempt atpopular entertainment; some has a simple,wistful melodic appeal, but there is littleinventive flair on display.

AT NEWPORT

JOE WILLIAMS is a fully qualified singerwith power and drive and a strongly

intzlividual style. But his method of deliveryhas become extremely mannered, so thatacceptance of his albums depends largely.on how you react to his idiosyncratic wayof altering a song's metre.

"Joe Williams at Newport 63" (RCAVictor RD7592) must be considered a goodset for hlm since it holds a fine selectionof songs, und the singer is heard in confi-dent shape in a felicitous jazz setting.

Among his "Friends" at Newport wereClark Terry, Zoot Sims, Hawkins, HowardMcGhee and Junior Mance, and we all knowthat can't be bad.

DULL DIXIEJ)IXIELAND - Seattle style is the sug-

gested label for what is on "TheShakey City Seven + One play 'Seattle,USA" (Esquire 32-194). It is rather dull

THELONIOUS MONK: "Thelonious Monk in Europe, Vol. 1." Jackie-ing,Straight no chaser; Bemsha swing; Crepuscule with Nellie; San Francisco holiday;Rhythm-a-ning; Body and soul; Episthrophy. (Riverside RLP002).

THELONIOUS MONK: "Criss-cross." Hackensack; Tea for two; Criss-cross;Eronel; Rhythm-a-ning; Don't blame me; Think of one; Crepuscule with Nellie.(CBS BPC62173).

Monk (fano), Charlie Rouse (tnr), John Ore (bass), Frankie Dunlop (drs).

never losing his owndividuality.

in- sets as far as general qualitygoes.

Ore is an ever -improvingbass player and, althoughDunlop is not one of myfavourite drummers, therhythm duo provides a goodcohesive bass for the soloists.

It is, perhaps, a little un-fortunate that both albumsshould contain almost identi-cal versions of "Rhythm-a-ning" and "Crepescule" whichmay put people off frombuying both.

There is, however, nothingto choose between the two

NEW VERSIONS

Monk is one of the bestcomposers of jazz themes,but I also have great fond-ness for the way he twiststhe tails of standard tunes-"Don't blame me" is one Ihaven't heard from the pianistbefore and there are alsowonderful new versions of"Tea for two" and "Body andsoul."-BOB DAWBARN. ROUSE-sympathetic

Some rare, old-fashionedFATS WALLER: "Fats at the

Organ." Please take me out oflail(c); I ain't got nobcdy (d);bats Waller Stomp (b); St.Louis blues (a); Savannah blues(b); Soothin' syrup stomp (d);ked hot Dan (c); He's goneaway (c); Lennox Avenue blues(a); Stompin' the bug (dl;Won't you take me home (b);Messin' around with the blues(d); The Digah's stomp (d);Geechee (c) (RCA VictorRD7599).

(a)--Waller (pipe organ).1926.

(b)-Waller (organ, piano),Tom Morris (cornet), CharlieIrvis (tmb), possibly Eddie King(drs). May, 1927.

(c)-As for (b) except lamesArchey in place of Irvis, BobbieLeecan (gtr) added. December,1927.

(d)-As for (a). 1927.

RCA Victor have come upwith a truly esoteric

item here. All fourteen tracksfeature Waller on the pipe -organ (he plays piano alsonow and then); several ofthem have never been re-leased in Britain before, andall are pretty rare.

LushOf the seven organ solos,

made in 26 and 27, I like"St. Louis" best of all. Fromits tango start to its lushfinish, this is quite effectiveorgan music; it seems to havebeen Waller's first recordingon the instrument, but there'sno stumbling.

On the same date, he made

JOE WILLIAMS-in confident shape

traditional jazz by a four -front line, four -rhythm combo.

A bit inflexible in the rhythm depart-ment but somewhat unusual and restrainedin their melodic approach are the S.C.7 + I.

As with so many of today's Dixielandrecordings, the repertoire contains severalover -familiar tunes ("That's a plenty,""Saints," "Bill Bailey," etc.), and it takesbetter men than these to revitalise suchold horses.

A girl singer, Sally King, does "Goodygoody" and the title song; leader GalenMcReynold blows a nice dancing sort ofclarinet, and Jack Caskey sounds a plea-santly light cornettist in the McPartlandtradition.

This Seattle style mixes Dixieland witha touch of New York "Golden Age" jazz.

Fats Waller

FATS-no stumbling

"Lennox Avenue". On Janu-ary 27, "Messin' around" andthe airily melodic "Soothin'syrup" were produced, andlater sessions gave forth theother three - of which "Iain't got nobody" is the mostattractive.

The remaining numbers, byFats with Thomas Morris'Hot Babies, are a curiousamalgam of sweet and hot,of organ and barrelhousebrass, the latter created by

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On "Red Hot Dan", Wallercomes up with his first discvocal, an eccentric choruswhich ends with a series ofexclamations for all the worldlike Lennie Hasting's currentwar cry.

TunefulMuch on this record is

old-fashioned in a faintlyamusing way; some of it ischarming, most is agreeablytuneful. It is not what peopleexpect from Fats. You'vebeen warned.-Max Jones.

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SONNYMEETSHAWK

SONNY ROLLINS - COLE-MAN HAWKINS: "Sonnymeets Hawk." Yesterdays(a); All the things you are(a); Summertime (b); Justfriends (b); Lover Man (a);At McKies' (b). (RCA RD -7593).

(a) - Rollins, Hawkins(tnrs), Paul Bley (pno), BobCranshaw (bass), Roy Mc-Curdy (drs).

(b)-Henry Grimes (bass)replaces Cranshaw.

AFTER a dozen hearingsI still haven't made

up my mind about thisone. Despite Rollins' earlyaffinity with the work ofHawkins there are timeson this album when theymake very uneasy part-ners.

Curiously, too, each occa-sionally sounds like theother - somehow this sur-prises me more when Haw-kins shows an obvious know-ledge of the Rollins sound.

If nothing else, the recordcertainly shows what a widerange of sound can be wrungfrom a tenor sax-from thefull, confident tone of Hawkto the occasional strangledugliness of Rollins.

In isolation, each playsvery well. But the contrastis, at times, almost ludi-crous, a good example beingRollins' entry after Hawkins'solo on "Yesterday".

There may be a moral inthe way that Hawkinssounds every bit as modernas Rollins without havingto explore the outer reachesof his instrument. Yet Rol-lins plays superbly at times,notably on "Summertime"and "McKies".

el*I'm afraidthat, like

andr steak, I pre-

fer my Haw-kins a n dRollins sepa-rate.-B.D.

ROLLINS

COLTRANE

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John Coltrane to bea major influence in jazz(and it's becoming harderand harder not to) cer-tainly do not lackrecorded examples ofhis work.

Here are another two,both of which are - indifferent ways - essentialfor the Coltrane admirer.

On the Realm, Coltraneshares the solo honourswith the little - knownWilbur Harden who showshimself to be a Miles -in-spired soloist with never-theless an original, melodicturn of phrase.

There is excellent sup-port from the Flanagan -Watkins - Hayes rhythmteam. Flanagan is a sort

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John Coltrane (tnr), Wilbur Harden (flugelhorn), TommyFlanagan (pno), Doug Watkins (bass), Louis Hayes (drs).

"John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman." They say it'swonderful; Dedicated to you; My one and only love; Lush life;You are too beautiful; Autumn serenade. (HMV CLP1700).

Johnny Hartman (vocal), John Coltrane (tnr), McCoy Tyner(pno), Jimmy Garrison (bass), Elvin Jones (drs). Recorded March7, 1963.

of musical chameleon whoadjusts his music to suithis surroundings, whetherit be Pee Wee Russell orColtrane.

Watkins' superb playingreminds that he was one ofthe top echelon of bassistsbefore his death in 1962.

This is Coltrane at the be-ginning of his "sheets -of -sound" period, and every oneof his solos here (all the tunesare by Harden) are excellentexamples of what a first-classjazz mind can gouge out ofchord sequences.

At just over £1, this is oneof the best modern jazz buysgoing around.

The Hartman album is de-lightful, bringing back beforea microphone a singer fromthe school of big -voicedcrooners who flourished with

the big bop bands in the late1940s.

The current Coltrane Quar-tet merely act as a backdropfor the rich Hartman voice-quite similar to Bill Eckstine's- as it cruises through aselection of first-class ballads.

Coltrane solos on all tracksexcept "Beautiful", which isa little masterpiece of singingand accompaniment, withTyner's piano the essence oftaste and beauty.

The tenor is solidly in themood of the excellent"Ballads" LP, and Hartman'sperformance is above re-proach.

This would never be theJazz Record of the Year, butit has given me enough sheerenjoyment to make it a verypersonal favourite. - BOBHOUSTON.

TRUMPETCONTRAST

HANK JONES -DONALD BYRD:"Quartet -Quintet." Almost likebeing in love (a); An eveningat Papa Joe's (b); And thensome (b); Summer's gone (al;Don't blame me (a). (RealmRM152).

(al-Donald Byrd (tpt), HankJones (pno), Eddie Jones (bass),Kenny Clarke (drs).

(b)-as (a) plus Matty Dice(tpt).

DONALD BYRD showedenormous early pro-

mise which he has neverquite fulfilled. No record-ing dates are given for thissession but I would guessit is some years old, andit contains some of thebest trumpet I have heardfrom him.

He plays well within him-self, utterly without strain ortension and with a sweeteredge to his tone than onegenerally associates with him.

BYRDThe result is excellent, lyricaljazz.

Byrd's co -leader, HankJones, plays with his expectedrelaxed swing and impeccabletaste, while bass and drumsare an above -average team.

Matty Dice, a new name tome, is added on second trum-pet for two tracks.

At first one hears his full,round tone with pleasure, butafter a chorus or two youcannot ignore his technicaland improvisational limita-tions.

Using a rather fickle lipvibrato, he sticks to middleand low registers and is oneof the most repetitive soloistsI have heard.

But Dice's shortcomingsare easily forgotten whenthere is so much pleasant,uncomplicated music to beenjoyed.-Bob Dawbarn.

MOST of Josh White's songs tell astory, and Josh and his guitar are

gifted story -tellers. A new Ace of Heartsrelease, "Josh White" (AH65), offers atbargain price a well-rounded collection ofsixteen of his recordings from the Forties.

At this period, Josh was singing in hismost direct and meaningful manner.

The voice may have been silky, and thestyle fairly sophisticated, but when he got on"Strange fruit" (his is the most striking versionafter Billie Holiday's) or "Nobody knows you"the songs made a deep impression.

Among the ballads on this set, "I gave mylove a cherry" ("The riddle song") and "LordRandall" hit their target; "Watercress" hasconsiderable charm; while "Evil hearted man"and "Jelly, Jelly" are compelling examplesof Josh's blues vocal and guitar playing.

Different from everything else in his pro-gramme is "Sometime", on which he receivesfine swinging support from Sonny Terry (har-monica), Brownie McGhee (gtr), John Simmons(bass) and J. C. Heard (drs). This contains agreat deal of vitality and humorous feeling.

HOOTS are in the news, so London's "Atthe hootenanny" (HA -R8115) should be

assured of a fair hearing. It is a pretty well -organised sing -song, recorded with audienceparticipation, featuring several well-knownnames, including Alan Lomax, Terry Gilkysonand Marais and Miranda.

Another

blowing

sessionGRANT GREEN: "Feelin' the

spirit." Just a closer walk withinee; Joshua fit de battle obJericho; Nobody knows theTrouble I've seen; Go downMoses; Sometimes I feel like amotherless child (Blue Note4132).

Green (gtr), Herbie Hancock(pno), Butch Warren (bass),Billy Higgins (drs), GarvinMasseaux (tambourine).

GRANT GREEN is an ex-cellent guitar player

with a sure technique,which he doesn't flasharound too much, a gentlehand on the electrics anda proper regard for melody.

"Feelin' the spirit", like pre-ceding Blue Notes featuringhim, promises much butnever quite delivers the hun-dred per cent inspiring, cre-ative goods.

Green plays his direct, swing-ing phrases cleanly, with con-sistent musicianship and lash-ings of soul, and his favouritedevice of sticking on a figureand worrying it to death iswell to the fore.

Bluesy"Closer walk" contains some

very pretty ideas from Green,also some trademark repeti-tions, and there is eloquentblues feeling in his work andthat of pianist Hancock. Therest of the team hammer itout resolutely as required.

"Joshua", too, is a kind of gos-pelised blues music which hasnicely integrated rhythmwork; it seems to go on abit, though.

The slower "Nobody knows"and very long "Motherlesschild" have a grave, sad sortof beauty, though the lattergenerates a mild heat to-wards the end.

I suppose this is a typical in-formal blues -flavoured ses-sion by a handful of theyounger jazzmen. It is allvery well performed, but Ifound tedium setting in be-fore the close. One or twohorns might have helped.-M.J.

Lomax whips up some enthusiasm with"Raise a ruckus" and "This train", accompaniedby a group. A trio called the Travellers does"Rich gal, poor gal", and the Chad MitchellTrio sing "Whistling gypsy".

Among the better tracks, aside from Lomax's,are one by Hillel and the Sons of Galileeand two by a clear -voiced girl named JoMarch. These are proficient artists with aprofessional rhythm team.

VET another hoot, so called, this time acollection of odd tracks put together under

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Present and correct are Josh White, with"John Henry", the Travellers (again), with"Katy cruel"; Theo Bikel, "Rising of themoon"; Bob Gibson, "You can tell the world";the Limeliters, "If I had a hammer"; and EdMcCurdy with a nice "Josie".

Judy Henske, who opens side two with"Wade in the water", gets a bit over -heated,and the people who play and sing "La Bamba"with Latin accent and joie de vivre don'tsound as though they should be named Budand Travis.

One of the best tracks, for gusto and cleanbanjo picking, is "Reuben's train" by theDillards.

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Birdlandthat's where I gothit over the head

Europe-jazz audiences LISTEN

to you over there

Britain-no negotiations for

a visit at present

THEpublic image of trumpeter Miles

Davis is of a truculent and unap-proachable artist. The stories of Miles'rudeness to both pressmen and audiencesare legion.

But on two occasions Ihave telephoned him - inAntibes when he was appear-ing there with his quintetlast July and last week athis home in New York - he joyed doing that because wehas been co-operative, has got some new sounds on it.readily answered questions, Gil wrote for a ten -pieceand shown nothing whatso- group, including woodwinds,ever of the attitude which harp, two french horns, altohas given him the reputation and bass flute, bass trom-of being the Frank Sinatra bone, and normal rhythm.of the jazz world. Your latest album, "Quiet

My questions were answer- Nights" (still to be issued ined by Miles and his wife Britain) is reported to beFrances, who joined him on similar in concept toa phone extension. "Sketches of Spain". Why do

What have you been doing you favour Spanish - tingedboth in and out of the record- music?ing studios recently?T AM going to del benefit

911"- "A- concerts for NAACP(National Association for theAdvancement of ColouredPeoples), including a concertin memory of PresidentKennedy on February 12.

We're going to record themusic we -Gil Evans and my-self -did for the play "Time WELL, I get away fromof the Barracudas". I en- the normal bar struc-

TUE real reason is that theyhave very strong melo-

dies. The softer you playthe melody, the stronger itbecomes. You can't playbebop on those melodies.

I intend recording some"Freedom" music.

What do you mean by"Freedom"?

Radio jazz(Times: GMT)

FRIDAY5.0 p.m. Z: Aspects of Jazz.6.10 H 2: Jazz Rondo. 8.30 M:

Jazz. 8.30 A: Jazz en France.9.0 R: Mississippi Jazz. 9.35 Z:Jazz Actualities. 10.0 RTF 258m.The Real Jazz. 10.5 N I: Memories"f Dorsey. 10.15 T: Previn-Rose,Trine Lopez. 10.35 app. A: D. Car-roll, Bessie Griffin and GospelPearls, Soulseekers. 11.15 T: Newpertormances by Budd Johnson.11.20 I: JATP in Europe.

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Z: Swing Serenade. 7.0 N 2: DanishJazz. 8.30 A: Jazz Images. 8.45 Z:"Jazz Everywhere!". 10.15 T: T.D.,Pied Pipers, Shaw, Miller, PeggyLee on original 78's. 11.5 J: JazzBook. 11:15 T: Memphis Slim,Hodier-Solal, Krupa, Herman,Jimmy Smith.

SUNDAY4.30 p.m. I: Big Bill Broonzy's

last session. 8.30 A: 011ie Shep-ard, Dinah Washington, Eddie

Vinson; Jimmy Smith at the organ.10.31 BBC L: Jazz Scene.

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Session. 8.30 A: Jazz discs of theweek. 8.50 H 2: Jazz Magazine,9.15 N 2: Memories of NewOrleans. 10.5 U: German amateurjazz festival; Billy Mitchell. 10.15T: Will Bradley Ork., Brubeck,Roy Hamilton, Herman, B.G. 11.15T: New Jazz Albums --"DonaldByrd at the Half -Note Cafe" and"Terry Gibbs Plays Jewish Melo-dies in Jazztime".

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M: jazz. 9.10 R: Stephane Crap-pelly. 9.30 I: International discnews. 1C.5 0: "First Appearance".10.15 T: Bing Crosby with J.D.,B.G. 1941, Miller 1939 broadcast.11.15 T: "The Essential ColemanHawkins".

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ture. You know, away fromthe straight 32 bars.

For example, we'll havemaybe eleven bars written,and then I'll play.

Then maybe twelve barswritten, then I'll play again.

We did something like thaton the "Time of the Barra-cudas" score. Gil wouldwrite six or seven bars, thenI'd play a little.

What were your impres-sions of your trip to Europeto play at the Antibes Festi-val?

FRANCESand I enjoyed it

very much. But theorganisation there wasn'tvery good.

Did you find European au-diences different from thosein the States?EUROPEAN audiences

usually know more aboutthe background of jazz thanthe fans here. They LISTENto you.

There are some places herethat I don't like playing.Birdland, for example. That'swhere I got hit over the head.

Hall. 10.10 U: Bremen Jazz Ses-sion. 10.15 T: Laurindo Almeida's"Theme from Mondo Cane", Krupa,Baste, others. 11.15 T: "The Essen-tial Dizzy Gillespie".

THURSDAY7.20 p.m. Z: Europe -jazz. 7.30

N 2: Max Roach's "Freedom NowSuite". 8.30 A: Jazz a la carte.9.10 R: Jazz from Canada. 9.20Q: Jazz Festival. 10.15 T: Selectedpopular music. 11.15 T: "TheEssential Gerry Mulligan".

Programmes subject to change.KEY TO STATIONS

A: RTF Inter: 1829, 48.58m.H: Hilversum: 1-402m. 2-298m.I: SWF B -Baden: 295, 363, 451m.1: AFN Europe: 547, 344, 271m.L: NR Oslo: 1376, 477, 337, 228m.M: Saar: 211 m. N: DenmarkRadio: 1-1224m: 2-283, 210m. 0:BR Munich: 375, 187m. Q: HRFrankfurt: 506 m. R: RAI Italy:355, 290, 269, 207m. T: VOAWashington: 1734m. U: RadioBremen: 221m. Z: SBC Lausanne:393m.

And Basin Street East too.I don't like playing there,because the people who getin there don't go to listento you. They only go todrink, not to hear music.

Have you heard any Euro-pean jazzmen who've parti-cularly impressed you?I CAN'T think of any names.

but I do know that theyprogress very quickly overthere.

What is the personnel ofyour current group?l'111 -1E same as I had in

France. George Coleman(tenor), Herbie Hancock(piano), Ron Carter (bass),and Tony Williams (drums).

Yes, Tony Williams is com-ing along very well. He'sone of the best around. Prob-ably the most PROGRES-SIVE drummer there is atthe moment.

Fm thinking of adding an-other horn to the group. No,no particular instrument.Just if I hear somebody whoI like and feel is good enoughI'll try and get him to join.

What are the chances ofseeing you back in Britain?WELL, I don't think there

are any negotiations go-ing on at the moment.

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GLYNDRYHURSTSWINGTET

Strikingly versatile five -piece band playing.all forms of jazz competently with particularpreference for mainstream and swing.,Already an established favourite on thecontinent but now making an impact on theU.K. scene.

1-29 DusseldorfGERMANY

Returning U.K. March 1

DAVE HEWETTDIXIELANDERSDriving Chicago style

GEOFF GILBERTGOTHIC J. B.Red hot New Orleans

LONDON CITY AGENCYJOHNNY JONES. TONY CARDY MGMT.*Also R & B and Beat Groups

BLOWING YOUR WAYIN FEBRUARY

1st Wood Green, Fishmongers' Arms3rd Ipswich, Baths Hall7th Osterley, Rugby Club13th 1.1 C., W.I.9th Edgware, White Lion

10th Bexley, Black Princes11th Marlon, New Crown Hotel14th Harwell15th Dunrnow, Fookes Memorial Hall16th Chingford, Royal Forest Hotel17th J J.C., W.I.18th Nottingham Tech. Collage19th Wickersley, Three Horseshoes Hotel20th Cleethorpes, Shell Bar Jazz Club21st Sunderland College22nd Newcastle23rd Oldbury. Hen IC Chickens24th Recording. Radio Luxembourg27th H.M.S. Collingwood28th Oxford, Randolph Hotel. Press Ball29th Edmonton, Hospital Dance

Our new tingle - Tennessee Stud 'Titanic Columbia0.8.7202 is in the shops NOW!!

Fan Club - s.a.e. to 121 Avenue Mews,London, N.10.

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F MICK EMERYSole representation:

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13 Aberystwyth, King's Hall14 York, Assembly Rooms15 Nottingham, Doming Slipper17 Leicester, II RondoIR Aylesbury, Grosvenor Ballroom

20 Cardiff, City Hull21 Valentine Hotel, Ilford, plus

All-Nighter Alexander Palace22 Barking, Britannia13 Jo:shows, 100 Oxford Street, W.124 Ipswich, Baths Noll26 R.B.C. "Easy Bear" -recording27 Hornchurch, The Hm Hotel28 Shoreditch Town Hall29 Bristol, Technical College

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THE MIKE COTTON BAND UZI tiSA "1st

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Wood Green. Bourne HallHitshin. Hermitage HallEasy Neat recordingHampton Court. Thames HotelWoodford. Cheshire Comm'ty CentreReshot Coothom HotelManchester University

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Bromley Court HotelLoughborough CollegeHiss. Can HallWelwyn Garden City. Cherry TreeSt. Albans. Market HallCheltenham. Town HallOsterley. Rugby ClubJ.I.C. W.I.

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23rd Edgware. White Lion25th Nottingham. Trent Bridge Hotel28th Northampton Polytechnic. W.C.I29th Dunmow. Fookes Memorial Hall

Hear us on Easy Boat - Sun. 9thFeb. Seer us on TV -Discs A GoGo-24th Feb.

W.1 GERrard 0227

A*L*L THAT JAZZpoLLWINNING baritone

saxist RONNIE ROSS hasformed a new Septet whichis playing regular Mondaysat the Bull's Head, Barnes.

Ronnie will be in Bill LeSage's experimental groupwhich goes to Germany inFebruary.

KENNY BALL'S Jazzmenhave been offered a tour ofRumania in the early partof September. Acceptancedepends on how it fits in withKenny's plans for a trip to

Japan and the Far Eastaround the same time.

FAT JOHN'S Band willtour Holland in exchange forthe DUTCH SWING COL-LEGE group's next Britishtour. Both bands are due toopen their tours on February15. Fat John will be residentfor six weeks at The MillersClub, Rotterdam.

MIKE DANIELS is forminga big band for a Friday nightresidency at London's Jazz -shows Jazz Club. Using hisown Delta Jazzmen as the

basis, Mike expects to usefour brass, three saxes andrhythm.

BRIAN GREEN's NewOrleans Stompers haveopened their own Thursdayclub at the Tallyho, KentishTown, London. The groupreturns to the Ken ColyerClub's All-nighter on February29 and plays Croydon JazzClub on February 7 andMarch 13. It also plays threeSouthampton club dates onFebruary 21, 22 and 23.

The BRIAN BIRD Sextet,

resident at the JazzhouseBlackheath, has folded and anew group, the FRANKPOWELL Sextet, has emergedfrom the ashes. The Jazz -house will feature differentname groups each week.

Another traditional - stylebig band, led by trumpeterDUD CLEWS, is runningSaturday sessions in Coven-try. The band has spent ayear rehearsing tunes bysuch as Ellington, Luis Rus-sell, Jelly Roll Morton andFletcher Henderson.

JazzshowsJazzClub

EVERY NIGHT AT 7.30100 OXFORD STREET, W.1Thursday. ianuary 30th

JIMMY POWELLand the Five Dimensionsand the WES MINSTER 5Tidal, Janus,) 11,i

ALAN ELSDON'S JAll BANDMick Emery's Folk GroupJohn Chilton's Duarte,Saturday, February 1st

THE MIKE COTTON BANDSunday, February 2nd

ALEX WELSH AND HIS BANDMonday, February 3rd

MONTY SUNSHINE'Swith Vol Wiseman JAll BANDDicki Bishop's Folk GroupTuesday, February 41h

GRAHAM BOND'SR & B QUARTET

THE ART WOOD COMBO11rdnrsday, I ebruary 5th

BACK 0' TOWN SYNCOPATORSThursday, February 610

ALEX HARVEY'S SOUL BANDJOHN LEE & THE GROUND HOGS

Full details of the Club from the SecretaryJ.J.C., 22 Newman St., W.1 (LAN 0184)

KENCOLYER

CLUBAt Studio SI, 10/11 Gt. Newport St

Leicester Square (Tube)

,atro.10), 7.3c

KEN COLYER JazzmenSunday, 7.15

KEN COLYER JazzmenVi'ednesday, 7.30

KID MARTYN RAGTIME BAND

ALL-NIGHT SESSION THIS SATURDAYFROM MIDNIGHT

DIZ DISLEYand IAN WHEELER ALL STARS

Non -Members admitted at all SessionsAll -Night Sessions every Saturday Night

STUDIO '5110/11 GT. NEWPORT ST

LEICESTER SQUARERHYTHM &',may, 8 nit MidnIgn,

THE DOWNLINERS SECTYunday Afternoon, 4 unit( 6.30'

THE DOWNLINERS SECTMonday, 8-11

THE DOWNLINERS SECT.Thursday, 8 011 lI

THE ROAD RUNNERSApply NOW for membership

5/- per annumNon -Members Admitted at all Sessions

I

THAMES HOTELHampton Court

'DOUGGIE RICHFORD',S

LONDON JAllMENSaturday, Fehivary 1,t

GERRY BROWN'S JAll BAND

GEOFF GILBERT'S

GOTHIC JAll BAND.

4

HORNSEY TOWN HALL

Saturday, February 1st

DANCE7.30-1 2.00

JOHNNYDANKWORTH

& his OrchestraLicensed Bor Free Car PorkAdvance Tickets: 6/6 Tel.: Fitzroy 2448

Alexis Korner'sBLUES INCORPORATED

all enquiries to:Peter Burman Agency

HAMpstead 6596 or 4994

FLAMINGO33-37 Wardour St., London W.1Gerrard 1545. Guests welcome

Dance or listen in comfortTony Harris & Rik Gunnell

present:-* FRIDAY (31st) 7.30-11.30

ZOOT MONEY'SBIG ROLL BAND

* SATURDAY (Feb. 1st) 7-11.30TONY KINSEY QNT

BILL LE SAGEALL STARS

WITH KATHY STOBART* SUNDAY (2nd) 7-11

GEORGIE FAMEAND THE BLUE FLAMES

ALL- RIGHTER CLUB3-37 Wardour Street, London, W.1

Tony Harris and Rik Gunnellpresent:

* THURSDAY (30th) 8-1

THE JET BLACKS* FRIDAY (31st) 12-6GEORGIE FAME

AND THE BLUE FLAMESJOHN MAYALL'S

BLUES BREAKERS* SATURDAY (Feb. 1st) 12-6

GEORGIE FAMEAND THE BLUE FLAMES

DICK MORRISSEY QRT* SUNDAY (2nd) afternoon 3-6

R. & B. ALL STARS* MONDAY (3rd) 8-1DAVE DAVANIAND THE "D" MEN

* THURSDAY (6th) 8-1ZOOT MONEY'S

BIG ROLL BAND

CRAW DADDYR & B CLUBS

SATURDAYSSTAR HOTEL, LONDON RD.,

CROYDONIMPULSIONS

SUNDAYSR.A.A. GROUNDS, RICHMOND

ROOSTIN ON BLUES, THE

YARDBIRDS THURSDAY

TODAYACTON, George & Dragon,

RHYTHM & BLUES.

AT THE BLUE ANCHOR,SOUTH END, CROYDON, MOD-ERN JAZZ in distinctive sur-roundings. VIC ASH, LENNIEBEST QUARTET, 8 p.m. Admis-sion 3s. 6d. Membership 2s.

BLUESLINERS, R&B! "Grey-hound", Chadwell Heath,

BRIAN GREEN'S New OrleansStompers, Tally Ho, Fortess Rd.,Kentish Town.

BROMLEY COURT. Dick Char-lesworth City Gents, Jackie Lynn.

JAZZ! St. Michael's Hall,North Rd., N.6. 8-10.30 p.m.

SIX BELLS CHELSEA: BLUEBEAT, MEL TURNER.

THE HOPBINE (North WembleyStation) TOMMY WHITTLE

QUARTET. Tonight's Guest StarKENNY BAKER.

FRIDAY A BALL, Palm Court Hotel,

RICHMOND. KATHY STOBART.Admission free.

ALEXANDER'S JAZZMEN,Streatham I/Rink.

ALHAMBRA JAZZMEN, "Rose-mary Branch", Knights Hill, Sth.Norwood.

BLUE OPERA CLUBJOHN LEE

& THE GROUNDHOGSR&B BROMLEY

ROYAL BELL, HIGH STREET.

BRIXTON JAZZ CLUB. Per-severance, Vassall Rd. 5 mins.Oval CLIFF REEVES JAZZMEN.Bar.

BROMLEY COURT. Rhythm &Blues, SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON

CROYDON JAZZ CLUB. StarHotel MIKE DANIELS DELTAJAZZMEN.

HARRINGAY R&BBLUESVILLE!

JIMMY POWELL'S"5" DIMENSIONS!!

"THE MANOR HOUSE"(oposite Manor House Tube)

RAILWAY HOTEL, Norbiton.Dryades Street Jazzmen!

SOUTHERN JAZZ CLUB. Ma-sonic Hall, over "Red Lion", 640High Road, Leytonstone. ERICSILK'S SOUTHERN JAZZBAND.

STARTING GATE Station Road,Wood Green. D6N RENDELL,Colin Peters.

SATURDAY ALEXANDER'S JAZZMEN,

Streatham I/Rink.WOOD GREEN: ALAN ELSDON!

(members only)

SUNDAYA BALL, Palm Court Hotel,

RICHMOND. Lunch time, LEN-NIE BEST & DICK MORRISSEY.Evening, HAROLD BECKETT re-sident rhythm section ED FAULT-LESS TRIO, Dick Brennandrums, Martin Joseph pianc.Admission as always, free.

AT KINGSBURY, Prince ofWales. MODERN JAZZ! CYRILKEEFER SEXTET plus guests.Admission free.

AT THE JAZZHOUSEGreen Man, Blackheath Hill

DON RENDELL QUINTET

BILL BRUNSKILL, FightingCocks, Kingston.

CARDINAL JAZZMEN. BlackBull, Whetstone. Free admission.

CLUB OCTAVE. From "JazzClub," the new Gordon BeckTrio with Jeff Clyne, JohnnyButts. Guest tenorist PeterKing. Hambrough Tavern, South-all.

1/4d. per word

RICKY TICK CLUBFRIDAY: 31st January

WINDSOR: Star & GarterTHE ANIMALS

GUILDFORD: Plaza Ballroom;ALEXIS KORNER

READING: St. John's AmbulanceHall, Chatham St;THE YARDBIRDS

SATURDAY: 1st FebruaryMAIDENHEAD: Pearce Hall;

SONNY -BOY WILLIAMSONwith the YARDBIRDS

SUNDAY: 2nd FebruaryREADING: 3-5.30 Olympia

Ballroom: GEORGIE FAMEwith the BLUE FLAMES

WINDSOR: Star & GarterTHE EMBERS

TUESDAY: 4th FebruaryGUILDFORD: Plaza Ballroom:

THE YARDBIRDSWINDSOR: Star & Garter

BLUEBEAT

FRIDAY OSTERLEY JAZZ CLUB, Oster -

ley Rugby Club Pavilion, Tente-low Lane, Norwood Green,Southall. KEITH SMITH'SCLIMAX JAZZBAND, DAVEKEIR OCTET. Next week: AlanElsdon.

JIM GODBOLT presents

SIX BELLS JAll CLUBSix Bells, King's Road, Chelsea

19, 22, 49, 11 BusesNearest Station Sloane Square

Friday, January 31st

HUMPHREYLYTTELTON

AND HIS BANDSaturday, tebruary 1st

ALEX WELSHAND HIS BAND

NO FURTHERMONDAY SESSIONS

ENQUIRIES: Xing REE 8321 - NOT theSix Dells,

THURSDAY, 6th FEBRUARY

First London appearanceof the exciting

ALEX HARVEYSOUL BAND

Jazzshows Jazz Club100 Oxford Street, W.1

0 FRIDAY,-contd. WINDSOR -"CAVERN"

Behind Ex -Services Club.RHYTHM N' BLUESTHE PARAMOUNTS

Latest Hit "Poison Ivy"Everybody welcome. 7 to 11. Lic.Bars.

SATURDAY BRENTWOOD JAZZ CLUB!

DICK CHARLESWORTH C.G.!!"THE WHITEHART HOTEL"

Brentwood, Essex. Lic. Bars.

DUNMOW JAZZ CLUB. BobWallis and the Storeyville Jazz -band.

GEORGIAN JAZZ CLUB HighStreet, Cowley. MIKE DANIELS

MONDAY IPSWICH, ALAN ELSDON'S

JAZZBAND!

TUESDAY AYLESBURY JAZZ CLUB!

MR. ACKER BILKS'PARAMOUNT JAZZ BAND!!BOROUGH ASSEMBLY HALL.assemble all ye faithful !

BALDRY'S BLUESCLUB

RAILWAY HOTEL, WEALDSTONE

CYRIL DAVIES'BENEFIT NIGHT

LONG JOHN BALDRY'SHOOCHIE COOCHIE MEN

ROD STEWARTTHE ANDY WREN QUARTETALEX HARVEY SOUL BAND

WEDNESDAY NONSUCH Jazzmen, Organ Inn,

Ewell.

SUNDAY 0REDCAR JAZZ CLUB

COATHAM HOTELBACK 0' TOWN SYNCOPATERS

ROM39 GERR

SCOTT'S CLUB5T., W.I. Tel.: GER 4752

SUNDAY,-contn. COOKS, CHINGFORD, Royal

Forest Hotel. FREDDY RANDALLAND HIS BAND.

HOT CLUB OF LONDON, 7 p.m.Britain's outstanding jazzmen,CHRIS BARBERS JAZZBAND, al-so Pete Robinson HOT FOUR.Please come early, ShakespeareHotel, Powis Street, Woolwich.

WOOD GREEN: MIKE COTTON!(members only)

MONDAY 0ART WOOD Combo, R&B, White

Hart, Southall, 2s, 6d.

BEXLEY,-Black Prince Hotel.Humphrey Lyttleton Jazzband.

BROMLEY COURT. Alexis Kor-ner.

GOLDERS GREEN REFECTORYGRAHAM BOND

TUESDAY KLOOKS (R&B) KLEEK

Railway Hotel, West Hampstead.WES MINSTER 5. plus RAYWARLEY'S MOB. 3/-

MORDEN: BACK 0' TOWN SYN-COPATORS. Interval: AlanRogers: "The Crown".

WOOD GREEN: FAT JOHN!

WEDNESDAY 0BLUE ROOM, Islington. DICK

HECKSTALL-SMITH. Chris Sped -ding Trio. "Earle" Cook AlRushton. Angel & Crown, UpperSt. (Highbury corner).

BROMLEY COURT. Fat John.GOLDERS GREEN -REFECTORY

JIMMY POWELL

KLOOKS KLEEKRailway Hotel, West Hampstead.JOE HARRIOTT, SHAKE KEANE,JOHNNY HEALING TRIO. MIKEOSBORNE QUINTET. 2/6.

YOUR RECORDDEALER

1/4d. per wordCARDIFF

CITY RADIO (Cardiff), Ltd.. 2Churchill Way, Cardiff. Phone28165. The only specialised jazzrecord shop in Wales.

DARLINGTONGEO, A. WILLIAMS and Son

Ltd., 8-10 Tubwell Row, Darling-ton

NOTTINGHAMREDIFFUSION RECORD Centre

for all the latest records. -AngelRow, Nottingham.

SHEFFIELDWILSON PECK LTD., YOUR

record dealer.-Fargate, Sheffield.

RECORDS FOR SALE1/- per word

A.X.D.C. RECORD RIOT! LP'sFROM 10/-, EP's FROM 5/-. JoinATLAS X CHANGE -A -DISC CLUB.S.A.E. Details of Membership.A.X.D.C. P.O. Box 51, WilliamRoad, London, N.W.1.

RECORDS WANTED1/- per word

DRUM TUITION record wanted.-Tunnicliff, 30 Delius Close Els-tree.

RECORDS BOUGHT. 45's, EP's,LP's. - Fowler, 264 VauxhallBridge Road, S.W.1. (Callers only)

TIRED OF THE SAME OLDJAZZ / POPS? FREE ADVERTISEyour unwanted DISCS ! JoinATLAS X -CHANGE -A -DISC CLUB,s.a.e. Details of Membership,A.X.D.C., P.O. Box 51 WilliamRoad, London, N.W.1.

RECORD LIBRARY1/4d. per word

LJRC RECORD Lending Library,S.A.E. Details. 19 Gerrard Street,

FAN CLUBSI/4d. per word

KENNY BALL Appreciation So-ciety. - S.a.e. to Miss Pat Saun-ders, 18 Carlisle Street, W.1.

LONDON'S ONLY

,JAll NIGHT- CLUB ITHE -ONLY CLUB IN TOWN where Patrons'can - 'Dine

Wine'and listen to the BEST'JAll in TOWN

Von) 8 p.m..I a.m. seven nights a week I'licensed until I a.m.

Steaks, Chops, Italian Specialities'Waiter service at olltables

"Arena" seating at three hovels

TONIGHT, THURS. 30th, FRI. 31st,8 p.m. -1 a.m.SAT. 1st (2 sessions, 7.30-12 Midnight and12 Midnight -4.30 a.m.SUN. 2nd, 7.30.12 MidnightMON. 3rd and WED. 5th, 8 p.m. -1 a.m.

We take great pleasure in presentingthe wonderful singer from ,the U.S.A.

MARKMURPHY

with theSTAN TRACEY TRIO

TUES. 4th, 8 p.m. -1 a.m.No Mark Murphy tonight, he is televising

TUBBY HAYES QUINTETSTAN TRACEY TRIO

also appearing with Mark Murphy will be:THURS: ERNEST RANGLIN TRIO

RONNIE SCOTT QUARTET

FRI: TUBBY HAYES QUINTETRONNIE SCOTT QUARTET

SAT: (2 sessions)TUBBY HAYES QUINTETRONNIE SCOTT QUARTET

SUN: TUBBY HAYES

MON: ERNEST RANGLIN TRIORONNIE SCOTT QUARTET

WED: JOHNNY SCOTT QUINTETRONNIE SCOTT QUARTET

1

JAll AT THE MARQUEE

ItS OXFORD STRIP W 1 IN, 01FORIJ CIRCUS'

Friday, January 31 st

* FREDDY RANDALLand his BandDENNIS REAY (piano)

Saturday, hebruary 1st

*JOE HARRIOTT QUINTETfeaturing SHAKE KEANE

* MICHAEL GARRICK TRIO* with DICK MORRISSEYSunday, hebruary 2na

*JOHN WILLIAMS'BIG BAND

*PHIL SEAMEN QUARTFTMonday, February 3rd

Lnrect tram their tour with the Ronettes

IF THE CHEYNES* JOHN MYALL'S BLUES

BREAKERSTuesday, February 401

* BLUE BEATfeaturing

BEATSPRICT and the

Wednesday, February 5th

* HUMPHREY LYTTELTON*DAANDVIHDISWBHAITNEDTRIO

Thoryday, February 6th

* LONG JOHN BALDRY* and the HOOCHIE COOCHIE MEN

THE YARDBIRDS

Tues., Fris.: Members 4/-, Guests 5/ -Mons., Weds., Suns.: Members 5/-,

Guests 6/-Thurs.: Members 5/-, Guests 7/6Sets.: Members.6/-, Guests 7/6

CLUB SECRETARIES AND

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISERS

PLEASE NOTE

copy should reach thisoffice by 10 a.m. on Fridaysif insertion is desired in thefollowing week's issue of

"MELODY MAKER".

161-166 Fleet StreetLondon, E.C.4

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Thursday, January 30th

DICK MORRISSEYFriday, January 31st

THE SIX SOUNDSfeaturing:

Dick Morrissey Ian Hamer Ken WrayHarry South Tony Archer Buzz GreenSaturday, February 1st

BOBBY WELLINSSunday, February 2nd

Lunchtime -

ART ELLEFSONEvening -

DICK HECKSTALL-SMITHMonday, February 3rd

THE TUBBY HAYESBIG BAND

Tuesday, February 4th

DICK MORRISSEYWednesday, February 5th

RONNIE ROSSBILL LE SAGE

MANfredMANnMAN !

"THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS" - SAT., FEB 1st

CLUB HOPBINENTH. WEMBLEY

EVERY WEDNESDAY FROM 5th FEB.

TONY DUNNING& HIS GROUP

8-10.30 Admission 3/6'Ladies 1/6 Before 8.30 p.m. Members 3/.

CORONATION HALL

GEORGIE FAME &THE BLUE FLAMES

and Supporting Group7.45-11.45 p.m. Admission 6/ -


.1.00KGOODAFEELtOOD in

THE FOC'S'LE, Southampton.Singers accepting bookings andwho do not fulfill them, willreceive no further engagementsat this Club. This follows recentdeplorable breaches of contractby a number of singers. -JohnI-ad.:1y Browne,

THURSDAY TODAY

ADDLESTONE, Duke's Head.ROYD, CLIFF, plus residents. 8p.m. Next week: Nigel Denver.

CHELSEA, Every week. FolkSong at the Wetherby, Kings Rd.,s p.m. Come early.

THE FOLK BARGE, TownendWharf Kingston, Resident GroupTHEO JOHNSON, ROD WILL-MOTT, TERRY MASTERSON andevery Thursday.

FRIDAY 0BLACK HORSE, Broadside,

Rathbone Place, W.1, 7.30. TheSongwriters take the stage. Sid-ney Carter, Stan Kelly, Bert Tariz.Leon Rosselson and many others.This session will be recorded.

FRIENDS OF OLD TIMEYMUSIC - OSTERLEY.

RORY McEWEN PRESENTSFOLKSONG CONCERT, CECILSHARP, HOUSE, 2 REGENTSPARK ROAD, LONDON, N.W.1.FRIDAY, JAN. 31st. 7.30, WITHDAVY STEWART, ISLACAMERON, MARTIN CARTHY,MALCOLM PRICE TRIO, SUR-PRISE GUEST. TICKETS 5s. 7s.6d. GUL 2206. BOOK NOW.

SATURDAY AT THE CELLAR, Cecil Charp

House, Regents Park Rd., N.W.1.Jack, Margaret, and Mike, plusguest Paul McNeil. Commence(.30. Come early.

AT THE TROUBADOUR, EarlsCourt, 10.30. DAVY STEWART,Scottish Trad. Singer: NIGELDENVER MARTIN CARTHY,

FOLKSONG UNLIMITED, Bed-ford Hall 40 Lambs Conauit St.,Theobalds Rd., 7.45, Nigel Den.ver, Mike Smyth, Jenny Pentz.Linda Bell.

HOOTENANNY BALLADS ANDBLUES, Black Horse, RathbonePlace. W.1. STEVE BENBOW,JACK FALLON, CUMBERLANDTHREE.

SUNDAY BATTERSEA, Nags Head, York

Road. Paul Lenihan, and guests.

FOLKSONG WORKSHOP, PottersBar Hotel.

HAMPSTEAD. DAVE STEWART,THE CEILIDH SINGERS, At theEnterprise, opposite Chalk FarmStation, 7.30.

Cot. No. 980Superbly crafted. Realblack leather. Threewelded pockets. Insidebreast pocket. Two -buttonstyled. Slim -tailored for thelong, lean look. Sizes34in -44in. chest.

X9.19.6 en 40/- shop,and 6 rely. pyts. ell

P .,red P. 3/ -Also REGENT CAT. No.982 with 3 -button styling

price.

RONDOCot. No. 430supple 'n' smooth. Realsolid black leather.Latest thing In collarlesscasual wear. Two slimpockets outside and twosafety pockets inside.Lined in Athens Blue adsilk. RONDO is simplymodern . simplysuperb. In 'Black or Blue.Sizes: Gents 34-44,Ladies SW, W, WX.

£9.19.6 or 40/- dep. and6 rely. pyts. of 30/9.P ,.eel P 3/.

Also ELITE but with V-neck opening -same price.

Cat. No. 95Exclusive fashion in con-tinental style. Real'Block Leather shortycoat with tie -belt andslim snappy lapels.Sixes 34in.-44in. chest.£1 4.19.6 Of 79/6 dep.and 6 rely. pyh. of42/11. P. and P. 3/6.

Mail your order (call y"you Irish) to:

Money -beck guaranteeSand for fret brochure.

(Dept. MM/5)Lewis)` 24D. Portland St.L ro.1.(11400N, W .1

KINGSTON, Union Hotel Surbi-ton Road, 8 p.m. DEREK SAR-JEANT,

ST. ALBANS, Peahen Hotel,7.30 p.m. John Reavey, PeteSayers and Johnny Duncan, andthe Resident Singers.

MONDAY COMEALLYE: Railway Tavern,

Stratford, Martin Carthy.

CROYDON - "ALHAMBRA". -ENOCH KENT, Folkvendors.

EDGWARE FOLK CLUB. TheLeather Bottle, 7.30, with LINDADREW, MARTIN WINSOR.

SPINNING WHEEL CELLARFolk Song Club. 8 every Monday.MICK SOFTLEY. - The SpinningWheel, 30 High Street, HemelHempstead. Boxmoor 5516.

THE FOLK CELLAR, Ron Sim-monds Terry Masterson, BungiesCoffee House, Litchfield St., W.1.

TUESDAY 0OPEN FOLK AND BLUES,

Crown, Twickenham. ResidentFOLK FOUR.

ROYD RIVERS - CLIFF AUN-GIER. Blues duo, Reading,

THE FOLK CELLAR. Ron Sim-monds, Terry Masterson: BungiesCoffee House, Litchfield St., W.1.

WIMBLEDON FOLK CLUB,Prince of Wales, The HickoryNuts.

WEDNESDAY 111

BOREHAMWOOD RED LION,LES LINDA, HAMPSTEAD FOLKTRIO,

BROMLEY "STAR AND GAR-TER". OPEN COME -ALL -YE withTHE FOLK VENDORS, all musi-cians welcome.

SURBITON, Assembly Rooms, 8p.m. DEREK SARJEANT presentsAll -Star Session in Large Hall.

THE FOLK SHOPFor everything in Folk Music

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ALTO Mk. VI Selmer, excellent,£67. LOW 1887.

CLAVFOLINE concert £55. -Mr. Bannister, TER 8300, Ext.224 (day)

FENDER STRATOCASTER, withcase, etc., as new, £100. Echo-lette, cost £131, as new, £85.Trixon drums, complete, cases,cymbals, etc. (maroon pearl),£115. -Smith, 16 Dence House,Turin Street, Bethnal Green E.2.

FIVE STRING bass withoutcover, £55 Soprano sax., Univer-sal, Savana, Paris, with case, £10.Cymbals, ZildMan. Varied selec-tion ranging from 10in. to 14in.Including matched pairs at £1per inch. Bass drums/tom-toms;various any offers considered.-MUSeum 1810.

GUITAR, self -imported, 1944,thought to be Maccaferri. Offers.-Box 3154.

SOPRANO BD., B.H. straight.excellent condition, offers or ex-change good cornet. -4 RomanRoad, Luton, Beds.

WATKINS ECHO, £29 o.n.o. -Oxshott 3200 after 7 p.m.

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DRUMS, Guitars., Echoes, Clari-nets, Accordions, etc. Bring yourinstrument for spot cash to LenStiles Ltd., 233/235 LewishamHigh Street, S.E.13. Lee 8018.

DRUMS WANTED. Privatebuyer offers £40 cash for goodkit. -Write 44 Woodlands, N.14.

GUITARS, AMPLIFIERS, drumsfor cash. -Maurice Placquct, 126aChurchfield Road, Acton. ACO7524.

ECHOES, AMPLIFIERS, Guitars.nought cash.-Wem. 1970.

WANTED. FENDER Guitar andVox Amplifier.-Wem, 1970.

WANTED. Hohner Cembalet.-Crawley 24438.

WANTED. Secondhand organ.Vox Continental 4/Rstandard, cash. -

-St. Albans 52302.WANTED. Semi -solid guitars.

Cash payment. -Musical ExchangeWembley 1970.

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FOOTE FOR BASS REPAIRS.Expert work on the premises.Estimates free. -Charles E. FooteLtd., 20 Denman Street, W.I.GER 1811.

JACK DAWKES MUSICAL IN-STRUMENT repairs. - Hayes(Mdx.) 4475.

JACK DAWKES' WOODWINDREPAIRS. Reeds, mouthpiecesimported. 6 Chaucer Ave., Hayes,Middx. Hayes 4475.

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THEATRICAL EMPLOYERS RE-GISTRATION ACT 1925. Noticeis hereby given that VIC ALLENORCHESTRAS LIMITED, of 156Fernside Road, Poole, Dorest, intends to apply to the CountyCouncil of Dorset for Registrationunder the above Act. Dated 16thJanuary, 1964.

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MUSICIANS WANTED iL per wordA BAND in a million. A

CHANCE in a million. Thereare now a limited number ofvacancies for men and boys tobe trained as musicians in afamous cavalry band. Beginnersaccepted. EARN WHILE YOULEARN. Pay is good in today'sregular army and where else canyou get paid to learn to playtrad, modern and with a bigband. Six weeks' holiday peryear with free air passage fromGermany. Opportunity to studyfor G.C.E. Write now to theBandmaster, 15th/19th The King'sRoyal Hussars, Swinton Barracks,B.F.P.O. 17.

ALL BRASS and Woodwind in-strumentalists required the Mili-tary Band The Royal HighlandFusiliers because of extensivebuild-ups for tour of U.S.A. andCanada in 1966. Please write tothe Bandmaster: Mr. G. T. F.Cooke, LRAM. ARCM. The RoyalHighland Fusiliers, B.F.P.0.24.

BAND of the CORPS of ROYALENGINEERS (Aldershot), hasvacancies for VIOLINS and acompetent FRENCH HORN. -Apply Director of Music, South-wood Camp Cove, Farnborough,Hants., stating experience.

BAND OF THE STAFFORD-SHIRE REGT. Musicians are re-quired on the following instru-ments. Flute, tenor sax, trom-bone, cornet violin, cello. Theband is returning to U.K. fromKenya in late 1964. - Write nowto: Bandmaster, R. A. Hunt,L.R.A.M., A.R.C.M., 1st Bn. TheStaffordshire Regiment, B.F.P.O.10.

BANDSMEN AND JUNIORS.Vacancies for flute, oboe. clari-net, horn, cornet, trombone, bass,pianist, vocalist, strings. - De-tails from Secretary, RAMC StaffBand, Crookham, Hants.

BAND, 5th Royal InniskillingDragoon Guards require pianistfor dance band and brass instru-mentalists for Military Band. Va.cancies exist for Junior Bands-men on all instruments, - ApplyBandmaster Aliwal Barracks,Tidworth, Hants.

BASS GUITARIST. Must becompetent swing, rock, etc.Good equipment essential.Guaranteed 6 - month contract,with option, to join Swedishrecording group. Write imme-diately, enclosing photographand recent tape or recordings.Gunnar Olsson, c/o The Vikings,Box 127, Arvika, 1, Sweden.

BASS, TRADITION. DryadesStreet Jazzmen. MAL 3487..

BASS, with transport, tradgroup, North London. Box 3162.

BEAT DRUMMER. Urgent.Engagements waiting. - Barnet20211310,LLY SMART'S Circus requireexperienced musical director for1984 Tenting Season. Apply withfull details to Mr. Ronald Smart,Winkfield Zoo, Windsor, Berks.

CAN YOU write pop melodies?song writer under pressure fromartistes needs talented musician -collaborator. Genuine. Box 3155.

CLIVE CARNAZZA requires ex-perienced tenor / clarinet, alsodrummer, for Majestic,Tel. 655455 (home).

COME TO BERLIN, with TheBand of the 3rd East AnglianRegiment. Vacancies exist on allinstruments, beginners advanced.-Apply in writing to the Band-master, Ballykinlar Camp, Co.Down, N Ireland.

GRENADIER GUARDS BANDwill soon have vacancies for oneviolinist and one flute and plc-colo.-Applications to Director ofMusic, Birdcage Walk. S.W.1.

GRENADIER GUARDS requireboys 15-16 with some experienceof a string instrument for train-ing as all-round musicians. -Apply Director of Music, Grena-dier Guards, Birdcage Walk,S.W.1.

LEAD ALTO / CLARINET, Mid-land residency. Box 3163.

INSTRUMENTALISTS requiredfor a County of London T.A. Band.Oboe, Clarinets, Cornets, Hornsand Basses. - Write Bandmaster,Inns of Court and City Yeomanry,10 Stone Buildings, Lincolns Inn,W.C.2. Phone Holborn 8112,Practice, Wednesday, 7.30 p.m.Sunday, 10.30 a.m. Callers wel-come.

KEEN BASS. Rehearsals. John.WEL 7594 after 6.30 p.m.

LEAD TRUMPET ALSO TROM-BONE PLAYER required for Ber-tram Mills Circus Tenting andOlympia Band. Must be modernstyle player and prepared tosigned 7 months' contract. -Apply immediately Musical Direc-tor, Bertram Mills Circus, Olym-pia, W.14.

MUSICIANS WANTED for newcountry restaurant, night clubatmosphere. Guitar, piano, ac-cordion professional or amateur,lively personality rather thantechnical perfection. Live in orout. Open Country Restaurant,Chieveley.

NEWLY FORMED BAND of theSurrey Yeomanry (TerritorialArmy) requires experienced clar-inet and euphonium players.Others may apply. - Apply inperson to Bandmaster R. S. Ches-son, at TA Centre, Dorset Rd.,Merton, S.W.19, on Tuesday orThursday evenings between 7.30and 9.30 p.m.

NEW ORLEANS bass and drumsfor amateur jazzband. - LIB5877.

ORGANIST required for estab-lished resident beat group inLondon Ballroom. - LIB 8242.

PIANETTE/ORGANIST urgentlyrequired. Busy R. & B, band,London area. - WOR 3344.

PIANIST/ORGANIST. R. & B.Group, semi -pro. Rhythm guitar-ist. Top equipment. - BER 3814.

PIANISTS seeking permanent ortemporary weekend lounge workshould contact Clayman's. Imme-diate vacancies at new and in-creased rates. - Bis 5531 (day).

PIANIST, VERSATILE and ex-perienced required for the RoyalSignals Band. - Apply Directorof Music, Royal Signals Band.Catterick Camp. Yorkshire.

PIANIST WANTED. Trad./Main-stream Band, N.W. London. Wil-ling to rehearse. 'Working Fri-days. - Phone Day GLA 2083,Evening SPE 5670.

SAX PLAYER required to joinbeat group. -Apply Barrett. TreeTops, Brunswick St., Yeovil,Somerset.

SEMI -PRO, Jazz. Clarinet doub-ling sax, work waiting. - Ux-bridge 34134.

STAFF BAND of the RoyalArmy Ordnance Corps has vacan-cies for players of good standardon the following instruments:clarinet, Solo Cornet, Piano. -Applicants should write to: Lieut.H. Mitchell, Director of Music,etik0C, Blackdown, Hants.

TAILGATE SIX, require N.O.Trumpeter. - Call Rising Sun,528 Bamford Rd., E.7, Monday,8.30-10.

TENOR sax/clarinet. Goodreauer, experienced R. & B. Mustbe young and keen. Permanency.-Apply Johnny Battersby, "J.M."Bai,room, Dundee. Tel. Dunuee24115.

THE BAND of The Queen's OwnHussars have immediate vacan-cies for all instruments. Youngmen 15-171 years wishing to pur-sue a musical career, wheretuition is freely given, shouldapply to Bandmaster RHF Wait,LRAM, ARCM, The Queen's OwnHussars, BFPO 41,

THE BAND of The Welsh Guardshas vacancies for a pianist, clari-nets and cornets. -For details ap-ply to the Director of Music,Headquarters Welsh Guards. Bird-cage Walk, London, S.W.1.

HE BAWD OF THE 9ch/12thROYAL LANCERS, having arrivedin Germany, has vacancies forshe following experienced players- Cornet/trumpet clarinet/saxo-phone, percussion, oboe/piano,

kflute/saxophone, double bass/brass bass. Consideration willalso be given to suitable begin-ners. - Apply for details to: Mr.B. T. Keeling, LRAM, ARCM, 9th/12th Royal Lancers, BFPO 36.

THE ZEROS need guitaristsfrom S.E. London. - Writeto Brett Boyd, 4 Liskeard Gar-dens Blackheath, S.E.3.

TRIO WANTED, also all musi-cians, summer season. - Box3170.

TROMBONE, Oliver/Morton, forestablished semi -pro N.O. Band.(Regular work.) - Box 3133.

VACANCIES EXIST for all brassinstrumentalists in the Band ofthe 4/7th Royal Dragoon Guards.- Apply to The Bandmaster,4/7th Royal Dragoon Guards,B.F.P.0.17.

VACANCIES EXIST in thebands of the Welsh Brigade forBrass and Reed players. Agelimits: Boy entrants 151-17, men171-25. Musical experience notessential. - Apply Bandmaster,Welsh Brigade Depot, CRICK-HOWEL, BRECS.

VOCALIST and Drummer re-quired for group, good equip-ment. - BYRon 9005.

WANTED. Girl pianists guit-aria:3, singers, organists, etc. -Stan White, c/o Blackburn LewisAgency, 35 Curzon Street, W.I.GRO 8312,

WANTED. Organist or harmon-ica player, S.E. London. - ELT3272.

WANTED. YOUNG, good look-ing, personality pianist/organist.Rhythm and blues. jazz. Organsupplied. Must be super enthu-siast. - Box 3164.

WELL -ESTABLISHED Territor-ial band has vacancies for oboe,clarinets, horn, trombone, bass,pianist. Good amateur standardpreferred. - Apply Bandmaster,Queen's Royal Rifles (T.A.), 58Buckingham Gate, S.W.1. Re-hearsals Tuesday/Thursday even-ings. Sunday mornings.

YOUNG BASSIST or BassGuitarist wanted. Capable unisonvocals. For Gaiety Ballroom,Grimsby. Maxwell, Locarno, Burn-ley. Phone Burnley 78245 day-time.

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ABLE ACCOMPLISHED PIANISTavailable. - Pro. 4542

ABLE ACCORDIONIST avail-able. PRO 4542.

ACCORDIONIST. - CLI 0419.ings.

ACCORDION/PIANO. - WEM

ALTO/CLAR. - CLI 4811.ALTO/CLARINET. Gigs/perm.,

pro. Al Silver. - BAT 0952.ALTO (LEAD), clarinet, flute.

L 2491.ALTO/TENOR/Violin. - MAC

ALTO. Transport. Free Satur-days. - MAC 5944. GER 3995.

ALTO, young. - SYD 6498.B.B.C. JAZZ pianist available

club work. - Box 3160.BASS, amplified. -Tony Vincent

FAI 7388.BASS. Anything. - WIL 5440.BASS, car. - FAI 5608.BASS, car. library. - EDM

2889.BASS,4. car. - Benjamin, BRI

BASS, EXPERIENCED. - SOU3195.

BASS, experienced, transport.-Arc. 2050.

BASS GUITAR, professional. -SOU 3195.

BASSIST. Summer season. -HAR 6824.

BASSISY, young experiencedprofessional, gigs/perm., trans-port. Messages, Silver, BAT 0952.

BASS / VOCALIST, unlimitedrepertoire transport. GRA 9460.

BASS / VOCALS, experienced,summer season. - Sam Allen,Sherwood Rooms, Nottingham.

BASS. - Wally, BER 3658.COLOURED PIANIST, vocalist.

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4928DRUMMER. Bob (28). -Croy-don 0803. Message.

DRUMMER. Experienced atmost lines (cabaret recording,etc.), seeks gigs / perm. - VAN

DRUMMER. Gigs, car. - LTV8619.

6733.DRUMMER, harmonica, pro. -

CAN 4641.DRUMMER, PRO, transport. -

FRA 2031.DRUMMER / SINGER, harmon-

ica. Dance, jazz, semi pro. Ex-perienced. - TUD 8257.

DRUMMER, TRANSPORT, ex-perienced.-Lar. 5094.

DRUMMER, transport. Farn-borough (Kent) 52166.

DRUMMER. Versatile. FELthain4503.

DRUMMER, young, experiencedversatile, seeks semi or pro.group South London, or SouthCoast. - Hassocks 3923.

DRUMMER, YOUNG. Read,busk, vocals, show kit. Prefer-ably sum. season. Returning fromGermany in March. Photo sup-plied. Ring KIN 3668.

ELECTRIC GUITAR and vocals.Lounge, club or dance. Requireregular work E. London area. -Ray Cracknell. ILF 4576.

ELECTRIC VIOLIN. - PUT 5146.ELECTRIC ZITHER 5, new

sound. Commercials, cabaret,seen. - STR 8625.

EXPERIENCED BASS and leadguitarists, Semi -pro. - 211 Hal-ley Road, E.12, 6 p.m.

EXPERIENCED PIANIST avail-able, with group, or solo. - LAR8275.

EXPERIENCED RHYTHM guitar,pro. - Box 3144.

GUITARIST, - ACO 1526.IVOR ELLIOT, tenor, experi-

enced. MAL 1397,LEAD GUITARIST / VOCALIST.

THO 2929. 6.30-7.30,MODERN music student tenor/

clarinet. KIP 1800.ORGANIST, lounge, cabaret,

dance. Wallington 4430.ORGANIST/PIANIST, modern,

reader, own organ, availableperm./season, prefer South orEast. -Box 3150.

PIANIST, able. -Pro. 4542.2703.

PIANIST and drummer. ARN

PIANIST. Brilliant professionalvocals. -CHI 4895.ingPsI)ANIST, - EAL 2563 (even -

PIANIST, experienced, requires,summer season; South. HalShaw. Walsall 23336,

PIANIST, first class, read/busk,just finished West End residency.WOR 4268.

PIANIST. - Jim Barry, DOL6731.

PIANIST, pro, car. KIL 2482.PIANIST/VIBES or trio, experi-

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PIANIST, young, modern, soloor with bass and drums, avail-1a0b1l0e. for high-class work. - BAT

PIANO.-DIJNcan 0210.PROFESSIONAL PIANIST, read

and busk requires good summerseason. Box 3169.

RHYTHM GUITARIST, semi- orpro group. G. Perkins, 50 Bough-ton Lane, Maidstone,

ROCK SAX, recording, stageexperience. Jack Semmens,TUDor 9471.

SOPHISTICATED modern stylepianist, unlimited repertoire,mainly busk. HIT 9250.

TENOR -ALTO, - WIL 1134.TENOR/CLAR. - Bob Knox,

BRI 6033.TENOR CLARINET, flute,

vocals. - KEL 2491.TENOR, COLOURED, R & B,

Read - TOT 9524,TENOR - READER. Terminus

3888.TENOR SAX, Experienced. -

2680,TROMBONE, experienced. STO

TRUMPET, young pro. Nowfree. TOW 1667.

VERSATILE YOUNG drummerneeds work; anything considered.Box 3156.

VIBES - PIANO - TRUMPET re-quires resident engagement. Box3157.

YOUNG bass violin, read, busk.4t8anlicsardshaw Street, St. Helen's,

YOUNG DRUMMER / VOCALIST(reader) available. Box 3165.

PERSONAL1/4d. per word

COMPOSER REQUIRES expertfJr setting a special lyric toguitar music. Please state ex-perience. - Box 3153.

COMPOSER wants good modernlyrics, view to pub. No outlay,S.a.e. with sample. - Box 3167.

FOR SATISFACTION and per-sonal service at weddings, dancesand parties, contact the ThaneDance Band Agency. ARChway4010.

MODERN QUARTET requiresgood class summer season. -Boxo168.

MODERN SONGWRITER desires:o contact singer. - Box 3159.

3,000 BUSKERS with key andstarting note, 5/6. -- Bradley'sMusic Shop. 69a West Regent St..Glasgow, C.2.

BANDS1/- per word

A. ABBOTT. Able, accom-plished band available. -4542.

A BIG BEAT, the fabulous"Wranglers," featuring KennyBernard. - Lee 4498.

A FIRST-CLASS reliable andup-to-date dance band, availablefor dances, private functions,parties and dinner/dances. Alsoswinging, happy "trad" jazzgroup, well presented. Vocalistsavailable with either band. -Enquiries in fullest confidence toBox 2673 or telephone Leather -head (LE7) 4976.

ALEXANDER'S JAZZMEN. -Kingston 7910.

ANYWHERE, anytime. DanceBands, R&B, Twist Groups forhallrooms, hotels, weddings. --Parker Enterprises. Rodney 9987.

AVAILABLE ALL FUNCTIONS.THE RHYTHMAYRES. EAL9504.

BARNET BEAT. -BAR 2020.BLUE PACIFIC Hawaiians.

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Vox Dominator £31 10 0 £3 3 0

Vox Phantom, 12 -string 90 Gns. £9 9 0

5.11. fender Tremolux 95 Gns. £19 19 0

Reran Af /30/6 85 Gns. £8 18 6

A(730/6 Wended 15" £175 0 0 El] 10 0

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WHEN buying asecond-hand in-

strument, it is wise tohave the guidance of an

experienced musician,advises sax -clarinettist

ALBERT HARRIS, re-f-. plying to MM reader

A. J. Richardson, ofE- Leicester, who writes:

"As a keen buddingmusician, I have been re-

= stricted to the less-expen-= sive second-hand instru-

ments= and have foundE both saxophone and clarinet hard to blow.= "Does the blowing get= any easier when the price= gets higher, and if not,E- apart from an obviously better tone, what advantage is there in an expensive intrument?E-- "Finally, does a tenor -g sax, being larger than an= alto, require more 'wind,'El or is the blowing much

the same through thewhole range, from sopranoto baritone?"

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Frames (German).Blonde finish. E39.18.0. Dep.£3.18.0. 24 payments £3.6.0

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34/6.

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Martin D2I Dreadnought (USA).Blonde, £150. Dep.: £30. 24 payments£5.17.0.Gibson (USA) Stn. model. £115. Dep.£24. 24 payments £8.4.7.

Guild Bluegrass (USA). Blonde finish.£109. Dep. £22. 24 payments E6.19.6.

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Albert Harris concedesthat one can buy a per-fectly adequate second-hand instrument for halfthe price of a new one,but stresses that there areplenty of snags for the un-wary, such as excessivewear and faulty repairs.

If you haven't a musi-

cian friend who canaccompany you whenmaking the purchase, tryto contact a professionalplaying in your neighbour-hood at a ballroom,theatre, club or restaur-ant.

The majority of musi-cians take pride in steer-ing a novice along theright path, and would notexpect payment, but if itis necessary to pay asmall testing fee, it will bemoney well spent.

Incidentally, never use asecond-hand mouthpiece.Buy a new one of goodquality. This is most im-portant.

The advantages of amore -expensive musicalinstrument are chieflythat (like a dearer car) itmaintains its value longer,has improved workman-ship, greater durabilityand better intonation.

The amount of "wind"required is not dependentupon the size of the in-strument. A baritone, forinstance, often "speaks"more fluently than a tenor.

Blowing should beeasier when your em-bouchure is properly de-veloped, and with the helpof a good teacher, you willfind that you don't needa lot of "wind" to sus-tain the sound.

EXPERT ADVICEDISPUTING

the facts inHilton R. Schleman's

"Rhythm on Record," whichimply that the Joe Venuti-Eddie Lang recordings of"Stringing the Blues" and"Black and Blue Bottom"were made in 1929-30 (MMExpert Advice 28/12/63)discographer Brian Knightdraws our attention to BnanRust's "Jazz Records A -Z,1897-1931."

This states that the firsttwo attempts at "Stringingthe Blues," on 29/9/1926(142697-3) and 22/10/1926(142697-7) were rejected, buta satisfactory result wasachieved on 8/11/1926(142697-8).

"Black And Blue Bottom"was successfully recordedon 29/9/1926 (142698-2) and

the two titles were issued onAmerican Columbia 914-Dand British Columbia 4451.All these sessions were inNew York.

These facts are substan-tiated by Charles Delaunay's"New Hot Discography" anda booklet by Richard DuPage, John Hammond andFrank Driggs supplied withthe recent American LPentitled "Stringing theBlues."

Brian emphasises thatearlier discographies, andsome of the more recentones, should be viewed withscepticism, as the slow pro-cess of discographical re-search still has a long wayto go before one can be 100per cent certain of jazz his-tory. -CHRIS HAYES,

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